Included in the Charlotte Street exhibition Digital Prairie, For Zitkála-Šá (For Suzanne Kite), the instructions for performance include:
Any electronic or non-electronic instrument Starting at the top, perform the given value, interpreted as a changeable parameter of music (pitch, tempo, volume, etc.), or as rhythms, preset buttons, code, etc. As you proceed to other values, you may be confronted with a new path, which may also climb back up the page. When you arrive at the end of a path, you may turn around, unless that path is at the bottom of the page. The Xs are any value you desire.
About LISTEN LIKE LOVERS, a digital community archive documenting a performance of Raven Chacon and Candice Hopkin's graphic score Dispatch #2: The Gathering
Dispatch is a conceptual score conceived collaboratively by Navajo Nation composer Raven Chacon and Carcross/Tagish curator and writer Candice Hopkins. Published in three parts — or ‘Dispatches’ as the artists declare — the work draws from Chacon and Hopkins’ reflections on the fight for cultural preservation and defense of Indigenous sovereignty at the Standing Rock Reservation Water Protector encampment in 2016. There are three parts to Dispatch including Dispatch 1: The Call, Dispatch 2: The Gathering, and Dispatch 3: The Aim.
ABOUT DISPATCH 2: THE GATHERING
Rocks have harmonics, resonant frequencies. They are also deities, lives begun millions of years ago, witnesses to the formation of the earth. They can pick up the tremors of extractive colonialism exposing wide caverns that lead to trails deep inside the ground, generating sludge and slurry, releasing poisons meant to stay undisturbed. The time is now to protect these rocks as though it is a last stand. Our gathering can open up the way to other worlds, those of our own making. These other worlds are not de-colonial ones, but non-colonial ones. Not bound by their frameworks, but by ours. Heeding this call is the first action. In this action we come together, in-person or at a distance, to open up a portal of shared experiences.
Choose one or more prompts to follow
(Consider the prompts as protocols—of relation, of listening, of action, of witnessing, of performing)
Schematic 1 can be used as an aid in engaging with others in the camp.
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