In their work, Danielle Paige Williams (caller) and Jorge Bañales (responder) challenge the meaning of corporal, landscape, sound and visual structures. Drawing from Williams’ Black and Chamorro culture and Bañales’ experience as an immigrant, they question and challenge what it means to be an American in 2020.
At the forefront are Williams’ poems: “body as structure,” “Suburbia,” and “my name is not your storm.” These poems are interested in exploring the body as a structure. In understanding the physical and mental confines of a body forced into American capitalism and consumerism. Each poem, in its own way, is confronting a system, whether economic, political, or personal.
These words are a reclaiming. A call to action. They exist to question and expose the flaws in this American structure and tell the stories of people forced to endure it.
The text is anchored by Bañales’ sounds, created by the unstructured nature of a modular synth system, and images, generated algorithmically, to create new visual and abstract landscapes that question the structure of music and sound.
Finally, the triptych has a non-linear narrative and it can be approached at any moment by any of its entry points.