photo by aeric meredith-goujon
Krista is the inaugural Artist in Residence for Dr. Bayo Akomolafe’s global para-pedagogical project Dancing with Mountains (2024).
In this role, she joins the Dancing with Mountains team in their explorations into engaging the public around Dr. Bayo Akomolafe’s public intellectualism, the inquiry of postactivism, and the desire to sensitize bodies to new ethical sensibilities. Her art, in this capacity, dances with Dr. Akomolafe’s articulations as a living entity and her teachings offer modes of co-sensing with this movement now emerging at the edges of the Human.
Learn more and join Krista + Bayo in Vunja! Dreaming Together Communal Sensing Series, a monthly online gathering, by writing to: courseteams@dancingwithmountains.com
Krista’s practice is deeply interdisciplinary and collaborative. She creates drawings, works on paper with watercolors, inks, and natural dyes, handmade paper mixed media works, fiber sculpture, sound art, and multi-media interactive performances and installations, frequently co-creating with experimental filmmakers, new media artists, musicians, scientists and academics in the fields of religion, philosophy, and anthropology. Her work is animated by the question: what forms of sensory experiencing put us in relation with the complex layering of life and time that we were all entangled within, and what possibilities exist as we stay with the trouble of this ecological moment? It is animated by a desire to think beyond the prescribed boundaries of the individual human, to collaborate ecologically, centering more than human perspectives in the artistic act. In symbiosis with my art-making is her poetic-performative-para-pedagogical practice, Drawing on the Senses, which takes the form of speaking engagements, workshops, writing, and collaborative projects.
A selection of her drawings are featured in Dr. Beatrice Marovich’s “Sister Death: Political Theologies for Living and Dying” published by Columbia University Press, 2023.
Krista’s work can be found taking up residence in the cracks and margins of academic conferences, public parks, storefronts and podcasts. A short list of recent engagements include:
We Will Dance With Mountains: Artist-in-Residence for Dr. Bayo Akomolafe’s global online course-festival (2023)
Metabolism of Cities: Site-specific installation co-created with entomologist and acoustic ecologist Ben Pagac for the 2023 Urban Soils Symposium on Governor’s Island (2023)
After Earth: Co-presenter with Dr. Beatrice Marovich in Religion and Technology on a Changing Planet, put on by the International Society for the Study of Religion Nature and Culture (2023)
Machines in Between: Sound art included in this immersive Online Audio Program curated by Dr. John Modern (2022)
ICA Boston (2019) + Prix Ars Electronica (2021) Krista received the 2021 Award of Distinction in Digital Musics & Sound for her work with Foster prize recipient Rashin Fahandej on her multi-platform new media community project A Father’s Lullaby