Category: Onajide Shabaka

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Sound (E)scapes: Reactive Conditions

Sunday, 27 May, 2012 at 10:30 am
One day event.
Anne Kolb Nature Center
751 Sheridan Street , Hollywood, FL

Piggybacking on iSAW’s most recent sound project, I’ve given the next Anne Kolb Nature Center’s interactive day as one of listening, recording, and experimentation. Participate in a series of acoustic experiments and explorations in my self designed residency that began in 2011. Bring your smartphone, or other device, to record your own sounds. Discussion on experimental sound / music. Be prompt, please.

(Sound pieces will be posted here after editing.)

Ongoing event of the artist residency of Onajide Shabaka.

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Mangrove Mud Womp Artist Residency

“Mangrove Mud Womp”
Artist Residency, Performance, Workshop, & Exhibition
[PDF Press Release here.]
Oct., Nov., Dec., 2011-12
(scheduled attendance on various weekends announced on Facebook)
(photo credits: Onajide Shabaka)

“Mangrove Mud Womp”

Combining art and the ecological environment the artist-in-residence will be drawing, painting, and making sculptures of natural and found objects, while investigating the rich mangrove forest’s flora and fauna. This project will be implemented with the input and collaboration of the on-site naturalist at Anne Kolb Nature Center.

The artist, along with kids and adults, will create art works that reflects the ecologically sensitive mangrove forest that is between Hollywood and Dania known as West Lake. This project is to create a learning experience about the natural habitat of the estuary through art.

In addition there will be a panel discussion on urban planning & design, while looking at pushing the envelope of social space, and even technology, to actualize itself in harmony with the urban and natural environment. Art practices that exist outside of the confines of the gallery have a long history that include genres such as land art, eco-art, public art, and social practice art.

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“Black Mangroves (video still)”

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Artlab33 Art Space Temporary Install

Artlab33 Art Space (temporary installation)

We are currently planning a soft reopening for the 9th of October (Sunday). The final push on funding for Mangrove Mud Womp will also take place at that time. Both events will take place unless something unforeseen takes place.

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Mangrove Mud Womp Fundraiser on Kickstarter!

[PDF Press Release here.]

Mangrove Mud Womp Fundraiser on Kickstarter launched Tuesday morning lasting 30+ days to help fund the public art residency of Onajide Shabaka. This project will take place from September, 2011 to February, 2012! That includes the fundraising, of course.

Please, help out to make this project a reality! Funding is necessary to produce the art works, and your assistance is key to the success of the project as a whole. You will receive art in exchange for your financial support.

Funded in part by a Creative Investment Grant from Broward Cultural Division

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Gagged

“Gagged”
Nupastel, carbon soot, on paper
38 x 24 in. ©

Using a fully engage working process, Onajide Shabaka’s various drawings use somewhat violent techniques in their creation by burning, erasing, rubbing, and smoking his surfaces. Not only are their emotional content highly charged, the creative process it brought about through a fully charged engagement with both the subject and medium. The burning and smoking of the drawing, though not destroying the paper’s surface, it creates a texture that mutes and highlights the line drawings, both at the same time leaving it with a translucence and aura.