MOCA + Wild Up Democracy Sessions: Day 2
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Program
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Democracy Session 2: The Dispossessed
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A work-in-progress reading of the libretto for a new musical-theatrical-operatic adaptation of Ursula K. Le Guin’s seminal work of science fiction, The Dispossessed: An Ambiguous Utopia, by composer Ted Hearne and librettist Chana Porter. Through Le Guin’s nuanced allegory of individualism vs collectivism, The Dispossessed is a timely exploration of borders, freedom, utopia, and revolution. Featuring musical performances by members of Wild Up, and a conversation with the creative team following the presentation.
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Democracy Session 3: Harmony Holiday, Ark of Bones/To the Race Industry In Crisis (after Henry Dumas and Frank O'Hara)
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How are the current liberal political campaigns gutting Black radical and working-class sensibilities for their life force while betraying the very demographics whose cultural output they appropriate and dilute? Is Blackness itself becoming an asset to the propaganda machine before all else? When it’s not being propagandized, it’s asked to quiet down and wait for the self-actualization that the propaganda made of it precludes.
This work will be an archive, a mythologizing of the acoustics of this process, and an attempt at reverse engineering it or, at the very least, demanding some humility and self-recognition from the hijackers, the insincere, les faux negres.
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Throughout the Weekend
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DEMOCRACY SESSIONS SCOREBOOK
A book of scores from the Wild Up community commemorates the weekend’s themes and program. Featuring contributions from Rachel Beetz, Elizabeth Cline, inti figgis-vizueta, Harmony Holiday, Michael Ned Holte, Sharon Chohi Kim, Elana Mann, Odeya Nini, Lewis Pesacov, Chana Porter, Sarah Rara, Christopher Rountree, Patrick Shiroishi, M.A. Tiesinga.
About Endless Season
Art in LA has long been about freedom and a rich rejection of history. With intersecting methods and intentions, it is humble yet aspirational, creating a city that appeals to the aesthete and mystic in all its citizens. Here, famous artists also double as street-side sign painters, our finest restaurants are located in strip malls, and our landmarks are more geographical than architectural or fleetingly experiential rather than permanent monuments to their lineages. Here, our religious and secular musics sound the same.
Endless Season revolves around these distinct West Coast traits. These programs mark a new chapter, focusing on sustainability and place, and investing in the artists and audiences who make our city vibrant. Together, we encourage, question, reinterpret, and challenge the past, modality, and genre. We hold a space for intersectionality and dialogue surrounding every aspect of our work.
More about Endless SeasonEndless Season 2024-2025
Endless Season continues internationally and across Los Angeles, as we embark on a year of festivals, residencies, and deep explorations of sound and those close-to-the-heart feelings that draw us toward one another. We begin by bringing the music of Julius Eastman to Germany at Ruhrtriennale. Then, we look toward the future of society with a weekend of democratic music-making with Democracy Sessions at MOCA Warehouse. In 2025, we untether Darkness Sounding, a festival that explores how listening, sound, and music shape our understanding of the world, from LA to congregate in New York around tuning and droves of medieval harmonies at 92NY. And we explore what it means to live life To The Fullest, celebrating selves brimming with unique righteousness, around the music of Julius Eastman and Arthur Russell in a three-month-long festival with the LA Philharmonic and REDCAT and other partners yet to be announced.