I am Soil – My Tears Are Water

The Center for Art, Design, and Visual Culture debuts a new public projection of I am Soil – My Tears Are Water (2025), a single-channel video by Kamaal Malak and María Magdalena Campos-Pons that has been adapted for the CADVC’s Fine Arts Building amphitheater projection program. Conceived for large-scale projection and collective viewing, the work transforms the amphitheater into a reflective gathering space, bringing KaMag’s layered meditations on ancestry, land, and healing into public space.

KaMag’s recent work has included major multi-sensory performances at institutions such as Tate Modern and KaMag’s recent work has included major performances at institutions such as Tate Modern and the São Paulo Biennial, where Campos-Pons and Malak have developed a practice that bridges performance, sound, and moving image to explore Afro-diasporic spiritual, historical, and ecological inheritances.

Admission is free. On December 5, the projection will run after the performance by KaMag at the CADVC; on other evenings the projection will run nightly at dusk.

This event is supported in part by the Arts+ initiative.