Goodbye Dreamland

Description of Project:

I was invited by Dia Art Foundation to create an audio piece in response to Carl Craig’s ‘Party/After-Party’ exhibition.

[Text that is spoken on track] 

Here we sit at the precipice of all that is known and unknown. 

Some of you hide in the shadows 

and others in plain sight 

When you sleep at night, is it with eyes wide shut? Or do you see all the faces, and bodies and hair and skin and feel... 

do you feel anything? 

are you feeling anything? 

Some of you hide in the shadows 

and others in plain sight 

This work is inspired by the spirit in which techno was created, and utilizes technologies that were available to young Black folks in Detroit in the early days of the movement—all in the service of creating a kind of beauty that has held and continues to hold so many through musical expression. I made this piece as a moment of reflection on the existing system of  capitalism and the preciousness and necessity of this moment. 

It is a time for listening, for reexamination, and for saying goodbye to that which does not serve us, especially the most vulnerable of us. 

Rena Anakwe aka DJ Lady Lane  

[Track sampled: Carl Craig's “Dreamland” and took inspiration from “Goodbye World.”] 

Links:

Goodbye Dreamland-(as DJ Lady Lane)- (stream track) [September 25th, 2020]

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