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\n\tAfter an inaugural edition last year, the AIR festival will return to Aspen, Colorado, in July with a program of performances, exhibitions, talks, and other events in the high-flying mountain town. The second edition, slated for July 27-31, will feature some artists who participated last time and others presenting work in Aspen for the first time, all under the theme \u201cFigures in a Landscape.\u201d<\/p>\n
\n\tAdri\u00e1n Villar Rojas, who last year featured in a talk with novelist \u00c1lvaro Enrigue, will present a two-floor exhibition at the Aspen Art Museum, which organizes AIR, and will give a talk during the festival. And Matthew Barney will return with a presentation of sculptures related to his TACTICAL parallax<\/em> performance commissioned for AIR last year. The works will be installed just outside of Aspen, near where he performed last year: a historic field house on a ranch in Snowmass that was a training site for a World War II\u2013era US military unit focused on mountain warfare.<\/p>\n \n\tLucy Raven, who participated in a pre-festival retreat last year, will be back with an outdoor film-performance presentation of her film Murderers Bar<\/em>, with a newly commissioned ensemble score by Deantoni Parks. Camille Henrot will present a newly commissioned performance work: Commedia dell\u2019arte<\/em>, an operatic collaboration that \u201cincorporates the stock characters of the Italian Renaissance theatrical tradition within a modern-day New York City apartment building,\u201d according to a press release.<\/p>\n \n\tMusic of very different kinds will figure in two performances: one by Los Thuthanaka, a duo who meld traditional Andean sounds with textured electronics, and another by Kali Malone and Stephen O\u2019Malley, who will perform a piece commissioned for the Holy See Pavilion at this year\u2019s Venice Biennale inspired by the 12th-century mystic Hildegard von Bingen.<\/p>\n \n\tOther performances and talks will feature Lyle Ashton Harris, Ivan Cheng, Morgan Bassichis, Nuar Alsadir, Kaveh Akbar, and Paige Lewis, with more names to be announced. And a keynote talk will feature filmmaker Julie Dash.<\/p>\n \n\t\u201cAIR embodies the ideal of a non-collecting institution: a place where artists have time, space, and resources to explore their ideas, even in their most nascent stages,\u201d Aspen Art Museum artistic director and CEO Nicolas Lees said in a statement. \u201cThe programming for this year\u2019s festival showcases the iterative nature of the program, with commissions and dialogues emerging from the questions posed over the last year. This year was also deeply informed by Adri\u00e1n Villar Rojas\u2019s concurrent exhibition at the museum, which grapples with the limits of human intelligence in the face of an infinitely complex universe\u2014a challenge that artists are particularly adept at addressing.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n [analyse_source url=”https:\/\/www.artnews.com\/art-news\/news\/aspen-air-festival-announcement-1234782836\/”]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" [analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https:\/\/www.artnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/RAVEN_MBstill-horizontal.jpeg?w=1024″] After an inaugural edition last year, the AIR festival will return to Aspen, Colorado, in July with a program of performances, exhibitions, talks, and other events in the high-flying mountain town. The second edition, slated for July 27-31, will feature some artists who participated last time and others presenting work in Aspen […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[61,226],"class_list":["post-1907854","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","tag-artnews-com","tag-crawlmanager"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1907854","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1907854"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1907854\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1907854"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1907854"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1907854"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}