Jen Everett

Jan 22

Jen Everett makes photographs, installations, and time-based media that engage relationships between rupture, Black interiority, and knowledge production. For Counterpublic 2023, Everett has developed a series of workshops born out of a desire for thinking and working together to preserve as well as activate the materials we collect, handle, care for, and eventually pass on to those we love and trust. These workshops focus on the grounding and fortifying power of vernacular archives explored in photographic, sonic, and ecological modalities. Collaborative facilitators will guide learners through strategies for record-keeping and preservation while highlighting differences between institutional and vernacular frameworks with a focus on the practices of informal archivists and keepers within our own families and communities, subverting the myth of the institutional archive as the source of true or official knowledge. This offering will center histories that have been suppressed, omitted, or are at risk of being lost.

ABOUT THE ARTIST

Jen Everett is an artist from Southfield, Michigan, currently based in Saint Louis, Missouri. Her practice moves between lens and time based media, installation and writing. Her work has been shown nationally and internationally at art spaces including Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis, Krannert Art Museum, SCAD Museum of Art, Kunsthall Stavanger, Seattle University’s Hedreen Gallery and Flux Factory. Jen has been an artist in residence at the Fire Island Artist Residency, Vermont Studio Center, Atlantic Center for the Arts and ACRE. She was a 2021-22 Duke University DocX Archive Lab fellow. Her work is in the collection of the Museum of Contemporary Photography (MoCP) at Columbia College - Chicago.

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Jul 9, 2023

Victoria Donaldson + Jen Everett, Sonic Archive

Jul 9, 2023

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Join us at Profield Reserve for an interactive workshop on the power of sound. Participants will discuss how music and sonics hold memory and narratives across time and space. We will listen and think together about how sound is passed down in families and communities and how sonics map the history of a place. Victoria Donaldson, owner of Northside Soul record shop will share her experiences as a DJ and keeper of sound, and together we will compose a collaborative mix. After the workshop, enjoy spins by the Sage DJ collective and vending by Northside Soul.

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Jul 9, 2023

Jun 24, 2023

Dail Chambers + Jen Everett, Ecology Archive

Jun 24, 2023

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Water is life. The public will join together to honor/heal the water, water systems and Mississippi River through sound art and ritual. Chambers will lead the healing experience. In this site specific ekphrastic response, Chambers attempts to encapsulate the movement of people, water and nature through sound.

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Jun 24, 2023

May 13, 2023

Jen Everett, Photographic Archive

May 13, 2023

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Led by Jen Everett, participants will learn and share strategies for record keeping and preservation while highlighting differences between institutional and vernacular frameworks. We will focus on the practices of informal archivists and keepers* within our own families and communities, subverting the myth of the institutional archive as the sole source of true or official knowledge. This offering will center histories that have been suppressed, omitted, or are at risk of being lost.

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May 13, 2023