Mutual Phase is a collaborative art practice working across installation, sculpture, video, sound, and social engagement. Our work exists at an intersection: designing frameworks for participation that create space for reciprocity, and multi-sensory environments that alter the experience of time. We ask: what happens when individual perception becomes collective observation? How does time shape our connection to place?
We approach projects as invitations, building environments where past, present, and future share the same space. A camera captures a gesture and layers it alongside gestures from weeks before. A recorded voice enters a composition that has been evolving for months. Paint applied today sits beside paint from last season. Inside these environments, observation stretches, time collapses and compounds, and the work holds physical evidence of everyone who has passed through it: handwriting, recorded voices, figures on video.
We lower barriers to participation as a creative decision: different people bring different gestures, different attention, different relationships to time and memory. A four-year-old's mark and a lifelong painter's mark sit side by side in the composition and carry equal weight. The structures are open enough for anyone to enter and rigorous enough that every contribution matters.
Each project responds to the place where it happens, built from what's there: the people, the natural and found materials, the light, the wind, the season. We work in cafés, schools, and plazas, wherever daily life is happening. We work in galleries and studios, bringing collective making into formal art spaces. We build the conditions: the structure, the invitation, the tools, the space. What unfolds inside them belongs to the people who show up. Ephemeral experiences with materials and interactions are integral, and what remains are artifacts of presence, shared through exhibitions and single channel videos, carrying the experience of everyone who was there outward.
We make this work because individual actions become a collective tapestry across hours or months, and the distance between oneself and other people gets quieter. That shift is real. The closer we attend to each other and the places we share, the more connection deepens and the more we care.Bio: Mutual Phase is Sarah Conarro and Julian Bozeman. Both are from Georgia and have shared a studio since Brooklyn, where they built Dreamers Welcome, a live/work space in South Williamsburg for visiting artists, musicians, and writers to stay and collaborate. Together they run Link-Link Club, a social engagement lecture series, and The Painted Cloud, a community-minded arts initiative working on independent projects and partnerships across Brooklyn. Based in New York, their work has taken them to Alaska, Ghana, and the American South. Their projects have been supported by the Foundation for Social Connection and Hinge, and the Arts for Diverse Learners Grant from the NYC Department of Education. In 2025, supported by the Foundation for Contemporary Arts, they worked on a month-long project at Red Clay Studio in Tamale, Ghana, at the invitation of artist Ibrahim Mahama. Additional collaborative projects:
