Alphabet Song for David Drake

2022
speaker, recordings, variable number of performers (up to 26). 15–20m
part of Songs (Book 1)

Performance art piece with recordings in which an 1857 text by enslaved ceramicist and poet David Drake is ‘read’ by assigning actions to letters.

Documentation is from a workshop version performed at Qualia Gallery, Palo Alto, CA, October 27, 2022 — the images in the background are by artist Jen Everett who was showing in the gallery at the time (they were not made as part of this work).

(note February 9, 2023)