Episode 5: Abolitionist Sound Project We Are Your Neighbors: Across the Walls of Silence with Liz Canfield

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In this episode, I am in conversation with Professor and sound artist Liz Canfield. As part of the critical performance ensemble, colectivo caliban, who specialize in the use of sound, she published the project We Are Your Neighbors: Dialogues Across the Walls of Silence. A project that collaborates with people who are incarcerated in the Richmond City Jail in Virginia. This episode emphasizes abolition as a creative practice and discusses the idea of emotion, intimacy, and revolution in voices. The interview is from September 3, 2021.

Liz Canfield is a sound artist, zine maker, teacher, and community organizer. She is an associate professor and associate chair at Virginia Commonwealth University in the Department of Gender, Sexuality and Women’s Studies, where she teaches introductory courses in gender/sexuality studies, upper-level courses in feminist literary theory, queer theory, and cinema, and service learning courses that engage the prison system in Virginia. She has presented creative and academic work nationally and internationally. Her interests include radical pedagogy, transformative technologies, decolonial queer epistemologies, and emancipatory ontologies of self and community.

Link to website: We Are Your Neighbors: Dialogues Across the Walls of Silence