For Freedoms Congress

For Freedoms is pleased to present a curated series of art activations for the LA Congress. 

Largely participatory and interactive, these pop-up art projects and activities range from performances, readings, screenings, creative workshops, and installations. Centered in creative activism, social practice and community-building, these projects appear in and throughout the Geffen Contemporary at MOCA, the Japanese American National Museum, and Hammer Museum.
 
As an extension of the Congress’ overall programming, these activations are meant to build momentum and awareness leading up to the 2020 presidential election through the perspectives and voices of artists, in order to spark civic engagement in local communities and beyond.


Geffen Contemporary at MOCA Activations:
Amplifier, AMPLIFIER INSTALLATION
Lyndon Barrois, For… Freedom
Chris Berntsen, Stephen Ira, I have to think of us as separate people 
Cassils & Rafa Esparza, La Arena
Russell Craig & Jesse Krimes, Rendering Justice: Repairing the Social Fabric
Paula Crown, Thoughts & Prayers and Humble Humbris
Alixa Garcia, Who's Next: Up in Arms
Marc Gottesman & Michael Walsh, FOUR FREEDOMS → YOUR FREEDOMS: A Census Activation
Coby Kennedy, Supply and Demand
Muna Malik, Blessing of the Boats
Favianna Rodriguez, POWER, EQUITY, REPAIR
Mark Strandquist, PERFORMING STATISTICS #NOKIDSINPRISON (In Plaza)
Kambui Olujimi, A Life in Pictures

JANM Activations:
Creative Time, WHY DO WE CONVENE? WHY SHOULD WE CONVENE
Karen Ishizuka, You Are Here
Steve Locke, Three Deliberate Grays for Freddie (A Memorial for Freddie Gray)
Emily Hanako Momohara, Family Incarceration: Never Again is Now
Hank Willis Thomas & Dr. Baz Dreisinger with Openbox (designed by MASS Design Group), The Writing on the Wall

Bayete Ross Smith 360 is a 10 Minute VR Experience by artist Bayete Ross Smith featuring two 360 VR pieces: Firsthand Account: The Assassination of Malcolm X and Ruby Bridges: 6 Years Old and Desegregating.

To Sign-up:

• Please sign-up via the Check-In Table located in JANM right outside the Delegate Lounge.
• Ask an FFCON VR Team Member for VR Sign up, who will assist you in choosing your desired time slot.
  
  

Once you sign up for a time slot, please arrive at the VR Lounge (Inside Delegate Lounge) 5 mins before the time slot. Wait for instructions from the FFCON VR Team. If you show up late or missed your time slot, no worries please go back to Check-In Table and sign up for a new time slot with an FFCON VR Team member.

THIS IS NOT A FIRST COME, FIRST SERVED EXPERIENCE.
ONLY 5 CHAIRS/5 HEADSETS ARE AVAILABLE FOR EACH TIME SLOT.

—

History and historical memory are critical to our understanding of contemporary times, both in terms of our accomplishments but also in terms of the social issues we face. In these two pieces, Bayeté Ross Smith uses 360VR to examine sites of historic significance and the events that occurred on these sites, in order to examine how we live on top of history that is unresolved and therefore continue to be impacted by the social issues connected to this unresolved history. Archival images that document and relate to these historic events are blended over the contemporary 360 video in combination with animation, thus creating a sense of traveling back in time. These archival images also represent our historic memory as a society. The pieces are narrated through interviews with people who have first hand knowledge of the events that occurred, either as historians or as eyewitnesses.The resulting piece creates an engaging reflection on history and draws an aesthetic connection to how it impacts how we currently experience the world. Furthermore, though concise, they function as entry points to encourage further exploration and study of these events and topics.

Inside this quiet room, you will be able to listen to the unGuided Meditation and playlist. Use this space to tune out, turn in, and reflect on the connections and insights you have made here at the For Freedoms Congress. The room will have low lighting and meditation cushions available for your use.

The unGuided Meditation is a comedic take on a traditional guided meditation, we hope it offers a light-hearted entertaining meditation for you to relax during your time here. Listen to unGuided Meditation and ambient DJ set tracks by Composer, Singer, and Artist Amelia Winger-Bearskin via your own noise-cancelling headset—audio produced by Eamon O'Connor, 2020. There will be additional headsets available to check out at the Lounge Check In desk.

Visit: http://wampum.codes

There will also be warming eye masks available to help create a low-sensory experience.

For Freedoms is pleased to present a curated series of art activations for the LA Congress. 
Largely participatory and interactive, these pop-up art projects and activities range from performances, readings, screenings, creative workshops, and installations. Centered in creative activism, social practice and community-building, these projects appear in and throughout the Geffen Contemporary at MOCA, the Japanese American National Museum, and Hammer Museum.
As an extension of the Congress’ overall programming, these activations are meant to build momentum and awareness leading up to the 2020 presidential election through the perspectives and voices of artists, in order to spark civic engagement in local communities and beyond.

Geffen Contemporary at MOCA Activations:
Amplifier, AMPLIFIER INSTALLATION
Lyndon Barrois, For… Freedom
Chris Berntsen, Stephen Ira, I have to think of us as separate people 
Cassils & Rafa Esparza, La Arena
Russell Craig & Jesse Krimes, Rendering Justice: Repairing the Social Fabric
Paula Crown, Thoughts & Prayers and Humble Humbris
Alixa Garcia, Who's Next: Up in Arms
Marc Gottesman & Michael Walsh, FOUR FREEDOMS → YOUR FREEDOMS: A Census Activation
Coby Kennedy, Supply and Demand
Muna Malik, Blessing of the Boats
Favianna Rodriguez, POWER, EQUITY, REPAIR
Mark Strandquist, PERFORMING STATISTICS #NOKIDSINPRISON (In Plaza)
Kambui Olujimi, A Life in Pictures - 8am to 10am; 11am to 1pm; 6pm to 8pm

JANM Activations:
Creative Time, WHY DO WE CONVENE? WHY SHOULD WE CONVENE
Karen Ishizuka, You Are Here
Steve Locke, Three Deliberate Grays for Freddie (A Memorial for Freddie Gray)
Emily Hanako Momohara, Family Incarceration: Never Again is Now
Hank Willis Thomas & Dr. Baz Dreisinger with Openbox (designed by MASS Design Group), The Writing on the Wall

Inside this quiet room, you will be able to listen to the unGuided Meditation and playlist. Use this space to tune out, turn in, and reflect on the connections and insights you have made here at the For Freedoms Congress. The room will have low lighting and meditation cushions available for your use. The unGuided Meditation is a comedic take on a traditional guided meditation, we hope it offers a light-hearted entertaining meditation for you to relax during your time here. Listen to unGuided Meditation and ambient DJ set tracks by Composer, Singer, and Artist Amelia Winger-Bearskin via your own noise-cancelling headset—audio produced by Eamon O'Connor, 2020. There will be additional headsets available to check out at the Lounge Check In desk. Visit: http://wampum.codes There will also be warming eye masks available to help create a low-sensory experience.

Bayete Ross Smith 360 is a 10 Minute VR Experience by artist Bayete Ross Smith featuring two 360 VR pieces: Firsthand Account: The Assassination of Malcolm X and Ruby Bridges: 6 Years Old and Desegregating.

To Sign-up:

• Please sign-up via the Check-In Table located in JANM right outside the Delegate Lounge.
• Ask an FFCON VR Team Member for VR Sign up, who will assist you in choosing your desired time slot.
  
  

Once you sign up for a time slot, please arrive at the VR Lounge (Inside Delegate Lounge) 5 mins before the time slot. Wait for instructions from the FFCON VR Team. If you show up late or missed your time slot, no worries please go back to Check-In Table and sign up for a new time slot with an FFCON VR Team member.

THIS IS NOT A FIRST COME, FIRST SERVED EXPERIENCE.
ONLY 5 CHAIRS/5 HEADSETS ARE AVAILABLE FOR EACH TIME SLOT.

—

History and historical memory are critical to our understanding of contemporary times, both in terms of our accomplishments but also in terms of the social issues we face. In these two pieces, Bayeté Ross Smith uses 360VR to examine sites of historic significance and the events that occurred on these sites, in order to examine how we live on top of history that is unresolved and therefore continue to be impacted by the social issues connected to this unresolved history. Archival images that document and relate to these historic events are blended over the contemporary 360 video in combination with animation, thus creating a sense of traveling back in time. These archival images also represent our historic memory as a society. The pieces are narrated through interviews with people who have first hand knowledge of the events that occurred, either as historians or as eyewitnesses.The resulting piece creates an engaging reflection on history and draws an aesthetic connection to how it impacts how we currently experience the world. Furthermore, though concise, they function as entry points to encourage further exploration and study of these events and topics.

Bayete Ross Smith 360 is a 10 Minute VR Experience by artist Bayete Ross Smith featuring two 360 VR pieces: Firsthand Account: The Assassination of Malcolm X and Ruby Bridges: 6 Years Old and Desegregating.

To Sign-up:

• Please sign-up via the Check-In Table located in JANM right outside the Delegate Lounge.
• Ask an FFCON VR Team Member for VR Sign up, who will assist you in choosing your desired time slot.
  
  

Once you sign up for a time slot, please arrive at the VR Lounge (Inside Delegate Lounge) 5 mins before the time slot. Wait for instructions from the FFCON VR Team. If you show up late or missed your time slot, no worries please go back to Check-In Table and sign up for a new time slot with an FFCON VR Team member.

THIS IS NOT A FIRST COME, FIRST SERVED EXPERIENCE.
ONLY 5 CHAIRS/5 HEADSETS ARE AVAILABLE FOR EACH TIME SLOT.

—

History and historical memory are critical to our understanding of contemporary times, both in terms of our accomplishments but also in terms of the social issues we face. In these two pieces, Bayeté Ross Smith uses 360VR to examine sites of historic significance and the events that occurred on these sites, in order to examine how we live on top of history that is unresolved and therefore continue to be impacted by the social issues connected to this unresolved history. Archival images that document and relate to these historic events are blended over the contemporary 360 video in combination with animation, thus creating a sense of traveling back in time. These archival images also represent our historic memory as a society. The pieces are narrated through interviews with people who have first hand knowledge of the events that occurred, either as historians or as eyewitnesses.The resulting piece creates an engaging reflection on history and draws an aesthetic connection to how it impacts how we currently experience the world. Furthermore, though concise, they function as entry points to encourage further exploration and study of these events and topics.

Bayete Ross Smith 360 is a 10 Minute VR Experience by artist Bayete Ross Smith featuring two 360 VR pieces: Firsthand Account: The Assassination of Malcolm X and Ruby Bridges: 6 Years Old and Desegregating.

To Sign-up:

• Please sign-up via the Check-In Table located in JANM right outside the Delegate Lounge.
• Ask an FFCON VR Team Member for VR Sign up, who will assist you in choosing your desired time slot.
  
  

Once you sign up for a time slot, please arrive at the VR Lounge (Inside Delegate Lounge) 5 mins before the time slot. Wait for instructions from the FFCON VR Team. If you show up late or missed your time slot, no worries please go back to Check-In Table and sign up for a new time slot with an FFCON VR Team member.

THIS IS NOT A FIRST COME, FIRST SERVED EXPERIENCE.
ONLY 5 CHAIRS/5 HEADSETS ARE AVAILABLE FOR EACH TIME SLOT.

—

History and historical memory are critical to our understanding of contemporary times, both in terms of our accomplishments but also in terms of the social issues we face. In these two pieces, Bayeté Ross Smith uses 360VR to examine sites of historic significance and the events that occurred on these sites, in order to examine how we live on top of history that is unresolved and therefore continue to be impacted by the social issues connected to this unresolved history. Archival images that document and relate to these historic events are blended over the contemporary 360 video in combination with animation, thus creating a sense of traveling back in time. These archival images also represent our historic memory as a society. The pieces are narrated through interviews with people who have first hand knowledge of the events that occurred, either as historians or as eyewitnesses.The resulting piece creates an engaging reflection on history and draws an aesthetic connection to how it impacts how we currently experience the world. Furthermore, though concise, they function as entry points to encourage further exploration and study of these events and topics.

For Freedoms is pleased to present a curated series of art activations for the LA Congress. 
Largely participatory and interactive, these pop-up art projects and activities range from performances, readings, screenings, creative workshops, and installations. Centered in creative activism, social practice and community-building, these projects appear in and throughout the Geffen Contemporary at MOCA, the Japanese American National Museum, and Hammer Museum.
 
As an extension of the Congress’ overall programming, these activations are meant to build momentum and awareness leading up to the 2020 presidential election through the perspectives and voices of artists, in order to spark civic engagement in local communities and beyond.

Geffen Contemporary at MOCA Activations:
Amplifier, AMPLIFIER INSTALLATION
Lyndon Barrois, For… Freedom
Chris Berntsen, Stephen Ira, I have to think of us as separate people 
Cassils & Rafa Esparza, La Arena
Russell Craig & Jesse Krimes, Rendering Justice: Repairing the Social Fabric
Paula Crown, Thoughts & Prayers and Humble Humbris
Alixa Garcia, Who's Next: Up in Arms
Marc Gottesman & Michael Walsh, FOUR FREEDOMS → YOUR FREEDOMS: A Census Activation
Coby Kennedy, Supply and Demand
Muna Malik, Blessing of the Boats
Favianna Rodriguez, POWER, EQUITY, REPAIR
Mark Strandquist, PERFORMING STATISTICS #NOKIDSINPRISON (In Plaza)
Kambui Olujimi, A Life in Pictures - 8am to 10am; 11am to 3pm
 
JANM Activations:
Creative Time, WHY DO WE CONVENE? WHY SHOULD WE CONVENE
Karen Ishizuka, You Are Here
Steve Locke, Three Deliberate Grays for Freddie (A Memorial for Freddie Gray)
Emily Hanako Momohara, Family Incarceration: Never Again is Now
Hank Willis Thomas & Dr. Baz Dreisinger with Openbox (designed by MASS Design Group), The Writing on the Wall

Inside this quiet room, you will be able to listen to the unGuided Meditation and playlist. Use this space to tune out, turn in, and reflect on the connections and insights you have made here at the For Freedoms Congress. The room will have low lighting and meditation cushions available for your use. The unGuided Meditation is a comedic take on a traditional guided meditation, we hope it offers a light-hearted entertaining meditation for you to relax during your time here. Listen to unGuided Meditation and ambient DJ set tracks by Composer, Singer, and Artist Amelia Winger-Bearskin via your own noise-cancelling headset—audio produced by Eamon O'Connor, 2020. There will be additional headsets available to check out at the Lounge Check In desk. Visit: http://wampum.codes There will also be warming eye masks available to help create a low-sensory experience.

Bayete Ross Smith 360 is a 10 Minute VR Experience by artist Bayete Ross Smith featuring two 360 VR pieces: Firsthand Account: The Assassination of Malcolm X and Ruby Bridges: 6 Years Old and Desegregating.

To Sign-up:

• Please sign-up via the Check-In Table located in JANM right outside the Delegate Lounge.
• Ask an FFCON VR Team Member for VR Sign up, who will assist you in choosing your desired time slot.
  
  

Once you sign up for a time slot, please arrive at the VR Lounge (Inside Delegate Lounge) 5 mins before the time slot. Wait for instructions from the FFCON VR Team. If you show up late or missed your time slot, no worries please go back to Check-In Table and sign up for a new time slot with an FFCON VR Team member.

THIS IS NOT A FIRST COME, FIRST SERVED EXPERIENCE.
ONLY 5 CHAIRS/5 HEADSETS ARE AVAILABLE FOR EACH TIME SLOT.

—

History and historical memory are critical to our understanding of contemporary times, both in terms of our accomplishments but also in terms of the social issues we face. In these two pieces, Bayeté Ross Smith uses 360VR to examine sites of historic significance and the events that occurred on these sites, in order to examine how we live on top of history that is unresolved and therefore continue to be impacted by the social issues connected to this unresolved history. Archival images that document and relate to these historic events are blended over the contemporary 360 video in combination with animation, thus creating a sense of traveling back in time. These archival images also represent our historic memory as a society. The pieces are narrated through interviews with people who have first hand knowledge of the events that occurred, either as historians or as eyewitnesses.The resulting piece creates an engaging reflection on history and draws an aesthetic connection to how it impacts how we currently experience the world. Furthermore, though concise, they function as entry points to encourage further exploration and study of these events and topics.

Bayete Ross Smith 360 is a 10 Minute VR Experience by artist Bayete Ross Smith featuring two 360 VR pieces: Firsthand Account: The Assassination of Malcolm X and Ruby Bridges: 6 Years Old and Desegregating.

To Sign-up:

• Please sign-up via the Check-In Table located in JANM right outside the Delegate Lounge.
• Ask an FFCON VR Team Member for VR Sign up, who will assist you in choosing your desired time slot.
  
  

Once you sign up for a time slot, please arrive at the VR Lounge (Inside Delegate Lounge) 5 mins before the time slot. Wait for instructions from the FFCON VR Team. If you show up late or missed your time slot, no worries please go back to Check-In Table and sign up for a new time slot with an FFCON VR Team member.

THIS IS NOT A FIRST COME, FIRST SERVED EXPERIENCE.
ONLY 5 CHAIRS/5 HEADSETS ARE AVAILABLE FOR EACH TIME SLOT.

—

History and historical memory are critical to our understanding of contemporary times, both in terms of our accomplishments but also in terms of the social issues we face. In these two pieces, Bayeté Ross Smith uses 360VR to examine sites of historic significance and the events that occurred on these sites, in order to examine how we live on top of history that is unresolved and therefore continue to be impacted by the social issues connected to this unresolved history. Archival images that document and relate to these historic events are blended over the contemporary 360 video in combination with animation, thus creating a sense of traveling back in time. These archival images also represent our historic memory as a society. The pieces are narrated through interviews with people who have first hand knowledge of the events that occurred, either as historians or as eyewitnesses.The resulting piece creates an engaging reflection on history and draws an aesthetic connection to how it impacts how we currently experience the world. Furthermore, though concise, they function as entry points to encourage further exploration and study of these events and topics.

Bayete Ross Smith 360 is a 10 Minute VR Experience by artist Bayete Ross Smith featuring two 360 VR pieces: Firsthand Account: The Assassination of Malcolm X and Ruby Bridges: 6 Years Old and Desegregating.

To Sign-up:

• Please sign-up via the Check-In Table located in JANM right outside the Delegate Lounge.
• Ask an FFCON VR Team Member for VR Sign up, who will assist you in choosing your desired time slot.
  
  

Once you sign up for a time slot, please arrive at the VR Lounge (Inside Delegate Lounge) 5 mins before the time slot. Wait for instructions from the FFCON VR Team. If you show up late or missed your time slot, no worries please go back to Check-In Table and sign up for a new time slot with an FFCON VR Team member.

THIS IS NOT A FIRST COME, FIRST SERVED EXPERIENCE.
ONLY 5 CHAIRS/5 HEADSETS ARE AVAILABLE FOR EACH TIME SLOT.

—

History and historical memory are critical to our understanding of contemporary times, both in terms of our accomplishments but also in terms of the social issues we face. In these two pieces, Bayeté Ross Smith uses 360VR to examine sites of historic significance and the events that occurred on these sites, in order to examine how we live on top of history that is unresolved and therefore continue to be impacted by the social issues connected to this unresolved history. Archival images that document and relate to these historic events are blended over the contemporary 360 video in combination with animation, thus creating a sense of traveling back in time. These archival images also represent our historic memory as a society. The pieces are narrated through interviews with people who have first hand knowledge of the events that occurred, either as historians or as eyewitnesses.The resulting piece creates an engaging reflection on history and draws an aesthetic connection to how it impacts how we currently experience the world. Furthermore, though concise, they function as entry points to encourage further exploration and study of these events and topics.

For Freedoms is pleased to present a curated series of art activations for the LA Congress. 
Largely participatory and interactive, these pop-up art projects and activities range from performances, readings, screenings, creative workshops, and installations. Centered in creative activism, social practice and community-building, these projects appear in and throughout the Geffen Contemporary at MOCA, the Japanese American National Museum, and Hammer Museum. 
As an extension of the Congress’ overall programming, these activations are meant to build momentum and awareness leading up to the 2020 presidential election through the perspectives and voices of artists, in order to spark civic engagement in local communities and beyond.

Hammer Museum Activations:
Garrett Bradley, America: screenings 11:15 am to 12:15pm
Russell Craig & Jesse Krimes, Rendering Justice: Repairing the Social Fabric
Paula Crown, Hurt People Hurt People and LIAR LIAR

Geffen Contemporary at MOCA Activations:
Amplifier, AMPLIFIER INSTALLATION
Lyndon Barrois, For… Freedom
​Cassils & Rafa Esparza, La Arena
Chris Berntsen, Stephen Ira, I have to think of us as separate people 
Paula Crown, Thoughts & Prayers and Humble Humbris
Alixa Garcia, Who's Next: Up in Arms
Marc Gottesman & Michael Walsh, FOUR FREEDOMS → YOUR FREEDOMS: A Census Activation
Coby Kennedy, Supply and Demand
Muna Malik, Blessing of the Boats
Favianna Rodriguez, POWER, EQUITY, REPAIR
Mark Strandquist, PERFORMING STATISTICS #NOKIDSINPRISON (In Plaza)
Kambui Olujimi, A Life in Pictures

Two screenings of Garrett Bradley's America, recently shown at Sundance 2019, will play in the Billy Wilder Theatre. Composed of 12 silent interconnected vignettes that draw upon Black history, America is a cinematic omnibus rooted in New Orleans, challenging the idea of black cinema as a "wave" or "movement in time," proposing instead a continuous thread of achievement. Run time: 30 minutes.