Postcommodity: Cosmovisión Torneo de la Bahia

Part musical event and part sonic ceremony, Cosmovisión, the newest project from interdisciplinary artist collective Postcommodity, premieres at SFMOMA with the event Cosmovisión Torneo de la Bahia. In this work, collective members Cristóbal Martinez (Genizaro) and Kade L. Twist (Cherokee) foreground the element of sound to explore our relationships with the land we came from and occupy today. Seven Bay Area arts and cultural workers will improvise and harmonize sounds with an instrument of Postcommodity’s invention. Through real-time feedback and collaboration, field recordings with personal significance transform into experimental music. Line drawings representing shared stories of the local landscape and soundscape become graphic musical scores, their images dissolving or resolving depending on performers’ collective ability to achieve sonority. Using land as a mediator of relationships, Postcommodity encourages knowledge sharing, the practice of intentional listening, and the creation of generative conversations that can lead to syncretized worldviews.

Performers: JD Beltran, Rob Corder, Derek Gedalecia, Kim Shuck, Jorge Eduardo Sibaja, Rosario Sotelo, Raquel Vigil

An artist talk with members of Postcommodity will take place at SFMOMA on Thursday, March 20, 2025.

About the Artists

Postcommodity is an interdisciplinary arts collective, currently comprised of Cristóbal Martínez and Kade L. Twist. They create works of art that personify a shared Indigenous lens and voice, examining aspects of twenty-first-century life to inspire a uniquely Indigenous futurism. Using provocation as a tool, they spark constructive conversations that challenge the social, political, and economic processes that destabilize communities and geographies. The collective has been exhibited nationally and internationally, including at: Contour the 5th Biennial of the Moving Image, Mechelen, Belgium; Nuit Blanche, Toronto; Adelaide International 2012, Adelaide, Australia; 18th Biennale of Sydney; Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art, Scottsdale, AZ; 2017 Whitney Biennial, New York; Art in General, New York; documenta14, Athens, GR, and Kassel, Germany; the 57th Carnegie International in Pittsburgh; Desert X, Coachella Valley, CA; Art Institute of Chicago; LAXART, Los Angeles; Minneapolis Institute of Art; Remai Modern Museum, Saskatoon, Canada; düsseldorf photo+, the third edition of the Biennale for Visual and Sonic Media, Düsseldorf; and their historic land art installation Repellent Fence at the U.S./Mexico border near Douglas, AZ, and Agua Prieta, Mexico.
 

This presentation of Cosmovisión Torneo de la Bahia is organized by SFMOMA Media Arts and Public Engagement Department staff members Karen Cheung, Chloe Kwiatkowski, and Kathleen Maguire, and in partnership with Vanessa Chang of Leonardo/ISAST.

Support for Cosmovisiónis provided by the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation as a Hewlett 50 Arts Commission in partnership with Leonardo/ISAST, Arizona State University, the Native Arts and Cultures Foundation, the Ford Foundation U.S. Latinx Art Forum, the MAP Fund, and Otis College of Art and Design.

Presenting support for performance of Cosmovisión Torneo de la Bahia is provided by the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.