Grantee Database

Macro Waves Collective

Grant Year

2023-24

Grant Program

Impact Projects

Award Amount

$21,250.00

Project Description

With the support from the California Arts Council, Macro Waves will produce Re-worlding the Unimaginable, a collaborative multi-sensory exhibition exploring what it means to imagine an unimaginable future for humanity. Rooted in an abolitionist framework, Re-worlding the Unimaginable is a series of narratives posing questions that aid us in rethinking potential futures. What if colonizers gave back the land they stole? What if the industrial prison complex was abolished? What are the dangers of relying on Artificial Intelligence models such as predictive policing? Re-worlding The Unimaginable posits issues of community destabilization, colonialism, and capitalism as deeply connected intersectional systems while offering an immersive exhibition experience that uses emerging technology as a critical tool for cultivating a stimulating environment where participants can engage in inquiry and re-imagine futures of what is possible.

Organization Summary

As a collective, Macro Waves specializes in creating experiential art, interactive installations, and immersive exhibitions. Our programs incorporate a combination of multimedia installations, new media, projection mapping, performance, and storytelling. We conceptualize projects with the intention of cultivating meaningful partnerships with community activists, organizers, collectives, and other artists based in the Bay Area.

Through an intersectional framework, we integrate healing in our creative practice as a form of radical justice, so that we may unlearn cemented patterns reinforced by generations of trauma and violence. Our projects and programs focus on the topics of mental health, healing justice, and collective care. We offer alternative modalities of multisensory healing-based experiences that encourage participants to practice self-care and collective care. All of our projects are participatory, inclusive, and accessible to the community. In response to the pandemic, Macro Waves expanded its programs and services, integrating new media and technology-based solutions towards creating safe, socially distanced, and online-based opportunities to engage with our works. We have developed virtual gallery platforms, produce augmented reality art tours, live stream production and conceptualized new creative projects.
In addition to our collective practice, Macro Waves operates as an art studio that offers a range of creative and technical services including but not limited to art direction, projection mapping, installation art, motion graphics animation, video production, environmental design, fabrication, and print production.

Organization

Macro Waves

Address

1420 45th ST #50,

Emeryville

94608

County

Alameda

Region

Bay Area – Other

Phone

(415) 713-7856

Congressional District

California Assembly district 15

State Assembly District

District 15

State Senate District

District 9

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