Come with us to explore Prospect New Orleans, the Crescent City’s triennial of contemporary art. Titled The Lotus in Spite of the Swamp, the fourth iteration evokes the musical character of New Orleans and the surrounding natural environment—the bayous, lakes and wetlands near the mouth of the Mississippi River.
Voices in this episode: Prospect.4’s artistic director Trevor Schoonmaker, former executive director Brooke Davis Anderson, artists Quintron and Miss Pussycat, Paulo Nazareth, Sonia Boyce, Rusty Lazer, Darryl Montana, Davia Nelson of the Kitchen Sisters, and more!
- Trevor Schoonmaker
- Prospect New Orleans P.4
- Brooke Anderson
- Cathy Byrd with Miss Pussycat
- Quintron’s Weather Warlock
- Quintron demonstrates his Weather Warlock
- Cathy Byrd with Sonia Boyce
- Sonia Boyce, Still from Crop Over, video, 2007
- Cathy Byrd recording with Paulo Nazareth
- Paulo Nazareth, Untitled,
- Cathy Byrd with Rusty Lazer, Music Box Village
- Music Box Village
- Darryl Montana with Cathy Byrd at Music Box Village
- The Kitchen Sisters, Cole Williams, Jamal Cyrus, Otabenga Jones and Associates
- Levee Stream pop-up radio station
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Related Links: Prospect New Orleans, The Lotus in Spite of the Swamp
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