Angela P. Harris and Kit Young
How do we dream ourselves into the future? What does play look like in a time of environmental, economic, and social collapse? How do we nurture our design imaginations? And when we do, what strategies will emerge?
Pluriverse is a multimedia project using written and spoken word, modular audio and video synthesis, field recordings, feedback systems, interviews, electronic, instrumental, and choral music, generative media environments, grief, and humor to explore these questions in art and ideas.
Funded by a Civic Arts grant from the City of Berkeley, Pluriverse will be presented in the summer of 2022 at the East Bay Media Center in downtown Berkeley.
Kit Young has been working at the forefront of expanded cinema and experimental video for many years. His video work has received several awards and has been featured, among other places, in the Ann Arbor Film Festival. He is a frequent collaborator with other video artists, with dancers, and with musicians.
Angela P. Harris is a former law professor who retired from teaching at the University of California, Davis to pursue other projects, including founding and editing the Journal of Law and Political Economy and helping organize the Just Transition Leadership Institute, a training program to assist practicing lawyers in laying the groundwork for a sustainable and just ecology, economy, and society. She is interested in the intersections of advocacy, visual and musical arts, mindfulness, theory, and poetry.
Partners in life and art, together we aim to produce multimedia performative works that address humanity's splintered, siloed dysfunctions. Pluriverse not only weaves our individual voices and perspectives together; it draws from and celebrates the work of advocates who are building the future, from students in professional schools, to attorneys, to formerly incarcerated folks, to academics, to Black, brown, and Indigenous farmers and gardeners.
According to David B. Feldman and Benjamin W. Corn, hope is not the faith that everything will be fine. It is the perception of what is possible. In a time of climate grief, mourning for lives lost or stolen from the People of the Global Majority, war, and political-economic implosion, it is all the more important to recognize the seeds of beauty and wonder that are being planted right now.