AUGMENTED REALITY IMMERSION: BATH BENCHES AT BUMBERSHOOT FESTIVAL

Combining Afrofuturism and ethnobotany, this immersive experience takes on the form of a parasitic  healing floral bath, contrasting the concept of parasitic architecture, which are architectonic attachments to existing buildings or structures. By attaching to the user’s body, the healing floral bath with spiritual Coast Salish and African plants serves to daylight the colonial systems that have come to cover up the natural systems and relations on the ancestral land of the Duwamish, Suquamish, Stillaguamish, and Muckleshoot People. The piece daylights the continued healing journeys from the displacement and disposition of Black people in the Americas by highlighting the connection with ancestors, our environment and our imagination. In so doing, this piece will invite a reflection and engagement with our environment and plant kins as instrumental in our healing journey and the need for a reciprocal stewardship. This piece highlights medicinal, spiritual and magical floras as a means to invite participants to an Afrocentric healing rite and inspire a kinship between people and nature.

Experience the Healing bath on mobile devices here