#TORRES MAKING MEMORIES OF US WINDOWS#

Listen In: Mario García Torres acts as Paloma Contreras Lomas’ interviewer, asking questions about her development as an artist, and how living and working within the cultural and political landscape of Mexico has influenced her work and thinking. One year later, Crowell and Vince Gill recorded the song as former members. The first version was recorded by American country music artist Tracy Byrd on his 2003 album The Truth About Men. Placed in the middle of the desert, in the formation ofĪ herd, the work leads us to contemplate the “wild West,” and our relationship to landscape and our role within it our condition to be both attracted and replaced by failure. ' Making Memories of Us ' is a song written by American country music artist Rodney Crowell that has been recorded by several artists. I’m gonna be here for you, baby I’ll be a man of my word Speak the language in a voice that you have never heard I want to sleep with you forever. In his installation for Desert X, the artist replaced the bull component of the mechanical bull with a flat, geometric, reflective surface, slowing down the machine’s movement to reveal, little by little, what this object really is. Singer: TORRES Title: Making Memories of Us. In bull-riding, whether with a live animal or its mechanical avatar, competition with a wild beast carries an interest in and celebration of failure. In cowboy culture, and also in land art, there is an asserted promise to harness/control nature, which carries a pronounced risk of failure. These qualities also relate to the history of art, especially in the American West. Searching for the Sky (While Maintaining Equilibrium) carries a reflection on “cowboy culture” that exists across both Mexican and American borders, representative of a macho, self-aggrandizing and forceful control of nature. The desert is a beautiful and attractive - yet also a dangerous and challenging - place. Making Memories of Us Lyrics: Im gonna be here for you, baby / Ill be a man of my word / Speak the language in a voice that you have never heard / I want to sleep with you forever / And I want. Attached to the historical settings of his projects, his works bridge past and present by raising awareness about recorded knowledge and excluded content, which often reveal the nature of memory. Storytelling, reenactment, report and repetition are few of the strategies García Torres employs in his work, uncovering narratives that highlight the limitation of evidence and the subjectivity of historical records.

Works by Mario García Torres are inspired by history and the histories of art, which he takes as factual raw material for new narrations, giving famous artworks and cultural icons fresh twists through a variety of media, including painting, photography, film, video, performance and installation. Pierson Boulevard between Foxdale Drive and Miracle Hill Road, Desert Hot Springs Describe the blue.Searching for the Sky (While Maintaining Equilibrium) After you tape it shut, describe the sound. Would you feel bad about the rippling? Is worry just a wider room? There is always a box in which regret will fit. Would you, by now, meaning in outer space, and very much alone, want to replay the moments of your life you wished had gone differently?-Or have you gotten over it all already? What stage are we in? Is being stuck in space like dying and not getting to ghost-visit your own funeral? Which is the first moment you’d go back to in order to change it? By it I mean where the regret sprang from.

It’s summer again and that you’re the fire for it-would it even be worth writing about? What blurs then builds a forest inside you? Is that too specific? Pretend Write about something small-but with great detail-about everyone you love. What phrases do you miss people saying? By “people” I mean:

#TORRES MAKING MEMORIES OF US WINDOWS#

Outside are all these tiny windows you can’t look through.ĭo you miss having a sky to throw wishes against? What did it look like last?-describe the blue. Is there, truly, anything you would do over?-knowing everything you know now? If regret was a type of animal, any animal, what song would it sing in you? Is loneliness to remembrance?-when you let yourself think about it? There are whole days where you don’t think of your hands? How closely related What would you write about? Whatĭo you see outside your spaceship windshield? What do you miss? Who is your brother now, all those miles down? Where’s west? What would you have brought, had you known you would be out here, maybe forever, all by yourself? Imagine you’re an astronaut stuck in outer space.

Torres making memories of us