July 16 - AUgust 20, 2020
LosT Voyage
SUmmer Artist Residency with
Miriam Parker and Jo Wood-Brown
Together they are creating a space that asks and tries to answer questions such as what does it mean to travel? What does it mean to be displaced? These questions are posed to six female artists from diverse backgrounds: rebeca medina - a dancer and choreographer, Tiffani Moore – an intuitive wellness practitioner, Jean Carla Rodea – an interdisciplinary artist and educator, and Asiya Wadud – an author and educator. The artists will come together throughout the period of the residency to share ideas and experiences and to thereby reshape this work into an unfolding story.
During their residency Parker and Wood-Brown are creating an installation that invokes the concept of voyage and at the same time evokes a sense of home. With an idiosyncratic collection of objects, assorted paintings and a pool made of concrete blocks filled with video images, the installation fills the FiveMyles space with a wonderful sense of surprise and curiosity.
The COVID pandemic and the uncertainty of assembly have given the artists the opportunity to explore how to interact and how to utilize technology. Each week they will create a world together by documenting and then life streaming their individual and collective process of artmaking, with the camera being one of the participants. As the project develops updates can be followed on www.lostvoyagenyc.com
Click here to see a live-stream recording of a work-in-progress performance from August 14, 2020.
Gallery hours after August 1: Thu-Sun, 1 - 6pm.
About the Artists:
Miriam Parker and Jo Wood-Brown began their work together in early 2010s, under the collaboration InnerCity Projects. They began to imagine different ways they could create interactions in the world around us, using the exigencies of figure-ground from painting and the gesture ritual of movement. Parker brings her insight as a mover and installation artist to Wood-Brown’s two-dimensional and sculptural forms. Together their work bridges the boundaries of time and place. They reference ancient and modern archetypes that have persisted throughout time and explore the needs of humanity to live and dream despite the fabricated boundaries of this world.
DIRECTIONS:
Take 2, 3, or 4 trains to Franklin Avenue. Walk two blocks against the traffic on Franklin. Walk ¾ block to 558 St. Johns Place. FiveMyles is within easy walking distance from the Brooklyn Museum.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS:
FiveMyles is in part supported by the New York State Council for the Arts, Public Funds from the New York City Dept. of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council, Council Member Laurie Cumbo, the Greenwich Collection, The Jacques and Natasha Gelman Foundation, the Shelley and Donald Rubin Foundation, and the Wolf Kahn and Emily Mason Foundation.