The performance of Radio Healer is an expanded field extrapolation of the concerto. Radio Healer’s performance construct functions to field-find knowledge from communities in the greater Phoenix metropolitan area. By presenting a performance model, Radio Healer encourages audiences to consider questions such as the following:
How do marketplace technologies affect our human experience? How do they alter our cultures, and their respective cosmologies? How can we use new media as a tool to network and preserve cultural forms? What happens when we respect new technologies as the sacred?
Photographs Above: Transmitter used to broadcast Radio Healer performance live on FM radio.
Photograph Above left: Shield and implement made of circuits, vinyl, hubcap, wires and plastic feathers.
Above right: Traditional dancer, Sam Anderson, with hub-cap shield and implement of circuits and wire.
Photograph left: Contemporary dancer, Aileen Mapes, with wired head and circuitry.
Photograph right: Traditional dancer, Monty Walters, with circuit board shield and implement of circuits and wire.
Full length video of Radio Healer performance, Angle 1. Expressive Zoom and Pan (Approx. 23:00 min.)
Short video edit of performance at Icehouse (Approx. 4:00 min.)
