
Using ourselves as living libraries, we will time travel through blood memory, which carries our knowledge, our wounds, our joys and pain and our ancestors. Workshop: Time Travel Through Blood and Memory Formally a graduate of New York University, this Colorado wise woman, wakes up every day newly inspired by the power of everyday people to do extraordinary things. Her work is ever cultivating the partnerships needed to create a bioregional food economy rooted in the ethics of people care, land care and fair share. Currently, this bioalchemist, educator and leader of the Five Points Fermentation Co., enjoys her time working with youth and families around indigenous culinary technology. She trades fertilizer with seed activists and stories of future remembrance through belly button solidarity. She makes art of spreading the seeds of creativity and community, justice and just desserts to anyone brave enough to be themselves. The study of alchemy will be the vehicle and lens through which we experience and observe the concept of Mestizaje Consciousness.Īsia Dorsey is a serene green love machine. Mestizaje Consciousness gives the example and vision of rectifying and bringing together the duality/plurality of our ancestries into wholeness. Anzaldua, we will explore how the mixing of ancestry, blood, and culture has created a new race, la raza cosmica, and consequently a new consciousness. Utilizing the concept of mestizaje as cultivated by Gloria E. Through navigating the language and processes of plant alchemy and mestizaje consciousness, we will identify and design roadmaps to the liberated future of our creation. Workshop: The Social Alchemy of Mestizaje ConsciousnessĮngaging the alchemical processes of integrating social identities and ancestry, to transform personal and collective consciousness. He continues to serve the community as a mentor and for young artists and as a documentor of the history and lineage of photographic technology and the changing city itself. His gallery space remains as one of the few POC owned and operated artist spaces in the Lower East Side. He started his career as the first black photographer for NYC's District Attorney in 1959. His collection and experience continues to be a container and witness to the resonant and fractal nature of time, change and human nature. Join us after the screening for a talk-back with the artist and his daughter, a scientist, on further unraveling the story of energy, matter and time.Īlex Harsley is a photographer and experimental videographer, founder of Minority Photographers Inc (est 1971) and The 4th Street Photo Gallery (1973) of NYC's Lower East Side. Of arriving at a new nexus of time/space story. The layered and 3-dimensional soundscape begins to hypnotize as the parallel realities merge and emerge from the noise. The journey is through parallel dimensions, oscillating between a narrative dance of dark energy and it's illegitimate child dark matter and visions of current day dystopia filled with distraction and false urgency. It is a parable and family history of dark matter, dark energy and ultimately dark time.



Harsley's hypnotic video takes us on a journey of unraveling. Film Screening + Talkback: The First Light: The Mythos of Dark Energy, Dark Matter and Dark Time
