Travelogue Series: Un-Tying Our Cosmic Ancestry
September 15 to December 9, 2023
Christian-Green Gallery
Travelogue Series Resource List
Kaylynn Sullivan TwoTrees’s Un-Tying Our Cosmic Ancestry is a collaborative, multisensory artwork that evokes the Cosmos to explore how we might find paths to an ancestry that connects us all. TwoTrees developed the exhibition during a three-week residency in Austin at the Art Galleries at Black Studies, creating the visual landscape, and the accompanying sonic environment of vocables—sounds without literal meaning—with sound eco-archaeologist Gideon Crevoshay. At the exhibition opening, Crevoshay will direct the soundscape as an “enlivening,” a live sonic activation of the gallery.
Un-Tying Our Cosmic Ancestry is a companion exhibition to Falling into Language, to be on view at the Idea Lab. Both are the latest iterations of TwoTrees’s Travelogue Series—an ever-evolving exploration of Spirit, Nature, and the journey to the Cosmos.
Curated by Omi Osun Joni L. Jones
Professor Emerita of African and
African Diaspora Studies
Thank you to African and African Diaspora Studies, the College of Fine Arts, John L. Warfield Center for African and African American Studies, Center for Women and Gender Studies, Humanities Institute support provided by Viola S. Hoffman and George W. Hoffman Lectureship in Liberal Arts and Fine Arts, Department of Theatre and Dance, and Native American and Indigenous Studies for their support of Travelogue Series.
Special thanks to Germaine Ingram, Sally Nava, Timilehin Oludare, Pam Reyes, Francisco Robledo, Josh Ronsen, Joy Scanlon, Olivia Whitmer, Will Youngdale and St. Stephen’s Episcopal School for their participation in the recording of the soundscape for Un-Tying Our Cosmic Ancestry, as well as Two Hives Honey for donating beeswax to the Enlivening.
