Feature: Migration Lens

Marina Murayama Nir Mila, Samantha, and Stephanie moved to the U.S. via Quito, Ecuador and Tijuana, Mexico in 2012 to pursue undergraduate studies in music performance. Mila (viola) and Samantha (cello) came to Western Illinois University as part of the International String Quartet residency program. Samantha found out about the quartet scholarship through her sister,…

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Bleached / Unbleach

Rebecca Bacon Ehlers Every human culture is supported by a skeleton of essential values. Like a living creature’s bones, this system is easily felt but cannot be seen. In this series of multimedia experiments, white culture’s particular system of values, which includes, among other things, hierarchy, analysis through categorization,  and individuality, is interrogated through performance. History…

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