Revival Salon @ 1000 Ways to Sit

Part ritual, part conversation, part call to presence Revival Salon is deeply rooted in the rich tradition of oral storytelling, a practice that has been central to Black communities and diasporic cultures for centuries.

The gathering of people in intimate spaces to exchange stories, music, and wisdom is an act of cultural preservation-ensuring that histories, truths, and emotions are passed down, reshaped, and reimagined.

To attend Revival Salon is to step into a living moment-one that holds, heals, and resonates long after the last note fades.

ABOUT BRI LABOSS

Bri Laboss is the kind of artist who doesn't just create-she conjures. Her work moves through the worlds of poetry, sound, and visual storytelling, weaving them into immersive stories that linger in both body and memory.

Her writing carries the weight of history and the urgency of now. It is intimate yet expansive, a reflection of personal truth and collective memory. Rooted in themes of Black existence, joy, resistance, and healing, her work shifts between tenderness and power, between stillness and movement. The tone is often fluid-equal parts meditation and call to action-inviting audiences into spaces where they can feel deeply, reflect honestly, and be transformed.

THE EXPERIENGE

Revival Salon: the people's living room is not just a performance-it's a journey, a three-hour conversation woven from poetry, music, and the voices in the room. A live band scores the moment in real time, their melodies moving with the rhythm of spoken word, creating something fluid and felt. At Revival, poetry isn't just recited-it breathes, it responds, it builds upon itself as the audience becomes part of the unfolding.

No two salons are the same. The setlist isn't scripted, the dialogue isn't rehearsed-everything is shaped by the energy in the room, the people present, the stories waiting to be told.

YOU DON'T JUST WATCH; YOU FEEL IT, GET PULLED INTO IT, BECOME PART OF IT.

THE ENERGY SHIFTS, THE ROOM BREATHES, AND FOR A MOMENT, WE'RE ALL IN THE SAME RHYTHM, WITNESSING SOMETHING REAL, RAW, AND ALIVE.

About Heron Arts, The Gamelatron Project, and 1000 Ways to Sit:

Heron Arts is pleased to present the fourth exhibition of a large scale immersive Gamelatron sonic kinetic sculpture installation by Aaron Taylor Kuffner. This exhibition follows the success of the Resonance in Light (2022, 2023, 2024) that featured a Gamelatron interacting with various light based sculptures curated by John Parts Taylor. This year we are excited to welcome “Gamelatron Sonic Sanctuary: 1000 Ways To Sit” produced by Kamau Zuberi Akabueze.

This exhibition utilizes Heron Arts as a community wellness space offering a public immersion into the layered experience of resonance through stillness, space, and sound. Viewers will be asked to remove their shoes, stow their phones and choose from a variety of unique seats.

At the core of this sanctuary is the musical automaton Gamelatron ViaOro which features 44 uniquely tuned gongs and metal phones, starting in the 30 hz range and spanning across 6 pitch registers on 10 free standing sculptures illuminated by an interactive light-based artwork by Adele Lin and Matt Pinner.

Kuffner intends this exhibition to seed the idea and explore the potential of a global network of sanctuaries anchored by large scale Gamelatron artworks.

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