INTERDISCIPLINARY TIME-BASED ARTIST

KARA LYNCH

Kara Lynch is a time-based artist living in the Bronx, NY - born in the momentous year of 1968. Ambivalent towards hyper-visual culture, through low-fi, collective practice, and social intervention Lynch explores aesthetic/political relationships between time and space. Her work is vigilantly raced, classed, and gendered - Black, queer and feminist. She completed her MFA in Visual Arts at the University of California, San Diego and has been a research fellow in the African and African Diaspora Studies Department at the University of Texas, Austin, and the Academy for Advanced African Studies at Bayreuth University in Germany. She earns a living as an Associate Professor of Video and Critical Studies at Hampshire College. Major projects include: Black Russians - a feature documentary video, The Outing - a video travelogue, Mouhawala Oula - a gender-bending trio performance for oriental dance, live video, and saxophone, and the current project INVISIBLE, an episodic, speculative, multi-site video/audio installation - that excavates the terror and resilient beauty of the Black experience.