The "Journey of Reflection" is a unique and transformative ceremonial experience that harnesses the amphitheater's openness to create a spiritual atmosphere. My intention is to guide participants through a profound journey of self-reflection, community connection, and personal growth. We will explore sound and rhythm, incorporating moments of meditation, vocal affirmations, and body movement to offer attendees a memorable healing experience. At the conclusion of the ceremony, each participant will receive a floral arrangement to symbolize the experience.
“Together, we Sat,” opening at Blaffer Art Museum as part of the 2024 Texas Biennial. This site specific, interactive sculpture represents Open MFAs 8 years of collective building while setting the stage for an “Absurd Classroom” in which visitors will have the opportunity to earn an Alternative Certificate in Studio Art.
The amphitheater-inspired structure is comprised of repurposed milk crates and plywood and contains space for up to 25 guests to sit.
In Spring 2025, Open MFA will host a series of introspective, arts education-centered workshops and programs titled the “Absurd Classroom”. Participants will receive an Alternative Certificate in Studio Art issued by Open MFA and Blaffer Art Museum.
Serving as a growing archive, Together We Sat will capture and amplify of community involvement.
Since 2016, Open MFA has worked to reimagine the traditional MFA through a grassroots approach. Rooted in resource sharing, skill sharing, and collaborative learning.
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A Portrait (of a building),
A video installation by Marco Fedele di Catrano and Ryan Hollaway, Hangar, Lisbon, (2021)
A Portrait (of a building) is a video work made by Marco Fedele di Catrano (IT) and Ryan Hollaway (USA) within the spaces of Hangar during their stay at the Lisbon artists’ residency. The four hands’ work portrays Ryan moving his body within the building. The camera follows the friction, interaction, and adaptation of the moving body in the architecture. Through multiple images, both the body and the building align in creating one image. The movement of Ryan’s dance questions the fixed lines of the building while inspecting a principle of dynamism. An osmotic exchange between the body and the building occurs.
El Lago
Designed by Nick Tallent.
Photographed the band while they were recording an EP album in Houston Texas. Pyramids. (2017)
Sometimes intimate and watchful with relatives, sometimes observing alone from a distance, Untitled Trip shows photos taken during a 2016 trip to Los Angeles during which Hollaway becomes a tourist in a place that once was home.
Released in conjunction with an original dance and audio performance.
April 22, 2018; Menil Collection Bookstore
Houston, TX
A zine I created for Zinefest Houston. Holds a collection of images and journals Iv’e taken over the lost multiple years. (2019)
This is a performance I did for the Blaffer museum. This piece, represents being isolated as a person of color in thought and body. As if the media and situations happening throughout social justice in America. Being so afraid to go out in the world because you may not think it wasn't created for you. I want the viewer to make their own interpretations from the piece as well it goes hand in hand with being in quarantine as many of us has been experiencing. I also want the viewer to listen to the music with their eyes closed and imagine all the names in the media they've seen and heard and the unheard.
Sounds with charlie (2020
In their first collaboration, Post Trance Tea Ceremony and Isabella Vik with Bethany Logan present an explorative work with improvisational sound and movement. The piece, “Missed Connections” explores movement while desensitizing their sight. The piece is a display of lost translations and missed connections through movement. As emotional creatures, we strive to have connections to others often through relatable experience or shared trauma, but what we feel and think about our experiences are unique to one another. This piece centers on trying to communicate intuitively to find relationships. Post Trance Tea Ceremony will be performing live improvisational sound enhancing the experience with their own non-verbal communication to the movement artists.
(2023)