The Loft Hour: Marié Abe + Luanne Redeye

Marié Abe a scholar of music and sound with ongoing ethnographic commitments in Japan, Okinawa, Ethiopia, and the US. Her research explores the political and affective affordances of (musical) sounds in contexts ranging from everyday life to social movements, driven by her interest in exploring how auditory culture produces social space, and how sound’s materiality and ephemerality are entangled with affect and sociality. Two insights ground both her scholarly and pedagogical work: how engaged and critical listening helps us hear the unevenness and interconnectedness of invisible social relations, silenced memories, and distant places; and how active performance and musical interaction with others can inspire creative social intervention. She is the author of Resonances of Chindon-ya, and is currently developing two projects with a shared focus on militarization and circulation of sonic imaginaries. As a curator and artistic director, she founded and organized the BU Global Music Festival in Boston (2018-2023), and has performed, recorded, and internationally toured with various groups, from indie pop to Ethiopian jazz and free improvisation, appearing at major venues and national and international festivals, including New Orleans Jazz Festival, Bonaroo Festival, Rokskilde (Denmark), and SESCE (Brazil). Prior to joining the Berkeley faculty in 2023, Abe taught at Boston University and Harvard University, and held fellowships at the Reischauer Center for Japanese Studies at Harvard University, the Newhouse Center for the Humanities at Wellesley College), and the International Research Center for Japanese Studies in Kyoto, Japan.

Luanne Redeye is an assistant professor in the Department of Art Practice, where her works utilize a Native lens to share her experiences and perspective of navigating a modern world as a Native woman. Having grown up on the Allegany Indian Reservation in Western New York and an enrolled member of the Seneca Nation of Indians and Hawk Clan, Redeye incorporates community, family and culture into her artwork. Her collections have been exhibited at the Museum of Contemporary Native Arts, the Seneca Art & Culture Center at Ganondagan; the Institute of American Indian Arts; Saint Lawrence University; the New York State Museum; and El Museo Cultural de Santa Fe. Redeye received her B.F.A. in studio art from SUNY-Oswego, where she was a Ronald E. McNair scholar, before earning her M.F.A. in painting and drawing from the University of New Mexico. Her recent Frame Series focuses on intertwining personal narratives and family relationships to explore larger themes that affect Native communities, utilizing painting as a guide toward healing. Visit her website at https://luanneredeye.com.

Angela Marino is Associate Professor of Theater, Dance, & Performance Studies. Her teaching and research focuses on performance and political cultures of the Southwest, Caribbean, and Latin America. She teaches classes on theater and performance studies theory, methods, and a praxis class called Teatro Lab. She also leads an interdisciplinary research initiative, Critical Perspectives on Democracy and Media (D+M Lab), which supports community-engaged partnerships with student research apprentices in policy analysis and art production. See demoxmedia.org(link is external). In 2018, Marino published her first book Populism and Performance in the Bolivarian Revolution of Venezuela with Northwestern University Press, which brings attention to theater, film, and popular festivals during the first decade of 21st century socialism in Venezuela. Marino is also co-editor of the book Festive Devils of the Americas (Seagull Press/University of Chicago Press, 2015). She is currently working on a manuscript for a new book on festivals and governance.