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Rafiq Bhatia - In Name

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Rafiq Bhatia • “In Name”

Composer Rafiq Bhatia tackled one of the city’s oldest and most entrenched histories that has been eroded—its name. Enshrined in the very name of the city—and of the state—the word “Indian” is all but invisible. Yet throughout Indianapolis, there are conspicuously few traces of the city’s namesake, or reminders of the forcible, state-sponsored removal that drove Native Americans from their traditional homelands. In Name is about the responsibility to memory—and the fight to reclaim erased histories. In Name is an aural monument comprised of a single acoustic guitar thread (the guitar itself an instrument of Mission efforts used to convert Indigenous people to Christianity). In this piece there is a grounding confrontation with the legacy of brutal settler colonialism, and a stoic reminder of the danger that exceptionalism poses in the present moment. More precisely, it is a rumination on how meanings and values can be washed off of a word—and how a person may repeat the name of this city a million times without pausing to think about from whom was it stolen.

GPS Location: 39.768567, -86.159856
Duration: 02:47
Year: 2017
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from Sound Expeditions - Indianapolis, released April 9, 2018

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