(2017)
Field Recordings / Sound Installation
Digital audio file
12 minutes 8 secs [looped]
Silent Choir (2017) captures a moment at the Oceti Sakowin camp, near Standing Rock Indian Reservation in North Dakota during the 2016–17 No Dakota Access Pipeline (NoDAPL) Resistance. The piece documents the silent protest of hundreds of water protectors and land defenders, led by Indigenous women, staring down the armed police sent to suppress the gathering. The sonic trace not only describes what can be sensed but also what may be imagined, and amplifies the echo of a movement that stood unshakable — in strategic unity and prayer — maintaining its peaceful resistance through nonviolence.
