POW POW POWER UP (2022-)

AN INSTALLATION-PERFORMANCE [45]

POW POW POWER UP is a series of site-specific installation-performances that use an AI-powered muse, inspired by the artist, educator, and social justice advocate Corita Kent, to question monuments as critical cultural objects. 

A research-based collaboration with interdisciplinary artist Liss Lafleur, POW POW uses Kent’s archive as a lens to engage contemporary social issues like reproductive rights, the climate crisis, or gun violence through the activation of spaces with music, sound, light, projection, and materials. The first of these temporary monuments, “greenfingers, 1969” – a sunset processional for chorus and electronics – was presented in 2022 at the Kennedy Center in Washington, DC. Temporary monuments combine public art, site-specificity, and audience participation to evoke joy around difficult social issues. This installment was performed by the DC chamber chorus Artifice, with support from the Corita Art Center in Los Angeles, CA.