Transformerz, 2022

Created and Animated by Jordan Brown

Video Concept and Direction by Arianna "Kala" Brame

 

Artist Statement:

The "Transformerz" music video is a collaboration between musician Kala and the Lost Tribe (@kalaandthelosttribe) and visual artist Jordan Brown (@jupiter.brown). In our pandemic-era virtual process (Kala is based in Brooklyn and I was living in Montreal at the time), we spoke about returning to land and remembering our Afro-indigeneity, and our weekly talks became an experiment in dreaming up our past-future selves. What emerged was a kaleidoscopic journey through multiple dreamscapes, eventually taking to the sky to find a new planet-home.

BIO:

Jordan Brown (b. 1996, Silver Spring, MD) is a visual artist based in Chicago, IL. Born and raised in the DC-metropolitan area, he graduated with an MA in Sculpture from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 2023. His interdisciplinary practice in sculpture, textile, video and collage assembles personal mythologies from found objects, with current exhibitions in Chicago, IL (Roots and Culture Contemporary Art Center) and Rome, Italy (Gallery T293). He is a

2023-2024 In-Session Fellow with Threewalls NFP (Chicago, IL) and a current participant of the Creative Residency for Black Puppeteers at Puppet Showplace Theatre (Brookline, MA). He is one-fourth of the Chicago-based Black performance art collective Suspended Culture.