Kara Lynch
b'kara lynch is a time-based artist living in the bronx, ny \\u2013 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. \\n\\nHer 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\\u2019s practice is vigilantly raced, classed, and gendered \\u2013 Black, Queer and Feminist.\\n\\nMajor projects include: \\u2018BlackRussians\\u2019 \\u2013 a feature documentary video, \\u2018The Outing\\u2019 \\u2013 a video travelogue, \\u2018MouhawalaOula\\u2019 \\u2013 a gender-bending trio performance for oriental dance, live video & saxophone; \\u2018We Travel the Space Ways: Black Imagination, Fragments and Diffractions\\u2019\\u2013 an edited volume of Black Speculation; and the current project, \\u2018INVISIBLE\\u2019 \\u2013 an episodic, speculative, multi-site video/audio installation that excavates the terror and resilient beauty of the Black-Indigenous experience.\\n\\nCurrent 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.\\n\\nSpy-boi_prelude_RuleReverse! - still from performance September 2020/Greenwood Ave Tulsa, Indian Territory\\n\\nSAVED [episode 03 of Invisible] postcard 2008/2013'