Brendan Fernandes

2010

This work challenges its viewers to reconsider the perceptions and inhibitions that surround cultural identities associated with Africa and the African Diaspora. Voo Doo You Doo Speak is in part an architectural sculpture that viewers can enter and experience a highly charged technological environment. This includes a multi-channel video installation of animated African masks that seem to speak Dadaist sound poem soliloquies. The mask animations play with pulsations of light in rhythmic patterns that create a trance like space, one that evokes a sense of spiritual apparition and take over.