The Parrish Art Museum will host a live-stream talk featuring the museum’s Platform artist Tomashi Jackson and Minerva Perez, the executive director of Organización Latino-Americana. The talk will focus on current and historic challenges of Latinx communities on the East End as they relate to the artist’s multi-faceted project, “The Land Claim.”
The talk will be moderated by Corinne Erni, the museum’s senior curator of ArtsReach and special projects on Friday, February 5. The community is invited to join the talk, which is part of the Museum’s Friday Nights Live! series. There will be a live chat following the presentation.
“Minerva Perez has been a crucial partner to the Parrish for many years, in particular for the annual OLA Spanish Film Festival, and I am delighted to invite her to this conversation with Tomashi to learn more about her work with the Latinx communities of Eastern Long Island,” said Erni.
Jackson’s “The Land Claim” focuses on issues that have consistently linked historic and contemporary lived experiences of Indigenous, Black, and Latinx families on the East End of Long Island: housing, transportation, and livelihood in relation to migration and agriculture.
Her multimedia practice places formal and material investigations in dialogue with recent histories of displacement and disenfranchisement.
The artist has been conducting research for nearly a year, interviewing community members, historians, and leaders of the Eastville Historical Society of Sag Harbor, Bridgehampton Child Care & Recreational Center, and the Shinnecock Nation, in addition to OLA.
“The Land Claim,” which will be similar to the artist’s work in the 2019 Whitney Biennial, will include a digital archive, publication, and learning material. Jackson will present the exhibit at the Parrish this summer, featuring new paintings, video collages, and site-specific installations based on archival images and documents, original drawings, and transcripts of the interviews.
Jackson has been invited by the Watermill Center to produce part of that work in May-June 2021, as a 2021 Inga Maren Otto Fellow.
The talk starts at 5 PM. Visit www.parrishart.org.