Binding Sky

Binding Sky
Esther Belin, Andrea Polli & Venaya Yazzie

Binding Sky was part of a threefold experience that used radio, oral history and education to bring greater public attention to the complexities of the inter-relationships between air, people and technology on the Navajo Nation and beyond. The project used the medium of air to convey its stories, and took audiences on a journey through Navajo country through broadcast radio and smart-phone apps. The oral history component explored, through interviews with tribal members with varied expertise, how the changing cultural landscape transforms spiritual and physical health. Site-specific components included the construction of benches—placed in the Four Corners region of New Mexico—which allowed participants to personally observe this transforming biosphere.