Marfa Dialogues/Houston 2016 began at the Menil Collection with a keynote address by Rev. Lennox Yearwood, Jr., the President and CEO of the Hip Hop Caucus. This was followed by a performance from Lucky Dragons, an experimental music group from Los Angeles. This site-specific performance featured a collaboration with Houston-based vocalists, arranged alongside an array of environmental field recordings and live electronics; a composition that lyrically spoke to biodiversity, human ecological impact and climate change as a loss of complexity in a moment of transition.