Altar’d

How do we collect and tell stories? How can we affirm presence? And where do new and old technologies allow us to do so?

Altar’d inscribes and continues a tradition of care through the act of archiving and sharing Black and Brown Queer testimonies. Through a process of interviews and ritual-based gatherings, testimonies and 3D-scanned personal objects are gathered to be presented in the form of a short film. Accompanying this film is an installation that allows participants to approach an altar, whose centerpiece is a collective garden constructed at the aforementioned gathering. An altar invokes a necessary maintenance that arrives, both in our physical and emotional bodies. Fashioned in the likeness of the many altars that exist presently, the installation becomes a living, breathing testament to the ways in which we take care of ourselves and why we do so.

Prepare to be altar’d!

Installation images pending