Brooklyn J. Pakathi uses art as a mean to unfold. Their cross-dimensional practices plays with the aesthetic language of the internet whilst in dialogue with questions of navigating the intermediary space of transference between body and virtual anxieties of being – their work speaks to an energy consciousness reconciling the external reflections of our internal vulnerabilities. Exploring advanced, physical and emotionally-charged memory as sites of contention, they dive into logical imaginaries to make sense of the omnipresent matrix of intimacy and the conventions that influence the harmonies of our body-mind-spirits. Brooklyn J. Pakathi’s art-making manifests from internal meditations on the ephemera of intimacy and the resulting outcomes as expressed in large part due to the internet. In searching for the connectors of cause, meaning and sense of resolve, Pakathi’s practice fundamentally speaks to the tragic vulnerability of romance. There are ideas and spaces and technologies that charge their work: engaging with the relationships we manifest with digital technologies, their practice explores the formations of, enactments with and responses to digital intimacy. Interested in the synaesthetic experiences of art-production, they explore these themes through mixed and extended realities, video vignettes, digital observations, and photographic interrogations employing text, methods of self-love and meditative healing practices.

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