Wampum / ᎠᏕᎳ ᏗᏕᎫᏗ Performance
Program, P.2563
- Identifier
- P.2563
- Category
- New Music
- Location
- Art Gallery of Greater Victoria, 1040 Moss Street
- Date
- November 16, 2019
- Description
- Saturday, November 16 at 7:00pm, Open Space and the Art Gallery of Greater Victoria present Wampum / ᎠᏕᎳ ᏗᏕᎫᏗ, an ongoing project (2017 – present) where artist Elisa Harkins sings in a combination of Cherokee, English and Muscogee Creek to electronic dance music, some of which is inspired by of sheet music of Indigenous music notated by Daniel Chazanoff during the 20th century. As an act of Indigenous Futurism, this performance combines disco and Indigenous language in an effort to alter the fate of these endangered languages through active use, preservation on pressed vinyl and radio play. This iteration of Wampum / ᎠᏕᎳ ᏗᏕᎫᏗ will include dancers Hanako Hoshimi-Caines and Zoë PoluchS