STRATA: Mantras
A participatory art project by Danielle Roney asks:
How can migrants and their communities anonymously occupy institutional spaces?
STRATA: Mantras is part of knowledges, a group exhibition at the Spencer Museum of Art consisting of artists whose practices are rooted in research. Danielle Roney was included to continue her decades-long study of migration and the impact of technology on a mechanized cultural identity.
knowledges
Spencer Museum of Art
Lawrence, Kansas
August 24, 2019 – January 5, 2020
STRATA: Mantras is a series of sculptures which translate voice recordings offered by undocumented immigrants into visual choruses of resistance. Each animated sculpture is a unique, radical and radiant representation of voices within the migrant community in and around Lawrence, Kansas.
Participants can record a mantra, phrase, song or prayer and see it become flowing movements of light across the surface like visible sound waves.
Danielle Roney Studio is committed to maintaining the privacy and authorship rights of all participants and contributed materials. STRATA: Mantras was designed to ensure the anonymity of those involved and to allow for participants to decide when and how their contributions are used. When submitting a recording, please be sure to name your file with according to how you would like your mantra to be used:
To authorize one-time usage of your mantra, please use “stratamantras_1”
To authorize continuing usage of your mantra for future iterations of STRATA, please use “stratamantras_2”
If you are interested in contributing your mantra to the STRATA sculptures:
- Record your mantra (<60 sec.) using Voice Memos or comparable mobile app
- Name your file with desired consent code (see above)
- To maintain anonymity, sign in to strata.mantras@gmail.com using the password “B3Pres3nt!”
- Email your recording to strata.mantras@gmail.com
To learn more about Mantra meditation, you can follow instructions from the United We Dream Toolkit below:
Mental Health Toolkit