81 - Sonic Prayer Flags - New Orleans

The Kitchen Sisters Present

The Kitchen Sisters & Radiotopia

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🗓️ 24 October 2017

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

A string of sonic prayer flags —voices and sounds from New Orleans and Bayou Road, the oldest street in the city. Local visionaries, neighborhood entrepreneurs, artists, skate boarders, civil rights activists, musicians, teachers, and more. Listening to the sounds and moods of the City.

We’ve been recording in New Orleans lately for a project we’re doing as part of
Prospect 4 – an exhibit of works by artists from around the world who’ve been invited to create events and artworks throughout the city. The first Prospect New Orleans was created in the aftermath of Katrina – exploring the role of art and artists in the rebuilding of the city. The theme of this fourth Prospect is “The Artist in Spite of the Swamp”.

Our project is called “Levee Stream” a five-hour live, street-corner pop-up Cadillac radio station installation on Bayou Road. We’re collaborating with the Houston based artists collective Otabenga Jones – Jamal Cyrus, Jabari Anderson and associates-- who have created a cut-in-half pink Cadillac, with giant speakers in the trunk, and a white plush leather upholstered back seat (which now is the front seat because the car has been cut in half!) where guests can sit and converse and be interviewed live on the air — it’s a roving radio station that’s toured to neighborhoods in Houston and Brooklyn – and now New Orleans. The event will take place on Bayou Road and the stories, prayer flags, videos and images will be online at kitchensisters.org and Prospectneworleans.org.

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1:14.4	Some people say the skate park is one of the best things that came out of Hurricane Katrina.
1:28.0	I had heard about a spot in New Orleans where some young people were building a skatepark. So I went up there,
1:34.0	it's in between a highway and train tracks and a kind of dumping ground in the woods,
1:39.0	and I thought, my God, this is more than just a skate park. This is a utopian project of some kind.
1:44.0	We've been a a lot in New Orleans lately for a project we're doing as part of Prospect 4.
1:59.0	Prospect 4 is an exhibit of works by artists from around the world who've been invited to create events
2:05.2	and installations and artworks throughout the city.
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