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Remember, Gullah Island

Grand Central Madison

Remember, Gullah Island

Jazsalyn

“Remember, Gullah Island" (2025) by Jazsalyn at LIRR Grand Central Madison

About the project

“Remember, Gullah Island,” an alternate-reality work by Jazsalyn featuring evocative digital renderings, takes a visual journey to Gullah Geechee Corridor, Atlantic coastal plains stretching from North Carolina to Florida that hold special cultural significance to African American communities. Embedded with notions of home and belonging, “Remember, Gullah Island” invites commuters to pause in their daily journey and connect with stories of departure, arrival, resilience, and cultural perseverance.

The piece will run every six minutes through March 2026.

Figure walking in front of five large digital screen with images of an wetlands displayed.
"Remember, Gullah Island" (2025) © Jazsalyn, LIRR Grand Central Madison. Commissioned by MTA Arts & Design. Photo: MTA Arts & Design

About the artist

Jazsalyn is an artist and researcher working where fiction and reality collide. Through alternative media and re-indigenization, her practice considers issues regarding data loss, memory restoration, and Ancestral Intelligence. She develops long-term projects with game engines, algorithmic processes, and video art to explore counter-futures and complex human-to-nonhuman knowledge systems. As a lecturer at The New School, she has built curricula on African and Diaspora rituals as speculative technology. She is the Artistic Director of the experimental curatorial project Black Beyond, where she curates exhibitions and experiences to envision alternate realities for (b)lackness. Her work has been supported by Serpentine Arts Technologies, New Museum, Pioneer Works, Creative Time, and more. She has been featured in publications such as Cultured Magazine, It’s Nice That, Vogue, and The New Yorker.