Luisa Isidro Herrera is a PhD Student in the Anthropology Program at York University. She works at the intersections of gender, security and violence related to the Colombian armed conflict. Since 2006 she is a founder and member of the non-profit organization Embrace Dialogue. Her research seeks to explore how grassroots initiatives that work creatively produce alternative forms of security, contribute to ensure buen vivir, and generate people’s creative ways to survive and live more livable lives.
Sound braid (Luisa Isidro Herrera, Nicole Marchesseau, Johann Sander Puustusmaa, Pablo D. Herrera Veitia) is an exploration of collaborative listening and sonic conversations, a convergence of events that hop on and off the web platform with the hopes of sparking discussion, remixing, and moving through and with bodies in various ways. Sound braid is a non-institutionally sanctioned space and side-project meant for collaboration, inhabitation, and disruption. A mutable platform subject to change and revision, the sound braid website invites sounds that move, simmer, or ignite discussions. It aims to engage with experimental forms and to create rather than reproduce, to shape ecologies rather than libraries. This site may include or prompt non-performed or unexceptional sounds, dedramatized silences, quotidian dins, or failures.
