Borderline/Peace Movements

Borderline/Peace Movements This project was initiated and led by Collective Action Studio in San Francisco. In 2018 the project presented participatory video projection art at Untitled Art Fair on the facade of the Palace of Fine Arts in San Francisco. At the Untitled Art Fair a mobile projection unit called “The "Grasshopper" utilized live video feeds to place the body of the audience, viewer and of the live performer, Jaleesa Johnston back into the video being fed to the facade projections. This work then also captured participants' movements and gestures around the theme of "Mudras." The video captured live on site was further integrated into prerecorded imagery of environmental crisis, performance centered on generational trauma, and the language of gesture in a range of cultures. Featured artists at The Unitled Art Fair included, Fernanda D'Agostino, Jaleesa Johnson Tra Bouscaren Peace Movements/Mudras is a movement project led by Justin Charles Hoover and Collective Action Studio. I worked with Collective Action Studio on video production, editing and live interactive programming for the culminating public events of the ten-week residency. Guillermo Galindo provided an original sound track.In partnership with Chinese Culture Center of San Francisco and Chinatown Community Development Center, funded by San Francisco Arts Commission IAC program, Peace Movements explores the contradictions of martial arts or performance art as a form of physically embodying peace, and looks to artists to explore how they use the martial arts or movement arts as a way to resist cultural expectations. This series also developed a performative movement language that culminated in a series of live performances with artists Justin Hoover, Yunuen Rhi and Featherpistol.







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