A spokesperson says---
"...Place Is the Space is a four-hour immersive performance experience combining live jazz improvisation, theatrical storytelling and multimedia design inspired by Sun Ra's philosophy and his film Space Is the Place..."
"...The work functions as both a concert and an experiential ritual where musicians, actors, visual elements and audience members collectively shape the Space into a Place – metaphorically building the vehicle that Sun Ra aspired towards, expressing Afrofuturistic themes of transcendence, liberation and joy. This cosmic jam session will culminate with the audience crowning a 'New Sun Ra' who will lead the entire theater on a pilgrimage to Saturn for one final performance at the Hammer Museum where everyone is invited and encouraged to play along..."
"...Arceneaux's work is featured in the Hammer Museum exhibition, which brings together installations, paintings, sculptures, photographs, and multimedia works by nearly thirty artists exploring themes of Afrofuturism, belonging, placemaking and the act of taking up space. Los Angeles-based artist Edgar Arceneaux constructs drawings, installations, video and film works as complex arrangements of association that examine adjacencies and points of contact between implausible relations..."
