iEAR Salon presents: Jaguar Mary X

iEAR Salon presented Jaguar Mary X, curated by Nina Isabella, on November 2, 2022.

MORE ABOUT iEAR Salon: The Arts Department at RPI presented the 2022 “iEAR Salon” virtual series exploring sense-abilities and environmental bodies, curated by the Arts Graduate Colloquium of Rensselaer. Mutli-disciplinary artists and thinkers Ursula Biemann, Timothy Morton, Jenn E Norton, Jaguar Mary X, and Špela Petrič addressed topics of deep ecology, alternative ways of knowing and new figurations of being-in-place.

This series is sponsored by iEAR Presents! and the School of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences at Rensselaer, in collaboration with The Sanctuary for Independent Media’s NATURE Lab initiative, and is made possible by the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the New York State Legislature. iEAR Salon is curated by the Ph.D students of Arts Graduate Colloquium, Fall 2022: Nina Isabelle, John Santomieri, Hanae Utamura, Allie ES Wist, Arma Yari with Arts Graduate Colloquium Professor Branda Miller; iEAR Presents! curated by Kathy High and Branda Miller.

MORE ABOUT JAGUAR MARY X:
Jaguar Mary X attended the Whitney Independent Studies Program in 1995 and completed MFA degrees at California Institute for the Arts (Film/Video, 2009) and at Pratt Institute (Performance and Performance
Studies, 2019) in Brooklyn. They identify as non-binary, agender. Originally from Washington, DC, they are currently in residence at the Art Life Institute founded by Linda Montano in Kingston, New York.

Jaguar Mary X is the creator of the yearly, Queerteenth Performance Art Festival in Kingston. In 2022 they received the honor of City of Kingston’s Distinguished Artist Award for 2022-24. They are on Radio Kingston twice a week as the voice and creator of Midday and Midnight Medicine Journey, a program that centers ancestral appreciation and international music by BIPOC experimental, electronic and ambient producers. After a life-shifting experience with mugwort, they began to share the plant's healing properties,organizing ritual smudging performance happenings. Jaguar Mary X developed Artemisia Negra, a pop-up event offering handmade incense and other healing tools infused with mugwort (L. artemisia vulgaris) in 2019. https://www.kaliartproject.com/

MORE ABOUT THE CURATOR:

Nina Isabelle is a process based artist working with perception, action, language, and phenomena. Her practice is a method to sort and solve the inconsistencies of language, memory, and form. She makes paintings, drawings, photographs, video, sculpture, sound, performance and writing as inquiry into how sensory perception functions as the impetus for action, reaction, response, and choice making in art and life. By exploring the spaces between disciplines, she questions how sense data compels actions, informs concepts, and the unconscious and conscious impact these variables have on decision making processes used to construct meaning and worlds. Nina Isabelle is currently studying in the PhD program of the Arts Department at Rensselaer.