US Desert Art WEB
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- US Desert Art WEB
- March 8, 2023
- Content Type Package
- Language English
- Transcript/Script English USAGM SHARE ((PLAYBOOK SLUG: US DESERT ART HEADLINE: California Desert Draws Artists from Bangladesh and Mexico TEASER: Desert X installation across Coachella Valley PUBLISHED AT: 03/08/2023 AT 11:30am BYLINE: Genia Dulot CONTRIBUTOR: DATELINE: Palm Springs, California VIDEOGRAPHER: Genia Dulot PRODUCER: SCRIPT EDITORS: Stearns, MAS VIDEO SOURCE (S): VOA PLATFORMS (mark with X): WEB __ TV X RADIO _X_ TRT: 2:32 VID APPROVED BY: Jepsen TYPE: TVPKG EDITOR NOTES: [[((INTRO:)) California’s desert is drawing artists from Bangladesh and from Mexico to the Coachella Valley for an unusual exhibition called Desert X. For VOA, Genia Dulot went to see.]] ((NARRATOR)) For artist Mario García Torres, the California desert reminds him of a place he had to leave. ((Mario García Torres, Desert X Participant)) “Desert is something very real, but it is also something very fantasy. We have a fantasy about what is this vast place that we cannot even understand, that is so big, something that is dangerous.” ((NARRATOR)) Torres is one of a dozen artists showing at the Desert X exhibition in California’s Coachella Valley. The ballet of his kinetic sculptures is inspired by the movements of mechanical bulls. ((Mario García Torres, Desert X Participant)) “They are sculptures that look like they are searching for something from the sky, but in fact, they are mechanical bulls, the movement of these plates coming from the movement of the mechanical bull. Mechanical bull, the way we relate to it, is very interesting because it is a game where a person who tries to control nature goes on it, but they already know that they will fail.” ((NARRATOR)) Artist Rana Begum recalls the vibrant culture of growing up in Bangladesh in the lights and colors in chain link fence. ((Rana Begum, Artist)) “I saw it throughout the day, where it was changing in the light, and sometime it would be quite prominent, sometime it would disappear, sometime it would be really ephemeral and quite beautiful.” ((NARRATOR)) As a mother, Begum says fences are about defining spaces and both guarding her children and letting them out to play somewhere else. ((Rana Begum, Artist)) “It’s about barriers, it’s about creating walls, separation, on the other hand, as you walk through the work, you feel that intensity, you feel slightly claustrophobic, but then it kind of opens up and it becomes quite transparent.” ((NARRATOR)) Exhibition co-curator Diana Campbell says Begum sees objects in unexpected ways. ((Diana Campbell, Desert X Co-Curator)) “Sometimes when you see something everywhere, it disappears, and she likes to work with material, that maybe you think you know, and make it work in a different way. So by creating this metal armature and form with chain link fence to make it like a mountain, and by painting it yellow, she totally transformed the way that material feels, the way you understand it.” ((NARRATOR)) Desert X installations are on display through May. ((Genia Dulot, for VOA News, Palm Springs, California))
- Transcript/Script USAGM SHARE ((PLAYBOOK SLUG: US DESERT ART HEADLINE: California Desert Draws Artists from Bangladesh and Mexico TEASER: Desert X installation across Coachella Valley PUBLISHED AT: 03/08/2023 AT 11:30am BYLINE: Genia Dulot CONTRIBUTOR: DATELINE: Palm Springs, California VIDEOGRAPHER: Genia Dulot PRODUCER: SCRIPT EDITORS: Stearns, MAS VIDEO SOURCE (S): VOA PLATFORMS (mark with X): WEB __ TV X RADIO _X_ TRT: 2:32 VID APPROVED BY: Jepsen TYPE: TVPKG EDITOR NOTES: [[((INTRO:)) California’s desert is drawing artists from Bangladesh and from Mexico to the Coachella Valley for an unusual exhibition called Desert X. For VOA, Genia Dulot went to see.]] ((NARRATOR)) For artist Mario García Torres, the California desert reminds him of a place he had to leave. ((Mario García Torres, Desert X Participant)) “Desert is something very real, but it is also something very fantasy. We have a fantasy about what is this vast place that we cannot even understand, that is so big, something that is dangerous.” ((NARRATOR)) Torres is one of a dozen artists showing at the Desert X exhibition in California’s Coachella Valley. The ballet of his kinetic sculptures is inspired by the movements of mechanical bulls. ((Mario García Torres, Desert X Participant)) “They are sculptures that look like they are searching for something from the sky, but in fact, they are mechanical bulls, the movement of these plates coming from the movement of the mechanical bull. Mechanical bull, the way we relate to it, is very interesting because it is a game where a person who tries to control nature goes on it, but they already know that they will fail.” ((NARRATOR)) Artist Rana Begum recalls the vibrant culture of growing up in Bangladesh in the lights and colors in chain link fence. ((Rana Begum, Artist)) “I saw it throughout the day, where it was changing in the light, and sometime it would be quite prominent, sometime it would disappear, sometime it would be really ephemeral and quite beautiful.” ((NARRATOR)) As a mother, Begum says fences are about defining spaces and both guarding her children and letting them out to play somewhere else. ((Rana Begum, Artist)) “It’s about barriers, it’s about creating walls, separation, on the other hand, as you walk through the work, you feel that intensity, you feel slightly claustrophobic, but then it kind of opens up and it becomes quite transparent.” ((NARRATOR)) Exhibition co-curator Diana Campbell says Begum sees objects in unexpected ways. ((Diana Campbell, Desert X Co-Curator)) “Sometimes when you see something everywhere, it disappears, and she likes to work with material, that maybe you think you know, and make it work in a different way. So by creating this metal armature and form with chain link fence to make it like a mountain, and by painting it yellow, she totally transformed the way that material feels, the way you understand it.” ((NARRATOR)) Desert X installations are on display through May. ((Genia Dulot, for VOA News, Palm Springs, California))
- NewsML Media Topics Arts, Culture, Entertainment and Media
- Network VOA
- Embargo Date March 8, 2023 11:47 EST
- Byline Genia Dulot
- Brand / Language Service Voice of America