JACKSON (MISSISSIPPI, USA) 2010-2012

COCOON Passing Monuments, Jackson, Mississippi, a performance-installation by Kate Browne in the capital of Mississippi, one of the centers of the Civil Right Movement in the 1960s.

"Jackson interested me for some of the same reasons Greenwood had, a history of people migrating away. Jackson, like Greenwood, had enslaved people and was part of the Great Migration. It’s where in 1961 hundreds of Freedom Riders were arrested. Jackson was also the site of intense Civil Rights organizing, especially after the murder of Medgar Evers in 1963. After the 1960s it was also the site of urban renewal which destroyed the historic black neighborhood in the city.  All of these lead to migration away from a place. Here I wanted to experiment with the procession starting at three symbolic points and with putting the soundtrack inside the cocoon, along with little cocoons, sculptures, people made." Kate Browne

partners & funders: Mississippi Museum of the Arts ; National Endowment for the Arts via Mississippi Museum of the Arts.

team: Alison Brummer, Lighting Designer ; Daniel Johnson, Field Organizer ; Jayson Porter, Core Team ; Lesley Collins, Core Team ; Nathan Robertson, Core Team ; Michael Yitna, Core Team ; Phylicia Pierson, Core Team ; Cedric Colston, Core Team.