Lunder Institute @ The Broad
Sunday, February 2, 2025, 1–3 p.m.
Oculus Hall at The Broad, 221 S Grand Ave, Los Angeles, CA 90012
The Broad presents a newly commissioned music, visual, and spoken word performance that invites us to consider the meaning and importance of reconciliation, featuring Indigenous musical artists Lynn Daphne Rudolph and Lazaro Arvizu, Jr.
Drawing upon The Broad’s reforestation project, Social Forest: Oaks of Tovaangar, South Africa’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission, and Joseph Beuys’s social sculptures in post-World War II Germany, Tongva educator and musician Lazaro Arvizu, Jr. (Los Angeles) and Khoi Khoi violist Lynn Daphne Rudolph (Johannesburg) will perform a new work that will bring us closer to the land and the practices of its original caretakers as they reveal how their creative practices empower them to reanimate their respective Indigenous cultures.
As part of the performance, followed by a more engaged discussion, Arvizu and Rudolph will invite the audience into a creative call-and-response and a dialogue that focuses on what reconciliation means today in Tovaangar—or what we now call Los Angeles. This work speaks to the practice and understanding of art making in Indigenous and Native cultures.
This Lunder Institute @ program is co-presented and co-commissioned by Lunder Institute and The Broad. Unsettled Voices continues The Broad’s partnership with the Lunder Institute, which will host its annual summer think tank series in 2025, centering performance art in American Art. One think tank will be curated by The Broad’s Director of Audience Engagement Edward Patuto. Unsettled Voices is also part of the Los Angeles residency of The Centre for The Less Good Idea hosted by The Broad, The Nimoy at CAP, UCLA, and The Wallis.
Tickets are available here.
This program is part of the Lunder Institute @ initiative and is co-presented by the Lunder Institute for American Art, a part of the Colby Museum of Art. Lunder Institute @ invites institutions across the nation to critically examine American art, its history, its future, and its ongoing evolution.