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Performance

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?

 
The Radio Healer performance is a metaphor that demonstrates the cyborg healer's condition by using a language of symbols that are signified through traditional American Indigenous and American contemporary forms of dance, design, and music.

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.)

Full length video of Radio Healer performance, Angle 2. Detail Shot No Zoom and Pan (Approx. 23:00 min.)

Short video edit of performance at Icehouse (Approx. 4:00 min.)