PAST EVENT: This was part of the EAF22 programme.

Inspired by an account of communal, grassroots cultural production in Faustin Charles’ 1981 novel, Signposts of a Jumbie, Ashanti Harris produced a new body of work that interlaced ideas of community and cultural identity with her research and long personal experience of West Indian carnivals. 

Through the lens of the Caribbean carnival and associated collective making, Harris developed a series of sculptural and performance works that unpick the negotiated learned patterns of beliefs, attitudes, values and cultural activity. Ashanti Harris is a multi-disciplinary artist, teacher and researcher. Working with dance, performance, facilitation, film, installation and writing, Harris’ work disrupts historical narratives and re-imagines them from a Caribbean diasporic perspective.