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MBL: Freedom – 2022

3- channel video installation

Videographer, Editor

For the 2022 Toronto Biennial, Syrus Marcus Ware presents MBL: Freedom (2022). This work is the next chapter of the saga, wherein the three Black, Indigenous, and POC Antarcticans flee the Company’s territories and abandon their mission to colonize Antarctica, swimming in icy waters toward the only part of the continent not claimed by a country, “Mary Bird Land,” or MBL.

MBL: Freedom (2022) is commissioned by the Toronto Biennial of Art and made possible with the generous support of the Age of Union Alliance.

Ancestors, can you read us? (Dispatches From The Future) – 2019

Videographer

Ancestors, Can you Read Us? (Dispatches From The Future), Ryerson Image Centre, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

Between September 11 and December 8 of 2019, Syrus Marcus Ware’s multi-channel video work Ancestors, Can You Read Us? (Dispatches from the Future) was on view at the Ryerson Image Centre in Toronto. The video, created with Mishann Lau, features performers Kyisha Williams, Rodney Diverlus, Raven Davis, Janine Carrington, Ravyn Wngz, Gloria Swain, and Jasmyn Fyfe. The work imagines and stages a dialogue with a future beyond the current epoch of Black social death and insecurity, marked by the ever-present capitalist forces of greed and the persistent script of police and state violence.