WORLDBUILD WITH ME
Worldbuild With Me at the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art at PSU - 2022
Worldbuild With Me at Comfort Station - Juneteenth 2022
Date: June 2020
Duration: 11 minutes 38 seconds
Medium: Video (color, sound)
Exhibition History:
2022 - Juneteenth: Black Queer Futures, Comfort Station, Chicago, IL. USA
“WORLDBUILD WITH ME is Gardner’s entry into video collage, expressing a curatorial approach to gathering and arranging movement, sounds, textures, and images that articulate his interest in unrefined joy. Gardner began working on WORLDBUILD WITH ME in hopes of submitting the work to a dance music festival, but it took a different shape after the uprisings and protests began in June 2020. Drawing among everything from Blaxploitation movies to iconic clips from balls, Gardner has assembled found footage and self-shot video in order to build an Afrofuturist invitation into his world.” - Ella Ray
See below for additional images of this piece on display.
*header image featuring Mackenzi Bell-Nugent*
