Land-escape: A Sonic Invocation
A collaborative performance by Jeanette Degollado and Adrián Suárez
Land-escape is a 25-minute sound performance that invites audiences into an immersive landscape where sound, image, and spirit breathe as one, where the trembling edge between nature and human intervention is both wound and wonder. Conceived by American Indigenous Latinx artist Jeanette Degollado and Venezuelan composer Adrián Suárez, the performance listens for the delicate balance between creation and extraction, between what the earth gives and what we take. Rooted in ancestral wisdom yet guided by experimental sound practice, Land-escape becomes a meditation on climate change and resilience, a call to re-attune our senses to the trembling pulse of the planet.
Inspired by photographs of erosion-mitigation procedures along Los Angeles cliffsides, sites where the land collapses and remembers the hands that attempt to contain it, Degollado and Suárez translate images into a living score of light, vibration, and breath. The performance uses projections, shell trumpets, electronics, and auxiliary instruments to evoke the four cardinal directions and the elemental forces of wind, water, fire, and earth, composing a sonic prayer for renewal.
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Jeanette Degollado is a transdisciplinary artist and cultural producer of Mexican, American, and Indigenous American descent, rooted in the ancestral knowledge of the Sierra Madre Occidental.
Her art practice moves between street art, public installations, sculpture, and socially engaged art. Degollado’s art practice explores knowledge-based systems, craft, photography, reproduction art, sound, data collecting, and technology to engage communities in acts of collective imagination and epistemic resistance. She currently serves as Board Chair of A Place 2 Go and continues to produce collaborative works that merge art and social enterprise across Los Angeles and Houston.
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Adrián Suárez is an award-winning Venezuelan composer whose work synthesizes Western experimental traditions with the ancestral wisdom of the Orinoco Basin. His compositions explore sound as a healing and sonorous substrate, crafting a musical language that guides listeners through an ancient cosmogony.
Supported by the City of Houston through Houston Arts Alliance
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