claudia x. valdes

Claudia X. Valdes

Claudia X. Valdes

From Valdes's site:

Minutes to Midnight is based on a series of performances that took place between 2006-2008 at the Trinity Test Site, located on White Sands Missile Range in Alamogordo, NM.  Documented in Super 8 film, an eight second clip of the performance is distended to over 10 minutes.

The piece was featured in a group show last year at SITE Santa Fe called Time-Lapse.  From the press release:

Time-Lapse challenges the notion that an exhibition is a fixed entity with artworks that remain consistent throughout the time the exhibition is on view. Time-Lapse explores the possibility of a more dynamic exhibition environment by including artworks that change over time and utilizing curatorial structures that are based on change. With hourly, daily, and weekly alterations to the works in the show, no two days of Time-Lapse will be the same...Questioning the nature of time is a subtext for some of the works in the exhibition; other works question the nature of current curatorial practice by exploiting alternative time-based exhibition platforms such as the performance series or the Internet.