Chant Down is a performance by Luis Rincón Alba and Camila Falquez, with Carolina Oliveros, Natalia Perez, Gina Soto, and Mobéy Lola Irizarry that investigates the forces and rebellious energies that inhabit traditional Caribbean songs and explores the anticolonial legacies that gave shape to ancestral percussive and chanting techniques. This performative exploration revisits the modes these legacies are reactivated through repetitive rhythmic and harmonic structures. Awakened by collective chanting, the performance seeks to access the vibrational registers—sometimes secret and hidden—in which the history of Black and Indigenous struggle found refuge.

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Image: Camila Falquez, still from Chant Down performance featuring Carolina Oliveros, Mobéy Lola Irizarry, Gina Soto, and Luis Rincón Alba. Courtesy of the artists and Hannah Traore Gallery.