Performance

Beatriz Cortez: Ilopango, the Volcano that Left

Oct 27–Oct 29, 2023

Public Programs
October 27 at 5 pm EDT: Reception at Hudson River Maritime Museum
50 Rondout Landing, Kingston, New York

October 29 at 3 pm EDT: Reception at The Sanctuary for Independent Media
3361 6th Avenue, Troy, New York

See Itinerary and Viewing Locations

Envisioned as part of Cortez’s project at Storm King Art Center, Ilopango, the Volcano that Left departs the Art Center on a three-day performative journey along the Hudson River to EMPAC–Curtis R. Priem Experimental Media and Performing Arts Center in Troy, NY where it is included in the exhibition Shifting Center. A sculptural footprint will be left in its wake on Museum Hill, defining an absence that speaks to Cortez’s ongoing engagement with the potential of impermanence and movement.

Livestream
The journey will be broadcast live by the presenting partners throughout October 27–29.

Schedule for Volcano Journey
The volcano leaves Storm King on Friday, October 27, traveling up the river aboard the John J. Harvey fireboat to Kingston, where it docks at the Hudson River Maritime Museum. On Sunday, October 29, it continues on to Troy’s Federal Lock and Dam, which marks the end of the tidal estuary and the meeting of the Mohawk and Hudson Rivers.

Public Programs
October 27, 2023, at 5 pm EDT: Reception at Hudson River Maritime Museum.
October 29, 2023, at 3 pm EDT: Reception at The Sanctuary for Independent Media
Register here.

Viewing Locations: Map
As the volcano sails upriver, the public is able to witness the sculpture from various viewing points along both shores. Visitors are also invited to view the work when it rests for the night at the Maritime Museum in Kingston, and to gather in welcoming the volcano as it passes through the Federal Lock and Dam near The Sanctuary for Independent Media in Troy. Please find the map here and a full itinerary of the journey below (all times listed in EDT).

FRIDAY, OCTOBER 27

1:10 pm…Cold Spring Pier, Cold Spring, NY

1:30 pm…Donahue Memorial Park, Cornwall-on-Hudson, NY

2 pm……..Unico Park, Newburgh, NY

3 pm……..Milton Landing Park, Milton, NY

3:15 pm…Walkway Over the Hudson, Poughkeepsie / Highland, NY

3:20 pm…Highland Landing Park, Highland, NY

5 pm……..Hudson River Maritime Museum, Kingston, NY (docking point)

SATURDAY, OCTOBER 28

All Day…Hudson River Maritime Museum, Kingston, NY

The John J. Harvey Fireboat will be docked all day. Visit the museum to board and view the sculpture from 11 am–5 pm.

SUNDAY, OCTOBER 29

10:40 am…Kingston Point Rail Trail, Kingston, NY

11:05 am…Ulster Landing County Park, Saugerties, NY

11:30 am…George J. Terpening Sr. Memorial Park, Malden, NY

12:10 pm…Dutchman’s Landing Park, Catskill, NY

1 pm……….Coxsackie Riverside Park, Coxsackie, NY

1:35 pm…..New Baltimore Cornell Park, New Baltimore, NY

2:45 pm….Albany Corning Preserve, Albany, NY

3:20 pm….Mohawk-Hudson Bike Trail, Watervliet, NY

3:35 pm….Riverfront Park Troy, NY

3:45 pm….Federal Lock 1, Erie Canal Lock 1 Troy, NY

4:45 pm….Waterford Riverfront Park, Waterford, NY (docking point)

Ilopango, the Volcano that Left is co-commissioned by Storm King Art Center, EMPAC–Curtis R. Priem Experimental Media and Performing Arts Center at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, and the Vera List Center for Art and Politics at The New School. This Parsons Visiting Artist Lecture Series is part of the public programming for the commission and co-organized by Parsons Fine Arts and the Vera List Center. The sculpture was created in part during the artist’s residency at Atelier Calder, Saché, France. Beatriz Cortez is a 2020–2022 Borderlands/Vera List Center Fellow.

The Vera List Center is committed to ensuring that our programs are accessible to and inclusive of all. Please let us know when registering if you need any accommodations.

The Fall 2023 programs of the Vera List Center for Art and Politics are generously supported by members of the Vera List Center Board, the VLC Producers Council, Vera’s List, and other individual donors, and the following institutional donors: Australian Consulate-General of New York; The Boris Lurie Art Foundation and the Schaina and Josephina Lurje Memorial Foundation; Bridge Philanthropic Consulting; The Dayton Foundation; The Ford Foundation; The Kettering Fund; Mellon Foundation; The Native Arts and Cultures Foundation; and Pryor Cashman LLP. We also acknowledge the support of The New School, our academic home.