Sunday, October 29, 2023

The Florentine Codex at Getty Center (11/4)

Adolfo Guzman-Lopez, LAist.com; Crystal Quintero, Dhr. Seven (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly
Older Aztecs were told to describe and draw their culture for a friar aiming to convert them.

To celebrate the launch of the Digital Florentine Codex, join LAist for an outdoor concert debuting an original score by musician Lu Coy (they/them).
The Florentine Codex is a Spanish conquest text
Known for their mastery of woodwinds, electronics, and agile vocals, Coy mines inspiration from ancient texts, stories, and musical traditions, guiding audiences through splendid architectures of ancestral memory.

Musical group Xochi Cuicatl (it/what) and Chris Garcia (he/him) will open the performance.

Introducing the performances is LAist higher education correspondent Adolfo Guzman-Lopez (he/him) and Getty Research Institute researcher Kim Richter (she/her).

They will discuss the historical resonances of the Florentine Codex in Southern California, the ancestral homeland of the Kizh/Gabrieleño/Tongva, Chumash (Malibu), and Tataviam (SFV) people, as well as the Codex’s impact on numerous Indigenous groups throughout the Americas.
ABOUT
  • Lu Coy (they/them) is a Los Angeles-based LGBTQ mixed-media artist and multi-instrumentalist of Mexican and Ashkenazi Jewish heritage. Coy frequently collaborates with other musicians and holds degrees in music performance and composition from the Boston Conservatory of Music and California Institute of the Arts. They have taught for institutions such as the Hammer Museum, California Institute of the Arts, and Plaza de la Raza.
  • Chris Garcia and Xochi Cuicatl are musicians specializing in Indigenous breath, string, and percussion instruments of Mesoamerica and Mexico, including pre- and post-invasion poetry and songs in Nahuatl, Purepecha, Spanish (the language of the colonial invaders), and English.
  • Host Adolfo Guzman-Lopez is an award-winning correspondent on Southern California Public Radio (scpr.org), LAist 89.3 FM, and host of The Forgotten Revolutionary podcast. He has reported on education, politics, arts, and higher education.
  • Kim Richter is senior research specialist at the Getty Research Institute and leads the Florentine Codex Initiative.

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