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This Land is an exhibition reflecting on landscape. Bringing together five multidisciplinary artists from regions across the Americas—Vivian Caccuri, Raven Chacon, Minerva Cuevas, Danielle Dean, and Jamilah Sabur—the show explores the concept of land as a container for subjects including the histories and mythologies of place, migration and displacement, and the exploitation of human labor and natural resources. In doing so, the exhibition seeks to address the complex and historically fraught concept of “land,” or “landscape,” as a system, centering the artists’ inquiries into political, economic, and social conditions shaping our world in this era of global capitalism.

The artists gathered for this exhibition all possess research-based methodologies that enable them to confront complex questions and to craft narratives interweaving different places and times. As a result, the artworks on view each provide a framework for acknowledging the ongoing, intertwined legacies of colonialism and capitalism, and suggest imperative moves toward environmental and social justice.

With Greater Austin ranking in the top ten fastest growing and most expensive metropolitan areas in the US, the rapid geographical transformations surrounding us provide inspiration to consider larger histories and practices affecting our realities, both here and elsewhere. While the subject matter encompasses multiple regions and time periods, the exhibition seeks to explore a larger story about how this land we inhabit connects with our individual, everyday lives.

The exhibition spans both floors of the museum’s galleries, as well as the rooftop, and includes a major performance, Raven Chacon’s Tremble Staves, at Laguna Gloria in October. Vivian Caccuri’s sound installation Bass Mass, presented in conversation with the city’s skyline on the Jones Center rooftop, features a new soundtrack commissioned by The Contemporary Austin, created and produced by Caccuri in collaboration with Austin–based recording artist Mama Duke.