Adlo Manman ° Letter to the forgotten grandmothers︙Simone Lagrand
Sound and visual poem by
Simone Lagrand & Klēlo — 2021
Still ƒrom Adlo Manman by Simone Lagrand and Klēlo
Adlo Manman ° Letter to the forgotten grandmothers is a tribute to ancestors — buried under layers oƒ historic invisibility, colonial dust, and genealogical abyss, who don’t have surnames and sometimes don’t even have a name. How did they look like? How to honor them so that they are never forgotten?
〜Simone Lagrand
Above is a subaquatic dub I composed, inspired by Bob Marley & The Wailers’ Natural Mystic, which I used ƒor Simone Lagrand’s poem.
Synopsis
Adlo Manman ° Letter to the forgotten grandmothers is a tribute to ancestors — buried under layers oƒ historic invisibility, colonial dust, and genealogical abyss, who don’t have surnames and sometimes don’t even have a name. How did they look like? How to honor them so that they are never forgotten?
— Simone Lagrand
Adlo Manman ° Letter to the forgotten grandmothers is a tribute to ancestors — buried under layers oƒ historic invisibility, colonial dust, and genealogical abyss, who don’t have surnames and sometimes don’t even have a name. How did they look like? How to honor them so that they are never forgotten?
— Simone Lagrand
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When Simone invited me to create with her and sent over her recorded poem, I already had a dub loop that had been waiting on my computer ƒor months. Her voice blended so harmoniously with the composition that, within a few days, Adlo Manman ° Letter to the Forgotten Grandmothers was born — a sound and visual poem woven ƒrom her spoken-sung words, her precious personal archives, and historical archives I gathered online, all digitally immersed in intimancestral waters shimmering with light and love.
When Simone invited me to create with her and sent over her recorded poem, I already had a dub loop that had been waiting on my computer ƒor months. Her voice blended so harmoniously with the composition that, within a few days, Adlo Manman ° Letter to the Forgotten Grandmothers was born — a sound and visual poem woven ƒrom her spoken-sung words, her precious personal archives, and historical archives I gathered online, all digitally immersed in intimancestral waters shimmering with light and love.
Simone Lagrand with·in Adlo Manman ° Letter to the forgotten grandmother — Miami, 2021
[ not my photographs, above: Live Youtube / below: ƒrom Instagram ]
Diffusions
• Women Photographers International Archive (WOPHA) at Pérez Art Museum Miami (PAMM) ° Miami — 2021
• Women Photographers International Archive (WOPHA) at Pérez Art Museum Miami (PAMM) ° Miami — 2021
Specifications
media: music, audio, video, archives
genre : experimental
dimension: 4:3
duration: 6 min
space: intimancestral waters
time: 2021
media: music, audio, video, archives
genre : experimental
dimension: 4:3
duration: 6 min
space: intimancestral waters
time: 2021
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