Live at the Dump: Songs of Memory and Forgetting
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Martha McDonald performs Songs of Memory and Forgetting as part of RAIR: Live at the Dump. Photo by Mike Persico.
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RAIR’s Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome movie night, held in conjunction with Live at the Dump. Photo by Mike Persico.
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RAIR’s WALL-E movie night, held in conjunction with Live at the Dump. Photo by Mike Persico.
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RAIR’s WALL-E movie night, held in conjunction with Live at the Dump. Photo by Mike Persico.
As part of RAIR's (Recycled Artist in Residency) project Live at the Dump, interdisciplinary artist Martha McDonald presents "Songs of Memory and Forgetting", a site-specific installation and performance at RAIR's recycling facility and artist space in Northeast Philadelphia. Acting as a performative archaeologist, McDonald will lead audiences through an interpretive musical tour of the waste site, while playing original music on repurposed instruments.
Live at the Dump is an interactive, site-specific program that utilizes a series of films, performances, and discussions to increase public awareness of the waste stream and the role of art in shaping social and environmental consciousness.
Performances take place on June 5 and 12 at 1:00 p.m. and 4:00 p.m.