EGOLI

2008

EGOLI

2008

MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART OF GEORGIA

Three channel digital video, 3D animation, soundtrack, custom screens, 8:00
32′ × 22′ × 50′

Working Artist Project Grant 2007 – 2008

Genesis Trial: Johannesburg
2008

eGoli

A journey through the mythical city of eGoli, City of Gold, as Johannesburg was once known as, with architectural references of fractal geometry intrinsic throughout African culture. eGoli presents an interpretation of urban and organic forms, providing an allegorical vision, as part of an infinite variety of virtual conclusions.
As Genesis Trial extended in a series of global experiences, the artist focused on the larger, universal aspects of the multiplicity of “modern” centers and the how time, space and place reveal themselves in an infinite complexity of layers; later dissolved in the new mythologies of the migrant condition.

Genesis Trial: Johannesburg

Genesis Trial: Johannesburg emphasized the journey to global citizenry and psychogeography in relationship to personal interactions in Johannesburg, South Africa. Considering the broader context of locational identity, the expressions of Italo Calvino’s Invisibile Cities, Guy Debord’s The Society of the Spectacle and architect Yona Freidman’s Spatial City, framed a balance of direct and abstract interpretations of personal mobility and the postmodern social implications.
The exhibition presented a wide range of media installations in direct conversation with one another regarding the complexity of social conditions.Roney was a recipient of the Working Artist Project Grant awarded by the Museum of Contemporary Art of Georgia made possible through funding by the Loridans Foundation.