Making Space at the Armory

Symposium: Sound & Color

The Future of Race in Design

Making Space at the Armory

Symposium: Sound & Color

The Future of Race in Design

January 14, 2023 - January 15, 2023

Various Spaces

Join a state-of-the-art conversation about how race matters in creative design for live performance in our current moment of creative, technological, and cultural unrest. Hosted by lighting designer Jane Cox, playwright Branden Jacobs-Jenkins, set designer Mimi Lien, and sound designer and composer Mikaal Sulaiman, this interdisciplinary forum allows artists, intellectuals, and designers to explore lighting, sound, costume, and set design, as well as augmented reality, as sites of innovation, magic, and transformation.

Schedule

Saturday, January 14, 2023

1:00 pm–6:00 pm

Sunday, January 15, 2023

1:00 pm–6:00 pm

Ongoing Presentations

Gallery

  • Something borrowed, something green by Rodrigo Hernandez Martinez in Company D.
    Photo: Laylah Amatullah Barrayn

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  • Victor En Yu Tan, Ruben Santiago-Hudon, and Regina García in conversation in the Veterans Room.
    Photo: Laylah Amatullah Barrayn

    2/4

  • Alejandro Fajardo, Stacey Derosier, Alan C. Edwards, Itohan Edoloyi,  and Jane Cox in conversation in the Board of Officers Room.
    Photo: Laylah Amatullah Barrayn

    3/4

  • Holland Andrews, JOJO ABOT, duo Mendi + Keith Obadike, Justin Ellington, and Mikaal Sulaiman in conversation in the Veterans Room.
    Photo: Laylah Amatullah Barrayn

    4/4

Related Videos

  • Opening Conversation | Symposium: Sound & Color

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  • Creating a Collaborative Aesthetic Over Time | Symposium: Sound & Color

    2/11

  • Conversations Between Generations | Symposium: Sound & Color

    3/11

  • Teaching Design and Production through an Anti-Racist Lens | Symposium: Sound & Color

    4/11

  • Infinite Possibilities at the Intersection of Theater and XR | Symposium: Sound & Color

    5/11

  • Black Sound Artists Round Table | Symposium: Sound & Color

    6/11

  • Afrofuturism in Conversation with Design for Live Performance | Symposium: Sound & Color

    7/11

  • Culturally Specific Design | Symposium: Sound & Color

    8/11

  • Darkness and Light: Lighting Design Onstage | Symposium: Sound & Color

    9/11

  • Creating The Divine: Tools Of Storytelling | Symposium: Sound & Color

    10/11

  • Presentation of Micro-Commissions | Park Avenue Armory + Design Action | Symposium: Sound & Color

    11/11

Support

Making Space at the Armory is supported, in part, with public funds from the National Endowment for the Arts. Additional public support is provided by the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Kathy Hochul and the New York State Legislature.

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