![]() That series, titled Virtual Jazz at MOCA, was hosted by Carter Jackson-Brown, and - though it’s no longer offered this year - past concerts are still available to view online. In this way, jazz lovers had access to continued free concerts via livestream and on the radio, at WDNA-FM 88.9. Like many institutions, MOCA pivoted to online programming to keep serving the community throughout the pandemic. “It brings people together, which is what MOCA seeks the most.” “Over the course of COVID, the jazz program is one that we certainly missed,” says the museum’s executive director, Chana Budgazad Sheldon. The lineup typically has ranged from classic staples to newer sounds, from acts like the South Florida Jazz Orchestra to the Ashley Pezzotti Jazz Quartet. Since 1999, Jazz at MOCA has invited people from diverse backgrounds to unite for a night of music in the heart of downtown North Miami, presenting a variety of styles including swing, Brazilian, Afro-Cuban and Latin jazz. But then COVID-19 came along.Īlmost two years later, the music and voices, the lights and laughter are back at the plaza, with the official relaunching of Jazz at MOCA.īilled as South Florida’s longest-running free outdoor jazz concert series, this event is “one of the museum’s most beloved public programs,” says Amanda Covach, MOCA’s curator of education. Usually, the public square adjacent to the Museum of Contemporary Art North Miami and City Hall buzzes with music, voices, lights, and laughter every last Friday evening of the month. with an admission cost of $30 to the general public, free to Art Basel Miami Beach VIP ticket holders, MOCA members and North Miami residents.MOCA Plaza had been quiet since March 2020. At MOCA, we are proud to embrace international artists such as Felländer, and allow our audiences to enjoy their works.”Īn artist reception will take place on Wednesday, December 6, from 7–10 p.m. “The artist uses traditional conventions as a springboard to explode and expand the concept of image-making. debut,” says Natasha Colebrook-Williams, MOCA’s Interim Director. “We are very pleased to have secured ‘How to Unlock a Portal’ by Jacob Felländer for his U.S. His work has been exhibited in numerous solo and group exhibitions progressively around the world, including Hamiltons Gallery, London Camera Work, Berlin Grand Palais, Paris and Fotografiska, Stockholm. įelländer’s work is featured in the collections of former President Bill Clinton and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, the Swedish royal family, the Persson Family (H&M), and several celebrity athletes. Coming full circle, the portal print is then brought to life with a 3D printer resulting in a sculptural piece that accompanies the canvas print. Felländer takes the process a step further and creates portal prints – images taken inside this virtual landscape and then brought back into the real world. The artwork enters a new dimension, as the virtual universe opens up and new artistic possibilities arise. For two minutes and 21 seconds, the viewer is taken on a journey inside the artwork, made possible by virtual reality goggles. “The Brave Frontier” explores the fragility of embarking on new worlds. For more insight into his work, watch this short video here. In his work, Felländer asks the questions: “How does the presence of a parallel digital dimension affect our lives?” “What happens when we bring objects and images from the virtual world out to the physical world?” In the piece “ One World, One Negative” Felländer traveled one lap around the world to capture the world in one image. ![]() In his images of cities and landscapes, Felländer captures a span of time in one frame, giving the viewer the impression of seeing space and time skipping intermittently, allowing many perspectives at once. ![]() The exhibition includes multi-exposed analogue prints mixed media prints, oil pastels and charcoal on pigment prints projected video, 3D printed sculpture, virtual reality and prints from the virtual reality world. ![]() Traveling through a fusion of photography, painting, sculpture and virtual reality, the exhibition presents analogue images taken with a 100-year-old camera. With art methods ranging from charcoal to virtual reality technology, Felländer captures not one frozen moment in time, but rather several moments expanded in time and space. ![]() In chronological order, the pieces represent Felländer’s creative journey over the past 15 years. This groundbreaking exhibition challenges the definition of photography and contemplates the effect of time, space, perspective and depth. ![]()
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