Ari Melenciano
Artist DesignerÂ
TechnologistÂ
ResearcherÂ
Theorist
Film
2025
Currently on view at the Bronx Museum of Art
Cosmeage is a portmanteau of cosmos and lineage, naming the continuity of sentient memory that reverberates across time, ancestry, and celestial intimacy. It proposes a theory of ancestral memory that travels across one's biological lineage and reactivates through multi-sensory stimuli. Situated within diasporic and psycho-spiritual thought, it treats memory as not merely psychological but inheritable; stored in body, nervous system, and energetic field, accessible through non-linear experience and somatic catalysts. Cosmeage is not what is remembered, but what remembers through you.
Exhibited in the form of a film exploring pan-African diasporic sound and embodied sensorial memory.
Runtime: 20 minutes
Design, Sound,
Dance, Motion Capture, 3D Rendering, Art, Film, Film Score