In August we are collaborating with Music Research Strategies on a community building activity:
De-Center for Unknowing at Carver Library ** August 13 & August 14 **
Listen Like Wolves near Peace Point – Lady Bird Lake ** August 15 & August 16 **
Listen Like Lovers at Crashbox ** August 20 through 22 **
On Saturday August 15, Sunday August 16, you are invited to contribute six digital files of the movement of water, as illustrated in the provided graphic score, to a digital community archive that be sourced for a public installation screening as part of a performance curriculum for a Walk-in Choir, Audience-led Creative Music Conduction and Live Sound Track Recording for the developing of a 50-state, De-Center for Unknowing (DCU) Initiative to address the concerns presented in “Dispatch 1-3” and the realization of the ENLA: Floating Signifier, a solo performance vernacular digital community archive, single and multi-channel video composition, walk-in choir, audience-led conduction and documentation.”
The graphic score is Schematic 1 from this link: https://disclaimer.org.au/contents/unsettling-scores/dispatch
Presented with Collide Arts with support from the City of Austin’s Elevate Grant Program, the Texas Commission on the Arts, and the National Endowment for the Arts.
Here is a web version of our mailing list invite which was sent out in June/July.
To prepare your minds, you may consider reviewing this material:
“Thinking Spaces: Raven Chacon and Candice Hopkins.” in conversation with Vijay Heble, Chair and Founder of the International Institute of Critical Improvisation Studies at Guelph University, Guelph, ON and the bilingual Journal of Critical Improvisation Studies.
“Dismantling Racism in Public Art” produced by Soros Fellow and former San Francisco Arts Commission Senior Grants Manager
Corinne Gould (Ohlone), from Sogorea ‘Te Land Trust, in Living on Ohlone Land: Building Reciprocity with Indigenous Communities (2017) and “Living On Ohlone Land” (2018) and Barbara Mumby-Huerta’s (mestiza) Dismantling Racism
Contact Music Research Strategies with specific questions.