Jean Marie Casbarian

Jean Marie Casbarian (b. Aberdeen, MD) is an interdisciplinary artist who works across photography, video, sound, writing and performance. She holds an MFA from Milton Avery School of Art at Bard College, New York (2000) and a BFA from the University of Colorado at Denver (1987). Her artistic practice lies in her interests around the reinterpretation of memory, personal fictions, migratory space and the essence of time. Along with exhibiting her works throughout the United States, Europe, Central America and Asia, Casbarian has received a number of awards and artist residencies including the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation nomination, The LaNapoule Foundation Grant in LaNapoule, France, the Chicago Artist's Assistance Project Grant, an Associateship with The Rocky Mountain Women's Institute and has been a Research Associate with Five Colleges, Inc (Amherst, MA).

As an educator, Jean Marie currently teaches and advises graduate students at the International Center of Photography in the ICP-Bard MFA Program and the One-Year Creative Practice and Documentary Full-Time Programs. Internationally, she teaches and advises graduate students at Transart Institute, a low-residency MFA program based in Berlin and New York City. Jean Marie currently works and lives in New York City.

Practice Statement

Jean Marie Casbarian's artistic practice explores the reconstruction of memory, the loss and longing that occurs within personal and political mythologies, and the personal fictions that oftentimes live within one’s family history and displaced cultural identity. Migratory routes, family archives and imagined narratives that search for the origins of time have been reoccurring themes in her work. Although she defines herself as an artist who will cross disciplines (photography, video, writing, sound, and performance), photographic principles have remained at the core of her work.  Historic notions of light, the ephemeral quality of film and the delicate nature of emulsion have been analogous with her interdisciplinary intentions.

Practice includes (media, genres, e.g. curating, photography):

Interdisciplinary installation, photography, video, writing, sound and performance.

Related research & practice areas:

  • docufiction and creative writing;

  • expanded studio practices;

  • experimental pedagogies;

  • foreignness, otherness

  • international diaspora and exiled states;

  • language and image;

  • liminal states, interstices, spacetime

  • memory, forgetting, trauma and the archive

http://www.jeanmariecasbarian.com/

 

TT 2 (c-d), All 2 (c-e)--docufiction and creative writing, expanded studio practices, experimental pedagogies, foreignness, otherness, international diaspora and exiled states, language and image, liminal states, interstices, spacetime, memory, forgetting, trauma and the archive, photography, video, writing, sound and performance, interdisciplinary installation