Hillary Ramirez
We want to start with some deep listening. Take a minute or so and just listen to the sound of the space you’re in. What do you hear? Traffic? Your refrigerator? Your family moving around your living space? Your own breathing. In the spirit of NYC's 7pm Applause for Essential Workers, and Ann Hamilton's quote "hearing is how we touch at a distance", we invite you to compose a new communal sound-based ritual for a new time of day and community. You can use basic materials around your house or just your body or breath to do this.
Ann Hamilton said, ““hearing is how we touch at a distance.” Make something precious for someone else and share it with them.
While continuing to body scan and listen, look down at the materials you collected earlier and allow whatever comes up in your mind to flow through your arms, move your hands and transform your paper. You might have an impulse to write on it, draw on it, tear it, dip it in water, cut it, fold it, etc. Whatever it is , allow it to be expressed, without any planning. Almost as if you were watching your hands being moved by something else.
William Kentrdige uses different materials and art forms to talk about complex topics, such as the apartheid. What is one issue or perspective happening in the world that you would like to shine some extra light on?