the rain remembers its life as sea
the rain remembers its life as sea is a sonic composition performed over two days by a local chorus at Kitchener-Waterloo’s shorelines.
Composed through various acts of translation, from the sonification of bioacoustic data from the Great Lakes Watershed, to the notation of hydrophone recordings made with the region's waterways, the work seeks to create a dialogue between humans and beyond-humans outside of language.
In order to create liveable and desirable futures, we must listen to the places around us and those that inhabit them. The embodied gestures and relational connections created through the performances alongside the Watershed asks; what can be exchanged in an act of speech? What worlds can we build when we listen differently?
naakita f.k. (they/them) is a queer, non-binary multidisciplinary artist of mixed roots (settler in so-called “Canada”/Jamaican/German/Hungarian) living and working in Tio’Tia:Ke/Mooniyang/Montreal. Notable presentations include MoMA PS1, New York, NY (2012); Trinity Square Video, Toronto, ON (2016); Knot Project Space, Ottawa, ON (2018); Mémoire de l'Avenir, Paris, FR (2019); EXPRESSION, Saint-Hyacinthe, QC (2020); Fonderie Darling, Montreal, QC (2022); and Images Festival, Toronto, ON (2023). Their research and creation has been supported with grants from Saw Video (2018), Museum of Jewish Montreal (2020), Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec (2022), and Canada Council for the Arts (2020, 2021, 2022, 2023).
