LaJuné McMillian: The Portal’s Keeper

• VENUE Mandeville Art Gallery at UC San Diego
• LOCATION La Jolla, CA
• DATES July 1-September 26, 2024
• URL mandevilleartgallery.ucsd.edu

DESCRIPTION

LaJuné McMillian: The Portal’s Keeper is a new site-specific commission for the exterior video façade of the Mandeville Art Gallery. Building on the artist’s interest in stewarding spaces for liberated Black realities and the Black imagination, McMillian conducted a movement and meditation workshop with UC San Diego students using extended reality and physical computing to translate participants’ movement data into visuals for this new artwork. In the artist’s words, “The Portal’s Keeper is a reminder that movement not only represents our individual experiences, but it also represents our collective memory, transcending space, time and oppressive social structures. It allows us to connect to each other, our ancestors, our deepest selves, and gives us space to communicate to our future. Movement is a technology, holding the stories of our existence globally.”

[Image: LaJuné McMillian: The Portal’s Keeper Installation Views, Mandeville Art Gallery, July 1-September 26, 2024 (Photos by Pablo Mason)]

Co-sponsored by the Black Studies Project