{"id":2852,"date":"2024-04-16T15:11:44","date_gmt":"2024-04-16T19:11:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sporobole.org\/artiste\/martin-rodriguez\/"},"modified":"2024-10-21T21:15:56","modified_gmt":"2024-10-22T01:15:56","slug":"martin-rodriguez","status":"publish","type":"standish_artistes","link":"https:\/\/sporobole.org\/en\/artist\/martin-rodriguez\/","title":{"rendered":"Mart\u00edn Rodr\u00edguez"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 200;\">As a transmission and sound artist, Mart\u00edn Rodr\u00edguez\u2019s work emerges from his Chicanx upbringing along the Arizona-Mexico border. He employs performance, intervention, and installation as a process for deciphering aural histories and entangled identities.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 200;\">After recovering from surgery to remove a brain tumor, a chance encounter with a radio transmission picked up by the coils of his guitar reoriented Rodr\u00edguez. Developing his practice from crisis, he examines radio as a transformative medium. Rooting his relationship with radio in healing, his artworks consider transmission as a material through which sound intertwines with affect, acting as a vessel for ulterior forms of communication.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 200;\">Elements of care and speculative thinking create rhizomes throughout his artwork. Utilizing these broader methods, Rodriguez approaches his work from the Chicanx concept of rasquachismo; this methodology utilizes pragmatic ways of remaking and hacking material and objects to reimagine their function. This is a process born from adapting, merging, and creating something practical and new from scarcity.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 200;\">Notably, his work has been presented by the Mus\u00e9e d\u2019art contemporain de Montr\u00e9al (CA), Museo Universitario Arte Contempor\u00e1neo (MX), Darling Foundry (CA), Walking Festival for Sound (UK\/PL), Spektrum (DE), as well as various festivals and performance venues across Canada, and the US.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n<p>Photo credit: courtesy of the artist.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As a transmission and sound artist, Mart\u00edn Rodr\u00edguez\u2019s work emerges from his Chicanx upbringing along the Arizona-Mexico border. He employs performance, intervention, and installation as a process for deciphering aural histories and entangled identities. After recovering from surgery to remove a brain tumor, a chance encounter with a radio transmission picked up by the coils&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":16591,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_kad_blocks_custom_css":"","_kad_blocks_head_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_body_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_footer_custom_js":"","_kadence_starter_templates_imported_post":false,"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false},"acf":[],"taxonomy_info":[],"featured_image_src_large":["https:\/\/sporobole.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/Martin-Rodriguez.png",1600,1600,false],"author_info":{"display_name":"jfares","author_link":"https:\/\/sporobole.org\/en\/author\/jfares\/"},"comment_info":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sporobole.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/standish_artistes\/2852"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sporobole.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/standish_artistes"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sporobole.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/standish_artistes"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sporobole.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sporobole.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16591"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sporobole.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2852"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}