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American Gold II at Queensbridge Park, Queens, New York

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American Gold Exhibit by Marcus Brown 

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American Gold: A Ship of Human Bondage by Marcus Brown

On June 19, 2024, New Orleans Artist Marcus Brown unveiled three augmented reality (AR) exhibits presented as part of New York City (NYC) Parks’ “Art in the Parks” program. 


New exhibits include American Gold I at North 5th Park and Pier in Brooklyn and American Gold II at Queensbridge Park in Queens.



American Gold: A Ship of Human Bondage is a musically interactive Augmented Reality (AR) sculpture installation based on slave ships and enslaved people. The installation describes the captives as figures made of gold. In 1808, the United States banned the international slave trade with the Act Prohibiting Importation of Slaves. “American shipowners, merchants, seamen and corrupt officials, based largely in New York City, collaborated with foreign allies to continue shipping captive Africans via the Middle Passage all the way into the 1860s.”[1] American Gold aims to draw attention to the monetary value of captives and the inhumane treatment of African captives. American Gold makes the slave ship an almost invisible structure that floats above the viewer. giving the viewer a glimpse of how many people were squeezed into a slaving vessel from below. The installation is part of a larger series of art installations about slavery called Slavery Trails. Slavery Trails is a musically interactive site-specific Augmented Reality (AR) installation series based on slave ships and enslaved people, placed on historical sites throughout the United States. This project will be exhibited in New York in 2024. 


    

[1] John Harris, “The Atlantic Slave Trade Continued Illegally in America until the Civil War,” HISTORY, January 22, 2024, https://www.history.com/news/us-illegal-slave-trade-civil-war.

The Atlantic Slave Trade Continued Illegally in America Until the Civil War - John Harris (History.com)The Last Slave Ships: New York and the End of the Middle Passage- John Harris The Slave Ship: A Human History - Marcus RedikerBarco de esclavos: La trata a través del Atlántico- Marcus Rediker Spaces of Enslavement: A History of Slavery and Resistance in Dutch New York - Andrea C. Mosterman

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Marcus Brown

Marcus Brown A native of New Orleans, Marcus Brown is a sculptor, painter, inventor, musician, and educator. Brown holds a MEd from Portland State University and BFA from Kansas City Art Institute (KCAI) in Missouri. His work is expansive and includes national and international exhibits and performances. Locations include New York City, Berlin, Germany, and Krakow, Poland, the Ogden Museum of Southern Art, The McKenna Museum of African-American Art, and The New Orleans Museum of Art. Brown currently has public sculptures in Biloxi, Mississippi, HUMS II and The New Leaf on St. Bernard Ave., as well as St. Peter Claver and Henriette Delille at St. Peter Claver School in New Orleans. He also has sound installations at JAMNOLA and recently developed an interactive sound exhibit for the 2022 New Orleans French Quarter Festival. Mentors like the late Lin Emery, John T. Scott, and Jim Leedy, collectively instilled in Brown the importance of always learning and experimenting to create your own path. In that vein, Brown developed a form of painting called Electro-sonic Painting in which the artist paints with sound/data producing instruments. In addition to his performance art, Brown has exhibited with artists such as Andy Warhol, Chris Burden, Hannah Wilke, and others around the world, to name a few.

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