The Black Movement Library’s projects Movement Portraits and Spirit and Child showcase the evolution of LaJuné McMillian’s art practice, integrating performance and extended reality tools to celebrate and dive into Black embodied realities.
The Black Movement Library is a library for activists, performers and artists to create diverse XR projects, a space to research how and why we move and an archive of Black existence. The library seeks to build a community through performances, XR experiences, workshops, conversations and toolmaking.
The Black Movement Library’s project Movement Portraits VR experience is an abstract documentary, diving into the movement histories and stories of five Black Performance artists living and working in New York City.
photo: LaJuné McMillian
Spirit and Child follows the journey of the artist’s inner child, diving into an alternative reality through meditation and prayer. Particles radiate from the young avatar—an abstract representation of the energy we access and emit when we are able to move through the world freely. The piece is part of a larger body of work including performances and XR installations exploring themes of embodiment, inner child healing, spirituality and liberation.
Bio
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LaJune McMillianLaJuné McMillian
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LaJuné is a multidisciplinary artist and educator, creating art that integrates performance, extended reality and physical computing to question our contemporary forms of communication.
Credits
Production Credits: Movement Portraits
Creator: LaJuné McMillian
Performers: Roobi Gaskins, Lamb, Renaldo Maurice, Roukijah Rooks, RaFia Santana
Music: Lamb, Jeremiah Johnson – Renaldo’s Mix, RaFia Satana – Rafia’s Mix
Film: Manuel Molina Martagon
Technologist: Indira Ardolic
Producer: Yvonne Mpwo
Production and Sounds of Live Documentary: Gita Blak
Director and Editor of Live Documentary and Photography: Manuel Molina Martagon
Production Credits: The Portal’s Keeper
Lead Artist and Developer: LaJune McMillian
Sound: Rena Anakwe, RaFia Santana, MaryAnn Talavera, Nia Witherspoon, LAMB, Zeelie Brown
Presented in the context of the European Digital Deal project. European Digital Deal is co-funded by the Creative Europe Programme of the European Union and by the Austrian Federal Ministry for Arts, Culture, the Civil Service and Sport.
