Kara Lynch
kara lynch is a time-based artist living in the bronx, ny – born in the momentous year of 1968. 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. She is an emerit@Professor of Video and Critical Studies at Hampshire College. In 2020 kara was awarded a Tulsa Artist Fellowship and joined Gallery of the Streets as a principled artist collaborator. Her art practice is re-memory, vision, and movement. It manifests as poetics, process, and conjures autonomy for Black and Indigenous people across Diaspora. Through low-fi, collective practice, and social intervention lynch explores aesthetic/political relationships between time + space. This artist’s practice is vigilantly raced, classed, and gendered – Black, Queer and Feminist. Major projects include: ‘BlackRussians’ – a feature documentary video, ‘The Outing’ – a video travelogue, ‘MouhawalaOula’ – a gender-bending trio performance for oriental dance, live video & saxophone; ‘We Travel the Space Ways: Black Imagination, Fragments and Diffractions’– an edited volume of Black Speculation; and the current project, ‘INVISIBLE’ – an episodic, speculative, multi-site video/audio installation that excavates the terror and resilient beauty of the Black-Indigenous experience. 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/FM 90.1 Tulsa. Spy-boi_prelude_RuleReverse! - still from performance September 2020/Greenwood Ave Tulsa, Indian Territory SAVED [episode 03 of Invisible] postcard 2008/2013