Diaspora Vibe Cultural Arts Incubator, Inc. invites audiences to experience DVCAI at Barry’s experimental, multimedia summer exhibition, Across ebb and flow, during a four-month run. Across ebb and flow is a two person exhibition featuring installations by artists L.A. Samuelson, an interdisciplinary choreographer working in performance, sculpture, and new media, and Amanda Bradley, a Belizean American artist, photographer, and curator. Both artists present works that are adaptive to site and transform with each iteration of presentation. Within each body of work, the artists deconstruct notions of ownership, division, and permanence, seeking a more expansive relationship to change, connection, and loss. Samuelson’s work, Telegraph Valley assembles house frames, ladders, floating decks, mattresses, rotating light sources, and one dancer to make momentary dwellings out of holes and passageways. The work looks for the ways we find home in bodies that experience more loss as they accumulate more life. It attempts to deconstruct the body as a “house for the soul” metaphor to uncover something that roves, collides, undercuts, and transforms what we understand ourselves to be, how we merge with others, and merge with our own solitude, to get somewhere new. For Bradley, photography is a language that bridges the seen, felt, and spoken. Her photographic work is interested in how landscape can function as a visual threshold that triggers memory, imagination, and a sense of belonging. The sea acts as a well of memory, and water becomes a meeting place, and a place of possibility. Pairing the photographic installation with a poem that reveals itself as one walks along the seas, the work invites viewers as active participants and embeds a journey into the performance of the visual narrative. The title of the exhibition refers to the artists’ explorations in moving across in-between states and places as a means to build a language around what it means to belong and to be. The exhibition spans installation, photographic, poetic, and performative practices–building a world within the ebb and flow of disciplines and forms. This exhibition is curated by the DVCAI at Barry Curatorial Team, Rosie Gordon-Wallace, and Lauryn Lawrence. All activities take place at DVCAI at Barry, at the Monsignor William Barry Library, at Barry University, 11300 NE 2nd Avenue, Miami, FL 33161. Exhibition Run: June 26 - Sept. 30, 2025, during regular summer Library hours. Across ebb and flow is on view from June 26 - Sept. 30, 2025. Visit the immersive project during regularly scheduled summer Library hours, Monday-Thursday 7:30 am - 8:00 pm; Friday 7:30 am - 6:00 pm; Saturday 9:00 am - 6:00 pm; Sunday 10:00 am - 8:00 pm. Opening Reception: Thursday, June 26, from 5:00 pm - 8:00 pm, Performance at 7:00 pm. Join us for the opening reception of Across ebb and flow on Thursday, June 26, from 5:00 pm - 8:00 pm. Opening Night Performance of Telegraph Valley: Thursday, June 26 at 7:00 pm At 7:00 pm, a performance activates the installation, Telegraph Valley, created and performed by LA Samuelson in collaboration with Dramaturg Elle Hong and Sound Artist Adam Stone. Assembled from house frames, ladders, floating decks, mattresses, rotating light sources, and one dancer, Telegraph Valley makes momentary dwellings out of holes and passageways, attempting to deconstruct the body as a “house for the soul” metaphor to uncover something that roves, collides, undercuts, and transforms what we understand ourselves to be, how we merge with others, and merge with our own solitude, to get somewhere new. Support for Telegraph Alley: Telegraph Valley is a National Performance Network (NPN) Creation & Development Fund Project co-commissioned by RedLine Contemporary Art Center in partnership with Diaspora Vibe Cultural Arts Incubator (DVCAI), square product theatre, and NPN. The Creation & Development Fund is supported by the Doris Duke Foundation, the Mellon Foundation, and the National Endowment for the Arts (a federal agency). For more information, visit www.npnweb.org. It is also made possible through collaborations with the Museum of Longmont, MCA Denver, Union Hall Gallery, Understudy Denver, Black Cube Nomadic Museum, and the 2025 Movement Lab Fellowship at Rhode Island School of Design. Artist Conversation Saturday, June 28, 2025, from 2:00 pm -4:00 pm Join the DVCAI Curatorial team for an artist conversation on Saturday, June 28, 2025, from 2:00 pm -4:00 pm. Presenting artists L.A. Samuelson and Amanda Bradley give insight into Across ebb and flow, their responsive collaboration, and individual artistic practices. Amanda Bradley Biography: Amanda Bradley is a Belizean American artist, curator, and arts administrator based in Miami, Florida. She received a BFA in Photography from the New World School of the Arts. Her photographic work explores place and landscape as a means to connect and understand identity, belonging, histories, and relationships. Selected Solo exhibitions include The land remembers the flood at FAR Contemporary Gallery, Fort Lauderdale, Florida (2021), From One Sea at Mt Sinai Medical Center, Miami, Florida (2021), Further than Memory, Intimate Distances at Artmedia Gallery, Miami, Florida (2019). Selected group exhibitions include BluPrint at Bridge Red Studios, North Miami, FL (2022), A Meeting Place for Women in Photography in Miami, FL (2021), Work from Home at The Bass Museum of Art, Miami, Florida (2020), Notices in a Mutable Terrain at Fundacion Pablo Atchugarry, Miami, Florida (2019), It will never become quite familiar to you at Oolite Arts, Miami, Florida 2019, amongst others. Bradley was an artist in residence at Faena in 2020 and participated in the Home + Away residency at Atlantic Center for the Arts with Oolite Arts in 2019, she was a resident artist at Bakehouse Art Complex from 2018–2020 and is a two-time Suncoast Regional Emmy award winner for her work on the films “Sasha Wortzel: Mining the Gaps" and "1402: Pork & Bean Blue." L.A. Samuelson Biography: L.A. Samuelson is an interdisciplinary artist working in contemporary performance, sculpture, installation, and media. Their projects have been presented nationally and internationally at institutions including RedLine Contemporary Art Center, Union Hall, Understudy Denver, Museum of Longmont, Museum of Contemporary Art - Denver, Tatwerk Berlin, and Black Cube Nomadic Museum. Their work has been supported by the National Performance Network, and the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Arts. They have been an artist-in-residence at RedLine Contemporary Art Center, Crosstown Arts Memphis, and the Denver Art Museum among others. They are a 2024-2025 Movement Lab Research Fellow in the Film/Animation/Video Dept at Rhode Island School of Design (RISD). L.A. holds an MFA in Dance from the University of Colorado-Boulder, with secondary emphases in visual art and somatics, and a graduate certification in Emergent Technologies & Media Arts Practices from the College of Media, Communication, and Information. They currently teach contemporary performance at RISD. Videography by: Max Doulis Alejandro Ferrandiz