MeMoSa: Fragments for One
Student Artist-in-Residence Ihlara McIndoe presents: Fragments for One
Wednesday, April 29th | Doors Open 6:45 PM, Showing 7:00 - 8:00 PM
Location: The Movement Lab (Barnard College, Milstein Lower Level LL020)
Artists: Ihlara McIndoe and Shira Kagan-Shafman
This is a work about sonder and encounter. It’s about kaleidoscopic conversations and collaged memory. It’s about how we speak and move with ourselves and with one another. Through an evening length work which invites the audience to participate in a web of creative exchanges, we embrace a series of unanswerable questions on the nature of being: how do we navigate competing or contradictory fragments of ourselves? How might we find resonances between the dispersed parts of ourselves? What does it mean to be present with others unknown? Where in the entanglement might we meet? How do we understand the layers and fragments of our memory? What does it mean to witness?
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To visit, please RSVP at least 24 hours before the event. We will coordinate your entry through the main campus entrance (3009 Broadway).
Visitors with Barnard/Columbia IDs have automatic campus access and can walk in.
Ihlara McIndoe is a composer from Ōtepoti Dunedin, currently based in New York City. Her compositional work draws on themes of exploration and preservation to investigate artistic ecologies and creative modes of (re)thinking, (re)making and remembering. Her work has been performed in Aotearoa and internationally by artists including Mark Menzies, Johanna Vargas, Mayumi Miyata, Nanae Yoshimura, Gabriela Glapska, The Rhythm Method Quartet, Ensemble Court-Circuit, Les Métaboles, Multilaterale, Duo Nessi, the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra, NZ National Youth Orchestra, and Stroma; and presented at festivals and venues including the Artistic Research Creation Opus (France), Festival de Royaumont (France), Bendigo International Festival for Exploratory Music (Australia), CubaDupa (Aotearoa), the Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity (Canada), the Composers Conference (USA), and the US National Flute Association Convention. Her collaborations with the New Zealand Antarctic Heritage Trust have shared the sounds of Antarctica with communities through music in various settings, including concert music, installations, educational workshops, and documentary. Her 2025 work for string quartet and voices, of coral and foam, composed for The Rhythm Method Quartet, received the SOUNZ Contemporary Award, New Zealand’s premier award for contemporary music composition. Ihlara completed her undergraduate studies at the University of Otago, where she studied composition with Anthony Ritchie, Peter Adams, Chris Gendall and Dylan Lardelli. She holds an MA Musicology from McGill University, and is currently undertaking her DMA in Composition at Columbia University where she is studying with Zosha Di Castri, Marcos Balter, and George Lewis.