How Can You Keep on Movin?
This folk song, written by an Oklahoma musician, Sis Cunningham, who was an activist for black and white tenant farmers, discusses the plight of Okies trying to migrate to California, but were turned away at the border. My research made me consider how these words take on new meanings in the context of today’s immigration struggles, highlighting the need to connect and organize across place and time, while always beginning the change process within
An Open Letter to the South by Langston Hughes
Inspiration for protest signs
What is to Be Done?
The title of this piece is taken from Nikolay Gavrilovich Chernyshevsky's novel, What is to Be Done?, which has inspired thinkers from Lenin to Rand. Here I am considering how groups have asked this question throughout history and how imagination and play can help us to continue to wrestle with this enduring question. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/What_Is_to_Be_Done%3F (Lenin) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/What_Is_to_Be_Done%3F (Chernyshevsky)
More about Beans and Rice
The following book was an instrumental point of research for this piece. https://read.amazon.com/kp/embed?asin=B00CMAFSM6&preview=newtab&linkCode=kpe&ref_=cm_sw_r_kb_dp_F3Q01HB9MPVAW9TG2X56
Background Research for Multiplicities and Mutualities at the Table
When I was in New York during the first summer of our Art Practice journey, I went to a locally owned music shop in Spanish Harlem. Everything for sale in this store was music related - records, CDs, even cassette tapes, instruments, and a few books. The one exception was that someone had taken the time to handcraft magnets. The magnets were dollhouse miniature-sized plates of beans and rice, complete with a sunny side
Red Flag and Red Beans:
Cooking Red Beans and Rice with Courtney Discussing growing up in Louisiana, weekly rituals and their loss, and finding a piece of Louisiana in Alaska. Discussion Highlights: 28:10- Sundays and red beans 40:55- Displacement/relocation & food 55:05- Loss of traditions Under Construction
Guatemalan “Chocolate” Beans and Rice
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Nigerian Ewa (Beans and Rice) – Tonia
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Anasazi Beans and Rice – Melissa
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Mung Beans and Rice – Jane
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