This is the video project final for my Mutating Cities course at Pratt Institute taught by Youmna Chlala and Christoph Kumpusch.
Researched and Edited by: Jackie Rivera
Jackie Rivera
ACTOR//MAKER - AEA
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THE DOLPHVAN 🐬🚐
In May 2018 I purchased a 2000 Dodge Ram B1500 Contracting Van and converted it into my home.
Follow my journey here as I navigate living off-grid in the most famous grid of all time: New York City.
The project is a life-art exploration into creative survival. In theater we create worlds of great imagination that help us simulate a different way of organizing our societies and world. A quick scroll through #vanlife on Instagram will have you think this way of life is contingent on a trust-fund, remote employment, mostly white maleness, and a proclivity to extreme sports.
I’m here to say that simply isn’t true. It’s an illusion. Rather, its an over-saturation in available imagery.
At least its not my experience. And experience is the best teacher. Which is why I started this project - in the words of Taylor Mac: “Let the call to action be the action itself.”
There is another way. And here’s my world as proof.
The Sea-Beast. Incognito AF.