Zuri Interview Clip

Alana Interview

Ezmadi Interview

Opal Interview

Paris Interview

Phee Interview

Rhys Interview

Rook Interview

Travis Interview

Audio collage originally created by Elisa Peebles for the Bodies of Light: Exit Strategy event and installation at Decolonize This Place (New York, NY) on December 3 2016.

Compiled of interviews with NYC-based artists featured* in the portrait and performance series and music that got us through 2016. Interviews were conducted before the 2016 elections, and artists were asked to contemplate current and future conditions for artists of color in New York City, as well as their relationship to community, the connection between their crafts and their identities, and the idea of safe vs sacred space.

 Heard here are:

Artists (in order of appearance) 
Herbie L Mizani, Support/Music Management 
Wilfredo Hernandez, Theatre Artist 
Elisa Peebles, Producer, Performer, Storyteller
Bryan Edwards (Kaos Black), Multiple Disciplines 
Stefa Marin Alarcon (Stefa),  Musician, Composer, Performer, Writer
Jordan Weatherston Pitts, Opera Singer 
Keisha (TastyKeish), Audio Producer, co-founder of Bondfire Radio 
Jahmal B. Golden, Writer, Poet, Performance Artist, Video Artist 
Conscious, Living Art Project
Kleaver Cruz, Writer
Walter Cruz, Graphic Designer and Visual Journalist

Songs (in order of appearance)
"Me and Your Mama," Childish Gambino 
"Weary," Solange  
"Alright," Kendrick Lamar 
"My People," Erykah Badu 
"Mary, Don't You Weep," Aretha Franklin 
"Wonderful-Solo," Lianne La Havas 
"Green Garden," Laura Mvula 
"Understanding Chaos," BodhiSounds 
"Blessings," Chance the Rapper ft. Anthony Hamilton, Ty Dolla $ign, Raury, and D.R.A.M. 
"F.U.B.U.," Solange ft. The Dream and BJ the Chicago Kid 
"I Shall Be Released," Nina Simone
"Un Derecho de Nacimiento," Natalia Lafourcade
"Cranes in the Sky(Kaytranada Edit)," Solange

*Not all artists featured here were photographed and not all of the artists photographed are included in this collage.

Bodies of Light: Exit Strategy Artist Interviews

United Melanin Society