Bryce Detroit, investigates the significance of the griot as cultural catalyst and provocateur.

The narratives are rooted in a cultural contextualizing that is inherently encoded in the DNA of humanities. The #NewNarratives foundationally disrupt the colonized imagination and undermine anti-Blackness. His integration of music, architecture, design, ancestral literacies, and cultural legacies render the metaphysical as tangible. The ethereal, sonic, and architectural function as remediative modalities that condition the imagination, as soil for new seeds of self identity and image.

 

Bryce uses convening as an architectural practice that renders imaginative spaces both here and otherwise. All stories are vehicles that transport our conscious mind to the dimensional reality from which the stories originate, and to where they traverse. Inherent in the power of the ancestrally-rooted narrative, is the technology for teleporting one’s conscious mind, self-image, and character representation to a realm outside of the ‘settler-colonial’ contextualization. 

 

Bryce’s current work is an ongoing semiotic study of traffic control signage as a visual language for rendering sociocultural iconography that provokes politically as well as compellingly affirms, spiritually. The work is part of an ongoing conversation wherein Bryce interrogates using art and design to confront the conventional ways that “traffic” (ie. people, sociocultural ideologies/norms, capitalist interest) is directed into and out of majority “Black & Brown” neighborhoods. Bryce is investigating the artist’s role as “cultural diplomat”- one who deputizes themselves to make cultural codes materially visible and explicit, and then to disseminate through media broadcasts, those cultural policies- hyperlocally to globally.

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“We must see and hear Ourselves visible in the North End all year-round via sophisticated comprehensive narrative strategy, cultural programming, and design-based cultural markers.

As the One’s advancing “new culture” and “new economy” pedagogies and practices, we must position and present Ourselves as the real thought-leaders and pioneering practitioners, who’s work is actually designing and building “the New”, while inspiring, convening, and leading global conversations on how we’re doing it.”- Bryce Detroit

 

Bryce Detroit is an ongoing semiotic study of traffic control signage as a visual language for rendering sociocultural iconography that provokes politically as well as compellingly affirms, spiritually.