From Sun Ra to Alice Coltrane, music guides the world of Cauleen Smith that draws freely from local US histories, outer space and speculative (science) fictions.
See also Sojourner, Drylongso and Black Utopia LP.
In dit verzamelprogramma
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Pilgrim
A recording of a piano performance by Alice Coltrane guides Cauleen Smith through three sites of creativity and generosity across the USA. -
H-E-L-L-O
Greetings to mankind! The five-note sequence from Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977) is performed outdoors by New Orleans musicians. -
Three Songs About Liberation
Reading as a radical act. Cauleen Smith stages three readings of excerpts from Gerda Lerner’s book Black Women in White America. -
Solar Flare Arkestral Marching Band
A flash-mob performance of Sun Ra’s anthem Space Is the Place, performed by The Rich South High School Marching Band. -
Chronicles of a Lying Spirit by Kelly Gabron
Speaking through her alter ego and a male voice, Cauleen Smith’s biography contrasts semi-true fiction with media representation. -
Lessons in Semaphore
A silent film celebrating dialogue. Choreographer Taisha Paggett dances on a grassy empty lot in Chicago, communicating in semaphore. -
Crow Requiem
Smith brings together the forced migration of birds, the treatment of people of colour and Syracuse’s connection to the birth of stereoscopic ph