***Last night my roots flew away with the owls***, 2025. Aluminum, microphones. Performance view, Collective 62, Immaterial, curated by Melissa Wallen. Performed by Lize-Lotte Pitlo, Britney Tokumoto and Andrew McLees (sound). Photo by Logan Fazio.

Last night my roots flew away with the owls is a T shaped, sound-making aluminum sculpture that rotates on its center. Its activation follows an improvisational performance score, in which the breath of two performers is amplified, looped and layered. Intermixing elements of sculpture, music, performance and installation, and considering breath and voice as an extension of the body, Barba emphasizes themes of cyclicality in relation to language, speech and transformation. Situated between sculpture and action, the activation of Last night my roots flew away with the owls’s articulates bodily and vocal scores that feel volumetric and raw, laying bare the performative nature of language.

Adapted site-specifically, the activation of Last night my roots flew away with the owls evolved from excerpt from In my center, a cyborg seed. Photos by Andres Ibarra and Logan Fazio. Videos by Claudio Marcotulli and Daniel Arturo Almeida.

PRESS - Immaterial at Collective 62: Where Medium Becomes Meaning by Mario Rodriguez

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