Event 5: Extra Credit 2
On June 7, 2018, I attended Coyotes in Two Directions Event by Sarah Rosalena Brady at Art-Sci Center Gallery at UCLA. This event was somewhat special for me because when I first looked around the exhibition, I had no idea what they were, and what they represented. At first I thought I came to the wrong place. When someone guided me that this was the correct spot, I slowly looked around and read the description on the website. “Coyotes in Two Directions examines the signifier of the trickster and shapeshifter as a symbolic metaphor to create techno-hybrid forms. Coyotes are symbolic in mythology and present in Western urban landscapes as one of the most successful animals surviving the Anthropocene. Emergent forms are employed through sculpture, automata, and 3D scans “(Coyotes in Two Directions). After reading this I slowly understood what the art works represented, However, I still had no idea what coyote was. (Me at the Coyotes in Two Directions) “The coyote appears