Antidote (2020)
LaJuné McMillian (New York, NY) & Marguerite Hemmings (Philadelphia, PA)
Digital Video, 21:38

Antidote is a work by choreographer Marguerite Hemmings and new media artist Lajuné McMillian exploring technologies of healing and liberation. Antidote features a sound score by Rena Anakwe and a Land Acknowledgement by Amber Stark and Salome Asega.


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LaJuné McMillian


LaJuné McMillian is a Multidisciplinary Artist, and Educator creating art that integrates performance, extended reality, and physical computing to question our contemporary forms of communication. They are passionate about discovering, learning, manifesting, and stewarding spaces for liberated Black Realities and the Black Imagination. LaJuné has had the opportunity to show and speak about their work at National Sawdust, Tribeca Film Festival, Times Square, and Brooklyn Public Library. LaJuné was previously the Director of Skating at Figure Skating i Harlem, where they integrated STEAM and Figure Skating to teach girls of color about movement and technology. They have continued their research on Blackness, movement, and technology during residencies and fellowships at Onassis ONX, The Jerome Hill Artist Fellowship, Eyebeam, Pioneer Works, NYU ITP, Barbarian Group, and Barnard College.





Marguerite A.M. Hemmings


Marguerite A.M. Hemmings is a Jamaican Philadelphia-based artist who specializes in emergent, improvisational and social movement styles and technologies. They are researching the subversive role of dance and music technologies throughout the African Diaspora and channels these technologies throughout their work using body, text, social/public media, and moving
image.



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