LISTENING IS A POLITICAL ACT: EARTHQUAKE

Listening is a Political Act: Earthquake (3 channel sound-based installation, poem, 4 minute, 19 second loop, 2015)

Listening is a Political Act: Earthquake is a 3-channel sound-based installation created in collaboration with poet Fire Angelou, based upon her poem Earthquake.

The experience of this installation is dependent upon the listener's position in space, and their willingness to negotiate their discomfort in order to choose what the hear. By choosing to pass beyond the literal threshold where the rhetoric of white supremacist politicians and media figures is loudest as it emanates from the first two loudspeakers on speaker stands, the listener can hear Fire Angelou's poem clearly playing from the third loudspeaker in the back.

This work was shown in an exhibition curated by Jarvis DuBois entitled Hear/Here, in Washington, DC at the Honfleur Gallery in the summer of 2016.