Gisela Insuaste /
Walking Talking Seeing Being: Love, Labor and Faith on 14th Street (The Vacuum Cleaner Story, Part 1)
Insuaste uses sculpture and performance to connect three unique sites along 14th street that intimately tie the city's immigrant history with her own family's. Recognizing the hopes and struggles experienced while living in a new place, she celebrates and explores memories of love, labor, and faith while pushing/pulling an old vacuum cleaner stacked with a mountain-like structure. The vacuum cleaner becomes a symbol of transformation and perserverence, shaping our identity and the American Dream.
Date:
Wednesday, October 10 from 10:50am-12:10pm and Sunday, October 14 from 11am-12:30pm
Location:
The performance will begin at Desco Vacuum Cleaner (131 W 14th Street) and end at the Santuaria de Nuestra Señora de Guadelupe (328 W 14th Street), where the artist will attend the English mass on October 10 and the Spanish mass on October 14.
artist info
Gisela Insuaste explores the intersection of architecture, topography, and memory through paintings, sculptures, and site-specific installations that question individual/shared cultural space and identity in the urban landscape. Insuaste has an MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.
