AnEn’s Llontop integrates new machine learning technologies into an interactive, narrative installation and live performance that seeks to recognize the tenacious vitality of the Quechua language and culture in a contemporary context. The physical environment of the installation is a luminescent interactive installation of inherited Peruvian objects, including a collection of purportedly pre-Columbian pottery. The audience travels through the installation using mobile devices to trigger podcast-style audio content that weaves a tapestry of personal ancestries and the history and current state of Andean culture. The piece then coalesces with the audience coming together through the live performance of Quechua poetry by the celebrated poet and activist, Irma Alvarez-CCoscco. Llontop layers documentary audio, poetry, live camera feeds, cinematic underscoring, and projections with delightfully intricate media programming.
Land Acknowledgement: Anonymous Ensemble acknowledges the richly varied Crown Heights community displaced by gentrification. We also honor the Lenape people who came before and the indigenous stewards of this land, past, present, and future.
