Synthesizing Sound and Protection at Curve/Diagonal, performance installation detail, collaborative performance with Charlene Vickers and interaction with Robert Maki's sculpture Curve/Diagonal, performed in Action!! Performance Festival, Western Gallery at Western Washington University, Bellingham, USA, 2017.
Synthesizing Sound and Protection at Curve/Diagonal, performance installation detail, collaborative performance with Charlene Vickers and interaction with Robert Maki's sculpture Curve/Diagonal, performed in Action!! Performance Festival, Western Gallery at Western Washington University, Bellingham, USA, 2017.
Synthesizing Sound and Protection at Curve/Diagonal, performance installation detail, collaborative performance with Charlene Vickers and interaction with Robert Maki's sculpture Curve/Diagonal, performed in Action!! Performance Festival, Western Gallery at Western Washington University, Bellingham, USA, 2017.
Synthesizing Sound and Protection at Curve/Diagonal, performance detail of Cathy and Charlene, collaborative performance with Charlene Vickers and interaction with Robert Maki's sculpture Curve/Diagonal, performed in Action!! Performance Festival, Western Gallery at Western Washington University, Bellingham, USA, 2017.
Synthesizing Sound and Protection at Curve/Diagonal, performance detail, collaborative performance with Charlene Vickers and interaction with Robert Maki's sculpture Curve/Diagonal, performed in Action!! Performance Festival, Western Gallery at Western Washington University, Bellingham, USA, 2017.
Synthesizing Sound and Protection at Curve/Diagonal, performance detail of Cathy and Charlene, collaborative performance with Charlene Vickers and interaction with Robert Maki's sculpture Curve/Diagonal, performed in Action!! Performance Festival, Western Gallery at Western Washington University, Bellingham, USA, 2017.
Synthesizing Sound and Protection at Curve/Diagonal, performance installation detail, collaborative performance with Charlene Vickers and interaction with Robert Maki's sculpture Curve/Diagonal, performed in Action!! Performance Festival, Western Gallery at Western Washington University, Bellingham, USA, 2017.
Synthesizing Sound and Protection at Curve/Diagonal, performance installation detail, collaborative performance with Charlene Vickers and interaction with Robert Maki's sculpture Curve/Diagonal, performed in Action!! Performance Festival, Western Gallery at Western Washington University, Bellingham, USA, 2017.
Synthesizing Sound and Protection at Curve/Diagonal, performance detail of Cathy, collaborative performance with Charlene Vickers and interaction with Robert Maki's sculpture Curve/Diagonal, performed in Action!! Performance Festival, Western Gallery at Western Washington University, Bellingham, USA, 2017.
Synthesizing Sound and Protection at Curve/Diagonal, performance detail, collaborative performance with Charlene Vickers and interaction with Robert Maki's sculpture Curve/Diagonal, performed in Action!! Performance Festival, Western Gallery at Western Washington University, Bellingham, USA, 2017.
Synthesizing Sound and Protection at Curve/Diagonal, performance detail of Charlene, collaborative performance with Charlene Vickers and interaction with Robert Maki's sculpture Curve/Diagonal, performed in Action!! Performance Festival, Western Gallery at Western Washington University, Bellingham, USA, 2017.
Synthesizing Sound and Protection at Curve/Diagonal, performance detail of Charlene and Cathy, collaborative performance with Charlene Vickers and interaction with Robert Maki's sculpture Curve/Diagonal, performed in Action!! Performance Festival, Western Gallery at Western Washington University, Bellingham, USA, 2017.
Synthesizing Sound and Protection at Curve/Diagonal (2017)
Synthesizing Sound and Protection at Curve/Diagonal is a collaborative performance between Charlene Vickers and Cathy Busby in support of Indigenous sovereignty and protection of lands and waters throughout Turtle Island.
Performed in and around Robert Maki's sculpture, Curve/Diagonal, this site-specific work incorporates digital, bodily and recorded sound to address water and land protection.
Using a collection of props, including paper megaphones, blankets, blanket banners, a woven rug, a walkman, Red Bull, Pow Wow cassette and handmade shakers, Vickers and Busby activate the site working with and riffing off the sculpture to re-sound both bodily and land presence. Using a culmination of spoken words, hollering, hidden messages, and surprises the artists call to the audience as an emancipatory strategy, engaging them in their protest.
You can view documentation of the performance here.