Genesis Trial: Johannesburg, 2008
Museum of Contemporary Art of Georgia
Large-scale media installations balance the dichotomy of virtual and physical realities within surrounding global issues of modernization and the role of global citizenry. Based on her experiences there in 2007, universal issues of migration, socioeconomic barriers and locational identity structures are examined through the urban African environment of Johannesburg, South Africa.

Roney is a recipient of the Working Artist Project Grant awarded by the Museum of Contemporary Art of Georgia made possible through funding by theLoridans Foundation.

Through the entangled journeys of time and space, the Genesis Trial Series looks at the evolution of the global self as it filters through the physical and virtual lands and invades the minds of each person and place.

Genesis Trial: Johannesburg emphasizes 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, frame a balance of direct and abstract interpretations of personal mobility and the postmodern social implications.

As Genesis Trial unfolds in a series of global experiences, the artist is 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; to later dissolve in the recollection of the traveler.