Family Time June 2025: Sound Bath with Artist Ari Melenciano + Art-Making
Saturday, June 14
1:00 PM – 3:00 PM
For All Ages
FREE! Drop In*
Everyone is invited to The Bronx Museum for this Family Time featuring a sound bath performed by artist Ari Melenciano in our gallery! Melenciano’s video installation, Cosmeage (2025), is currently on view in the interactive exhibition Working Knowledge: Shared Imaginings, New Futures.
To create the sound bath, Melanciano will translate the electromagnetic energy of living plants into live audio using a modular synthesizer. The Museum will provide floor coverings for people who wish to sit or lie down on the ground during the sound bath. There will also be chairs for people who prefer that.
In addition to the sound bath, Bronx Museum Educators will lead art-making activities inspired by the Working Knowledge exhibition. Activities are fun for all ages and accessible to young children and their caregivers. You are welcome to drop in for this event; there is no need to register in advance or RSVP.
*Due to space limitations, this program cannot accommodate parties of 10 or more individuals arriving together as a group. For information, please visit Group Tours.
Image Credit: Ari Melenciano, Cosmeage film still, 2025, Courtesy of the Artist.
About Ari Melenciano
Ari Melenciano is an artist, technologist, and theorist with an expansive practice that both reimagines and interconnects disparate notions of sentience. Her art practice ranges from using improvisational dance as an ethnomusicological research instrument, to using AI as a foundational tool for her “computational anthropology” research, to sonic composition using botanical data. Her work has been exhibited around the world from Dubai’s Museum of the Future to the Studio Museum in Harlem. She is currently a Pioneer Works Working Artist Fellow, a guest lecturer at Rutgers University, and on a book tour for her newly published experimental art book, “Black Metal.”
