Clarissa Tossin
Artist in Residence, EMPAC / Rensselaer, Troy, NY

Is it necessary—or even feasible—to maintain the same habits and practices we held before the world went on lockdown? Los Angeles–based artist Clarissa Tossin, currently an artist-in-residence at the Curtis. R. Priem Experimental Media and Performing Arts Center at Rensselaer, New York, discusses a redefinition of productivity and her inspiration right now. Tossin also unveils in-progress projects and plays an excerpt from a recent score using 3-D-printed replicas of pre-Columbian musical instruments.

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Image Credit:A clip from Clarissa Tossin’s work-in-progress presentation for Mojo’q che b’ixan ri ixkanulab’ / Antes de que los Volcanes Canten / Before the Volcanoes Sing at EMPAC / Rensselaer. Working with 3D-printed versions of pre-Columbian wind instruments held in US and Guatemalan museum collections, Tossin and her collaborators discuss the prototypes produced with anthropologist/archaeologist Jared Katz, the Mayer Post-Doctoral Curatorial Fellow for Pre-Columbian Art at the Denver Art Museum.

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