Enter the Portal:
Performance + Panel Talk
feat. LaJuné McMillian & Manuel Molina Martagon
Thursday, November 6 | 6-8 p.m.
Everson Museum Auditorium
401 Harrison St.
Light Work’s Urban Video Project cordiallly invites you to Enter the Portal: Building Liberated Worlds, a multimedia performance and panel talk with UVP commissioned artists LaJuné McMillian and Manuel Molina Martagon on Thursday, November 6 in the Everson Museum auditorium.
McMillian and Molina Martagon’s collaborative practice reframes motion capture technology as “motion witnessing” and repurposes popular game engines used in the creation of first-person shooter and battle royale MMO games as tools of liberation.
The performance will be followed by a panel discussion between the artists and local creatives Kofi Antwi, Chloe Flores, Sofia Gutierrez, and Martikah Williams, who appear in The Portal’s Keeper, their new piece for UVP created in-residence at Light Work. The Portal’s Keeper will be on view in the Everson Museum plaza following the event.
Light refreshments from Recess Coffee & Roastery will be served.
This event is FREE & OPEN to the public.
Accessibility
The Everson’s Hosmer Auditorium is wheelchair accessible. CART services will be provided for the Q&A portion of the event.
To make accommodation requests or ask questions about facilities, please contact info@urbanvideoproject.com or 315-443-2450.
Sponsors
Presented in collaboration with the Everson Museum of Art. Major support for this event comes from the Syracuse University Humanities Center as part of Syracuse Symposium 2025-26: CREATIVITY
Related Exhibition
The Portal’s Keeper
September 26 – December 20, 2025
Th. – Sat. | dusk – 11pm
Everson Museum Plaza
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