Shifting Landscapes | Art & Artists

In the Abandonment series, Nicole Soto Rodríguez documents herself enacting site-specific choreographic exercises in neglected sites, including the historic Temple Del Maestro building, once the headquarters of the teachers’ union in San Juan, Puerto Rico, and the now-defunct Continental Motors factory in Detroit, the closure of which in the 1990s caused the loss of thousands of jobs. Soto Rodríguez’s performance, which is accompanied by the ambient sounds of birds, the city, and debris crackling underfoot, is a dialogue with the built environment and the now-broken promises of progress these spaces once carried.

In the Abandonment series, Nicole Soto Rodríguez documents herself enacting site-specific choreographic exercises in neglected sites, including the historic Temple Del Maestro building, once the headquarters of the teachers’ union in San Juan, Puerto Rico, and the now-defunct Continental Motors factory in Detroit, the closure of which in the 1990s caused the loss of thousands of jobs. Soto Rodríguez’s performance, which is accompanied by the ambient sounds of birds, the city, and debris crackling underfoot, is a dialogue with the built environment and the now-broken promises of progress these spaces once carried.

In the Abandonment series, Nicole Soto Rodríguez documents herself enacting site-specific choreographic exercises in neglected sites, including the historic Temple Del Maestro building, once the headquarters of the teachers’ union in San Juan, Puerto Rico, and the now-defunct Continental Motors factory in Detroit, the closure of which in the 1990s caused the loss of thousands of jobs. Soto Rodríguez’s performance, which is accompanied by the ambient sounds of birds, the city, and debris crackling underfoot, is a dialogue with the built environment and the now-broken promises of progress these spaces once carried.

In the Abandonment series, Nicole Soto Rodríguez documents herself enacting site-specific choreographic exercises in neglected sites, including the historic Temple Del Maestro building, once the headquarters of the teachers’ union in San Juan, Puerto Rico, and the now-defunct Continental Motors factory in Detroit, the closure of which in the 1990s caused the loss of thousands of jobs. Soto Rodríguez’s performance, which is accompanied by the ambient sounds of birds, the city, and debris crackling underfoot, is a dialogue with the built environment and the now-broken promises of progress these spaces once carried.