“How might an examination of the distribution of power in improvised expression provide models for social responsibility and action? Improvisation is viewed by many as facilitating direct intervention in political, social, economic and scientific discourses, promoting an awareness of intercultural and transnational discourses, and providing an atmosphere for the acknowledgment and articulation of difference that employ expressive means to challenge totalizing narratives that seek to reify notions of the role of creative expression in society. Building on these kinds of insights enables an examination of the potential for improvisation to aid in imagining new possibilities for interrogating power structures.”
The Condition of Improvisation, George E. Lewis. Columbia University

As part of Antenna’s Auxiliary, Butter on the Sidewalk, ephemeral art show, we were invited to submit projects that dealt with melting, consumerism and hedonism. With the recent election process in my country I was trying to explore improvisation as a tool to incorporate change through a system.

Musical improvisation was the basis for this piece. Personally, it was the desire to incur on a musical instrument with some sense of agency but I was also seeking for people to interact with this system by having the ability to regulate the beats of melting, dripping water.

[Special thanks to Casey Valadie, Monica Fernandez, Danielle Paciera, Scott Oman, Aj, all the staff at Home Depot and Mike’s Hardware Store.]

Antenna Gallery Annex
New Orleans, LA