Ashanti Harris is a multi-disciplinary visual artist and researcher working with dance, performance and sculpture. With a focus on contextualising historical narratives, Ashanti’s work dissects epistemologies of mobilities - the movement of people, ideas and things and the wider social implications of these movements. 

As part of her creative practice, she is co-director for Project X – a creative education programme, platforming dance and performance from the African and Caribbean diaspora; and works collaboratively as part of the collective Glasgow Open Dance School (G.O.D.S) – facilitating experimental movement workshops and research groups.

 Now You See Us is a progressive online exhibition investigating Identity as seen through black/brown women with afro-caribbean hair. The exhibition consists of specially created artworks, from international artists across a range of genres. A group audio talk inclusive of personal reflections and memories, artists talk inclusive of memories and personal narrative, a clinical dialogue with a respected  Scottish dermatologist, historical facts, narratives and archives and an image gallery. The exhibition is targeted towards a general audience.

Artists in Conversation - Ashanti Harris

The group audio has benefited from an eclectic mix of diversity with voices coming from Africa, Barbados, Costa Rica, England, Jamaica,  and Panama. The curator created a focus group interview which included the above nationalities, which was recorded (audio only) to act as a stand-alone sound audio document. The collaborators taking part could share as much or as little as they wanted, but they were invited to speak freely about memories in relation to their afro-caribbean hair.

  Now You See Us is a progressive online exhibition investigating Identity as seen through black/brown women with afro-caribbean hair. The exhibition consists of specially created artworks, from international artists across a range of genres. A group audio talk inclusive of personal reflections and memories, artists talk inclusive of memories and personal narrative, a clinical dialogue with a respected  Scottish dermatologist, historical facts, narratives and archives and an image gallery. The exhibition is targeted towards a general audience.

In the Salon  - Group Audio discussion

Dr Robert M Herd trained at Edinburgh Medical School. His general medical training was at Edinburgh University before entering Dermatology training as a registrar and senior registrar at the Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh. During this time he undertook a large study of atopic dermatitis for which was awarded an MD. He took a year’s sabbatical attached to Harvard Medical School in Boston learning laser therapy and Mohs’ Micrographic Surgery.  Dr Herd can be found at his clinic at Ross Hall Hospital.

Now You See Us is a progressive online exhibition investigating Identity as seen through black/brown women with afro-caribbean hair. The exhibition consists of specially created artworks, from international artists across a range of genres. A group audio talk inclusive of personal reflections and memories, artists talk inclusive of memories and personal narrative, a clinical dialogue with a respected  Scottish dermatologist, historical facts, narratives and archives and an image gallery. The exhibition is targeted towards a general audience.

A clinical conversation with Dr Robert Herd

NOW YOU SEE US:Racial discrimination and ethnic-racial socialization:The resilience of afro-caribbean textured hair

 Now You See Us is a progressive online exhibition investigating Identity as seen through black/brown women with afro-caribbean hair. The exhibition consists of specially created artworks, from international artists across a range of genres. A group audio talk inclusive of personal reflections and memories, artists talk inclusive of memories and personal narrative, a clinical dialogue with a respected  Scottish dermatologist, historical facts, narratives and archives and an image gallery. The exhibition is targeted towards a general audience. 

(banner photo credit The Caribbean Photo Archive)

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