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Vignettes in 3 Sessions: An Immersive Ancestral Experience with KaMag (María Magdalena Campos-Pons and Kamaal Malak)
Date: December 5, 2025, 6:00 pm - 8:30 pm
The Center for Art, Design, and Visual Culture presents a special one-night-only outdoor screening and performance with KaMag, the performance collaboration between artist María Magdalena Campos-Pons and musician Kamaal Malak.
Vignettes in 3 Sessions: An Immersive Ancestral Experience with KaMag is an interactive performance created for the CADVC. KaMag invites members of the public into a shared ritual environment — “a sacred space where ancestral energies transcend temporal boundaries, creating a transformative portal between past and present.” The performance unfolds as a multi-media, multi-sensory sanctuary combining spoken word, live music, sound design, and other sensorial experiences in an intimate, participatory format.
The performance launches 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 UMBC 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 the São Paulo Biennial, where Campos-Pons an
Please join us for a reception from 6 to 7 p.m., followed by the performance at 7 p.m.
Admission is free.
The CADVC is located on the first floor of the Fine Arts Building. Free evening parking is available in nearby Lot 8. Please visit here for directions and more information.
This event is supported in part by the Arts+ initiative, with additional support from the Center for Innovation, Research, and Creativity in the Arts (CIRCA).