Join us on 30 Jul 2017 5pm at Portland ‘Pataphysical Society for the 4th home school talk of 2017! E. Jane will discuss their current practice and research and answer questions about upcoming projects, etc.
E. Jane (@MHYSA301) is a Black woman, conceptual artist and sound designer. Their work is a critical inquiry surrounding softness, safety, futurity, cyberspace and how subjugated bodies navigate media/the media. Their interdisciplinary practice incorporates digital images, video, performance, sound-based, sculpture and installation works. A central facet of Jane’s practice lies in their music output as MHYSA, an underground popstar for the cyber resistance. She released the Hivemind EP on NON in early 2016 and was recently listed in Artforum’s “Best of 2016: Music". MHYSA recently finished writing her debut album, fantasii, available on July 21st on avant electronic music label Halcyon Veil.
Born in Bethesda, Maryland in 1990 and currently based in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, E. Jane received their MFA from the University of Pennsylvania in 2016 and a BA in Art History with minors in English and Philosophy from Marymount Manhattan College in New York in 2012.
They have shown work at The Kitchen, MoCADA and MoMA PS1 (as one half of sound duo SCRAAATCH), Various Small Fires (Los Angeles), Little Berlin (Philadelphia), Pelican Bomb (New Orleans), Visual Arts Center (Austin), Gstaad, Switzerland, Edel Assanti and IMT Gallery (London), Bar Babette (Berlin), and all over the internet. In 2015, E. wrote the NOPE manifesto which was published by the Brooklyn-based digital publishers, Codette. E. Jane is a recipient of the Wynn Newhouse Award and recently had their second solo show, "Lavendra", at American Medium in Brooklyn, NY.
