bitforms sf presents LaJuné McMillian and Marguerite Hemmings’ Antidote after the success of Embodied Metadata, McMillian’s first solo exhibition in the gallery’s New York space.
Antidote speaks to embodied metadata as anthropology, parsing this term as a technology that is inherited from past generations and activated as a world-building tool. The work considers the emancipative capacities of movement, and how the healing of bodies and lands can be enacted inside of virtual reality technologies.
Antidote, co-authored by McMillian and choreographer and educator Marguerite Hemmings, speaks to embodied metadata as an anthropology, contextualizing it as a technology that is both inherited from past generations and activated as a world building tool. Antidote considers the liberatory capacities of movement, and how the healing of our bodies, lands, and movements can be enacted inside of virtual technologies. Framing Antidote is a virtual land acknowledgment authored by Hemmings, McMillian, creative technologist Salome Asega, and Afro-Indigenous activist Amber Starks (Melanin Mvskoke). Together, they address the colonial contexts that frame human relationships to both land and cyberspace.
2025 YCC Artist Collaboration with LaJuné McMillianFor this year’s Young Collectors Council (YCC) Party, the artist will take over the iconic Guggenheim rotunda, making it an arena for a collective experience of “motion witnessing.” Syncing different technologies, McMillian will transform the environment into a fractalized universe liberated from limitations of space, time, and other constructs.
Inside the Pillow Lab: LaJuné McMillianFor this project, LaJuné McMillian is developing “Spirit and Child”, a series of prayers between Child and Spirit, presented as a live motion capture performance and installation. via YouTube
DiMoDA 4.0: Dis/Location Performances: Spirit and Child by LaJuné McMillianSpirit and Child is a series of prayers, poetic exchanges between the characters of Child and Spirit that are presented as a live motion capture performance and installation. A healing ceremony unfurls as Child extends gratitude to Spirit for holding them through times of struggle and abandonment.
Pillow Lab: LaJuné McMillianLaJuné McMillian earned a residency at Jacob’s Pillow, which takes place November 8 – 19, 2023. Their work will be on view November 18, 2023 in Brooklyn.