The hole in the history books made no sense. Spanish music had flourished during the Renaissance, when composers created rich choral music for churches and stately dances for royal courts. But the music world acted as if Spanish composers had practically vanished during the baroque period: Germans, Italians, Frenchmen and Britons got nearly all the attention.
The brainchild of Pollock Curatorial Fellow Danielle Avram and co-curated by UTA’s Benjamin Lima and New Orleans’ curatorial collective Pelican Bomb, Lorem Ipsum portends to draw back the curtain, in a sense, on the role of the curator by challenging the primacy and permanency of the art exhibition.