Sadah Espii Proctor & Nicholas "Gio" Giovino
During their time in residence, creative duo Sadah Espii Proctor and Nicholas “'Gio” Giovino, Technical Director will continue the development of adrift//adieu (working title), an immersive installation that transports viewers out-of- time into the world of a lost daughter searching for reconnection. Utilizing augmented reality, this experience transforms haint blue door frames into portals that invites visitors to see, hear, and meditate on their own experiences of separation, loss and reunion.
"We are born and have our being in a place of memory. We chart our lives by everything we remember from the mundane moment to the majestic. We know ourselves through the art and act of remembering. Memories offer us a world where there is no death, where we are sustained by rituals of regard and recollection."
- bell hooks
Image Credit: Maria J. Hackett
Image courtesy of Nicholas “Gio” Giovino
Sadah Espii Proctor
Sadah Espii Proctor (she/her/Espii) is an award-winning multimedia director and composer/sound artist working in theatre, dance, opera, installations, and extended reality. Her work centers around themes of memory and diaspora, social issues, and presence within physical/digital/virtual spaces. Currently she is the Head of Multimedia at 25 Broadway (Cipriani/Moment Factory), home to the largest permanent projection mapping installation for events in North America.
She is also a Lecturer of Design at Yale University’s David Geffen School of Drama, and a member of Onassis USA and NEW INC’s accelerator, ONX Studio. She received her M.F.A. in Performance and Interactive Media Arts from Brooklyn College, and is a proud alumna of Virginia Tech.
Nicholas “Gio” Giovino
Nicholas "Gio" Giovino is a multi-talented and versatile artist. His work unfolds across a diverse spectrum of immersive and performing arts, from the illustrious Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM) to renowned production companies like Five Ohm, the experimental floors of HERE ARTS Center, and the virtual realms of VR and AR through Meta Quest and Unity.
Image by Wil Peirce
Joyous Peirce, Curator
Joyous Peirce (she/her) is a multi-disciplinary creative, curator, healer, & cultural producer. Recipient of the Renaissance Woman Award in 2019 and a proclamation from the City of New York from Senator Brian Benjamin praised her for “outstanding contributions to the Harlem Arts & Culture Community".
Her creative & community work is interdisciplinary, intricately layered, and prioritizes creative collaborations that expound upon the many worlds of the African Diaspora. Her work is inter-diasporic with creative influences in Tanzania, Nigeria, South Africa, and New York. Her original and cultural work is also endlessly influenced by a reverence for the ancient technologies and understandings of our environment, Afro-surrealism, Black Quantum Futurism, and her rich familial and ancestral histories which include: Her Grandmother Educator, Mediator Lemoine Pierce, Great-Grandfather: 1920 Dance Master, Billy Pierce, and Grandmother: Landowner and Mother of eight Mother of the Church in Pineville, South Carolina, Victoria Addison Middleton.
Joyous believes that community liberation is essential to the experience of true freedom, and that joy is a necessity, not a privilege.