all photos: Ben Droz
For the fourth year in a row, The Pink Line Project celebrated the Cherry Blossom festival with a big, splashy, unconventional venue party. This time around the location was in Anacostia’s Lightbox and part of the ongoing Lumen8 magic that everyone should really check out.
Here is what the chock-a-block full program (captured below by Ben Droz) included:
In the Dance Hall:
-Miyazaki
-Heavy Breathing
-Protect U
Live audio-video installation curated by Robin Bell:
In the chill lounge, audio sets by Dubpixels, Congo Sanchez, and John Bowen accompanied by vj mixes by Monica Stroik and Sid Barcelona.
Video artists:
-Robin Bell
-Congo Sanchez
-Lindsay Johnson
-Monica Stroik
-Sid Barcelona
-Adrian Loving
-John Bowen
-Dubpixels
Art activations:
-Street art and a multi-disciplinary performance experience by VESTIBULE, featuring choreography by Amulya Mandava, Vaunita Goodman, Antoine Lee, and Jasmine Heiss, with Armando Lopez-Bircann and Katie Macyshyn
-SUNSHOWERS: A new media work by BLUEBRAIN and Evan Howell
-Jacqueline Levine
-Brian Buck
-Kenny George
-Aerial dancers!!
-ZORB!! – a mobile cherry blossom orb
-Wall murals: JPeezo, Lightup, Hks181, SpottedHumanGoldfish
-Batala
5×5 temporary public art projects by Floating Lab Collective, Monica Canilao, KUNSTrePUBLIK
and moar: