Description: We Listen Nearby is a sound project that brings together an intergenerational group of artists, activists, writers, and scholars to articulate the power and problematics of legacy and to think through the impact of our histories as migrants, immigrants, refugees, strangers, and friends and contend with the conditions of racial politics.
We are living in disturbing times. While the current economic, social, biological, and political precarity of the moment is not new; and visible and pervasive violent white supremacy has been the architecture of this nation since its founding, we are facing the darkness of our present juncture with unclouded eyes. The timing of this project is urgent in the context of the Covid-19 pandemic and the Black Lives Matter uprising. It arrives at this critical moment, shaped by conjuncted crises, with a long-term
We Listen Nearby has been well over a decade in the making. Over the last twenty years, I have had many conversations with dear BIPOC friends – activists, artists, scholars – who have helped me grow as an anti-racist through struggles on the streets, in the workplace, and in the classroom. I have been fortunate to have learned and worked with these artists and activists, including my long-time collaborator Hương Ngô, NC based activists ngọc loan trần and Nadeen Bir, artists Jina Valentine and Heather Hart,
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