What is Your First Memory of Dirt?
audio, vocal performance, score, public art
2024—
images credit:
Alejandro Torres Viera and Luis A. Vázquez O’Neill
A vocal performance / score activation of What is your First Memory of Dirt? is 1 of 3 audio performances part of “Excorcism = Liberation”, a new public art project / intervention conceived by Puerto Rican-born, Brooklyn-based artist Yanira Castro / a canary torsi ︎︎︎, and team of collaborators.
To hear this and other audio works, learn more about the project, partners, and upcoming events, check out exorcism-liberation.net ︎︎︎
“Exorcism = Liberation” is a public art project that investigates our relationship to land, self-determination, migration, and climate disaster. Through collective citywide experiences in New York City, Chicago, and the Connecticut River Valley of Western Massachusetts, we invite the American public to imagine alternative futures through the lens of Puerto Rican culture and the U.S.' ongoing colonial history.
“Exorcism = Liberation” utilizes familiar forms of political media campaigns to immerse the public in sonic experiences, distributing stickers, posters, handmade banners, lawn signs and pins through local community and art organizations. “Exorcism = Liberation” is an act of intervention, a rehearsal for collective action during a critical American election.
Exorcism = Liberation Team
Concept, Script & Direction: Yanira Castro
Audio Design: Erica Ricketts
Graphic Design: Alejandro Torres Viera and Luis A. Vázquez O’Neill
Audio Performances: Melissa DuPrey, josé alejandro rivera, Steph Reyes
Bomba: Michael Rodríguez
Creative Producer: Ariel Lembeck
Project Management: Tyler Rai
Audio Description: Andrew Chapma
This project is an extension of Yanira Castro / a canary torsi’s I came here to weep, a multimoda participatory project enacted by the public and supported by Creative Capital.
To hear this and other audio works, learn more about the project, partners, and upcoming events, check out exorcism-liberation.net ︎︎︎
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“Exorcism = Liberation” is a public art project that investigates our relationship to land, self-determination, migration, and climate disaster. Through collective citywide experiences in New York City, Chicago, and the Connecticut River Valley of Western Massachusetts, we invite the American public to imagine alternative futures through the lens of Puerto Rican culture and the U.S.' ongoing colonial history.
“Exorcism = Liberation” utilizes familiar forms of political media campaigns to immerse the public in sonic experiences, distributing stickers, posters, handmade banners, lawn signs and pins through local community and art organizations. “Exorcism = Liberation” is an act of intervention, a rehearsal for collective action during a critical American election.
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Exorcism = Liberation Team
Concept, Script & Direction: Yanira Castro
Audio Design: Erica Ricketts
Graphic Design: Alejandro Torres Viera and Luis A. Vázquez O’Neill
Audio Performances: Melissa DuPrey, josé alejandro rivera, Steph Reyes
Bomba: Michael Rodríguez
Creative Producer: Ariel Lembeck
Project Management: Tyler Rai
Audio Description: Andrew Chapma
This project is an extension of Yanira Castro / a canary torsi’s I came here to weep, a multimoda participatory project enacted by the public and supported by Creative Capital.