Candoro

about the art

This month we present Candoro, a sound film by the Transpacific Dance Opera Research Coalition (TDORC), paired with mail art by Tomashi Jackson from her multi-media painting Sweet Lorraine (Revolutionary Activity). With both pieces, we see how the artists examine institutional systems and their impacts on individuals and the collective body. 

TDORC is a collaboration between choreographer DaEun Jung, composer Daniel Corral, and director Alexander Gedeon. A major driving theme of TDORC has been the joy (and the nightmare) of systems, and the effect of these systems. In their film, Candoro (Italian for “whiteness”), the trio navigates the archways of Knoxville's Candoro Marble Company in a systematic study of 6 physical gestures that set a blueprint for the sound and imagery of the film.

Tomashi Jackson is a visual artist who uses a language of geometric abstraction to interrogate how institutional systems have historically impacted different collectives in different spaces. In her exhibition,The Great Society, Tomashi embeds large and vibrantly colored canvases with marble dust from the same site where marble was unearthed for the Lincoln Memorial and with images from three events where the possibility and promise of a great society were presented to audiences. Tomashi’s pieces look at these high points from the 1960s with all their implications to the present unravelling of that same legislation.

This art was made with support from the Eastside Arts Initiative