We love when Francesca Heart comes to Los Angeles!! This is the first of two moments that we’ll share while Francesca is in town to celebrate her Grammy-nomination as part of the Saul Williams Meets Carlos Niño & Friends ensemble that we presented in December of ‘24.

Francesca Heart’s Invocations workshop is a small group project and part of her ongoing research practice on sound mythologies, hydrofeminism and collective becoming. Ignited by the thinking of choreographer Emilie Conrad, according to whom all living processes originate in the movement of water, this three hour workshop invites participants to create an instant sound photography of the landscape co-produced by their bodies.

Throughout the afternoon we’ll chat field recording, the acoustic ecology of Los Angeles, and utilize accessible amateur recording technology. The project encourages shared, collective vulnerability, in order to create new myths and narratives that explore oceanic imaginaries, renewal and belonging, and ecological sensitivity.

‘Invocations’ has been presented at La Terra delle Sirene (Terraforma, Villa Lontana, Marea Art Project, Biennale Architettura / Museo Madre Napoli IT), Palermo Botanical Garden (Room to Bloom, studio rizoma Palermo IT), Iklectik (London, UK), Les Urbaines Festival (Lausanne, CH), Nextones (Val d’Ossola, IT), UCSB (USA) & more

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We’ll share our gathering location the week of, but as of now are planning to meet somewhere along or near Ballona Creek as it flows through either Marina del Rey or Playa del Rey.

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