bare ante embodied: An-arche & ether muse: mysterium tremendum et fascinosum, mysterium tremendum et fascinosum! by Jamondria Harris
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A poster made from a hybrid of paintings and sculptures formed to create a new image.?Title of exhibition, bare ante embodied: An-arche & ether muse: mysterium tremendum et fascinosum, mysterium tremendum et fascinosum!? Jamondria Harris. 2024
- Exhibition dates: October 3, 2024 – November 2, 2024
- Opening event: Thursday, October 3rd, 5-8pm
- Gallery hours:
- Wednesdays, 12-5, Thursdays & Fridays, 12-7pm, Saturdays, 12-5pm
- 24/7 view at 815 N. Killingsworth, Portland, OR 97217
- All events are free and open to the public.
THIS SATURDAY 10/26– Please join Jamondria for an open activation time of the sound space with?theremins from 12-3. This time and space is intended to center?Black and Indigenous?peoples,?but this event is open to everyone who is interested in playing the instruments provided in?the space. Folks are welcome to activate and experience frequencies during this performance.
NEXT THURSDAY 10/31– Closing Exhibition event! Please join us from 5-7p, where we will be hosting short films from people within PCC and across the?community. Jamondria Harris asks?for black and or indigenous people’s within the community to share any short films (20 minutes and under) and visual art that is projectable. Subject matter can range from?horror, love stories, or politically based work covering Palestine, the Congo, Sudan, Lebanon, or Syria.
Please email??bare_ante_embodied@proton.me?to submit works for the screening. Please send submissions no later than 10/29/24.
All events are free and open to the public.
“The Black study of religion conceives of Black religion as instancing a material mysticism that manifests as a distinct poiesis, or artistic way of living that as such is anarchic. Such a mysticism in being material and in being of wounded flesh is poetic, which is again to say it is artistic: an open set of aesthetic practices of the everyday. But not just the everyday, but the alternate or the “alter-everyday”…” – J. Kameron Carter.
The Paragon Arts Gallery is pleased to announce our next upcoming exhibition, bare ante embodied: An-arche & ether muse: mysterium tremendum et fascinosum, mysterium tremendum et fascinosum! , an installation and sound experience by our current artist in residence, Jamondria Harris. In this exhibition, Harris explores the theories and praxis of The Anarchy of Black Religion via J. Kameron Carter, Leon Theremin, Marquise Bey’s Impossible Life, and Brian Massumi’s theories of ontopower and bare activity.?
In thinking of what is perceived or held before, what the body holds in the moment, and in being grounded in the body, Harris attempts to challenge the audience in tapping into the light that Leon Theremin lived to make possible, and the light Black Anarchy represents of the possible, ontologically. Alongside an installation of sculptures and paintings created during their residency at the Paragon, Jamondrira utilizes tuning forks, theremin, and soundboards to create a space centering the poiesis towards the light in technology, sound, and sound lexperience. Sculptures, paintings, and soundscapes are symbolized as offerings to ancestral reckonings of light and life, root, and arbor. Termen ne mreT.? Theremin never dies.??
About the artist
jamondria harris, also known as meroitic, is a black and indigenous interdisciplinary and multi-disciplinary artist and composer. Their work uses words, sounds, wires, theremin, synthesizers, instruments, textiles & what falls into their hands to engage with blackness, desire, spirit/source, narratology/folklore, & ontologies of liberation & embodiment.Their sound art emerges from deep-listening fluidity between rhythm & source, engendering sonic cartographies woven from samples, feedback, the electromagnetic field of bodies & rooms and both digital and analog synthesizer soundscapes.Their albums are available on Fallen Moon Recordings.
Instagram: @bare_ante_embodied
Email – bare_ante_embodied@proton.me
About Paragon Arts Gallery
Paragon Arts Gallery is an educational showcase committed to exhibiting work of high artistic quality. Our versatile gallery is located at 815 North Killingsworth, at PCC’s Cascade Campus. Mindful of our role as a member of the Humboldt community, we are especially committed to engaging community members in our space.