HD video
6:45 minutes
2017
Countertenor Juecheng Chen embodies two personae singing into the dawn and dusk. The piece interprets and extends Mocking Bird Yodel (1937) as a call and response and audio-visual echo across time and the space of the contested landscape of the Sonoran Desert.
Installation view, Taxispalais, Innsbruck, Austria, 2017.
Video stills, 2017.
Directed and Edited by:
Angel Nevarez & Valerie Tevere
Featuring:
Juecheng Chen
Production Assistants:
Miguel Angél Monsón, Keyaanna Pausch, Kayla Valenzuela
Song:
Mocking Bird Yodel by Harry Torrani, 1937
Commissioned by Taxispalais (Innsbruck, Austria) for Accentisms, 2017 with additional support from Research Foundation of CUNY and Grand Central Art Center, Santa Ana, CA.
Special thanks to Nina Tabassomi, Anna Fliri, Taxispalais team, Nate Harrison, Carla Herrera-Prats, Muriel Magenta, Giana Nevarez Tevere, Gregory Sale, Martha Schwaizer, Reinhard Schwaizer, and John Spiak.
© Angel Nevarez and Valerie Tevere, 2017