Lullabies for the Distance/d
Lullabies for the Distance/d is an experimental film traversing vast geographic and psychological terrains of West Africa and the Americas to suture spaces of liberatory diasporic connection. In...
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De-futuring and Wilding Futurisms
My project aims to make interventions through a reconsideration of how African art and African culture in general has been influential to the dominant notions of aesthetics (Western aesthetics). For...
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Addendum
From 2000 to the present, Mary Kelly collected an extensive archive of personal reflections on the experience of late life, which she now has edited and organized thematically as the basis for the...
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Augustus
Augustus is a period piece and an homage to an innovation that changed the world: photography. We are in mid-19th century. Between the Senegal river and the Atlantic Ocean lies a small island called...
View ArticleLooking at Ourselves (working title)
While many have traveled immigration routes, this is a story seldom told. Looking at Ourselves, a hybrid mix of experimental documentary and investigative journalism, is a meditation on being,...
View ArticleDissonant Maroons: The Rhythm of Refusal
Blackness is our heart, our soul, our pulse but Blackness – as a political identity and radical tradition – remains inaccessible to the collective throughout much of the Spanish speaking Caribbean....
View ArticleBY ALL YOUR MEMORIES
BY ALL YOUR MEMORIES, an abolitionist collage feature film, explores (1) histories of Irish and Palestinian solidarity, (2) the politics of early Irish immigrants in America regarding the abolition of...
View ArticleThe Sound We Make Together
The Sound We Make Together (working title) is a multichannel sound installation based on recordings of participant’s responses to prompts and questions (as well as archival selections) about gender...
View ArticleSoy Skin
Soy skin, also known as yuba sheet, has long been a staple in East Asian food diets. It is made by boiling soy milk until a thin sheet of skin forms on top. Imagine a large, shallow rectangular metal...
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The First Plantation
The stunning Caribbean island of Barbados is the birthplace of many things: rum, Rihanna, and sadly, ghastly innovations in 17th century plantation culture that established the island as the world’s...
View ArticleNo Soy / Ana Agnabi
No Soy / Ana Agnabi will be a suite of monumental paintings paired with a grouping of one hundred small to mid-size bronze, stone, and epoxy clay sculptures inspired by ancient Egyptian shabti figures....
View ArticleTowards an Archaeology of the Future
Towards an Archaeology of the Future is a multi-year cycle of gatherings and art actions in Northern California’s wildfire landscapes. The project will bring together an interdisciplinary ensemble of...
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The Codes We Carry: Beads as DNA Data
The Codes We Carry: Beads as DNA Data is a series of large-scale beaded sculptures that incorporate computer-produced genetic data patterns, or DNA/RNA microarrays, from diseases disproportionately...
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Moving Parts
Moving parts: an alternative to an unjust status quo. Most ambulatory people are unaware how treacherous the world can be to wheelchair users, or assume accessibility is ugly and expensive, leaving...
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Love Language: see, honor, nurture, celebrate
Love Language: see, honor, nurture, celebrate is scheduled to open at the Walker Art Center in October, 2025. This expansive survey exhibition will including paintings, works on paper, video...
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Ekvnv (Land), The Sacred Mother From Which We Came
This documentary film delves into an investigation by The Muscogee (Creek) Nation on the Indigenous ancestors and artifacts unearthed from Angel Mounds in Evansville, Indiana. The film follows the...
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This Way In
For much of Californian and American history, it was illegal to exist in an Asian body. Antioch, California, was one of the first towns in the U.S. to pass “sundown” laws in the 1870s, banning...
View ArticleThe Land Acknowledgement Streaming Experience (L.A.S.E.)
The Land Acknowledgement Streaming Experience (L.A.S.E.) shines a unique light on America by looking at the country the way we look at it ourselves—through the window of a moving vehicle—revealing...
View ArticleMelting of Columbia
Chaz John is creating a new body of work for a solo show in Santa Fe, NM. He plans to construct a series of large-scale performative actions beginning with a sculpture of the Venus De Milo dressed as...
View ArticleMemorial to African American Surfing History and Future
Chase Hall proposes to produce a 10-foot bronze sculpture at Santa Monica’s Bay Street Beach. The site is an important beachfront zone historically accessible to racial minorities during periods of...
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Corpus/Fluxus
As a politically engaged queer artist, Avram Finkelstein’s practice has centered on gendered hierarchies, gravitating toward public spaces in an attempt to reflect questions of access. Currently, he is...
View ArticleThe Rider (who races backwards, faced toward the horse’s tail)
Entitled The Rider, this project places the violent and oppressive haunting of zombie laws in conversation with Zora Neale Hurston’s “Zombies,” published in her 1938 travelogue and ethnographic study,...
View ArticleA Non Coincidental Mirror
Hybridizing the traditions of experimental and political filmmaking, this project creates a memory of a forgotten event in the history of the Global South: the first Third World Filmmakers Meeting...
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Poetics of Relation: The Open Boat
Poetics of Relation: The Open Boat is loosely based on the book Poetics of Relation by the French Caribbean writer and philosopher Édouard Glissant. The film takes poetic liberty at expanding on...
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Gilt/Guilt
Gilt/Guilt is a speculative performance-installation with sculpture, scent and video elements imagining a late-21st century auction preview of the collection of the dynastic EoS 10^15 (Empire of Smoke...
View ArticleThe Edifice of Tirhaga Pt. I
The Edifice of Tirhaga Pt. I will augment El Siddique’s late artist brother’s beloved 1993 Nissan pickup truck into a mobile public sculpture that enacts lively funeral processions full of music,...
View ArticleNeon Electric Clock
Similarly to the U.S., Canada forcibly incarcerated and dispossessed thousands of Canadian citizens of Japanese heritage, relocating them to internment camps, or in the case of Kobayashi’s family, a...
View ArticleModes of Assembly
The Modes of Assembly paintings aim at capturing alliances through depicting the material conditions of work environments. In what will be Nisenbaum’s most ambitious project to date, and a years-long...
View ArticleEndless Sunshine
On October 21, 2021, the Cook County Minnesota Chamber of Commerce issued a letter in support of a ski resort expanding into a national forest within the 1854 Treaty of La Pointe ceded territory. They...
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Dual Pneuma
After spending two decades developing inflatable robotic sculptures that live primarily through performance, Chico MacMurtrie would now like to channel the aesthetic and political concerns of his...
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