We Love Our Parents, We Fear Snakes

2015

Sound Performance

Armory Center for the Arts, photo: Johanna Breiding

Detail, Armory Center for the Arts, photo: Johanna Breiding

Collaborators: Marbles Jumbo Radio, Ohan Breiding
Materials: Video (color, silent), live stereo sound, projector, P.A. system, computer, midi controller, media player, dirt, hose, rug, photographs, house plants, prism
Dimensions: Variable
Duration: 40 min

We Love Our Parents, We Fear Snakes was created by Johanna Breiding as an intimate gathering space — foyer/drawing room/death room/living room — for queer-identified performers to explore traditionally familial spaces and experiences of mourning. The project was part of Women’s Center for Creative Work’s Parlor at the Armory residency program and culminated with a sound and movement performance by Marbles Jumbo Radio and Yann Novak.

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Related Recordings & Publications

We Love Our Parents, We Fear Snakes

2016

Album

Label: Yann Novak Studio
Catalog No.: YNS011
Format: Digital, streaming
Duration: 48 min 36 sec

We Love Our Parents, We Fear Snakes originated as a sound and movement performance by Marbles Jumbo Radio and Yann Novak inside Johanna Breiding installation of the same name. The installation was created as an intimate gathering space — foyer/drawing room/death room/living room — for queer-identified performers to explore traditionally familial spaces and experiences of mourning. Breiding invited Marbles and Novak to collaborate on the project and culminating performance because of their mutual experience of loosing their mothers. The project was part of Women’s Center for Creative Work’s Parlor at the Armory residency program.

We Love Our Parents, We Fear Snakes is a free download of Novak’s sound performance released on the 10 year anniversary of his mothers passing and is dedicated to Eva Shao-Huai Blum, Andrea Breiding, Ingrid Ann Buslee and Donna Lynn Cameron.

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