Kristan Woolford

Kristan Woolford, K!n€t!c Dr£@m$ (2025)

8-channel HD Video, sound, 7:25min loop

Using eye-popping collage aesthetics to, as he says, “to peel back the digitized layers of the subconscious and examine its relationship to cultural identity, markers, and signifiers,” Atlanta-born artist Kristan Woolford wryly addresses the spectrum of cultural richness and “vulturism” in hip hop and the American entertainment industry writ large.

With K!n€☥!¢ Dr£@m$, Woolford radically expands his earlier single-channel work fr33theL@nd (2023), providing a meditation on what he calls “indigenous and African diasporic resistance in the face of colonization.” Visualized through the movements of the Brazilian martial art capoeira, the horrors of the Indian Removal Act of 1830, and hip-hop culture, Woolford’s piece is an urgent reminder of how excavating the past continually reshapes the present. Commissioned to be shown at Off the Wall, fr33theL@nd premiered as part of the Cinédance! series at the site in July 2024.

About Off the Wall @ 725 Ponce

The largest movie screen in the Southeast, illuminating Atlanta's Beltline Trail with film and video art from around the world. Curated by Gregory Zinman. This exhibition was made possible with the support of Emory University’s Arts and Humanistic Inquiry initiative.