Caleb Duarte, an Oakland-based chicano artist, has been working with themes of “home”.  His latest project is a mix of sculptor and performance called “Casas Voladoras” (Flying houses).

Casas Voladoras is an ongoing collaborative performance art project focusing on experiences of global migration, mobility, the moving monument and oral histories specifically dealing with communities and recent immigrants from the Americas. It is a one-week intensive workshop using art and performance, ritual and moving theater for the empowerment in telling our own stories.

Performance art workshops will be held at the Red Poppy Art House in San Francisco, spring 2010.

His earlier works evoke a sense of emotion attached to the idea of “home”. He uses a mix of hand rendering and built pieces made from found wood, concrete, and gypsum board.

KQED SPARK did a segment on Caleb in 2007: click here.

December 15, 2009, 5:33pm  Comments