A Conversation with Leilehua Lanzilotti
Oct 17 at 11:30 AM - 12:30 PM
The Asian American Studies Program & Center cordially invites you to join us for a conversation with Leilehua Lanzilotti, a Kanaka Maoli composer, multimedia artist, curator, scholar, and educator. The event will take place on Thursday October 17, 11:30AM-12:30PM, in the Solarium/1413 Hunter East.
This discussion/interactive talk will feature a brief look at Lanzilotti’s work the sky in our hands, our hands in the sky, which combines the recorded sounds of Takaezu’s closed forms with footage shot on Hawaiʻi island, at the base of Kīlauea, the slopes of Mauna Loa, and the top of Mauna Kea. In the overlay of sound, texture, color, and light, we get the feeling of being inside Takaezu’s multisensory landscapes. the sky in our hands, our hands in the sky honors the wahi pana (translated literally as, “places with a heartbeat”) featured throughout. Kū kiaʻi mauna.
Leilehua Lanzilotti is a Kanaka Maoli composer, multimedia artist, curator, scholar, and educator. Lanzilotti’s practice explores radical indigenous contemporaneity, integrating community engagement into the heart of projects. By world-building through multimedia installation works and nontraditional concert experiences/musical interventions, Lanzilotti’s works activate imagination around new paths forward in language sovereignty, water sovereignty, land stewardship, and respect. Uplifting others by crafting projects that support both local communities and economy, the work inspires hope to continue.
Lanzilotti was honored to be a finalist for the 2022 Pulitzer Prize in Music for with eyes the color of time (string orchestra), which the Pulitzer committee called, “a vibrant composition . . . that distinctly combines experimental string textures and episodes of melting lyricism.” Recently a Native Arts & Cultures Foundation’s SHIFT – Transformative Change and Indigenous Arts awardee, Lanzilotti has received additional distinguished fellowships & residencies through The Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio Center, Casa Wabi, Bogliasco Foundation, the Merwin Conservancy, the McKnight Visiting Composer Residency Program, and the MacGeorge Fellowship at the University of Melbourne.
More info, please email Dr. Daniel Woo, dw2492@hunter.cuny.edu