From the Blood of the Dragonfly. 2023. 1 min 16 sec single channel video. color. Fetal heartbeat as sound.
From the Blood of the Dragonfly is a visual narrative that focuses on the feminine principle of death and rebirth in the spiritual tradition of Ifa from West Africa. Fresh and salt waters mixed with blood connects us to all of our lineages and every living being within nature. Through transmutation and balancing the mind and emotions physical transformation occurs and the spirit astral travels (symbolized by the mirroring flight/dance between woman and dove). This travel exists and is populated underwater with purity, freshness, and depth. Underwater all living organisms (beings) are animated and active; emerging in human form as the divine feminine principle upon earth.
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Oyeku. 2018. 3 Mins. 12 Sec. Video. Color. Music. Paper Planes By Daisuke Tenable. TAP SCREEN TO PLAY
Oyeku Is A Metaphysical Principle In The Divinatory Systems Of Ifa From West Africa. Oyeku Is The End Of A Cycle. These Cycles Are All Varied And Exist In All Spheres Of Life And Death Simultaneously. I Created This Work As An Installation By Way Of Incorporating The Idea Towards The End Of Suffering For All People Of The African Diaspora Especially, The African American. This Video/Installation Is Also A Prayer Toward New Beginnings And Peace.
As An Installation Here Is The Format (Please See Graph At The End Of Page). The Video Is Shown Upon The West Wall Onto A Circular Black Projection Screen And Reflected Onto Another Circular Black Acrylic Surface (Black Mirror) That Reflects What Is Projected From The West Wall. Below The “Black Mirror” On The East Wall Is A Light Box The Illumines The Mirror With A Mysterious Bluish White Hue Thus, Creating An Eclipse. On The East Wall Along Both Sides Of The Mirror Are Thick Knotted White Cords Representing Tying And Coding In Another Space And Time, Unknown.
The Intention Of This Format: The Black Mirror Is To Reflect Not Just The Video But The Viewer. The Viewer Becomes An Active/A Present Participant In The Video Regardless Of Race, Gender, Creed,Education Or Language. Oyeku Is An Open And Abstract Offering To The Viewer That Is Their Own Understanding And Feelings As Well As Their Unconscious Or Conscious Contribution.
New Suns. Bonnefantenmuseum, Maastricht.
Https://Www.bonnefanten.nl/En/Exhibitions/Kahlil-Joseph-New-Suns
Music: "Paper Planes" By Daisuke Tenable
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FIRST CUT OF OYEKU MEJI. LEFT AND RIGHT LEGS.
As An Installation Here Is The Format: The Video Is Shown Upon The West Wall Onto A Circular Black Projection Screen And Reflected Onto Another Circular Black Acrylic Surface (AZTEC Black Mirror) That Reflects What Is Projected From The West Wall. Below The “Black Mirror” On The East Wall Is A Light Box The Illumines The Mirror With A Mysterious Bluish White Hue Thus, Creating An Eclipse. On The East Wall Along Both Sides Of The Mirror Are Thick Knotted White Cords Representing Tying And Coding In Another Space And Time, Unknown.
The Intention Of This Format I.e. The Black Mirror Is To Reflect Not Just The Video But The Viewer. The Viewer Becomes An Active/A Present Participant In The Video Regardless Of Race, Gender, Creed,Education Or Language. Oyeku Is An Open And Abstract Offering To The Viewer That Is Their Own Understanding And Feelings As Well As Their Unconscious Or Conscious Contribution.
SpellCasting (PRIVATE VIDEO)
Spell Casting 2023. 3 Min. 47 Sec., Single Channel Video.color. Audio Accompaniment By Robert Aiki Aubrey Lowe.
Spell Casting Is A Bath Of Somatic Energy Containing Axionic Ghosts And Codes Within African Spirituality In Arrays Of Geometric Symbols, Waterways, Trees, Birds And Animals Within Artistic Collage And Imagery That Stretches Across Time And Space. Spell Casting Is A Visual Storytelling That Focuses On Ancestral Healing In Cooperation With Nature And The Feminine Principle Of Death And Rebirth. This Work Is To Be Viewed In The Future As A 4 Channel Multimedia Installation.
This Is The First Installation Of Spell Casting. There Are 4 Different Version Lending Greater Complexities.
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RITUALS FOR ABOLITION
RITUALS FOR ABOLITION IS A CO-CREATED OFFERING WITH S.TOXOSI AND SAMORA PINDERHUGHES’S GRIEF AND THE HEALING PROJECT. RITUALS FOR ABOLITION WAS HOSTED AT THE KITCHEN NYC DECEMBER 2022.
NO PLCE . 2022. 4 Mins. 42 SEC. VIDEO. COLOR. MUSIC NO PLCE BY SAMORA PINDERHUGHES
ALL VIDEO ARTWORK AND GRAPHICS CONSTRUCTED FOR TWO CHANNEL PROJECTION CONSISTING OF MOVING IMAGES, ILLUSTRATIONS AND FILM BY S.TOXOSI. BOTH CHANNELS ARE OUT OF TIME VISUALLY AND RHYTHMICALLY. THIS VISUAL RENDERING IS SYMBOLIC IN RELATION TO AFRICANS AND THE INDIGENOUS HISTORICALLY THROUGH MUSICAL TIMING, JOURNEYS OF GRIEVING AND HEALING WHILE STANDING STRONG AND IN CONSTANT BATTLE AGAINST WHITE SUPREMACY/RACISM IN THE UNITED STATES.
THE KITCHEN NYC. DECEMBER 2022
THE KITCHEN, NYC
THE KITCHEN NYC, DECEMBER 2022
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