Monsoon :: Superbloom
A multimedia installation and performance event by Ashton S Phillips
Inspired by the transness and collective power of water to change form and phase, to reshape both itself and its environment, and to bring life back to even the most dead and damaged places, Monsoon::Superbloom brings together a storm of trans voices reclaiming our authority over our own stories, our resiliency in the face of hostility, and our capacity to dream, more vibrant futures. Part speculative oral history project, part experimental sound art installation, part emergency T4T social practice project, Monsoon::Superbloom’s first multi-media installation will weave together audio recordings from participants’ interviews with field recordings of water submitted by participants and live performance.
With contributions from
Badly Licked Bear
JD
Shane Dixon
Umi Hsu
Wesleigh Gates
Yvonne LeBien
Rosario Martínez Pogar
Cat Mahatma
edua mercedes
Ash Morgan
O.K.
Pau Pescador
Yuri Preciado
Tanner Pfeiffer
Nina Sarnelle
Emji Saint Spero
Albus Wang
Brett Zhang
First Drops
Monsoon :: Superbloom is a living, nonlinear public artwork that invites participants to compose their own arrangements of trans and nonbinary subjectivities as they move through a spatialized storm of sound. Virtual participants can experience a sample of those possible compositions in this 90 second track featuring the voices of six interviewees interwoven with participant submitted field recordings of water.