Tai Crane

Tai Crane is a proposed large-scale public performance, where two commercial tower cranes are choreographed to the traditional poses of tai chi. The cranes will weave around each other as if they were set to the deliberate pace of human hands, resulting in mechanical, flowing gestures 200 feet high. I will be stationed below the cranes, orchestrating the machines as they follow my movements. The performance will public; captured on video and to increase access to the citizens of Miami, will be broadcast live, projected onto a nearby video screen. The audience will witness the machines’ attempt to replicate the fluidity of organic motion as we move in tandem through a sequence of gestures.

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SIDE X SIDE

PageSlayers, a 2016 Knight Arts Challenge winner, is dedicated to cultivating the next generation of artists- and writers-of-color in South Florida. We are partnering with EXILE ooks to produce SIDE X SIDE, a dynamic, interactive correspondence art project that will engage with young artists and writers in Opa-Locka and Little Haiti. We aim to bridge our respective Miami-Dade neighborhoods together by means of mail art, highlighting their unique experiences and neighborhoods. Inspired students between the ages of 8 to 10 years old living and attending public school in Little Haiti and Opa-Locka will be paired with each other as pen pals, creating correspondence art – stamps, envelopes, and other snail-mail memorabilia – while learning about life in another diverse community through the lens of a new friend. By the end of SIDE X SIDE, the not-so-long-distance pals will finally meet IRL and create their own zine together! Separate then together, separate and together, these students will both expand their literary horizons beyond community borders and instill in themselves a civic sense of pride from where they read, write, live and play.

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This is Little Haiti

"This is Little Haiti" is a multimedia exploration of the people, history and culture of Miami’s fastest gentrifying neighborhood, Little Haiti. Through a new film by award-winning documentarians supplemented by a transmedia website featuring a web series, photography, and essays, the project aims to investigate and preserve the history and cultural vitality of this neighborhood, which is quickly slipping away in the face of potentially intrusive new development and increasing public disparagement of the Haitian community.