At The Rally, Barrios brought these landscapes into conversation through an immersive evening of poetry, film, music and collective collaging with the support of guest artists, Emma Cuba and Awuor Onguru. Throughout the evening, guests were invited to cut and contribute colorful paper forms inspired by the places that have shaped them. Barrios later assembled these individual fragments into a new collective collage, transforming many interpretations of landscape and belonging into a shared work of art.
Part performance, workshop, and meditation on place, Of Marsh and Mountain considers how the outdoors helps us understand where we come from and where we feel most free.
Emma Cuba is a Cuban-Swedish artist born and raised in Miami. Her work explores our evolving relationship with nature and migration as we move into a technologically heavy future, using storytelling to inspire environmental conservation and collective transformation. She holds a BFA in Acting, Writing, and Directing from Boston University's School of Theatre, and is a recent recipient of the Miami Film Fund award and the Oolite Arts Cinematic Residency, which supports new feature films.
Awuor Onguru is a poet and musician from Nairobi, Kenya. Working across genres and disciplines, Onguru engages with transnational issues of race and gender, contending with colonial legacies of Africa that continue to plague contemporary life for Kenyans at home and abroad. She was selected as part of the inaugural cohort for the Radio Oroko Poetry Residency, a pan-African sonic program at the intersection of sound, memory, and culture, developing and presenting original audio-based poetry for international broadcast. Her writing has appeared in Cake Zine, BR!NK, Menacing Hedge, Kenya's Daily Nation, and the Langaa Publications anthology Covid Stories from East Africa and Beyond, and she previously served as Editor-in-Chief of Diaspora magazine (Zikora Media & Arts). She holds a BA in English with a Creative Writing concentration from Yale University and an MSt in World Literatures in English from the University of Oxford.