LOST VOYAGE COLLECTIVE
Lost Voyage Collective is a group of women-identified artists who span artistic disciplines, generations, locations, and cultures. Our work reflects both the improvisatory and the impermanent through installation, durational performance, sound environments, poetry, visual imagery, and film. We aim for our performative process to be freed from traditional cultural dualities such as transmitter-receiver or active-passive and move towards the complex notion of triality. It is within these blurring boundaries that the transformative power of performance occurs.
We continue to create and inhabit a space that lends itself to individual expression within communal creation. We see all the elements of our installations as actants in dialogue. Our narratives will change based on location. Our language of improvisation and adaptability will remain; our works evolve like chapters of a story unfolding through time. We are here to expose the complexity of the individual, collective and communal journeys.
In the Summer of 2020, Miriam Parker and Jo Wood-Brown formed the Lost Voyage Collective, a community of artists from a multitude of backgrounds working towards inclusivity and discovery. Awarded a residency at FiveMyles Gallery and funded by the Brooklyn Arts Council, Parker and Wood-Brown led the cross-collaboration with Jean Carla Rodea, Merche Blasco, rebeca medina, Tiffani Moore, and Asiya Wadud, combining their talents to explore the individual, collective, and communal meanings behind “lost voyage.” Our work is the outcome of our lives and art dedicated to generative, creative practices.
Lost Voyage returned to FiveMyles in November 2021 for a performance and debut of films created by Parker, Rodea, and Wood-Brown, and new sound work, “Cobalt Mirror Image,” spearheaded by Jean Carla Rodea in support of New Music USA’s Creator Development Fund. The work featured the poetry of Wadud and was sung by the LVC members.
Performances
THE ARTISTS
Miriam Parker and Jo Wood-Brown began their work together in early 2010s, under the collaboration InnerCity Projects. They began to imagine different ways they could create interactions in the world around us, using the exigencies of figure-ground from painting and the gesture ritual of movement. Parker brings her insight as a mover and installation artist to Wood-Brown’s two-dimensional and sculptural forms. Together their work bridges the boundaries of time and place. They reference ancient and modern archetypes that have persisted throughout time and explore the needs of humanity to live and dream despite the fabricated boundaries of this world. In Lost Voyage, Parker and Wood-Brown will invite dancers, musicians, poets, and the audience to shift and form the environment centered around the ideas of journey, migration, and oasis.
Collaborators:
Jean Carla Rodea
Asiya Wadud
Rebeca Medina
Tiffani R. Moore
Iracema Alvarez Huiman
