A participatory art project by Danielle Roney asks:
How can migrants and their communities anonymously occupy institutional spaces?
“One must understand that it is impossible to reduce anyone, no matter who, to a truth he would not have generated on his own. That is, within the opacity of his time and place.”
— Édouard Glissant, Poetics of Relation (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1997)
STRATA: Mantras is a series of LED sculptures which translate voice recordings offered by marginalized community members into visual choruses of resistance. Each animated sculpture is a unique, radical and radiant representation of a voice.
Radical Beauty as De-colonization.
STRATA: Bending Fields of Relations, currently on view at the Spencer Museum of Art, represents these voices and offers the Lawrence, Kansas community a vehicle of occupation and translation.
knowledges
Spencer Museum of Art
Lawrence, Kansas
August 24, 2019 – January 5, 2020
Participants can record a mantra, phrase, song or prayer and see it become flowing animated movements across the LED video surface like visible sound waves.
Danielle Roney Studio is committed to maintaining the privacy and authorship rights of all participants and contributed materials. STRATA: Mantras was designed to ensure the anonymity of those involved and to allow for participants to decide when and how their contributions are used.
Record your voice:
- Click the “Send Voicemail” button on the right of this page
- Click “Start Recording” when you are ready to record your mantra
- Click “Stop” when you are finished
- Click “Play” to listen to your recording and “Reset” if you would like to re-record your mantra
- If you are happy with your recording, name your file as described below and leave the email box empty
- Click “Send” if you are ready to share your voice
Name your file:
- To authorize one-time usage of your mantra, please use “stratamantras_1”
- To authorize continuing usage of your mantra for future iterations of STRATA, please use “stratamantras_2”
To learn more about Mantra meditation, you can follow instructions from the United We Dream Toolkit below: