Come dance with me. I’m making music with stunning Zingha Love for dear loves Ching-I Chang and Mel Sarkor-Clinton’s CI Jam at Open Arts Studio.

to be free is a work-in-process by Marie Lloyd Paspe in collaboration with sound & performance artist Sylvain Souklaye. Our showing will be at TOPAZ Arts in Woodside, Queens on Saturday, May 17 at 2:00 PM.

Ignited by the hypervisibility of and surveillance on immigrants, we are interested in what it means to be seen and making with our bodies during this time. ‘to be free’ is a sound-movement choreography of observation and deep listening to the invisible, Sacred, and absent. Through sonic landscapes made by loop pedals, body mics, and vocals, with choreography inspired by the in/visibilities of labour and the subsequent absence of what was — the piece attempts to capture our experiences as transcontinental artists whose families moved to this country for a better life.

Conceptual mapping with support from

Maria Takeuchi (soundscape)

Marie Lloyd Paspe (movement-scape)

Performing my solo work sunod in the motherland on June 27 in Siquijor, Philippines at Fete de la Musique PH.

During my time in Siquijor, I will be researching with spiritual healers from Siquijor Island and archiving their work through embodied practice and interdisciplinary exchange, and video documentation by film collaborator Chad Santo Tomas of Oof Stories.