Crossfade LAB with Guadalupe Maravilla and Alex Anwandter

CALA Alliance (Celebración Artística de las Américas) will host Crossfade LAB on Wednesday, March 9, 2022. The series returns to Crescent Ballroom for its tenth installment, featuring celebrated multidisciplinary artist Guadalupe Maravilla and acclaimed musician and filmmaker Alex Anwandter. Crossfade LAB is the only event of its kind in the nation, a thought-provoking blend of conversations, art experiences, live musical performances and unexpected collaborations with internationally renowned Indigenous, Latinx and Latin American artists. 

Crossfade LAB will continue to be offered in a hybrid manner, offering a live-stream option with bilingual live captioning, allowing the program to traverse physical, linguistic and auditory barriers for a more accessible experience. This iteration features a special meeting between New York-based multidisciplinary artist Guadalupe Maravilla (U.S. and El Salvador) and Grammy Award-nominated artist Alex Anwandter (Chile). Moderated by MacArthur Fellow and Crossfade LAB co-curator Josh Kun, the evening will blend meditative healing sound waves and sculptural installations with vibrant, emotionally charged electro-pop ballads and melodies. The fusion of sound and image will transport audiences across the dynamic geographies of the Americas, from Chile to El Salvador, New York to Phoenix, underscoring the often-political realities that exist while traversing space and place.

The organizing curators are Josh Kun, professor and chair in Cross-Cultural Communication, Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism, University of Southern California; Alana Hernandez, executive director and curator, CALA Alliance; and Julio César Morales, senior curator, ASU Art Museum. 

Crossfade LAB is organized by CALA Alliance in collaboration with ASU Art Museum and Crescent Ballroom. Crossfade LAB is made possible with institutional support provided by the City of Phoenix Office of Arts and Culture. This program is supported in part by an award from the National Endowment for the Arts and The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts.

For more event information, visit www.calaalliance.org.