About the piece:
'Her Land, Expanded' is composer Tonia Ko’s second collaboration with filmmaker Alexandra Cuesta. In their respective mediums, the artists share interests in the experimentation of form and the poetic fragmentation of materials. Despite being inspired by ideals and techniques of the European avant-garde, this piece presents an outsider’s perspective in multiple ways. For both artists, the concepts behind 'Her Land, Expanded 'feel autobiographical. Cuesta’s Ecuadorian background and Ko’s roots in Hong Kong and Hawai‘i give them unique vantage points on the loss of nature and the complex effects of colonization.
Both music and visuals contain the rhetoric of a litany, a repet...