Mia Eve Rollow
Mia Eve Rollow (born 1984) is an American multidisciplinary artist based in Chiapas, Mexico. She co-founded the EDELO arts collective along with Caleb Duarte.
Biography
Mia Eve Rollow was born in Chicago, Illinois in 1984. She received the Creative and Performing Arts Scholarship to attend the University of Maryland where she received her BFA in 2006. Rollow completed her graduate studies at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago earning a master's degree in 2009.[1] Her artworks are often performative in nature, and due to her fascination with alchemy and shamanistic traditions, her work usually revolves around the physical and spiritual world.[2] A college classmate, Caleb Duarte, invited her to Mexico to work on an experimental project based around the Zapatista movement.[3] She later moved to Chiapas, Mexico where she co-founded the EDELO arts collective along with Duarte.[4]
Artwork
Mia Eve Rollow works in a variety of media including video, painting, installation, and performance art. In 2017, Rollow had a solo exhibition titled, Eve: A Series, which featured large-scale video projections of natural phenomena.[5] She primarily produces art through EDELO in collaboration with its community members.[6]
EDELO (En Donde Era La Onu/ Where the United Nations Used To Be)
EDELO is a community and artist interactive project founded in Chiapas, Mexico from 2009 to 2014. Recently, it has become nomadic, and has evolved to become EDELO Migrantre. It is an itinerant, conceptual artistic space where the local community can collaborate.[7] EDELO was originally created out of offices abandoned by the UN after members of the indigenous community took occupation.[8] Over 100 members stayed for several months, and this led Mia Eve Rollow and Caleb Duarte to officially found EDELO.[4] It was an art space centered around the people to create a safe environment and experimental outlet for them. The project was set in Chiapas, Mexico where its residents and self-governing communities have long used performance, theater, poetry and culture to proclaim social, political and economic change.[9] They focused on the teachings and previous art of the EZLN (Zapatista Army of National Liberation), who utilized art for social change to counteract the 500 years of systemic oppression and misrepresentation.[10] Specifically, the project had themes like human rights, child labor, femicide, autonomy, human displacement and self-determination.[11] In 2019, EDELO Migrante visited both India and Palestine to practice artmaking in site-specific areas such as Dheisheh Refugee Camp in West Bank, Palestine and Gokarna, India.[4]
Zapantera Negra
The Zapantera Negra Project (2012 - 2014) was an invitation from EDELO (who has been working with Zapatistas) to Emory Douglas, the former minister, designer, and artist for the Black Panther Party.[12] Both movements utilize their culture and aesthetics to portray freedom and rebellion.[13] Zapantera Negra arranges oral histories, creates militant artwork, and produces original documents drawn from both of their struggles.[14]
Padre No Me Pegues
The performance, Father Don't Hit Me (2012), is a demonstration done in Chiapas, Mexico, as part of the Arte Urgente series. Two performers are sweeping up hundreds of gesso penises in the central plaza.[15] This conceptual piece was intended to bring awareness to the ongoing violence in the community, especially femicide and gender-based brutality.[16] The phrase, "If they touch one, they touch us all," was used across the series of performances to create unity.[17]
Our Built City
Our Built City (2015), was an event organized outside the Red Poppy Art House in San Francisco, California. The project turned the entire neighborhood into a performance site as an act of "sculptural housing," and community members were invited to exhibit their neighborhood's struggles[18] A mural of police shooting victims is portrayed on the wall of the building, and includes Eric Garner, Michael Brown, Alejandro "Alex" Nieto as well as Amilcar Perez-Lopez, who was killed two blocks from the Red Poppy.[19]
References
- ↑ "QUIEN/WHO WE ARE - En Donde Era La Onu". www.edelo.org. Retrieved 2021-04-20.
- ↑ Johnson, Sydney (2021-03-26). "VISUAL VOICES: MIA EVE ROLLOW | Fourth Estate". gmufourthestate.com. Retrieved 2021-05-13.
- ↑ Vidani, Peter. "Creative Time". Creative Time. Retrieved 2021-05-13.
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 "CONTACT - mia". www.miaeverollow.org. Retrieved 2021-04-20.
- ↑ "Mia Rollow". IA&A at Hillyer. Retrieved 2021-05-13.
- ↑ Kester, Grant (2017). Collective Situations: Readings in Contemporary Latin American Art, 1995–2010. Durham: Duke University Press. pp. 45–46, 53–55. ISBN 9780822372493. Search this book on
- ↑ "Mia Eve Rollow: The Sailing Stones Act". BmoreArt. Retrieved 2021-05-10.
- ↑ "EDELO (En Donde Era La ONU), Author at The Creative Time Summit". creativetime.org. Retrieved 2021-05-13.
- ↑ Poppy, Red. "Puberty: An interview with Caleb Duarte and Mia Eve Rollow". Red Poppy Art House. Retrieved 2021-04-23.
- ↑ Fujino, Diane (2020). Black Power Afterlives: The Enduring Significance of the Black Panther Party. Chicago: Haymarket Books. pp. 166–167. ISBN 9781642592085. Search this book on
- ↑ Schreiber, Rebecca M. (2021-06-01). "Performing Sanctuary". Migration and Society. 4 (1): 76–83. doi:10.3167/arms.2021.040108. ISSN 2574-1306.
- ↑ "Emory Douglas with Eve Mia Rollow, Saul Kak & EDELO: Zapantera Negra". hemisphericinstitute.org. Retrieved 2021-05-13.
- ↑ Contributor (2013-03-02). "Black Panthers and Zapatistas color in lines that divide them". El Tecolote. Retrieved 2021-05-13.
- ↑ "ZAPANTERA NEGRA | An Artistic Encounter Between Black Panthers and Zapatistas". INSTITUTE_of_RADICAL_IMAGINATION. 2021-03-04. Retrieved 2021-05-13.
- ↑ "Body, Land, Dream: The Contested Sites". Cultivate. Retrieved 2021-04-23.
- ↑ "ARTE URGENTE - mia". www.miaeverollow.org. Retrieved 2021-04-20.
- ↑ "MIA EVE ROLLOW | Maryland State Arts Council". msac.org. Retrieved 2021-05-13.
- ↑ Barrow, J. J. (2015-06-08). "Artists, Residents Sculpt Gentrification as They See It". Mission Local. Retrieved 2021-05-13.
- ↑ "Chronicle of a death untold: why witnesses to killings of Latinos by police stay silent". the Guardian. 2015-06-02. Retrieved 2021-05-13.
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