current/ongoing projects

Marooning Bodies

Marooning Bodies creates immersive games, installations, future relics, and curriculum that help communities rehearse new ways of living together. We work across: game design, fine art objects (future relics), public installations & educational programming.

Marooning Bodies serves as a tool to:

  1. further investigate our social structures

  2. practice relationship building skills

  3. tap into our senses to dream with the knowledge of our whole bodies

  4. engage in nuanced discourse

  5. archive future histories

Marooning Bodies has been in development for 4 years. It has been play tested in Ghana, Senegal, Morocco, and across North America including: USC, CSU East Bay, National Sawdust Creative Forum (NYC), and Norco Prison.

Uncle Ronnie’s Room

Uncle Ronnie’s Room is an art-driven campaign to mobilize the general public and media around the story of Ronald Coleman Jr.'s (Ronnie) wrongful conviction. The work includes an installation, performance,  docuseries, billboard campaign, and website hub.

Ronald Coleman Jr. is sentenced to two life sentences plus 65 years for a murder case that he was not involved in. He is currently incarcerated at Calhoun State Prison in Morgan, Georgia, and has been incarcerated for 25 years. Through exploring his childhood, the campaign takes us deeper into who Ronnie is as a person, more about his case, and the impact his incarceration has had on his family. 

#jailbeddrop

The #jailbeddrop experience consists of a performance and interactive installation rooted in challenging our inherent notion between “crime’ and punishment. The work contextualizes and facilitates a space to explore interpersonal accountability and reflect those values back on our “criminal justice system.” This work is an extension of the #jailbeddrop art series created by Patrisse Cullors and Cecilia Sweet-Coll through Justice LA.

featured past projects

Hymns from the Cave

This exhibition presents a series of paintings created during Webb’s extraordinary and tumultuous 50-year to life sentence, offering a visceral glimpse into the deeply personal and transformative experiences that shaped his artistic vision.

Hymns from the Cave includes 4 activations - a performance, film screening, writing workshop, and jazz and poetry night.

Role: Curator & producer

TriKe

TriKe is a short film by Giselle Bonilla and Brianna Mims. A visual representation of the chaos we shape in order to thrive within the fullness of ourselves, TriKe uses absurdity to scandalize our explicit vulnerability in a public space.

TriKe is a celebration of our childlike sensibility to find the erotic in the mundane, and the power within our complexities.

Honey Stomach

Honey Stomach is a quest for divine guidance through the lessons of the honey bee. 

The female honey bee has multiple stomachs - one solely for storing honey. This honey provides healing for the collective. However, It is only produced through a process of deep listening for guidance to the source. Honey Stomach is an interactive movement meditation listening to the desires of the womb. Asking, how are the desires of our wombs directing us back to the source? 

Honey Stomach is created by Brianna Mims and Kenneth Webb. It is inspired by Surah 16:68-69 in the Quran. Music Composition by Cody Perkins aka algorythm.code

Letters from the Etui

Letters from the Etui is a digital platform featuring an animated video series, texts, and an accompanying series of workshops that support abolitionist frameworks, from personal to political practice.

An etui — from the Old French estui, meaning prison — is a small ornamental case used for holding needles, cosmetics, and often other sacred possessions like personal letters.

The project blends these meanings offering the etui as a metaphor for holding the sacredness and value of the people, ideas, creativity, and relationships impacted by imprisonment, and rejecting the sense of disposability that prisons support in our culture at large.

Here, letters serve to connect students to each other across the walls of the prison system, they connect resistance struggles around the world, and they connect us as citizens and activists to a world oriented towards abolition.

Animations by Brittany Barrera, Jazmin Cabrera, Ma.Nadeschka Estocado, Nathaniel Trias, Sheila Lopez, Stephanie Salas, Vanessa Salas and Zoe Kim