J o h a n n e s B a r f i e l d
VISUAL + SOUND ARTIST
audio/visual installation that investigates ownership, irony, fugitivity, heroism, photographic archives, looted artifacts, living artifacts, and the dimensions between good and bad.
immersive image-based installation that boasts a blaring bass-heavy soundtrack influenced by world-building science-fiction films, Marvel comics, children's books, and Griot storytelling.
exploring Southern roots through childhood memories, employing photography, asphalt, and red clay soil.
multi-sensory journey that explores childhood memories and resurrection biology by utilizing reverse samples and video clips from Menace II Society (1993).
audio/visual installation exploring joy, identity, cookout music, and generational trauma.
Metaphorical exploration of the word "street" through the utilization of sound, asphalt, concrete, light, and chains.
meditation on freedom, seamlessly integrates an impregnated asphalt board, wheatpaste, light, and a quote from the rapper Common, while also drawing inspiration from the Emancipation Proclamation of 1863.
Father-son portrait drawing inspiration from The Negro Motorist Green Book, North Carolina, and Mississippi.
hand-painted large-scale moving typographic image that features augmented reality and is accompanied by a sample-based soundtrack.
multimedia exploration of dual realities, travel, and injustice reveals the perpetual struggle against a constraining past, present, and future.
sample-based film made during the global pandemic (COVID-19). The work is a meditation on current events, photographs, films, music, boyhood, humor, and togetherness.