“How do we design an experience where people can feel like they are alone and shut off, trapped emotionally—which is where I like to have people—but also in control of their environment?”
, it was a welcome release of some pent-up energy. It’s important to note that none of your activities in the box are recorded, nor can anyone see what you’re doing inside—this is key to the concept, according to Sumney, with whom I spoke after I emerged from thezone and walked down the street to Pioneer Works, where a cocktail party celebrating his exhibition opening was held.
“I wanted to do something around isolation and create an experience where a person could have both a public and a private experience simultaneously,” Sumney explained. He’d flown into New York City from his home in North Carolina especially for the event, along with some fashion shows he planned to attend. INFOBeing isolated with nothing but a smartphone or laptop is an activity most people can relate to, especially after 2020.
He started thinking about the ways in which he’d interacted with technology over the course of the pandemic, and how that pertained to his loneliness. “There came a point where I couldn't tell what was me and what was a computer. What was me and what was my phone?” Sumney became particularly interested in the human relationship with technology—“what we teach it and what it teaches us back,” he explained.
He’d been pondering where the human being begins and technology ends when Microsoft approached him with the body-scanning technology used in. The tech uses cameras to read skeletal movements, then traces and inputs that information and transforms it into 3-D or point cloud data. At that point, the multihyphenate artist spent much of his time in lockdown managing his anxiety by dancing alone at his house in Asheville, .
Sumney said the installation, which officially bowed on September 2, and his other artistic endeavors in general, are intertwined with his music—they are one and the same forms of expression, and they inform one another., he added, has inspired his upcoming musical projects. While music may be what Sumney is chiefly known for, having performed with Solange, James Blake, and Sufjan Stevens, he isn’t relegated to just one art form.
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