“Radio-Rhizome Pipeline3,”
Soundscape, Performance Art and Experimental Sound Installation, utilizing radio transmitting systems in both digital and physical formats to create large-scale soundscapes in acres of land. This iteration of RadioRhizome is located in Honor The Earth Camp. This camp utilizes cultural, direct, and legal actions to oppose the passage of the Enbridge Pipeline 3 through the Anishinaabe’s treaty lands and the Mississippi Headwaters. This location is close to Palisade, MN. Collaboration with Nooshin Hakim.
RadioRhizome creates an artistic platform through immersive sound experiments to facilitate contemplation, healing, and self-reflection for visitors, water protectors, and the general public who pass through these lands.
We have designated a separate website for online streaming of content related to this topic, covering a variety of subjects.
You can listen to these pieces on RadioRhizome.org
Below is March 2021 Iteration of RadioRhizome with the theme of “What is Water To you?”
Video documentation of one of RadioRhizome's special edition programs. In these special editions, immersive sound experiences are created across the camp, by the Mississippi, on the public lands by the pipeline. The content is a combination of experimental music, sound pieces, spoken word performances, storytelling, and interviews to create a soundscape for the general public, visitors, water protectors, and pipeline workers. This performance has been repeated in different iterations. This is an ongoing project.
The questions we are working on are the following:
What is Water to You?
What is Land to You?
What is Life to You?
Can Water, Land, and Life have rights that could contradict our economic and financial interests?
If you had a historical, cultural, spiritual, emotional, ancestral, and existential connection to something, would that validate your efforts to preserve and protect it from others to bring possible harm to it?
As legal cases continue to play out, long-standing grassroots resistance to the pipeline entered a new phase with public actions in multiple locations and dozens of arrests of peaceful water protectors. Native American Anishinaabe (Ojibwe) organizations have led the movement with groups like the Giniw Collective, Honor the Earth, Rise Coalition, and Gitchi Gumi Scouts leading public actions along the construction route, along with organizations including MN350 Action and Northfield Against Line 3. Joining this effort as artists, we talked with tribal leaders active in the scene to implement our radio rhizome as a tool and platform to reflect the voices of the people and create sound projects that can help recirculate them as much as our platform allows. We thought about how we could be the waveline upon which the water protectors’ voices could surf. We thought the best way is not to represent but to broadcast. We decided to be a platform both as an actual radio transmitting entity run by artists and a virtual web-based sound project to extend these voices as far as we currently can.
