Clockshop presents Reading and Listening by Moonrise to mark the closing of the underpinning by artist Rodrigo Valenzuela at Los Angeles State Historic Park, featuring performances by poet Cynthia Dewi Oka, musician Nailah Hunter, and DJ Xica Soul on Sunday, March 24, 2024 from 3:00–5:00 PM. A poet based in Los Angeles with roots in Bali, Indonesia, Cynthia Oka accesses precarity as a politic and source of strength. Her work is a hybridity of form across genres, spanning poetry, documentative nonfiction, and archive to make seen the historical emergences and subjects of displacement, such as in Fire Is Not a Country (Northwestern, 2021), an exploration of the marks made by our colonial inheritances. Nailah Hunter is a Los Angeles-based multi-instrumentalist whose compositions act as an ingress and portal into the mystical disclosures and elisions of the natural world, as witnessed in her debut album Lovegaze released earlier this year. Hunter’s entrancing vocals combine with the ethereal qualities of her harp to conjure images of ancient ruins, lapsed structures, and the resiliency of nature beyond the human. Staged within the structural boundaries of the underpinning, the performances will activate the installation as a stage and space for gathering. To commune together on public lands forefronts and destabilizes the gradations of access to beauty and aesthetics—who has access to these lands, from whom is it withheld, and for what function are they designated? A container for these questions, the underpinning considers intentional placemaking lacking elsewhere in the built infrastructures of Los Angeles. The evening will be joined by Los Angeles-based DJ and radio host Xica Soul, an uninhibited and boundless selector known for her genre-spanning, energetic sets that spark connection and make a dance floor move. It is part of Xica Soul’s ethos: to create space for dancers of all backgrounds to express themselves and build community, both on and off the dancefloor. Enjoy tacos made from fresh, seasonal ingredients and refreshments made available by Cinco Cazuelas. This event is free and open to the public. Clockshop suggests a $5 donation to support our Reading and Listening by Moonrise series at LA State Historic Park. Arrival Los Angeles State Historic Park is located at 1245 N Spring St, Los Angeles, CA 90012, directly adjacent to Chinatown and the Metro Gold Line. The event will take place at the Roundhouse Bridge in the center of the main lawn. The park is located just 1 mile away from Los Angeles Union Station, making it accessible from several Metro routes. We highly recommend using public transportation, rideshare, biking, or carpooling.