Interested in how my installation might serve as a springboard for other artists, I invited artist collective Poncili Creación to create new work in response to my installation.
Poncili creación is a collective helmed by brothers Pablo and Efrain Del Hierro working at the intersection of puppetry, sculpture, activism, and performance. Poncili held a week-long sequence of workshops with community participants and myself, building large-scale, wearable puppets inspired by Sideways to the Sun. Their residency culminated in a performance bringing together puppets, sound, and movement in situ with my work. The puppets were performed by Poncili and a troupe of 9 students from Rice University and the University of Houston.

Performers: Efrain and Pablo Del Hierro, Sophie Parker, Nonie Hilliard, Al Green, Nicky Meaux, Jazzy Rosales, Minoti Kale, Donaldo Almazan, Kara Coonrod, and Angelo Ragan. Music by: Andrew Keller and Joe Wilson

This project was made possible with funding from the Moody Center for the Arts and the Visual and Dramatic Arts Department at Rice University

Photo credit: Nash Baker