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Sharing an interest in the flesh of the body as a physical site for manifestations of memory and generational trauma, we investigate the power of new media to create a responsive, immersive site for engaging in processes of meditation and healing. In/Body draws upon dance, performance art, interactive video programming, sound and participatory installation, to create a charged landscape choreographed for exploration. This project marries technology and live movement to explore the cyclical nature of both invoking and healing ancestral trauma. In/Body’s exploration of these elements occurs through a process that addresses and embraces the unknown. Creating movement that responds to the unpredictable mixing of images through Isadora software, the limitless shift within the performance mirrors the ways in which we process both the traumatic and nourishing events within daily life. This integration of media taps into a liminal space that creates an immersive environment for the viewers and performers, making the journey of pain and healing visceral. photo by RaShaunda Brooks https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c770d70815512f2628c8b5d/1551998215788-HV9D1G7EKUWAKRHHM5AP/CB7.jpg Art Portfolio https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c770d70815512f2628c8b5d/1552001996519-8Z32G7299IB6JVHXURV9/split+ends+back.jpg Art Portfolio https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c770d70815512f2628c8b5d/1552000552054-M0RMHX54Y93GAQLTSK3V/NSIWBE+7.jpg Art Portfolio https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c770d70815512f2628c8b5d/1552003155787-WR0D9Q028COB0VSU9UK3/Image8web.jpg Art Portfolio https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c770d70815512f2628c8b5d/1551330133126-HLFTXU00RW5DMR52B1WE/Snow+and+Flesh.jpg Art Portfolio - Snow and Flesh | 2017 | collage, wood panel | 13.5x13 in https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c770d70815512f2628c8b5d/1552004738551-W0JS1TIFHNDKHEAQYXA8/IMG11.jpg Art Portfolio https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c770d70815512f2628c8b5d/1569994928356-WJCT72ZKS7XBZACN4R0B/Body%2B2_Glitch.00_02_54_04.Still002.jpg Art Portfolio https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c770d70815512f2628c8b5d/1552002091601-9X4G0HKYVX1YK0BMSTI8/Lesson_1+Fractioning+Gazes+copy.jpg Art Portfolio - Lesson #1: Fractioning Gaze(s) | 2016 | video | 00:03:07 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c770d70815512f2628c8b5d/1648058041273-GYPBGS8EFSV95RQ435O9/51295560510_a6875f5d90_k.jpg Art Portfolio https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c770d70815512f2628c8b5d/1692905173168-NJD7ZBG6RRPU2UFU4EC1/Holding+Space+02_web+edit.jpg Art Portfolio - Holding Space | 2022 | synthetic hair, rope, cheesecloth, soil and plant roots Installation for the exhibition, Holding Space at METHOD Gallery, Seattle WA. https://jaleesajohnston.com/curatorial-projects daily 0.75 2024-02-14 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c770d70815512f2628c8b5d/1692989691414-JQFW1GK48R7KFWD1W7EI/Anthony_web+edit_01.jpg Curatorial Portfolio - Queer/Cuir by Daniel Coka | 2022 | live performance & video | Portland OR throwntogetherness was a bicoastal dual screening in Portland, OR and Philadelphia, PA, co-organized by local new media collectives Mobile Projection Unit, including Fernanda D’Agostino and Sarah Turner, joined by Jaleesa Johnston, and Lino Kino, including Boothe Carlson, Saskia Globig, Erin Gordon, Michael Ipsen, and Emilie P. Slater, in dialogue with curator and artist Jaleesa Johnston and writer, curator, and art historian, Laurel V. McLaughlin. throwntogetherness as a whole asks: what does it mean to make mediated work from a place, space, and time? During COVID-19, answers remain in flux as local mobilities, livelihoods, and ideologies shift on unstable terrain. The works disclose what feminist geographer Doreen Massey qualifies as “throwntogetherness,” or complex “negotiations of space-time.” Pacific Northwest curated video works focus on video space as as a site for rituals and acts of transformation. Curated by Jaleesa Johnston, this set of works included Queer/Cuir (2014) by Daniel Coka, when the caustic cools (2016) by Mel Carter, Make a thing. Break it. (2020) by Satpreet Kahlon, Bodyland (2021) by Sarah Brahim and safehouse ii (2020) by ariella tai. Other exhibiting Portland artists included Fernanda D'Agostino, Jaleesa Johnston and Sarah Turner. Philadelphia exhibiting artists included Sam Dellert, Zoe Chronis, Sam Hafferty, Bambi Haggerman, Hook + Loop, John Muse & Brendamaris Rodriguez, George Shands, and Guava Rhee. throwntogetherness was supported by a 2021 Sachs Program for Arts Innovation Project Grant, Philadelphia, PA and the Ford Family Foundation, Portland, OR. In-kind sponsors include the Bok Building, Philadelphia and NW Marine Works Building 5, Portland. Photo by Dante Korinto https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c770d70815512f2628c8b5d/1692992149574-9OZC8AK0N2RKJAH6GN8X/PAM-Black-Imaginings-DSC_6870-web.jpg Curatorial Portfolio https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c770d70815512f2628c8b5d/1704766486255-53GX095FK01M48TP15ZQ/Out+of+Sight+20230903-003.jpg Curatorial Portfolio https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c770d70815512f2628c8b5d/1707877089582-GJCR97JEDZG7RLLO2G4T/IMG_9871.jpg Curatorial Portfolio - The first of her 72 names is; EROS-NYX by maximiliano | 2023 | fabrique traprestries (digital print on muslin), denim, chiffon, studs, chain maille, t-shirt, clothing care tags, thread On view at Gallery 114 in Portland OR from January 4-28, 2024, Imprint: Objects in Performance was a multimedia exhibition that looked at the connection between actions and objects through the performance practices of Portland-based artists Linda Austin, Noah Beckham, maximiliano and Fernanda D’Agostino. Bringing together drawing, sculpture, photography and other performance ephemera, all four artists intentionally make use of objects to both shape and record their actions. Meditating on the body as a bridge between these two forms, this exhibition considered these questions: How do objects choreograph the artist’s body in performance? How does material echo the actions of performance? In what ways do performance-based artists use and resist objects as carriers of their work? Highlighting the reciprocal relationship between action and object, Imprint reflected on the inextricable impressions and influences that the tangible and intangible share. This exhibition included a projection room with a 40 minute loop of performance films from the artists, an artist panel discussion and a closing performance by maximiliano. Imprint: Objects in Performance was generously supported by Gallery 114. https://jaleesajohnston.com/press daily 0.75 2024-05-01 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c770d70815512f2628c8b5d/db9d0aa4-fd57-439e-a7fb-78c218ab0a2d/Screen+Shot+2024-05-01+at+9.20.04+AM.png Press - PublicDisplay.ART In a 2 page spread in PublicDisplay.ART magazine, I share snippets on my process, creative journey and current work in progress. View and download the March 2024; Issue One (Volume 3) magazine, as well as past and current issues at the PublicDisplay.ART website. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c770d70815512f2628c8b5d/55fde9b7-40bf-4d27-9543-83106fae9cda/Screen+Shot+2024-05-01+at+9.10.54+AM.png Press - “Knowledge in the Body” Written by Bean Gilsdorf, this article is a generous overview of my practice and a beautiful reflection on my conversation with the author, covering themes of cycles, beingness, bodily possibilities and limitations. Download a PDF copy of the publication, titled noon, at University of Oregon’s Center for Art Research website. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c770d70815512f2628c8b5d/1552009103071-WVT748ZWLSWKS2HX7GGI/Screen+Shot+2018-12-01+at+12.04.24+PM.png Press - “Fragmentation in Motion” Posted in the Oregon Artswatch, this article reviews the new media-specific programming work of the first + the last, highlighting Johnston’s two-part lecture and workshop on embodiment and fragmentation. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c770d70815512f2628c8b5d/1552010310030-NE4APDOLGERHWKNZ9AS0/Screen+Shot+2019-03-07+at+5.47.38+PM.png Press - “Rise and Fall with Jaleesa Johnston” Posted to Future Prairie, a creative platform that approaches contemporary discussions pertaining to art, technology, the environment, and community, Joni Whitworth interviews Johnston about her collaboration, with maximimiliano and Rubén Garcia Marrufo “rise x fall” and her series, “Between Contact”. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c770d70815512f2628c8b5d/1552010404564-L095PUWBKNRDEX0PUBA8/Screen+Shot+2019-03-07+at+5.53.25+PM.png Press - “Big Art in a Little City” This article highlights the work of 6 artists in residence at the 2018 Centrum Emerging Artists Residency Program, hosted at Fort Worden State Park in Port Townsend, WA. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c770d70815512f2628c8b5d/bbc8e406-7709-48dc-b045-10b27eb904c0/Screen+Shot+2024-01-08+at+7.57.37+PM.png Press - “In Between All that Matter(s)” This Redefine artist interview covers some of my recent works that center the body, performance and being. Touching on my work across mediums, my use of discomfort, my focus on Blackness and my relationship with nature, Katharina Brinschwitz wrote very tenderly about my practice. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c770d70815512f2628c8b5d/1552010166249-ULVVOUGQ39REM48KQDMI/Screen+Shot+2019-03-07+at+5.44.54+PM.png Press - Bachelard’s Panty Drawer Felicity Fenton interviews Jaleesa Johnston on her work in between music on Freeform Portland Radio. https://jaleesajohnston.com/bio daily 0.75 2024-05-01 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c770d70815512f2628c8b5d/9098059a-f9e5-4bb2-b1c8-8524c143b7bb/Headshot_Option+01.jpg Bio Photo by Sophia Wright Emigh https://jaleesajohnston.com/upcoming daily 0.75 2024-04-22 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c770d70815512f2628c8b5d/1552077947528-IGGCI7J2FRWKXY5LO9RQ/Screen+Shot+2019-03-07+at+6.06.53+PM.png Upcoming - In/Body at "the map is not the territory" Next Friday, March 15th at 6:00 PM, Sophia Wright Emigh and I will be performing an iteration of “In/Body”, with guest artist Linda K Johnson, within Fernanda D’Agostino’s installation “Borderline” at the Portland Art Museum. Our piece will be followed by a sound performance from Guillermo Galindo. It will be a fun night of movement activation and sound. Come through if you are in the area! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c770d70815512f2628c8b5d/1566880920421-GJ6540X1FKVYWX86CD3P/jaleesa+poster.png Upcoming - Upcoming Artist Talk at Yale Union I am very excited to be doing an artist talk at Yale Union this coming Saturday, August 31st from 5:00-7:00 PM as apart of this year’s home school programming! While the focus of the talk is on performance, I will be touching on common threads that run throughout my work as a whole. Please join me if you can! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c770d70815512f2628c8b5d/6e1e1c75-f9e7-4926-890b-f9c46b45578e/Alterations.png Upcoming - Between Contact Series on View at the Photographic Center NW Currently showing one of my most beloved bodies of work, Between Contact will be on view through June 2, 2024 at the Photographic Center NW in the exhibition, Alterations, curated by Erin Spencer. Between Contact collages are available for purchase in this exhibition (please reach out to PCNW). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c770d70815512f2628c8b5d/0c31ca9f-2e58-461f-836d-08e939fce1b3/Screen+Shot+2024-01-08+at+6.31.14+PM.png Upcoming - New Work on View I currently have work on view at the Portland Art Museum in the Black Artists of Oregon exhibition, curated by Intisar Abioto. You can see my work along with the work of 68 other artists through March 17, 2024. I decided to show Succour, the latest work from my Conduit series. If you have been following that series of work, then you know that each sculpture is temporary and a one of kind experience, so be sure to check it out in real space and time before I disassemble it! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c770d70815512f2628c8b5d/1565027093585-LVAKYICK3KNWQUWSG92X/Screen+Shot+2019-08-05+at+10.41.02+AM.png Upcoming - Upcoming Workshop: Performance Through the Lens This Saturday, August 10th, I will be facilitating at workshop at Open Signal Fest from 12:00-2:00 PM. This workshop is part artist talk, part research presentation and part hands-on performance glitch experimentation! I will be joined by a number of local artists also be facilitating workshops, installing work and performing. Please join me for a relaxed afternoon immersed in new media works! For more information on my workshop, please visit Performance Through the Lens and for more information on the festival, visit Open Signal Fest. Hope to see you there! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c770d70815512f2628c8b5d/1557725566132-UW0QM7CTKPL2VS0I4XK4/Open+Signal_Overspaced+Promotional+Flyer.jpg Upcoming - Overspaced at Open Signal Overspaced combines videos, projections and performance art to explore abstract representations of the Black body using image layering, analog editing and filters. This show is the culmination of my work at Open Signal as a New Media Fellow this past winter. Please join me for the opening this coming Wednesday at Open Signal, located at 2766 N.E. MLK. Jr. Blvd from 7:00-9:00 PM. See you there! https://jaleesajohnston.com/curriculum-vitae daily 0.75 2024-05-01