A Youtube Premiere Event organized by Amara and TWO for Manifesta 13. Info from the program below:
Los Angeles-based artist, Amara Higuera, searches for the (in)audible realm as a liberatory site and investigates what arriving at an emancipatory prospect might sound like. This event explores sound, not only as artistic research but also as a reading of forthcoming writings from her photo essay book, titled the west awaits no one. The evening will be hosted by the Los Angeles-based curator, Paulina Lara, who will introduce a conversation between Anna Cho-Son and Amara Higuera. Together they will discuss the parallels in their work, their interpretations of new freedoms, and what, when personhood has been pre-assigned, can be subverted or made possible through visual and auditory explorations; and their translations into text or written forms. Los Angeles experimental producer, dj, and performer SOLTERA will also DJ a set throughout the evening.
About the Artists
Anna Cho-Son is an artist currently at UCLA for a BA in Fine Arts and a minor in Food Studies. These days she is exploring ideas of being and sound through notions of consumption and the metabolic, focusing on text and performance. Her writing practice is a way some part of her thinks, a part she would like to be closer to.
SOLTERA is a producer, dj, and performer based in Los Angeles. She is self-taught, learning how to make beats, play keys, and write/sing. She is the co-founder of CASA/TECA, an underground record label in Los Angeles.
