Everson Museum of Art Plaza
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Media artists LaJuné McMillian and Manuel Molina Martagon worked with local, community-engaged creatives Kofi Antwi, Clove Flores, Sofia Gutierrez, and Martikah Williams. Together, they discussed their practices and their visions for a liberated future. The artists asked them to embody their answers not only through words, but through movement as well. "The Portal's Keeper" realizes those visions through the technological "portal" of a popular game engine better known for first-person shooter and battle royale MMO games. Here, the artists use this technology not to realistically simulate violence, but instead as a means to represent what liberation might look like.

Screening, projected on the museum wall, begins at dusk.

Hosmer Auditorium, Everson Museum
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Light Work's Urban Video Project invites you to "Enter the Portal: Creating Liberated Worlds," a multimedia performance and panel talk with UVP commissioned artists LaJuné McMillian and Manuel Molina Martagon.

McMillian and Molina Martagon's collaborative practice realizes visions for a liberated future through the creative mis-use of emerging technologies to represent the energy we access and emit when we are able to move through the world freely.

The performance will be followed by a panel discussion between the artists and local creatives who appear in "The Portal's Keeper," their new piece for UVP created in-residence at Light Work. "The Portal's Keeper" will be on view in the Everson Museum plaza following the event.

Everson Museum of Art Plaza
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Media artists LaJuné McMillian and Manuel Molina Martagon worked with local, community-engaged creatives Kofi Antwi, Clove Flores, Sofia Gutierrez, and Martikah Williams. Together, they discussed their practices and their visions for a liberated future. The artists asked them to embody their answers not only through words, but through movement as well. "The Portal's Keeper" realizes those visions through the technological "portal" of a popular game engine better known for first-person shooter and battle royale MMO games. Here, the artists use this technology not to realistically simulate violence, but instead as a means to represent what liberation might look like.

Screening, projected on the museum wall, begins at dusk.