Collage illustrations, story, and direction: Isaiah Lopaz
Music: New Past
6'58 min. | 2022

Made from over ninety hand cut collages, Wake Up is a video collaboration between Isaiah Lopaz and sound artists New Past. Based on a short story inspired by the lyrics of Wake Up (a song written by New Past), this piece highlights the dangers of not collectively resisting systems of oppression and structures of violence typically viewed as isolated events. This work is a call action which underscores shared responsibility and the links between communities, cultures, struggles and resistance movements.

This work is presented as part of the exhibition Collective Forms of Care, curated by Erandy Vergara-Vargas. The exhibition brings together four works by artists from Germany, the Netherlands and Canada, displayedon our windowsand library from 15 June to 6 September 2026. The works offer a constructive reflection on a hostile world, as well as an exploration of acts of solidarity and practices of care aimed at building communities.

Projections from sunset to 2 am, on the window screens of the Goethe-Institut (1626 St-Laurent Blvd, Montreal, Quebec, H2X 2T1). The works are also viewable on a screen in our library space during the Goethe-Institut’s opening hours: