untune

the shape of things to come—

an organism reliant on the contribution of interchanging parts—a social experiment in building support and natural resources with parameters continually reset to remain grounded in current issues relating to the correlation between culture, land, and food sovereignty—a creative entity for learning and supporting the teachings of Indigenous ecocultural knowledge—within and outside a curatorial fieldwork.

  • with no beginning, no ending, and always a work in progress, built with the sweat of nonconforming creatives, untune remains committed to making space for a diverse range of voices to engage, learn, unlearn, create, transfer knowledge, and build support systems.

    We are committed to supporting voices and organizations:
    CALLING for an end to the killing of Palestinian people and land;
    ENDING complicity and Imperial fascist mindsets;
    REJECTING the normalization of occupation, apartheid, and genocide;
    SUPPORTING the right to return to ancestral land (not operation prison);
    RESTORING land by supporting the habitat that is native to the land

    This is untune—

    Here’s to
    Socializing awkwardness
    Sustaining the fight for liberation
    Slowing down for regeneration
    Treating native cultures and ecology with equal respect
    And tumbling down unpaved roads together

in wrestling to relate and find a safe place to release the grieving heart, untune was reminded of a type of healing that taps into our ancestral stories, digging deep into the fingerprints left behind — on land, on photos, on recipes, on herb
Featuring Helga Fassonaki, the founder of untune and facilitator of its growing organism. Helga Rabieh Fassonaki is an artist, curator, and activist focusing on habitat restoration, environmental justice, and the related sociocultural issues attrib
Welcome Michael Bailey who has been a part of the untune organism from the first residency and will be participating in this season as well. Michael Bailey is an interdisciplinary artist exploring the intersection of sound, time, and environmental p
Are you interested in habitat restoration with the untune community? We're looking for any and everyone who would like to learn more about regenerative practices or even just spend more time with their hands in the soil at the residency site in Highl
Also joining us is Anna Cho-Son who is supporting untune's fall residency. She will be leading a reading group exploring consumption as a binding and a regulatory system with the possibilities of expulsion and spoiling-expressed through sound, litera
We are thrilled to welcome Rey Reyes as one of our brilliant residents this fall! @_mugremariposa_ Growing up between two places: the urban tropical landscapes of Tegucigalpa, Francisco Morazán, and the rural valleys of Trinidad, Santa Barbar
Welcome Bahía Colectiva, who will be joining the untune family this fall. Look out for some joint programming in the near future! @colectivabahia Bahía Colectiva is a community of filmmakers who collaborate in cinematic practice and
As we continue to prepare and rebuild for Fall transitions, we are thrilled to announce our residents, continued visitors, and hosts for our November residency program. This cohort includes a diverse grouping of creatives including writers, activists