VOICE RIPPLES I
An itinerant healing concert for solo voice
CARMINA ESCOBAR for JAIME SCHOLNICK
November 15, 2023 at Harbor-UCLA Hospital
11:00am–7:10pm
VOICE RIPPLES I is an itinerant healing concert for solo voice performed by Carmina Escobar, taking place throughout Harbor-UCLA Hospital on November 15, 2023. Carmina Escobar is simger, improviser, sound and intermedia artist from Mexico City currently based in LA. Through VOICE RIPPLES I, Escobar will present 7 interventions of solo voice melodies that explore the acoustic space of the hospital with the intention of providing a soothing experience for the audience. This is a public event and all are welcome to attend. The concert is part of a community engagement series as part of artist Jaime Scholnick’s's public art commission at the Harbor-UCLA hospital in collaboration between Escobar and artist Jaime Scholnick – whose artwork will be featured in the new inpatient lobby of the hospital.
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Carmina Escobar is an extreme vocalist, improviser, sound and intermedia artist from Mexico City currently based in LA. Escobar investigates and expresses emotions, politics, states of alienation, and the possibilities of interpersonal connection through voice performances, installations, and video pieces that seeks to challenge our understandings of musicality, gender, queerness, race, the spoken word, and the foundations of human communication. She has presented her work in Mexico, Cuba, Europe, USA, and Canada in festivals and venues such as PST:LA/LA, Fabrica de Arte (HVN), CTM Festival (BRL), REDCAT, The Broad, The Kitchen, The Whitney, among many others. Escobar has been an artist in residence in Montalvo, STEIM, Binaural Portugal, OMI, Electroacoustic Music Studio in Krakow, Fonoteca NacionalMX, Indexical, The MacDowell Residency, and at the BEMIS Center in Nebraska. Carmina has received three Endowment Of The Arts in Mexico, the US Artist International Award with the project Estamos Ensemble, Master Scholarship of NALAC, the 2020 FCA Artist award in Music/Sound, and the NPN 2020 and 2021 Creation Fund Artists, New Music USA 2022 Development Fund for the project Vox Clamantis with performance artist Ron Athey. In addition to BOSS WITCH PRODUCTIONS, she is co-founder of LIMINAR ensemble and radical/experimental pedagogical voicehub HOWL SPACE Carmina is a faculty member of the VoiceArt program at CalArts. As an immigrant from Mexico key to her practice is the exploration of interstitial states of being—suspensions between worlds/politics/borders.
SCHEDULE
I. 11:00am–11:10am at Parlow Plaza
II.12:00pm–12:10pm at Parlow Plaza
III. 1:00pm–1:10pm at Old Front Entrance
IV. 4:00pm–4:10pm at Employee Health
V. 5:00pm–5:10pm at SE Entrance
VI. 6:00pm–6:10pm at SE Atrium
VII. 7:00pm–7:10pm at Old Front Entrance
