Mutual Phase is a collaborative art practice by Sarah Conarro and Julian Bozeman, working across installation, video, sound, and social engagement. We design frameworks for participation and multi-sensory environments that alter the experience of time. We ask: how does attending to a place and all of its elements - materials, sounds, light and weather, layers of time, people passing through - change how we care for it and how we see one another?
We approach projects with the word "invitation" in the foreground, and where past, present, and future share the same space. For us, invitation means approachability built in: elongated brushes where a beginner's mark and an expert's mark carry equal weight. A camera captures today's gesture alongside last week's, and tomorrow the accumulated footage becomes the background for gestures to come. An unscripted voice recorded in passing enters a composition that's been building for weeks and will keep building after.
Each project is rooted in the site - its materials, its landscape, its languages, its pace. The grammar and tones of a language guide a song's structure. Each contribution shapes the whole in real time. Something emerges no single person could produce. Extended time opens space for co-authorship - and for the subtler shift where observation becomes participation.
As the elements of a place accumulate, what takes form varies. Paintings, soundscapes, songs, video, objects become a living archive, physical evidence of everyone who passes through - how they attended, how they saw, and how they saw one another.Bio: Mutual Phase designs participatory installations and durational environments where time folds and layers. The work accumulates from everyone who passes through. Sarah Conarro and Julian Bozeman are artists from Georgia, now in Brooklyn. They work across installation, video, sound, and social engagement, from Glacier Bay, Alaska to Tamale, Ghana. They have received support from the Alaska State Council on the Arts, the Foundation for Social Connection, and the Foundation for Contemporary Arts. In 2025, at the invitation of artist Ibrahim Mahama, they went to Red Clay in Ghana, where they began Past is Present and Connects Us to the Future. In Brooklyn, they collaborate on Dreamers Welcome, a live/work space for visiting artists; Link-Link Club, a lecture series with over 200 talks and counting; and The Painted Cloud, a community-focused arts initiative.
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