In the midst of a CAMH LAB Residency Black Man Project: Right of Passagepandemic!s trauma, Community Amnesia Therapy—presented by

Houston-based artist and anthropologist Marlon Hall—is the season! final CAMHLAB residency intended to present authentic human connection while remaining socially distanced. Hall states, "the trauma of life can dismember the mind from the body, and the body from the soul and we forget who we are, what we can impact, and sometimes even why we should get out of bed.”

A special “Rite of Passage” in Marlon’;s CAMH LAB Residency was made for a group of black men. Black men are often told the worst stories to themselves about themselves. This experience was designed for a small group of culturally and cognitively diverse black men as a right of passage through story back to who they are at the core. By engaging the power of story, sojourners of this living art installation moved emotionally inward and physically all around the Brown Gallery with a partner from one ritual station to the next.

CAMH LAB Residency Black Man Project: Right of Passage