Organized by Stephanie Syjuco
Music Box Village, 4557 North Rampart Street, New Orleans, LA 70117
St. Malo Site, St. Malo Indian Mound St. Bernard, LA 70085
P.6 Artist Stephanie Syjuco, in partnership with Bayou Barkada and Dr. Randy Gonzales, invites you to a panel and excursion examining Syjuco’s project for P.6 and Filipinx and African descended histories. The featured panelists are P.6 Artist Stephanie Syjuco, sound artist Alex Abalos, and the music and photography of multimedia artist Bruce “Sunpie” Barnes. Director of the Neighborhood Story Project and P.5 artist Dr. Rachel Breunlin will moderate.
Bayou Barkada will initiate the program by offering participants the opportunity to experience an ancestral walk and healing ritual led by Filipinx members of Bayou Barkada. Syjuco and multimedia artist Alex Abalos will lead a panel at the Music Box Village.
Boat Trip to St. Malo
The program will culminate in a journey to the St. Malo area. Charter boats will be provided by Captain Jimmy Corley and The Waterfowl Specialist. There is limited capacity for the boat trip to St. Malo and 16 spaces will be provided for participants. There is a $65 fee to participate and lunch/drinks will be provided for $15.
Panel Schedule
- 9:00AM-9:15AM: Welcome and Soundscape by Alex Abalos
- 9:15AM-9:30AM: Healing Ritual by Bayou Barkada
- 9:30AM-9:45AM: Breakfast by Barbekyu
- 9:45AM-10:30AM: Panel Discussion/Sound with P.6 artist Stephanie Syjuco, Alex Abalos from Music Box Village, Kalé, and Bruce “Sunpie” Barnes from Neighborhood Story Project. Moderated by Rachel Breunlin from Neighborhood Story Project.
- 10:30AM-10:45AM: Alex Abalos, featuring Bayou Barkada performance
- 10:45AM-11:00AM: Conclude
Bus Trip to St. Malo
- 1:00PM: Bus departs for St. Malo Embarkment SiteBus will pick up passengers at the corner of Poland and N. Rampart Streets
- 2:00PM: Arrival at St. Malo Embarkment Site/Beginning of Boat Tour
- 4:00PM: Tour Ends/Bus picks up passengers and departs for New Orleans
- 5:00PM: Bus drops off passengers at the corner of Poland and N. Rampart
About the Artist
Stephanie Syjuco
Stephanie Syjuco works in photography, sculpture, and installation, moving from handmade and craft-inspired mediums to digital editing and archive excavations. Recently, she has focused on how photography and image-based processes are implicated in the construction of racialized, exclusionary narratives of American history and citizenship.
Syjuco received her BFA from the San Francisco Art Institute and an MFA from Stanford University. She is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship Award, a Joan Mitchell Painters and Sculptors Award, and a Tiffany Foundation Award. Her work is in numerous collections, including The Museum of Modern Art, NY; The Metropolitan Museum, NY; Getty Museum, Los Angeles, CA; Whitney Museum of American Art, NY; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, CA; and the Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, DC; among others. She was a Smithsonian Artist Research Fellow at the National Museum of American History, Washington, DC in 2019-20, and is featured in the acclaimed PBS documentary series Art21: Art in the Twenty-First Century. A long-time educator, she is an Associate Professor in Sculpture at the University of California, Berkeley.