Join us on Saturday, December 4 from 4-6 PM for an Open House with Jank Museum artists-in-residence Kamari Carter and Lamar Robillard.
About Jank Museum
Jank Museum, organized by artist, poet and curator Anaïs Duplan and the Center for Afrofuturist Studies (CAS), and co-presented by EFA Project Space investigates the idea of “jank,” speculating around objects made with limited resources to meet an immediate survival need. Taking cues from Adrian Piper in her essay, “The Joy of Marginality,” Jank Museum invites artists who make work from the margins to center their own survival, persistence, and futurity. Jank Museum is a two-week residency in EFA Project Space's 2500 square foot gallery for two artists of color, each tasked with creating one piece of “jank” every day for 10 days. Artists were selected through a competitive open call, and are provided with resources and an honorarium as well as studio visits with EFA staff and affiliated curators and 24/7 access to Project Space over the duration of the residency period.
About the Artists
Kamari Carter
Kamari Carter is a producer, performer, sound designer, and installation artist primarily working with sound and found objects. Carter's practice circumvents materiality and familiarity through a variety of recording and amplification techniques to investigate notions such as space, systems of identity, oppression, control, and surveillance. Driven by the probative nature of perception and the concept of conversation and social science, he seeks to expand narrative structures through sonic stillness. Carter’s work has been exhibited at such venues as Automata Arts, MoMA, Mana Contemporary, Flux Factory, Fridman Gallery, Lenfest Center for the Arts, WaveHill and Issue Project Room, to name a few. Carter holds a BFA in Music Technology from California Institute of the Arts and an MFA in Sound Art from Columbia University.
Lamar Robillard
Lamar Robillard is a conceptual artist, photographer and educator working primarily with visual familiarity and found objects. Lamar’s practice is an act of resistance that takes a multidisciplinary approach to examining visibility, nonconformity and spirituality as it relates to identity, Black material culture and the self-coined “Unfavored American” experience. Inspired by various forms of literature, media, representation and history, he aims to insert his theory of second class citizenship into the canon through a lifelong exploration of the Unfavoured American experience while simultaneously providing authentic representation for Blackness with the absence of the Black body politic. Lamar’s work has been exhibited nationally and internationally at Art Port Kingston, Bed-Stuy Art House, HAUSEN and Art Helix Gallery.
About the Center for Afrofuturist Studies
The Center for Afrofuturist Studies (CAS) is an artist residency and programming initiative that reimagines the futures of marginalized people by creating dynamic workspaces for artists of color. Dynamic means interactive, supportive, community-engaged, rigorous, and inclusive. The CAS rethinks and challenges what an arts practice that revolves around Black futurity looks like—through long-term engagement and financial, logistical, and programmatic support. Since 2016, we have hosted residencies for 18 Black artists, writers, dancers, filmmakers, and scholars, and worked with many more to collaboratively produce exhibitions, workshops, and other programming. The CAS also maintains a growing public reading room and archive at its home base at Public Space One in Iowa City.