ABSTRACT: Drawing from ethnographic research and sound analysis, this presentation explores the sonic and visual works of New Mexican artists whose art exposes the impacts of colonial extractivism and environmental racism in New Mexico. I propose to understand their use of noise as an “imagining otherwise”—a decolonial approach that envisions healing for both the land and its people, challenging oppressive systems and fostering a more just, restorative environment.

Ana Alonso-Minutti, Associate Professor of Musicology at the University of New Mexico, is the author of Mario Lavista: Mirrors of Sounds (Oxford UP, 2023), which received the American Musicological Society’s Robert M. Stevenson Award. In 2024, she was awarded the Distinguished Lectureship, Cátedra Jesús C. Romero, by Mexico’s National Institute of Fine Arts. Currently, she serves as editor of the journal Twentieth-Century Music (Cambridge UP).

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