Tea Party with Poetry Reading with the Artist in Residence and Guest
When: Monday,
October 24, 2022
4:00 PM
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6:00 PM
Where: > See description for location
Description: Balsam Hall 1st Floor Lounge
Note: Persons that do not reside in Balsam Hall will need to enter by the Welcome Center in Balsam Hall to be helped into the Balsam Hall Main Lounge.
Please come meet the Artist in Residence for the 2022-2023 academic year Marina Leybishkis and her special guest JORDAN TURK (She/Her) @d1g1tald1ary
Marina Leybishkis is a New York based multimedia interdisciplinary artist who was born and raised in Uzbekistan. Through her use of video, photography, archives, archeology, and text, Leybishkis analyzes the instability of meaning, the construction of visual narratives as locations of self-formation as well as the implications of such narratives into perceptions of identity. In her work, the image becomes a fraught site for examining geopolitical concepts of nationality, cultural memory, and the social body. Through her installations, Leybishkis transforms memory into materiality, challenging her viewers to inhabit histories in all their complexity. She holds a BA in Justice and Humanities Studies from The City University of New York and MFA from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago. She was a recipient of the Fulbright grant for artistic research. Her work has been exhibited in Chicago, Vermont, New York, Boston, Utah, Greece, China, South Korea, Uzbekistan and in between geographical borders. The most recent, Leybishkis' residency at The Chandler Center for the Arts, Vermont was part of Justice Festival in collaboration with poet J. Turk, took the forms of installations, video works, performances, and artists' book.
Jordan Turk is a writer, performer and multimodal maker exploring intersections of language and bodies. Working out of renovated barn space in central Vermont, she produces works across boundaries of material, platforms, and taste. Turk considers how bodies form, shift and alter themselves, describing this process as a method of translating physicality. Stitching together histories, she exposes the seams and scars of thought. From page to performance, subject to object, Jordan questions notions of authenticity, self and the perception of "realness". Her work has been exhibited in Chicago, New York, Utah and throughout New England. Frequently, Turk's projects take the forms of installations, accompanied by video works, performances, and artists' book.
Jordan's artist book, "Body: a portrait in process" was acquired by the Joan Flasch Artists' Book Collection, Chicago, IL.. She is currently developing her newest collection of writing, "Tidy Crimes," to accompanying an exhibition at Chandler Gallery during their 2023 season. Jordan holds her MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.
For more information contact Michelle Black: mblack2@umassd.edu
Note: Persons that do not reside in Balsam Hall will need to enter by the Welcome Center in Balsam Hall to be helped into the Balsam Hall Main Lounge.
Please come meet the Artist in Residence for the 2022-2023 academic year Marina Leybishkis and her special guest JORDAN TURK (She/Her) @d1g1tald1ary
Marina Leybishkis is a New York based multimedia interdisciplinary artist who was born and raised in Uzbekistan. Through her use of video, photography, archives, archeology, and text, Leybishkis analyzes the instability of meaning, the construction of visual narratives as locations of self-formation as well as the implications of such narratives into perceptions of identity. In her work, the image becomes a fraught site for examining geopolitical concepts of nationality, cultural memory, and the social body. Through her installations, Leybishkis transforms memory into materiality, challenging her viewers to inhabit histories in all their complexity. She holds a BA in Justice and Humanities Studies from The City University of New York and MFA from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago. She was a recipient of the Fulbright grant for artistic research. Her work has been exhibited in Chicago, Vermont, New York, Boston, Utah, Greece, China, South Korea, Uzbekistan and in between geographical borders. The most recent, Leybishkis' residency at The Chandler Center for the Arts, Vermont was part of Justice Festival in collaboration with poet J. Turk, took the forms of installations, video works, performances, and artists' book.
Jordan Turk is a writer, performer and multimodal maker exploring intersections of language and bodies. Working out of renovated barn space in central Vermont, she produces works across boundaries of material, platforms, and taste. Turk considers how bodies form, shift and alter themselves, describing this process as a method of translating physicality. Stitching together histories, she exposes the seams and scars of thought. From page to performance, subject to object, Jordan questions notions of authenticity, self and the perception of "realness". Her work has been exhibited in Chicago, New York, Utah and throughout New England. Frequently, Turk's projects take the forms of installations, accompanied by video works, performances, and artists' book.
Jordan's artist book, "Body: a portrait in process" was acquired by the Joan Flasch Artists' Book Collection, Chicago, IL.. She is currently developing her newest collection of writing, "Tidy Crimes," to accompanying an exhibition at Chandler Gallery during their 2023 season. Jordan holds her MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.
For more information contact Michelle Black: mblack2@umassd.edu
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