SCROLLING: movement-images for other possible worlds

As Media Artist in Residence at Walter Moberly Elementary School in 2022-23, I worked with over 100 grades 6 and 7 students and their teachers to implement a variety of technologies such as panoramic photography, poetry, puppetry, and movement. Our culminating project was the students’ live performance of their hand-built cardboard crankie theatres featuring back-lit scrolls of paper covered in hand-drawn traces of monstrous panoramic bodies alongside mesostic poetry. 

Inspired by Facing Human Wrongs by Gesturing Toward Decolonial Futures Collective, We Will Dance With Mountains by Bayo Akomolafe, and (as always) Jack Halberstam’s writing on failure and anarchism in cultures of children and feminists.

Partners: AIRS Program, Walter Moberly Elementary School, Vancouver School Board