Lisa Jarrett is an artist working in social and visual forms whose primary material is questions, the most urgent of which is What will set you free?
We turned to Lisa as we first began to draft our own 20 Questions, having seen how her way of working with questions invites others to deepen their own question-craft. And now we’ve invited her to spend a few days with us and to reflect back to us what shows up for her in looking at DS4SI’s work and archive.
Lisa’s intersectional practice considers the politics of difference within a variety of settings including: schools, landscapes, fictions, racial imaginaries, studios, communities, museums, galleries, walls, mountains, mirrors, floors, rivers, and prisms.She is co-founder/director of projects like KSMoCA (Dr MLK Jr School Museum of Contemporary Art); the Harriet Tubman Middle School Center for Expanded Curatorial Practice in NE Portland, OR; and Art 25: Art in the 25th Century.
Lisa exists and makes work within the African Diaspora. She lives in Portland, Oregon where she co-authors social practice projects and continues her 16+ year investigation into Black hair and its care in various forms. She is Associate Professor of Community and Context Arts at Portland State University's Schnitzer School of Art + Art History + Design where she leads the Art + Social Practice MFA program.
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Throughout the 20 Questions celebration we’re inviting artists, activists, and academics to join us as “witnesses in residence.” As witnesses we are asking them to help us see below the surface or behind the public face of our work. We are asking them to look at and with the archive to illuminate the deeper patterns of the studio’s work and to connect it to the wider social, cultural, and political moment. Each weekend, these witnesses offer their reflections on the studio’s practice in the form of a public talk or conversation.
WITNESSES ON STAGE
Lewis Hyde in conversation with Kenneth Bailey & Rob Peagler | 09/28 @ 2:00-3:30 PM
Chloë Bass: Thursday 10/02 @ 6-7:30 PM
Josh Rios: Sunday 10/05 @ 1-2:30 PM
Garnette Cadogan & Sara Hendren : Saturday 10/11 @ 4-6 PM
Lisa Jarrett: Sunday 10/12 @ 3-4:30 PM
Thomas F. DeFrantz: Sunday 10/19 @ 7-8:30 PM
WITNESSES IN RESIDENCE
Andrew Suseno: 10/2 + 10/3
Lisa Jarrett: 10/10-10/12
