""I see a world where everyone eats.""
""One of the things that I've found from the recordings was just how incredibly honest, incredibly heartfelt and genuine everyone was," Mesiti-Miller said. While listening back to them, "I was overwhelmed - it was such a beautiful snapshot, a glimpse into people's hearts.""
""We need to imagine new systems, and we have the capacity to do that," he says. "Oftentimes our mind is stuck on what's here, what's now, and how do we stop it or how do we break it down? That's all important and necessary. But it's also necessary to imagine new things, and to share those visions with each other - and to build towards those together.""
A 45-minute sound installation presented in complete darkness uses 176 speakers to replay an archive of recordings from people inside prison. Layered whispers and original music construct an immersive, unsettling soundscape that moves between oppressive confinement and visions of care and communal sustenance. The recordings reveal honest, heartfelt reflections that offer intimate glimpses into people's emotions and hopes. The work foregrounds physical sounds to prompt critical attention to the apparatus of incarceration while encouraging imagination and collective building of new, more compassionate systems. Performances run Thursdays–Saturdays through Jan. 3 at Audium in San Francisco.
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