A GAME-INSPIRED SONIC JOURNEY THROUGH THE IMMIGRANT EXPERIENCE.
Immerse yourself in an active, site-specific sonic, visual, and movement encounter experiencing the world from the perspective of a recently naturalized U.S. citizen. Miami-based musician and composer Juraj Kojš premieres his latest work entitled Where Home Is, a dynamic music and multimedia navigational experience through a fictive territory that spans several levels of the MDC Wolfson Parking Garage in downtown Miami.
Inspired by migrants and immigrants, Kojš imagines a country in which participants traverse through physical and conceptual pathways to find their Where Home Is citizenship. The experience will culminate on the top floor of the parking structure with a celebratory happening that includes a large-scale video projection display featuring historic footage of the Freedom Tower provided by the Wolfson Archives (as the actual building looms in the background), a market of ideas, dance party, historical tours, and games.
Meet The Artist
Born in Slovakia and based in Miami, Juraj Kojš is a musician and avant-garde composer who directs the Foundation for Emerging Technologies and Arts (FETA) and teaches at the University of Miami’s Frost School of Music. Kojš work spans from acoustic concert music to muscle-powered installations and investigates the multiplicity of ways we relate to the world around us. His commissions for acoustic, electroacoustic, multimedia and installation pieces include The Knight Foundation, The Quiet Music Ensemble, Miami Light Project, Deering Estate Chamber Ensemble, Meet the Composer, Harvestworks, Miami Theater Center, Live Arts Miami, Deering Estate and Vizcaya Museum & Gardens. Miami New Times described his muscle-powered multimedia Neraissance as “striking and unforgettable,” and MiamiArtZine called his Signals “enthralling and immersive.” His works received awards at Europe—A Sound Panorama, Miami New Times Best Off Award, Eastman Electroacoustic Composition and Performance Competition and the Digital Art Award. His research articles are published in Organized Sound, Leonardo Music Journal and Journal of New Music Research. In the framework of the international research project Remembering Henry James, Kojš contributed to the film production “Caged”, a screenplay by Riccardo Visone produced by Beth Vermeer, Design of the Universe, with an extraordinary soundtrack.
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COVID-19 Considerations:
Live Arts Miami is fully committed to health and well-being of every visitor and staff member. Masks / facial coverings are strongly encouraged on MDC Wolfson Campus at this time. All visitors and staff will be required to practice physical and social distancing. No visitor or staff will be granted entry if they are demonstrating symptoms of COVID-19 or have been determined to have had trace-contact with a person diagnosed with COVID-19. Capacity will be limited.