- Spoken Word
- Informative
It’s the Summer of 1973. Barbara Hammer has had a busy summer, zigzagging across California on her motorcycle. Somewhere along the way, she meets Terry Anderson, an academic with an artistic mind, and a lesbian single mother of two. Together, they embark on an adventure that will lead them to Hornby Island Ja-Dai-Aich in the Salish Sea, with two brilliant 19-year olds, Martha Ross and Rosemary Allenbach. Whilst there, Barbara Hammer takes three rolls of film, documenting a brief moment in time, and all of its charged artistic and romantic energy.
New Friend is a five-part radio documentary exploring the context behind a series of photographs taken by the artist and experimental filmmaker, Barbara Hammer. The photographs were taken over one weekend in August 1973, on Hornby Island, Ja-Dai-Aich, in the Salish Sea.
Thank you to all of those who shared their stories, memories, and voices for the purposes of this project.
In this chapter, you heard the following voices (in order of appearance):
Barbara Hammer
Florrie Burke
Martha Ross
Rosemary Allenbach
Derek Anderson
The rocks, plants, trees, wind, and water of Hornby Island Ja-Dai-Aich.
Sounds from Vancouver, BC, San Francisco and Berkeley, California, all courtesy of Radio Aporee. These recordings were made on the unceded, traditional, and ancestral lands of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), Sḵwx̱wú7mesh Úxwumixw (Squamish), səlilwətaɬ (Tsleil-Waututh), and the Ohlone.
You also heard excerpts from Barbara Hammer’s films I Was I Am (1973), X (1974), Sisters (1973), and Psychosynthesis (1975), and from an interview with Barbara Hammer for Jeu de Palme, 2012.
The writings of Barbara Hammer and Terry Anderson, through their diary entries and written correspondence, are voiced by Martha Ross.
Mixing and Mastering by Robert Steenkamer.
Thank you to:
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University
Barbara Hammer Estate
Hornby Island Community Archives
Cashmere Radio, Berlin
96.5 CHFR Hornby Island Community Radio
KOW, Berlin
Company Gallery, New York City
Rebecca Dunne
Emma Walter
Emily Harrison
All beings, human and more-than-human, of Hornby Island, Ja-Dai-Aich, and its surrounding waters—where I am a part-time, uninvited guest on the unceded, traditional, and ancestral territory of the K'ómoks First Nation.
New Friend is generously supported by the Canada Council for the Arts.
by Bitsy Knox (2024).
