Tim Vandenack covers immigration, multicultural issues and Northern Utah for KSL. He worked several years for the Standard-Examiner in Ogden and has lived and reported in Mexico, Chile and along the U.S.-Mexico border.
SALT LAKE CITY — A brother-sister duo from Argentina is in Salt Lake City for a panel discussion on their art exhibit examining the intersection of cultural interchange and music."Instrumentos de silencio," on display at the Utah Museum of Contemporary Art, "explores how cultures meet, collide and coexist through sound, music and the technologies used to record and transmit language," reads a press release on the exhibit.
The artists are Gonzalo Silva and Susana Silva, siblings from Buenos Aires, Argentina, and they'll take part in a panel discussion on the exhibit on Friday, Jan. 30, at 6 p.m. at the museum, located at 20 S. West Temple.The artists were inspired in part by French philosopher Bernard Stiegler and Bolivian sociologist Silvia Rivera Cusicanqui, they said in a statement. Stiegler maintains that "the collective memory" of a culture can be expressed in its technical objects, while Rivera offers a perspective in which European and Indigenous American thought coexist "in a conflictive manner.""With these two ideas in mind, we set out to investigate certain events in South American history where this tension becomes visible — where music functions as a technology of domination that erases preexisting memories and whose own cultural development involves processes of transformation or adaptation," they said.The exhibit, now in its third iteration, opened on Jan. 16 in Salt Lake City and will be on display through Feb. 28. It was previously on display in New York City and Berkeley, California. Argentine siblings Gonzalo Silva, center, and Susana Silva, right, will take part in a panel discussion on Friday at the Utah Museum of Contemporary Art on their exhibit, Instrumentos de Silencio. They're photographed in an undated photo at an exhibit in New York City. "Rather than offering a unified narrative, 'Instrumentos de silencio' highlights moments of tension and fragmentation, acknowledging the lasting effects of colonization — including the disruption and erasure of Indigenous knowledge — while also examining the creative possibilities that emerge from cultural exchange," reads the press release on the exhibit.The artwork comes in a range of media, including photographs, "intervened objects," etched plexiglass, hand-cut paper, digital collage and more.Read more: Voces de Utah Looking for more news from Utah's Latino community?
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