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JAMISON EDGAR

LOS ANGELES, CA
CURATION &
PUBLIC PROGRAMMING

04/2024 - 08/2024
Erotic Codex
06/2023 - 09/2023
We Are They:
Glitch Ecology and the Thickness of Now
->->-> A Night of Loving Devotion to the End of the World As We Know it ->->-> Director Dialogues: Cole Sternberg & The Free Republic of California 
03/2023-06/2023
Make Me Feel Mighty Real:
Drag/Tech and The Queer Avatar->->-> Derek Jarman: Double Screening ->->-> Evening of Hybrid Drag Performance
->->-> LA Drag Showcase w/ House of Avalon

09/2022-02/2023
Lucy McRae: Future Sensitive
->->-> Rituals of Reproduction ->->-> Summit for Future Sensitivity
->->-> Curator Walkthroughs

04/2022-06/2022
Surabi Saraf: Awoke and Awokened Alaap ->->-> Songs of Healing: Music & Artificial Emotional Intelligence
04/2022-06/2022
Yassi Mazandi: In Flight

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WRITING / HYPERTEXT / INTERVIEWS

“Spectacular Formations”,  The thing that happens when the thing that was supposed to happen does not happen. Miller ICA (Pittsburgh, PA)
“Propagated in Obscurity: Bermuda Grass and Rhizomatic Queerness,” Flor Fantastic. (Venice Biennale: Estonia Pavilion 2022)

“Make Me Feel Mighty Real’: 70 years of Drag Art and Tech,” Greater LA. NPR-KCRW (Los Angeles)
Contemporary Performance Reivews
ACTIVATED ARCHIVES

✰Drought Float
✰Plunge
✰Nearest Neighbors
✰Days End
✰A Diva is A
✰Perv
✰Dance Dance Romance
✰Acidity Works
✰Declarations Are Expected

I’M COMING UP 


10/2023
Queer/Tech Podcast  In partnership with ONE Archives Foundation 

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Jamison Edgar
Public Programing

DIRECTOR DIALOGUES: COLE STERNBERG &
THE FREE REPUBLIC OF CALIFORNIA

AUGUST 26, 2023
HONOR FRASER GALLERY
Concpetual artists Cole Sternberg shares the origin story of his expansive political project, The Free Republic of California — tracing its development alongside his larger painting and image-based practice.

Cole Sternberg (he/him) is a conceptual artist who lives and works in Los Angeles.

His practice contemplates humanity’s existential quandary: that of being hopelessly destructive, yet forever and inevitably linked with nature. Through varied media (including painting, sculpture, installation, performance, photography, film and writing), Sternberg positions the aspirations of humankind against the dominant and regenerative forces of the environment and the arbitration of time. For the artist, the conclusion is unavoidable. Human enterprises -- art, language, history, law, and republic -- are ephemeral / illusory endeavors that attempt to reflect, parallel, and challenge the ascendency of nature to no avail.

In recent years, Sternberg’s painting practice has centered on the environment acting as the true artist. Some pieces have incorporated poetry, suggesting imprecise narratives or descriptions that can’t be fully apprehended through words. His photographs interrupt time, while historical and cultural myths are pursued and deconstructed in sculptural installations and film.  These confrontations frequently materialize in instances of erasure; erasure of marks and words, erasure of history, or the erasure of the natural environment.  Sternberg’s works remain subversive in their unremitting search for truth, noting humanity’s attempts to create beautiful permanence while failing admirably.