Note from the Director (Remy)
I started Halogen in 2022 as a docuseries focusing on sense of self and autonomous visibility. Halogen, particularly as you see it today, is everything I wished I had as a young kid transitioning back in 2012. My art has always been at the root of affirming who I am, discovering and creating my personal vision and philosophy, exploring who and how I love, and how I celebrate, mourn, and look upon all of the moments that make me humane. My work here is to provide a space for others to celebrate themselves and explore what visibility and sense of self mean to them.
The goal is to get people thinking differently, deeply, and critically.
Radical Meshwork
This is the basic philosophy framework of Halogen. Click through each module below to learn about the philosophy.
Halogen is empowered by the following philosophies:
- Ubuntu
- Black Consciousness
- Black Theology
Why does Halogen use art? Art forces us to view differently, deeply, and critically.
If you'd like to learn more in depth about Halogen's framework, contact us.
Through ecological anthropology and the study of material culture, materials are named as “any form of matter of energy”.
These forms of matter of energy are proposed to be a meeting of artifacts (things shaped by human activity)
To understand materials is to be able to tell their histories and stories in the very practice of working with them.
Typically, we can only grasp the ends of chains or paths known as the entry or exit, not how they are brought together or what happens in between them – the form-taking activity or “becoming of things”.
Outcomes are now a process of correspondence, known as drawing out or bringing forth the ability to dream and cultivate ingrained in the world of becoming.
This is called meshwork – the space where paths of movement entangle and communicate, and reciprocally and synergistically sustain on the threshold of becoming.
As Ubuntu is about the restoration of dignity in people, Halogen's work is to love people to life. Read the