PROOF

PROOF is a dynamic multimedia exhibition by Studio Enertia (sound artist Lisa E. Harris and visual artist Alisha B. Wormsley). Through sculptural installations, performance, video, and photography, the artists explore themes of the African Diaspora, social justice, and urban mythology. The gallery will be transformed into an incubator-like space where the artists will experiment with combining narratives that reference global tradition, nostalgia, and futurist dreams, as a way to incite new dialogues on contemporary issues affecting humanity.

PROOF transforms the gallery into an incubator-like space; where the artists will experiment with combining individual narratives that reference global tradition, nostalgia and futurist dreams, as a way to incite new dialogues on contemporary issues impacting people of the African Diaspora. The exhibition is designed to create an immersive environment where the artworks are meant to be experienced in context with each other rather than as individual units.

For this exhibition, the works re-visited include Slaves and Indians, a guerrilla performance that explores the lack of historic connection that people have to the American landscape vs. the institutionalization of art institutions in America; The Transformation of Oshe, a photo montage installation with operatic performance, exploring African Diasporic myth and spirituality; Lilith, a new-opera film exploring the demonization of women, set in the post-earth future, inspired by the archetypal first woman of the earth in ancient Sumerian mythology; CRY of the THIRD EYE,  an experimental new-opera film about gentrification, identity, and abduction in Third Ward, Houston, Texas; and There Are Black People In the Future, an archival installation of myths and histories pulled from The children of NAN, a sci-fi mythology by Alisha B. Wormsley of a civilization in which, 2000 years ago, dark skinned women ruled the earth.