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“Your True Name” is an abstract post-pandemic tale that addresses experiences of illness and death in the context of artistic practices and their markets, Indiana explained in a statement.
The show will premiere with his partner Noelia Quintero-Herencia on April 14 at the Clemente Center, as part of the center’s 30th anniversary celebration.
“Musical genres are approached bare bones, stripped of irony or fusion, as if death had kissed them too,” the statement said.
The Dominican artist states that this musical work “is born from the need to share an intimate space with those who are left behind, a need to commemorate the deceased outside of social networks, in the present, where the living live.”
“It reaches into unexplored places of my musical memory, the sounds of early childhood, or how I remember them, a time before I knew what death meant,” says Rita.
Quintero-Herencia, who also designed the set design, conceived the piece as “a system of farewells, the multimedia machine of light and shadow that we would need to look at things that are difficult to portray, such as loss.”
“Tu Nombre Verdadero” is Indiana’s first work since her Latin Grammy-nominated album ‘Mandinga Times’ and was commissioned by the Americas Society, made possible, in part, by a grant from the Association of Performing Arts Professionals through Supported by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. The work is being carried out within the framework of the Clemente residency program.
