“SustainABLE [Three Sisters], Part II” is a work by visual artist Lani Asuncion. Lani has extensively spoken about this work during her Skype conversation with Tiziana Casapietra available at this link.
The video has been kindly provided by the artist.
ABOUT
“The first interest came because I was at a place called Sisters Oregon, I was doing research on the location there. People ask me all the time why are you interested in that and it’s not just about that location, but I found the connection with the story when I was there because I have three half sisters and three step sisters. I actually have six sisters and so technically that makes seven sisters and just the other day I was told the story about the Seven Sisters that is actually seven sisters in the Three Sister Mountains here, but the mountains fell apart so you don’t see them anymore and so this is interesting and I was “Oh wow, I really find a connection there and I feel connected to that.” I think it’s interesting to be able to do that and to still in a sense live my life, even I’m doing contemporary art I can still live my life in a way while I may make connections with the world and the environment and the work itself it lives as a video. So I like how there is this parallel with me. It is based on transmedia storytelling and I’m really interested in what that means and how do I continue to respect the oral tradition but at the same time build my work in a contemporary practice.” Lani Asuncion (excerpt from the conversation)
PRODUCTION:
Artist/ Director of Photography (DP): Lani Asuncion
Graphic Effects Artist: Michael Schleif
Assistant: Molly Hastings
Performers:
[ Day 1: Pickard’s Mountain Eco Institute ] Iman Bannout Courtney McCracken Lyric Morris
[ Day 02: Private Organic Farm ] Nicole DuBois Sam Metzner Molly Pearlstein
Music Composition: Anghard Davis
Shape Note Singers:
Treble Laura Clampitt Phillippa Stoddard
Tenor Ellen Lueck
Alto Vicki Baily Hayes Anghard Davis
Audio Design: G.K. Velush
SPECIAL THANKS
Keep Your Fork Truffle Farm, Carolina Heritage Vineyard, RambleRill Farm, Pickard’s Mountian Eco Institute, Honeysuckle Tea House, Roberto Trejo (private farm), Dhanraj Emanuel Photography, Carolina Farm Stewardship Association, and all the crew at Elsewhere.
Locations: Elsewhere Living Museum | Greensboro, NC |
JULY 2014