Mutual Phase

⚪️ Individual perception → collective observation 𝙇𝙞𝙣𝙚 𝙞𝙣 𝙎𝙪𝙧𝙧𝙤𝙪𝙣𝙙 𝙎𝙤𝙪𝙣𝙙 𝙎𝙪𝙧𝙧𝙤𝙪𝙣𝙙𝙚𝙙 𝙄𝙣 𝙇𝙞𝙣𝙚 is a participatory project spurred by a question we posed to young artists at the East River: “What is something we all want and need?” Their answers: water, sunshine, dreams. Over iterations, youth and adults observe water and environment, collaborate on gestural line drawings using elongated brushes on recycled packing paper as contemplative practice, movement, and play. The color palette is drawn from the river and the sky above it. Cameras project their marks onto surrounding walls in real time. Field recordings from the East River and contact mics on the painting surface capture the sounds of water and gesture. Mixed together, they become source material for the project’s accumulating soundscape, an acoustic ecology built across iterations. 𝘞𝘪𝘵𝘩 𝘨𝘳𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘵𝘶𝘥𝘦 𝘵𝘰 𝘤𝘶𝘳𝘢𝘵𝘰𝘳 𝘈𝘭𝘷𝘢 𝘊𝘢𝘭𝘺𝘮𝘢𝘺𝘰𝘳 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘣𝘳𝘪𝘯𝘨𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘰𝘯𝘦 𝘪𝘵𝘦𝘳𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯 𝘰𝘧 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘱𝘳𝘰𝘫𝘦𝘤𝘵 𝘵𝘰 𝘚𝘱𝘳𝘪𝘯𝘨/𝘉𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘬 𝘈𝘳𝘵 𝘚𝘩𝘰𝘸. @anitaalvalatina @eyelevelbqe @springbreakartshow

🔊 on Last week @ibrahimmahama3 was beaten by the police in Tamale, returning from Eid prayers. He is recovering & calling for justice. Not just for himself, but for everyone. If this can happen to him, what about those without a platform? Last August, at Ibrahim's invitation, @SarahConarro , Margot, Ramon, & I stayed at his studio Red Clay for a month, developing a site-specific, community-activated piece called Past is Present. But 'studio' doesn't fully describe Red Clay. It is also a community...a living thing. Ibrahim chooses to make it free & open to the public. Every day brings a new cast of people through the doors. Families from local villages. Friends from far away. People who wander in. Sarah & I tuned in to phrases, greetings, & sayings we heard from Red Clay's visitors and crew. Zacharia (aka Assemblyman) shared proverbs with us daily. We strung the words together into a poem about welcoming & unity. Then (because we can't help ourselves) we turned it into a song. To translate the words to Dagbani(the regional language), we enlisted the help of @dinewithchefdee , @officially_sackitey , Assemblyman, Suley, Fadila, @neindow_dave & more. There's no direct translation from Dagbani to English. They debated, phoned friends, & took opinions from passersby. Khadijah did the first pass, recording the words. I rerecord them to a tune. Since my pronunciation was a bit...off...David rererecorded the vocals. Final vocals were rerererecorded in a decommissioned airplane with the children from the local villages who showed up to Red Clay daily. We added drums with Ernest at his church. This song is evidence of the space Ibrahim created. A space for building community. For welcoming. For starting with the people right around you. I've been thinking about Ibrahim every day as he heals. He's still calling for justice & unity. He's still building community. He inspires me to do the same & keep pushing: to protest injustice through marches & fundraisers, to engage in politics, to keep working with NYC Public Schools & multilingual learners, & to keep opening my own studio for social engagement. Wishing Ibrahim a swift recovery & sending love to everyone in Tamale. ❤️

What happens when we slow down to see what’s already around us? At Red Clay Studio in Tamale, Ghana, invited by artist Ibrahim Mahama @ibrahimmahama3 , we explored color matching with community as contemplative observation practice. Community members studied the landscape: the ochre of the soil, the greens of the vegetation, the colors of the sky, the tones of the architecture. They mixed paint to match what they noticed. The sun shifted and lit up the brick edge—sudden bright orange. ‘Look at that!’ Everyone leaned in to see light hit a wall. This observational practice grounds ecological consciousness in something immediate, embodied, and beautiful. Intergenerational community worked side by side for weeks, translating observation into accumulated material. Every color in the collaborative paintings came from this place. We are of our surroundings, not separate from what surrounds us—the shapes are us, rendered in the colors of earth and sky. The more deeply we observe our environment, the more we honor, respect, care for, and work together to protect it. 𝙋𝙖𝙨𝙩 𝙞𝙨 𝙋𝙧𝙚𝙨𝙚𝙣𝙩 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝘾𝙤𝙣𝙣𝙚𝙘𝙩𝙨 𝙐𝙨 𝙏𝙤 𝙏𝙝𝙚 𝙁𝙪𝙩𝙪𝙧𝙚 is a participatory installation combining video projection, field recording, sound composition, language, performance, and material practices. @redclay_studio / @sccatamale Supported by @foundationforcontemporaryarts

🔗 ~Diving and finding one’s ground ~Contract law (it’s personal) ~Hurricane madness ~Real life stories of gender subversion  ~Aluminum beverage cans in Hawaii Season 9 Finale at Crown Heights warehouse = 186 lectures deep Thank you to ~5 lecturers for taking part in cultivating a culture that is interested in who people are outside of their job ~7 teen presenters (Ximena, Margot, Diego, Rex, Mugen, Ramón, Annabel) who presented subjective analysis from past lectures ~3 co-curators, who, as past lecturers, invited new lecturers ~2 hosts, Eve Sussman & Simon Lee, for opening your doors to make this accessible to all ~Past lecturers, first-timers, & friends-of-lecturers who chose IRL connection—to come, listen, & hang With topics all over the map since 2015 & unforeseen connections upon connections upon connections made, Link-Link believes listening to people share what they’re thinking about is a worthwhile way to spend time. S09 E09 Lecturers 🔗Rawya El Chab @rawyaelchab 🔗Julia Keefe juliakeefeofficial 🔗Jodie Lyn-Kee-Chow @lynkeeart 🔗Anna! @annas.city 🔗Joe Ro @joe.ro Co-curators Farah Barqawi @farah_barqawi_ Sherif Rashed @paintingwithpoison Grace Hong @gracehong.tiff 𝘓𝘪𝘯𝘬-𝘓𝘪𝘯𝘬 𝘊𝘭𝘶𝘣 𝘪𝘴 𝘢 𝘤𝘰𝘮𝘮𝘶𝘯𝘪𝘵𝘺-𝘣𝘶𝘪𝘭𝘥𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘭𝘦𝘤𝘵𝘶𝘳𝘦 𝘴𝘦𝘳𝘪𝘦𝘴. 𝘞𝘦 𝘪𝘯𝘷𝘪𝘵𝘦 𝘱𝘦𝘰𝘱𝘭𝘦 𝘵𝘰 𝘣𝘦𝘤𝘰𝘮𝘦 𝘭𝘦𝘤𝘵𝘶𝘳𝘦𝘳𝘴 𝘰𝘯 𝘢𝘯𝘺 𝘵𝘰𝘱𝘪𝘤 𝘰𝘶𝘵𝘴𝘪𝘥𝘦 𝘰𝘧 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘪𝘳 𝘤𝘰𝘳𝘦 𝘧𝘪𝘦𝘭𝘥 𝘰𝘧 𝘦𝘹𝘱𝘦𝘳𝘵𝘪𝘴𝘦. 𝘞𝘦 𝘦𝘯𝘤𝘰𝘶𝘳𝘢𝘨𝘦 𝘵𝘢𝘭𝘬𝘴 𝘢𝘣𝘰𝘶𝘵 𝘢𝘯𝘺𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘦𝘭𝘴𝘦 - 𝘰𝘣𝘴𝘦𝘴𝘴𝘪𝘰𝘯𝘴, 𝘰𝘧𝘧-𝘵𝘩𝘦-𝘤𝘶𝘧𝘧 𝘤𝘶𝘳𝘪𝘰𝘴𝘪𝘵𝘪𝘦𝘴, 𝘱𝘦𝘳𝘴𝘰𝘯𝘢𝘭 𝘢𝘯𝘦𝘤𝘥𝘰𝘵𝘦𝘴, 𝘢𝘮𝘢𝘵𝘦𝘶𝘳 ‘𝘳𝘦𝘴𝘦𝘢𝘳𝘤𝘩’, 𝘨𝘶𝘪𝘭𝘵𝘺 𝘱𝘭𝘦𝘢𝘴𝘶𝘳𝘦𝘴,𝘞𝘪𝘬𝘪𝘱𝘦𝘥𝘪𝘢 𝘸𝘰𝘳𝘮𝘩𝘰𝘭𝘦 𝘧𝘪𝘯𝘥𝘪𝘯𝘨𝘴. 𝘗𝘢𝘪𝘯𝘵𝘦𝘳𝘴 𝘵𝘢𝘭𝘬 𝘮𝘢𝘤𝘳𝘰-𝘦𝘤𝘰𝘯𝘰𝘮𝘪𝘤𝘴. 𝘛𝘦𝘤𝘩𝘪𝘦𝘴 𝘵𝘢𝘭𝘬 𝘳𝘰𝘺𝘢𝘭 𝘧𝘢𝘮𝘪𝘭𝘺 𝘨𝘰𝘴𝘴𝘪𝘱. 𝘊𝘢𝘳𝘱𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘦𝘳𝘴 𝘵𝘢𝘭𝘬 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘪𝘳 𝘧𝘢𝘷𝘰𝘳𝘪𝘵𝘦 𝘱𝘰𝘦𝘵. 𝘈𝘧𝘵𝘦𝘳 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘭𝘦𝘤𝘵𝘶𝘳𝘦, 𝘸𝘦 𝘮𝘪𝘯𝘨𝘭𝘦 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘤𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘰𝘷𝘦𝘳 𝘱𝘪𝘻𝘻𝘢. Gratitude to every lecturer/co-curator/host/attendee for making free monthly linking a reality. LLC by @mutualphase (@sarahconarro + @julianbozeman )

In collaboration with @redclay_studio , artists @julianbozeman and @sarahconarro (aka @mutualphase ) worked with community to create 𝘗𝘢𝘴𝘵 𝘪𝘴 𝘗𝘳𝘦𝘴𝘦𝘯𝘵 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘊𝘰𝘯𝘯𝘦𝘤𝘵𝘴 𝘶𝘴 𝘵𝘰 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘍𝘶𝘵𝘶𝘳𝘦 in Tamale this August. Within The Parliament of Ghosts, community members built a living archive. Real-time cameras captured painting gestures and projected them onto walls where previous participants’ completed work already hung—collapsing past and present into the same visual moment. Over the month, twenty-four large-scale paintings emerged alongside twelve collaborative mobiles constructed from discarded materials. Local dancers from Giana and Breakers (Tamale’s breakdancing troupe) performed within the projection space. Natural dye workshops produced fabric samples. Song-making sessions filled Red Clay’s decommissioned trains and airplanes, creating a collective composition. The project brought together people of all ages and skill levels. Glass drilling, paper mache, painting, dancing, singing—each contribution became part of the accumulating work. Everyone present became collaborators. How do our gestures today shape what tomorrow inherits? Past is Present explored this question through making together, revealing how individual actions fold into collective memory and how temporal boundaries can collapse through projection and presence.