MULTIMEDIA ART / Sonic Essay
Echoes from the Borderlands
In this one-of-a-kind experimental sound work, acclaimed author Valeria Luiselli, composer Leonardo Heilblum, and multimedia artist Ricardo Giraldo will perform a powerful one-hour-long excerpt from Echoes from the Borderlands, a “sonic essay” that documents the histories of violence and resistance against land and bodies in the US-Mexico border.
The project is still in development and lasts 24 hours –the driving time along the border from San Diego to the Texas Gulf Coast. Echoes from the Borderlands interweaves a rich tapestry of soundscapes, music, poetry, essays, interviews, and archival material. The work also connects issues that have marked the borderlands, such as the genocide of native peoples, nuclear testing, migration, femicide, vigilantism, human trafficking, and mass detention.
Excerpts from Echoes from the Borderlands have also been presented at Joe’s Pub, Harvard University, and the University of California at Berkeley, among others.
Echoes from the Borderlands is being developed in partnership with Dia Art Foundation.
This performance is presented with NYU Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies (CLACS).
Event Information
Date: Sunday, November 24, 2024
Time: 5:00 pm
Venue: Chelsea Factory
Address: 547 W 26th St, New York, NY 10001
Tickets: Free with RSVP
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Valeria Luiselli Is an acclaimed writer of both fiction and nonfiction. She is the author of Sidewalks, Faces in the Crowd, The Story of My Teeth, and Tell Me How It Ends (An Essay in Forty Questions). Her most recent novel, Lost Children Archive was an international critical and commercial success. It was a New York Times 10 Best Books of 2019, won the Rathbone Folio Prize 2020, the Dublin Award 2021, the Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction, and was nominated for the Women’s Prize for Fiction, and the Booker Prize 2019 among others. In 2019 she was awarded a MacArthur Genius Grant for “challenging conventional notions of authorship in fiction, essays, and inventive hybrids of the two that pose profound questions about the various ways we piece together stories and document the lives of others.” Her work is published in more than thirty languages. She is a professor at Bard College.
Leonardo Heilblum is an award-winning composer, producer and sound artist who has composed music for over 50 feature films. He collaborates regularly with Philip Glass, Patti Smith, and musicians from all over the world, mixing classical and indigenous instruments with field recordings.
Ricardo Giraldo works in sound, film promotion, contemporary classical music, audiovisual media and exhibit design. He is the director of the Podcast Division of La Corriente del Golfo, Diego Luna and Gael Garcia Bernal’s production company.
