This Side of Salina

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison Street, Syracuse
October 10 – December 21, 2024
https://www.lightwork.org/archive/lynne-sachs-new-work/

Urban Video Project (UVP), a program of Light Work in partnership with the Everson Museum of Art and Onondaga County, is an outdoor architectural projection venue dedicated to the public presentation of film, video and moving image arts. UVP is one of few projects in the United States dedicated to ongoing public projections and adds a new chapter to Central New York’s legacy as one of the birthplaces of video art using cutting-edge technology to bring art of the highest caliber to Syracuse, New York.

Light Work UVP centers on a large-scale architectural projection onto the famous Everson Museum building designed by I.M. Pei. The projection can be viewed from the adjacent plaza. The Everson Museum is located in downtown Syracuse at 401 Harrison Street at the corner of Harrison and South State Streets, across from the War Memorial and OnCenter.

The Urban Video Project projection runs from dusk to 11pm, Thursday through Saturday during exhibition dates.

HD video and stereo sound
Duration: 12 min
2024

Four Black women from the city of Syracuse, New York, reflect on sexuality, youthful regret, emotional vulnerability, raising a daughter, and working in reproductive health services. In a series of their own choreographed vignettes, each woman thoughtfully engages with the neighborhoods she’s known all of her life. Two performers flip through classic 1960s titles by Black authors in a bookstore. Others sit in a hat store finding time to pour into each other, as mentors and confidantes. These are businesses that are owned by local Black women, and they know it. In Brady Market, a community grocery, they playfully shop and chat with ease and confidence. They dance to their own rhythms in the outdoor plaza of the Everson Museum of Art. Together they look down at the city from its highest point and ponder how to battle the inequities of the place that they call home.

Commissioned by Light Work as part of the UVP Residential Media Commission program

CREDITS

Featuring: J’Viona Baker, Vernahia Davis, Ja’Rhea Dixon, Angela Stroman
Director: Lynne Sachs
Cinematographers: Anneka Herre, Lynne Sachs, Zelikha Zohra Shoja, Monae Kyhara Sims
Editor: G. Anthony Svatek
Production support: Minnie S. McMillian, Devon Narine Singh, Hilary Warner
Additional recording: Saptarshi Lahiri
Sound Design: Kevin T. Allen

In consultation with Anneka Herre, Program Director of Light Work | Urban Video Project, Tiffany Lloyd, Director of Women’s Health and Empowerment, Allyn Foundation Campaign Manager, Layla’s Got You

Shot on location in Syracuse, New York at Black Citizens Brigade, Brady Market, The Classic Bop Hat Boutique, Everson Museum of Art Community Plaza, and Upper Onondaga Park

Light Work’s Urban Video Project is pleased to present the exhibition of This Side of Salina exploring reproductive justice from October 10 – December 21 at the architectural projection venue on the Everson Museum facade in downtown Syracuse.