FMEL 5
The FMEL had an incredible program. Check it out!
Organizers asked me to take a boom box and alter it, and by doing that, I would be part of a show at Co-Prosperity Sphere where sound artists from Mexico would make the sound that would come out of our sculptures. The collaboration was taken one step further when Stephanie Manriquez came to get my work and then took it to the hair salon, where it was curled, styled, braided and accessorized. It's called Free Pussy Riot. It was like an exquisite corpse! Love that.
This time last year, Charlie "Sonorama" Garcia was installing 10 speakers in my overgrown zucchini patch. It was an environmental sound piece by Jalisco artist Yair Lopez. 100s of people came by during Pilsen Open Studios and experienced this. Sounds included ladies talking, geese, goats, dirt roads crunching, and my tiny Chicago yard was transported, along with all my visitors, to a tiny town. I wonder what it was like for the people on the other side of our privacy fence.
Stephanie and Charlie and the whole FMEL operation, wow--keep an eye on them! They make it happen.