Join us for the Artist Talk with exhibiting artist, kara lynch as she discusses her work in "Strange & Oppositional," on view at 108|Contemporary February 3 - March 19, 2023.
Event will take place on Thursday, March 9, 2023 at 5:30pm at 108 East Reconciliation Way, Tulsa OK 74103.
Deaf-friendly interpretation provided.
Free and Open to the public.
All participants are welcome. For disability-related accommodations, please call +1 (918) 895-6302 or email info@108contemporary.org.
Exhibition information: https://108contemporary.org/event/strange-and-oppositional/
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kara lynch, a time-based artist, lives en exilio in Indian Territory. Conjuring autonomy for Black and Indigenous people across Diaspora, kara’s art practice is re-memory, vision, and movement – collective feminist practice and social intervention animate lynch’s aesthetic/political explorations of time + space. This artist’s practice is vigilantly raced, classed, and gendered – Black, Queer and Feminist.
lynch is anchor artist for INVISIBLE – episodic, multi-site installations excavating the terror and resilient beauty of Black-Indigenous experiences, and co-editor of ‘We Travel the Space Ways: Black Imagination, Fragments and Diffractions’– an edited volume of Black Speculation, and director of ‘BlackRussians’ – a feature documentary video. Current explorations include: RuleReverse! a series of video interventions learning from Sylvia Wynter’s Maskarade; “Come Prepared or Not At All” a series of drawings concerned with Black Towns and Futures. “Stories from the Core” a collaboration with Sarah and Maryam Ahmed; and Blues U – a bi-monthly radio show on radiocoyote.org/FM90.1 Greenwood in Tvl’asi/Tulsa OK.
kara completed the MFA in Visual Arts at the University of California, San Diego and has been a research fellow at the African and African Diaspora Studies Department, University of Texas Austin and the Academy of African Studies at Bayreuth University in Germany. kara is an emerit@s Professor of Video and Critical Studies at Hampshire College, a 2020-23 Tulsa Artist Fellow, a principled artist with GalleryOfTheStreets, and a co-shaper of Black August In Motion.