Very excited to unveil an installation as part of New York Textile Month with an activation in collaboration with gmtc featuring a sound performance by Isaac Silber and a quebracho water distribution by Fragmentario
Sunday September 21, 2024
3:00pm - 5:00pm
Fort Tilden, Breezy Point, NY 11697
H453+35C
Gratis, but please RSVP 🕯️
Fuerte Quebracho
Fuerte Quebracho is a site-specific installation at an abandoned structure at Fort Tilden, a former U.S. military site on the Atlantic coast. It uses deadstock silk dyed with quebracho fuerte, a tree native to the Gran Chaco region of Argentina, Paraguay, and Bolivia.
Like the ocean at Fort Tilden, the tree’s history is entangled with histories of war. Once employed in leather tanning for military gear, its production was dominated by the Argentina-based British company La Forestal. During the Cold War, competing powers raced to secure it as part of the global contest for strategic raw materials.
The work plays on fuerte’s double meaning, fort and strength, asking which forms of strength endure and which histories remain.
Fuerte Quebracho is made possible with public funds from the Queens Arts Fund, a re-grant program supported by New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council and administered by New York Foundation for the Arts and is part of New York Textile Month.
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Activation In collaboration with gmtc
Sunday September 21, 2025
3:00pm - 5:00pm
Fort Tilden, Breezy Point, NY 11697
H453+35C
Come One, Come All & Entren, que caben 100, but RSVP PLS TYSM <3
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm: Sound Performance by Isaac Silber
5:15 pm: Fuerte Quebracho Water Distribution by Fragmentario
More info & surprises to come
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3:00pm - 4:00pm: Sound Performance by Isaac Silber
Isaac Silber’s sound performance will activate Fort Tilden’s Atlantic water as a resonant speaker, incorporating radio reception, fm transmission, and hydrophonic listening amplified via transduction through a tank of water tinted with Quebracho natural dye. Silber will improvise with this site specific sound system as a practice of environmental attunement - leaning into resonant frequencies, building dissonances and harmonies of feedback, weaving rhythmic interventions into the folds of these kaleidoscopic textures. In dyeing the amplified water with Quebracho Fuerte, the performance will allow for an exploration of the sonic dimensions of the dye permeating the site of Pombo’s intervention. All are asked to help collect water from the ocean nearby to add to the resonant tank in the beginning of the performance, and all are invited to take a vessel of dyed water home with them at the end (vessels will be provided on site).
4:00pm: Quebracho Fuerte Water Distribution by Fragmentario (María-Elena Pombo)
Remnants of the amplified water embedded with the quebracho fuerte plant during Isaac Silber’s sound performance will be distributed among participants.
Each visitor will receive a glass jar to fill with the quebracho fuerte water, silk, and a zine. All free of cost, but quantities are limited. Participants will get their materials on a first-come-first-serve basis and will need to RSVP beforehand.
∞: Fuerte Quebracho Installation by María-Elena Pombo
Fuerte Quebracho is a site-specific installation at an abandoned structure at Fort Tilden, a former U.S. military site on the Atlantic coast. It uses deadstock silk dyed with quebracho fuerte, a tree native to the Gran Chaco region of Argentina, Paraguay, and Bolivia.
Like the ocean at Fort Tilden, the tree’s history is entangled with histories of war. Once employed in leather tanning for military gear, its production was dominated by the Argentina-based British company La Forestal. During the Cold War, competing powers raced to secure it as part of the global contest for strategic raw materials.
The work plays on fuerte’s double meaning, fort and strength, asking which forms of strength endure and which histories remain.
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María-Elena Pombo
María-Elena Pombo is an artist and research working through open-ended and interconnected projects that investigate real and speculative pasts, presents, and futures through installations, sculptures, videos, and moments that play with site-specificity, ephemerality, and participation.
Isaac Silber
Isaac Silber is a Isaac Silber is a musician/sound artist/worker and PhD candidate in Performance Studies at New York University, where his research focuses on the entanglement between underground forms of music-making, black feminist and queer of color critique, and the dissolution of whiteness and/as individual subjectivity.
gmtc
gmtc (golden monkey trading company 金猿商社) is a new performance laboratory nestled in Chinatown, New York. It aims to support migratory movements by seeking alternative ways to create, produce, and present performance art.
Very excited to unveil an installation as part of New York Textile Month with an activation in collaboration with gmtc featuring a sound performance by Isaac Silber and a quebracho water distribution by Fragmentario
Sunday September 21, 2024
3:00pm - 5:00pm
Fort Tilden, Breezy Point, NY 11697
H453+35C
Gratis, but please RSVP 🕯️
Fuerte Quebracho
Fuerte Quebracho is a site-specific installation at an abandoned structure at Fort Tilden, a former U.S. military site on the Atlantic coast. It uses deadstock silk dyed with quebracho fuerte, a tree native to the Gran Chaco region of Argentina, Paraguay, and Bolivia.
Like the ocean at Fort Tilden, the tree’s history is entangled with histories of war. Once employed in leather tanning for military gear, its production was dominated by the Argentina-based British company La Forestal. During the Cold War, competing powers raced to secure it as part of the global contest for strategic raw materials.
The work plays on fuerte’s double meaning, fort and strength, asking which forms of strength endure and which histories remain.
Fuerte Quebracho is made possible with public funds from the Queens Arts Fund, a re-grant program supported by New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council and administered by New York Foundation for the Arts and is part of New York Textile Month.
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Activation In collaboration with gmtc
Sunday September 21, 2025
3:00pm - 5:00pm
Fort Tilden, Breezy Point, NY 11697
H453+35C
Come One, Come All & Entren, que caben 100, but RSVP PLS TYSM <3
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm: Sound Performance by Isaac Silber
5:15 pm: Fuerte Quebracho Water Distribution by Fragmentario
More info & surprises to come
-
3:00pm - 4:00pm: Sound Performance by Isaac Silber
Isaac Silber’s sound performance will activate Fort Tilden’s Atlantic water as a resonant speaker, incorporating radio reception, fm transmission, and hydrophonic listening amplified via transduction through a tank of water tinted with Quebracho natural dye. Silber will improvise with this site specific sound system as a practice of environmental attunement - leaning into resonant frequencies, building dissonances and harmonies of feedback, weaving rhythmic interventions into the folds of these kaleidoscopic textures. In dyeing the amplified water with Quebracho Fuerte, the performance will allow for an exploration of the sonic dimensions of the dye permeating the site of Pombo’s intervention. All are asked to help collect water from the ocean nearby to add to the resonant tank in the beginning of the performance, and all are invited to take a vessel of dyed water home with them at the end (vessels will be provided on site).
4:00pm: Quebracho Fuerte Water Distribution by Fragmentario (María-Elena Pombo)
Remnants of the amplified water embedded with the quebracho fuerte plant during Isaac Silber’s sound performance will be distributed among participants.
Each visitor will receive a glass jar to fill with the quebracho fuerte water, silk, and a zine. All free of cost, but quantities are limited. Participants will get their materials on a first-come-first-serve basis and will need to RSVP beforehand.
∞: Fuerte Quebracho Installation by María-Elena Pombo
Fuerte Quebracho is a site-specific installation at an abandoned structure at Fort Tilden, a former U.S. military site on the Atlantic coast. It uses deadstock silk dyed with quebracho fuerte, a tree native to the Gran Chaco region of Argentina, Paraguay, and Bolivia.
Like the ocean at Fort Tilden, the tree’s history is entangled with histories of war. Once employed in leather tanning for military gear, its production was dominated by the Argentina-based British company La Forestal. During the Cold War, competing powers raced to secure it as part of the global contest for strategic raw materials.
The work plays on fuerte’s double meaning, fort and strength, asking which forms of strength endure and which histories remain.
-
María-Elena Pombo
María-Elena Pombo is an artist and research working through open-ended and interconnected projects that investigate real and speculative pasts, presents, and futures through installations, sculptures, videos, and moments that play with site-specificity, ephemerality, and participation.
Isaac Silber
Isaac Silber is a Isaac Silber is a musician/sound artist/worker and PhD candidate in Performance Studies at New York University, where his research focuses on the entanglement between underground forms of music-making, black feminist and queer of color critique, and the dissolution of whiteness and/as individual subjectivity.
gmtc
gmtc (golden monkey trading company 金猿商社) is a new performance laboratory nestled in Chinatown, New York. It aims to support migratory movements by seeking alternative ways to create, produce, and present performance art.
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