Brent Michael Davids: Requiem for America | Creative Capital Project
Learn more about Requiem for America: Singing for the Invisible People, by artist Brent Michael Davids, Creative Capital Grantee 2023.
Requiem explores the genocidal founding of America across the 50 states, plus the District of Columbia, in a series of three interlocking parts. Each part consists of 18 movements and opens with the same Movement no. 1, “The Doctrine of Discovery,” which authorized colonizing Europeans to subjugate Indigenous peoples. The 17 movements that follow focus on illuminating a specific genocide in each state, juxtaposing genocidal texts from America’s founding against historical letters from American Indians themselves. A narrator, in the persona of Earth, forms the connective tissue that contextualizes each movement, providing an integrated dramaturgical arc. Together, the three parts will cover genocides in all 50 states and DC. Once completed, David’s vision is to tour Requiem to all 51 venues. In addition to the Western singers and orchestra, each performance will feature Native American singers recruited from local tribal communities. Inviting local Indigenous people to collaborate is essential to the overall mission: to create cultural catharsis as we speak the truth of the genesis of our country’s “founding” for both speakers (the Indigenous participants) and receivers (the audience). Requiem sings against the imposed invisibility and models the solution in performance. Through truth-singing, we can collectively lament the nation’s blood-soaked nativity. “As we struggle against the deep legacy of racism in the United States, it’s high time for us to face and to mourn the genocide of Native Americans, on which this nation was founded. I’m proud to be associated with this project.” —John Luther Adams. Read more: https://creative-capital.org/projects...
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