ECHOS OF MY SKIN
2021
David Gumbs
The second part of the diptych focuses on a more personal human interaction. It acts like a meditative healing space where the visitors can either contemplate or interact with the random computer generated virtual landscape project on the Actor’s Playhouse wall.
This innovative video art speaks to the body, to the soul, to memory. Like the large-scale artwork on the Davidson’s Building, it speaks about migration flux, cultural heritage and identity. It’s also a tribute to cultural resistance to all social minorities and migrants living in Miami.
The Actor’s Playhouse inspired me : a celebration of spirits, a celebration of the unheard, of the forgotten, through the living, through their families of all origins.
The second part of the diptych focuses on a more personal human interaction. It acts like a meditative healing space where the visitors can either contemplate or interact with the random computer generated virtual landscape project on the Actor’s Playhouse wall.
This innovative video art speaks to the body, to the soul, to memory. Like the large-scale artwork on the Davidson’s Building, it speaks about migration flux, cultural heritage and identity. It’s also a tribute to cultural resistance to all social minorities and migrants living in Miami.
The Actor’s Playhouse inspired me : a celebration of spirits, a celebration of the unheard, of the forgotten, through the living, through their families of all origins.
For these reasons, I wanted to “ Mashup ” (creole for : include, mix up, mix together) a few audio testimonials recorded by Miami’s diverse communities. They were asked to share their family’s migration dreams and expectations before moving to Miami. Their stories will be triggered by the visitors motions and position in space, while creating a night stars rhizomatic melting pot.
The spirits of those we lost will be symbolised by butterflies. As in many indigenous cultures they symbolise the spirit leaving the body. These flying entities will be imagined by a group of children from Miami. Their artworks will be integrated and animated digitally. The visitor's motion captured by infrared cameras will liberate them in real time. It’s important that future generations craft these butterflies, because it marks a generational feedback. Creating a new cycle while breaking the old.
Achieving this diptych exhibition has never been more important at this point of my career. As a black artist from a colonised french island seeking higher pitched echos to push my multicultural creole voice beyond the boundaries of the horizon.
ECHOS OF MY SKIN
2021
David Gumbs
The second part of the diptych focuses on a more personal human interaction. It acts like a meditative healing space where the visitors can either contemplate or interact with the random computer generated virtual landscape project on the Actor’s Playhouse wall.
This innovative video art speaks to the body, to the soul, to memory. Like the large-scale artwork on the Davidson’s Building, it speaks about migration flux, cultural heritage and identity. It’s also a tribute to cultural resistance to all social minorities and migrants living in Miami.
The Actor’s Playhouse inspired me : a celebration of spirits, a celebration of the unheard, of the forgotten, through the living, through their families of all origins.
The second part of the diptych focuses on a more personal human interaction. It acts like a meditative healing space where the visitors can either contemplate or interact with the random computer generated virtual landscape project on the Actor’s Playhouse wall.
This innovative video art speaks to the body, to the soul, to memory. Like the large-scale artwork on the Davidson’s Building, it speaks about migration flux, cultural heritage and identity. It’s also a tribute to cultural resistance to all social minorities and migrants living in Miami.
The Actor’s Playhouse inspired me : a celebration of spirits, a celebration of the unheard, of the forgotten, through the living, through their families of all origins.
For these reasons, I wanted to “ Mashup ” (creole for : include, mix up, mix together) a few audio testimonials recorded by Miami’s diverse communities. They were asked to share their family’s migration dreams and expectations before moving to Miami. Their stories will be triggered by the visitors motions and position in space, while creating a night stars rhizomatic melting pot.
The spirits of those we lost will be symbolised by butterflies. As in many indigenous cultures they symbolise the spirit leaving the body. These flying entities will be imagined by a group of children from Miami. Their artworks will be integrated and animated digitally. The visitor's motion captured by infrared cameras will liberate them in real time. It’s important that future generations craft these butterflies, because it marks a generational feedback. Creating a new cycle while breaking the old.
Achieving this diptych exhibition has never been more important at this point of my career. As a black artist from a colonised french island seeking higher pitched echos to push my multicultural creole voice beyond the boundaries of the horizon.
ECHOS OF MY SKIN
2021
David Gumbs
The second part of the diptych focuses on a more personal human interaction. It acts like a meditative healing space where the visitors can either contemplate or interact with the random computer generated virtual landscape project on the Actor’s Playhouse wall.
This innovative video art speaks to the body, to the soul, to memory. Like the large-scale artwork on the Davidson’s Building, it speaks about migration flux, cultural heritage and identity. It’s also a tribute to cultural resistance to all social minorities and migrants living in Miami.
The Actor’s Playhouse inspired me : a celebration of spirits, a celebration of the unheard, of the forgotten, through the living, through their families of all origins.
The second part of the diptych focuses on a more personal human interaction. It acts like a meditative healing space where the visitors can either contemplate or interact with the random computer generated virtual landscape project on the Actor’s Playhouse wall.
This innovative video art speaks to the body, to the soul, to memory. Like the large-scale artwork on the Davidson’s Building, it speaks about migration flux, cultural heritage and identity. It’s also a tribute to cultural resistance to all social minorities and migrants living in Miami.
The Actor’s Playhouse inspired me : a celebration of spirits, a celebration of the unheard, of the forgotten, through the living, through their families of all origins.
For these reasons, I wanted to “ Mashup ” (creole for : include, mix up, mix together) a few audio testimonials recorded by Miami’s diverse communities. They were asked to share their family’s migration dreams and expectations before moving to Miami. Their stories will be triggered by the visitors motions and position in space, while creating a night stars rhizomatic melting pot.
The spirits of those we lost will be symbolised by butterflies. As in many indigenous cultures they symbolise the spirit leaving the body. These flying entities will be imagined by a group of children from Miami. Their artworks will be integrated and animated digitally. The visitor's motion captured by infrared cameras will liberate them in real time. It’s important that future generations craft these butterflies, because it marks a generational feedback. Creating a new cycle while breaking the old.
Achieving this diptych exhibition has never been more important at this point of my career. As a black artist from a colonised french island seeking higher pitched echos to push my multicultural creole voice beyond the boundaries of the horizon.
ECHOS OF MY SKIN
2021
David Gumbs
The second part of the diptych focuses on a more personal human interaction. It acts like a meditative healing space where the visitors can either contemplate or interact with the random computer generated virtual landscape project on the Actor’s Playhouse wall.
This innovative video art speaks to the body, to the soul, to memory. Like the large-scale artwork on the Davidson’s Building, it speaks about migration flux, cultural heritage and identity. It’s also a tribute to cultural resistance to all social minorities and migrants living in Miami.
The Actor’s Playhouse inspired me : a celebration of spirits, a celebration of the unheard, of the forgotten, through the living, through their families of all origins.
The second part of the diptych focuses on a more personal human interaction. It acts like a meditative healing space where the visitors can either contemplate or interact with the random computer generated virtual landscape project on the Actor’s Playhouse wall.
This innovative video art speaks to the body, to the soul, to memory. Like the large-scale artwork on the Davidson’s Building, it speaks about migration flux, cultural heritage and identity. It’s also a tribute to cultural resistance to all social minorities and migrants living in Miami.
The Actor’s Playhouse inspired me : a celebration of spirits, a celebration of the unheard, of the forgotten, through the living, through their families of all origins.
For these reasons, I wanted to “ Mashup ” (creole for : include, mix up, mix together) a few audio testimonials recorded by Miami’s diverse communities. They were asked to share their family’s migration dreams and expectations before moving to Miami. Their stories will be triggered by the visitors motions and position in space, while creating a night stars rhizomatic melting pot.
The spirits of those we lost will be symbolised by butterflies. As in many indigenous cultures they symbolise the spirit leaving the body. These flying entities will be imagined by a group of children from Miami. Their artworks will be integrated and animated digitally. The visitor's motion captured by infrared cameras will liberate them in real time. It’s important that future generations craft these butterflies, because it marks a generational feedback. Creating a new cycle while breaking the old.
Achieving this diptych exhibition has never been more important at this point of my career. As a black artist from a colonised french island seeking higher pitched echos to push my multicultural creole voice beyond the boundaries of the horizon.
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