IMAN PERSON

moves through worlds—visible and hidden, remembered and forgotten, modern and ancestral. Her work is a ritual continuously in motion, an evolving archive shaped by the contributions of community, material explorations, and ancestral technologies. She merges earth, video, sound, and scent as a path to ritual, re-rooting individuals to themselves, their histories, and the natural world.

 

A Jamaican-American interdisciplinary artist and cultural anthropologist. Her work transcends Western notions of linear temporality, offering a fluid perception of time and memory through the body, migration, and cosmological references.

 

Iman cultivates portals for reflection and collective healing, inviting audiences into currents of ancestral knowledge and contemporary existence. Her work disrupts the traditional view of technology as a fast-moving, logic-driven force, instead presenting it as a eco-somatic experience—one that enmeshes the user within the rhythm of nature rather than superseding it.

 

Through altar-making, Iman bridges the past and present, fostering a re-emergence of rituals that reconnect the body to cyclical time. Her works are deeply inspired by the Bakongo Cosmogram and the Yowa/Dikenga Cross, symbols of interconnectedness and cosmic balance. These works serve as spaces where audiences can reconnect with history, land, and spirit, offering moments of reflection and engagement with the unseen forces that shape us.

 

Iman’s research into Black Futurity and Diasporic Memory positions her within a lineage of thinkers and artists who create possibility where there is none. Her work, spanning breathing meditation, resonance of sound, and cultural preservation, is a testament to her belief that art is a continuum—an interplay between the known and the ineffable. Or as she says “a software for the current generation”.

 

Through her practice, Iman serves as a bridge between ancestral wisdom and contemporary practices. Her work takes shape through:

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• Ritualistic Frameworks exploring vibration as an embodied practice.

• Multimedia Performances integrating dance, sound composition, and visual layers.

• Site-Responsive Installations engaging with land, memory, and the unseen.

• Community Engagement through Wellness Workshops