(2022)
Performance
As part of the touring exhibition Undoing Time: Art and Histories of Incarceration, Arizona, Raven Chacon debuted a new sound work on Alcatraz Island on November 6, 2022. The work is a sonic meditation on the histories of Alcatraz, including and its occupation for nineteen months beginning in November 1969 by the group Indians of All Tribes to protest the unjust treatment of Indigenous people by the U.S. government. The 50-minute performance draws upon many sources, including archival recordings of Radio Free Alcatraz, in which John Trudell would broadcast news of the occupation from the island every weeknight for most of the first year of the protest.
