FIELD RECORDINGS: VOL. 1, 2, 3 by Lisa Prins and Marie Ilse Bourlanges
Friday November 15, 8pm
Field Recordings is a series of mixtapes that explores the radical potential of (work) song practices. The three volumes in Field Recordings build on archival and reinterpreted material, in the full confidence that people have always and everywhere rejected their marginalized positions, and that they have always and everywhere had a political imagination at least as developed as our own. For centuries, people have been escaping into (songs full of) love and desire to forget about a tough workday; for centuries, this escapism has also contained or mutated into (songs of) political consciousness. The mixtapes in the Field Recordings series follows this insight exploring bawdy love songs in the first volume, songs that set and disrupt the rhythms of labor in the second volume, and songs of active dissent in the last volume.
These mixtapes are a love offering, like those we used to make for our budding crushes.
every [one who] is not fugitive is lost.
عاشت الانتفاضة
Field Recordings is a series of mixtapes, part of Songs of Flax, a research project by Liza Prins and Marie Ilse Bourlanges