Only Remains Remain: Artist, Alumna Freya Powell ’06 Creates Symphony to Honor Lost and Unidentified Migrants
How do you memorialize someone you’ve never met and whose name you may never know? In the audio piece Only Remains Remain, artist Freya Powell ’06 uses the structure of a Sophoclean chorus to create an elegy for the thousands of unidentified migrants who have died crossing the US southern border, and whose bodies are buried in unmarked graves across the border states. In excerpts from a live performance developed as part of her residency at MoMA PS1, Powell utilizes pitch, intonation, breath, movement, and silence to embody a contemporary tragedy told through the story of Antigone.
Post Date: 04-10-2020
Post Date: 04-10-2020