***Last night my roots flew away with the owls***, 2025. Aluminum, microphones. Performance view, Collective 62, Immaterial, curated by Melissa Wallen. Performed by Lize-Lotte Pitlo, Britney Tokumoto and Andrew McLees (sound). Photo by Logan Fazio.

Last night my roots flew away with the owls is a T shaped, sound-making aluminum sculpture that rotates on its center. Its activation follows an improvisational performance score, in which the breath of two performers is amplified, looped and layered. Intermixing elements of sculpture, music, performance and installation, Barba emphasizes themes of transformation and dualities, such as creation and destruction, human and non-human.

Last night my roots flew away with the owls is also an excerpt from In my center, a cyborg seed, and it was adapted site-specifically, responding to the light and sound coming out of the works by Stephanie Hadad and Richard Garet. Photos by Andres Ibarra and Logan Fazio. Videos by Claudio Marcotulli and Daniel Arturo Almeida.

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