The Bubble Pops Popsicle Project / PROJECTIONS

For over two years, Miami residents contributed their advice learned from adaptive experiences like immigrating or surviving hurricanes in exchange for a hand-crafted bubble popsicle. Each participant’s advice was then integrated into the next iteration of popsicles as the body of knowledge grows and circulates. With collaborator Zlatko Cosic, The Bubble Pops Popsicle Project / PROJECTIONS expands this communal adaptation advice archive by projecting it as a video on the façade of a Miami building. Visitors and locals will be able to view these collective responses –and contribute their own –as they engage with each other during pop-up iterations of the popsicle stand.

Club EXILE

Club EXILE is a hybrid disco-chapel installation that celebrates diverse exile identities through social engagement and community driven content. An exile is an uprooted person who permanently leaves their homeland in response to force. Club EXILE looks beyond this definition to ask how marginalized peoples experience different forms of exile.

The installation resembles a shrine; it is filled with metallic fabric, mirror mosaics and multi-colored lights leading to an ornate jukebox. Visitors find a mosaicked bar with a countertop memorial holding 49 ceramic stars for the victims of the 2016 Pulse Nightclub Shooting. The wall is covered with flowers, dedicated photographs, postcards, and a blinking neon sign that announces EXILE. The jukebox houses mix CD contributions that communicate personal histories in response to the prompt: what 10 songs make you think of exile?

Rituals of Commemoration, public art

As the nation debates the role of monuments that commemorate slave owners and Jim Crow, this public counter-monument will commemorate black lives, serving as a placeholder and memorial that ensures the names of victims of police misconduct around the country are not forgotten.

Rather than taking a “this too will pass” attitude, Rituals of Commemoration documents the lives of black men and women killed by police or other law enforcement since 1979: 1,252 so far, and the documentation of murdered lives continues.

This interactive historical marker gives families an opportunity to mourn, while it is also an invitation for viewers to participate in a project that features reflection, social interaction, objects, and actions. Rituals of Commemoration is a physical and reflective space that is indelible to the conversations taking place across the United States regarding police brutality, systemic racism, inequality, and poverty.

Supplement Projects

Supplement Projects is a non-commercial arts platform with a focus on highlighting marginalized or under-represented artists, curators, activists, and cultural practitioners.

Every exhibition/program occupies spaces outside of the traditional gallery structure, such as residential homes, empty lots, and vehicles. The project explores ideas of collectivity, inclusivity, and resistance. As a place of comfort and courage, communication and rest, each iteration offers a provocative alternative to the often over-commercialized spaces of art galleries and institutions.

Supplement Projects acts as a community meeting-point run by artists for artists.

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