Natal Dimension with Jazsalyn

Creative Time

Discuss Ancestral Intelligence as an integral part of artist Jazsalyn's practice and participate in a dream soundscape exercise.

CTHQ

Artist and researcher Jazsalyn will discuss Ancestral Intelligence as an integral part of her practice. Recurring themes such as iteration, memory loss, and data restoration inform Natal Dimension, an ongoing series she has developed. The series travels through different eras in African history and cosmology to recover traces of the original AI, Ancestral Intelligence. These dimensions are channeled through artifacts, sound, and supernatural phenomena within a cinematic spatial environment.Following the discussion, we invite attendees to lounge in the space and participate in a dream soundscape exercise to log their dreams on the <a href="https://cosmologyscape.com/" title="https://cosmologyscape.com/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Cosmologyscape</a> website, created by Kite and Alisha Wormsley. Food, drinks, pillows, blankets, and more will be provided to create a relaxing environment.

<a href="https://www.instagram.com/jazsalyn/" title="https://www.instagram.com/jazsalyn/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Jazsalyn</a> is an artist and technologist working at the intersection of fiction and reality. Through alternative and computer-based media, she explores the practice of re-indigenization and ritual to recover traces of Ancestral Intelligence and memory.Jazsalyn has designed experiences and presented work at the New Museum, Creative Time, The Kitchen, OXN Studio of the Onassis Foundation, and more. She is the artistic director of the experimental curatorial project Black Beyond and teaches at The New School, where she has developed studio coursework on African and Diaspora rituals as speculative technology. Her work has been featured in publications such as Cultured Magazine, It’s Nice That, Vogue, and The New Yorker.

About CosmologyscapeThis program is part of Creative Time’s public art commission <a href="https://creativetime.org/cosmologyscape/" title="https://creativetime.org/cosmologyscape/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Cosmologyscape</a> by artists Alisha B Wormsley and Kite. The multimedia and participatory public art project, presented by Creative Time, is an invitation to the public to dream. Cosmologyscape seeks to harness the duality of dreams—as both individual tools of self-awareness and collective acts of imagination and world-building—and encourages the exploration of dreaming practices through an artist designed interface. How does it work? Take a nap, zone out, find your dream state. After that, visit <a href="http://www.cosmologyscape.com" title="http://www.cosmologyscape.com" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">www.cosmologyscape.com</a> to submit your dream, and if you need help dreaming, follow a Dream Path on the website designed by a group of interdisciplinary artists. The dreams shared with Cosmologyscape will then be translated algorithmically into a pattern derived from Lakota visual language and Black quilting references, represented first in a growing digital tapestry of our collective dreams, and ultimately, into a series of sculptures unveiled in the fall, designed for further rest and dreaming.

AccessibilityCTHQ is located on the 7th Floor of 59 East 4th Street between 2nd and 3rd Avenue in Manhattan. The building entrance has no steps and elevator access is provided directly to CTHQ. Service animals are welcome.A variety of seating options are available including: wooden chairs with backs and wooden benches and stools. This event begins at 6:00 pm and ends at 8:00 pm.Accessibility RequestsIf you have any questions regarding accessibility or to request specific accommodations, please email: curatorial@creativetime.org.Covid GuidelinesWhile masks are not required, they are available to all guests at CTHQ and mask-wearing is encouraged. If you are feeling sick or have tested positive for Covid-19, we ask that you please refrain from participating in CTHQ programs in order to care for fellow community members.TransportationThe closest MTA subway stations are: Astor Place on the 6 line, 2nd Avenue on the F line, and 8th Street-NYU on the R Line. These stations are not wheelchair accessible. The closest wheelchair accessible stations are: Bleecker Street on the 6 line and Broadway-Lafayette on the B/D/F/M line, with an elevator on the north side of Houston St. between Lafayette St. and Crosby St. Parking in the vicinity is free after 6 PM.

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