ASHANTI HARRIS
Visual Artist, Researcher, Performer, Facilitator

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For more information contact Ashanti on ashantiharris.work@gmail.com

Project X please visit www.projectxplatform.co.uk or email ashantiharris.projectx@gmail.com

G.O.D.S please email getthebodyofagod@gmail.com

 

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I'm in the Skinny! In an amazing interview by Danny Pagarani talking about my art and research practice. It's been such a lovely morning reading Danny's incredibly warm and generous words and remembering all the wonderful performances with @bopper737 @soulfoodhaus @badgalnt @nabuwhite @sekaimachache @naomishoba and Titana! Thanks everyone for all of it!!! @theskinnymag
🎶We conjur youuuu... The Waves... THE WAVES 🌊🌊🌊 Conversing with the sea in a WW2 armoury in the Highlands #highlands #cove #Poolewe #isleofewe #iloveyou #performance #sea #conjuring
It's Carnival 🇬🇾
Best moments @covepark! I've been back home for a week and already missing wine in the evenings by my pond 😂 and coordinating outfits with the landscape! Thanks to everyone who shared their work with me, taught me new things and generally made it a lovely and productive 4 weeks. Pictures of actual art work to come! For now you just get me!
Experiments with Black Light and a new way of seeing 🌽 @covepark 📸@emilixbeatriz
That's it, it's FINISHED! Thanks to all the performers for bringing so much of themselves to the work. and everyone who came along to witnessed the performances and listen to the soundscape. It's been such a pleasure to spend the last year researching Caribbean Women in Scotland in the 18th and 19th Century and I know this is just the start of a longer ongoing project! #makinghistoryvisible #blackhistory #guyanascotland 📸 @zephyrliddell
What a gorgeous weekend at Contrapop 2019 Playing and Dancing b2b with @_thefuries_ still and always one of the loves of my life! #contrapop2019 #contrapop #supernormal #extranormal #extranormalrecords #soca #socadj #danceHall #upindeh
LAST WEEKEND of Second Site exhibition at Civic Room. The installation is open today and tomorrow 1pm-6pm. Feel free to arrange the cushions as you like and get comfortable to listen to the sound scape and stories. Civic Room, 215 High Street, Glasgow #blackhistory #scottishhistory #makinghistoryvisible #visualart #installation #sculptute #bronze #guyana #guyanascotland #glasgow
Tomorrow Night Sat 17th August, 9.30pm Contrapop, Ramsgate Beach. I have the pleasure of playing b2b with the enchanting Letitia Pleiades @_thefuries_ see you at the water for some heavy SOCA and whatever Letitia throws at me 👄🤯👻👽👾🍍 #contrapop2019 #supernormal #extranormalrecords #beach #socadj #beachfestival #extranormal #socamusic
This Saturday I'll be dancing like a maddy on Ramsgate Beach DJing b2b with the mesmerising Letitia Pleiades @_thefuries_ at Contrapop Festival. Yes I said ON THE BEACH! Tix are free! Book online! #contrapop2019 #extranormalrecords #extranormal #contrapop #beach #beachfestival
In loving memory and with the deepest THANKS! #Tonimorrison
Tomorrow Second Site Reading Group, 6pm, CCA Clubroom. We will be reading texts from the second site exhibition about Caribbean women in Scotland in the 18th and 19th Century. The evening will be facilitated by Sabrina Henry and I will also be sharing my research for the Second Site installation. No booking required, just drop in! #readinggroup #blackhistory
Last night was such a lovely evening at @transmissionglasgow even amonst all the crazy chaos of Glasgow last night. Thanks so much to @nabuwhite @sekaimachache and @libbyodaimhin for their amazing energy in the performance doing a mini version of Second sight which was a little nostalgic for me as I performed the original Second Sight in the basement of Transmission 8 years ago! Thanks Transmission for having me back!
Second Site Reading Group, Tuesday 6th August, 6.30-8pm in The CCA Clubroom, 350 Sauchiehall Street, Glasgow. This reading group will look at the part archival, part fictional texts which are part of Ashanti Harris's exhibition Second Site, currently running from 13 July - 18 August at Civic Room, Glasgow. Second Site re-imagines the female, African and Caribbean diasporic history which haunts the Mercantile era of architecture in Scotland. Working with a de-colonial methodology and a desire to make invisible histories visible, Ashanti Harris explores the historical presence and hidden legacies of Guyanese women in Scotland in the 18th and 19th century. The reading group will be led by Sabrina Henry (Assistant Curator, CCA) and followed by a conversation between Sabrina and Ashanti.
Procrastinating with clay.... @cove_park
This Saturday 3rd August, 2pm is the FINAL performance of Second Site in Civic Room. I had such a beautiful time dancing with Naomi and Busola last week. Thanks @jenstillhere for the 📸 this coming Saturday I will have the pleasure of dancing with Titana and Natasha with Naomi as the eyes. So excited! See you there!
I'm not done reminiscing! And it hasn't even been a week! Can someone please book us again so we can re-conjur the Seance!? #sonicseance @variousdanceartists #yoursilencewillnotprotectyou
One more for the road... IN RED #sonicseance:thegathering @variousdanceartists WOMEN AND STRENGTH #yoursilencewillnotprotectyou