Yulan Grant
Overview[edit]
Multidisciplinary artist Yulan Grant is 25 years old and was born in Kingston, Jamaica and currently resides in Brooklyn, New York.[1][2]. Having a bicultural upbringing in both Caribbean and American cultures, Grant explores dominant culture ideals; such as identity, notions of power, and the recognition of the history that constructed these ideals [3][4][1]. Grant practices with many mediums; including music production as the electronic genre artist SHYBOI, video appropriation, and various social media platforms as a new media artist in order to create this dialogue for an audience [5][3][6]
Background[edit]
Having a varying intersecting identities and background of work and experiences, Grant explores the narrative around the LGBTQ community in Jamaica and more from diverse perspectives, focusing on the stories of progress.[3] Many of her artwork brings in audio from her SHYBOI persona as a DJ as well. The ‘aggression’ of the music that contrasts from Grant’s ‘soft-spoken disposition’ has worked as a leverage in breaking into the male-dominated industries.[1]
| Yulan Grant | |
|---|---|
| Born | Kingston, Jamaica |
| 🏡 Residence | Brooklyn, New York |
| 🏫 Education | Parsons School of Design, New York, NY, US, Bachelors, Design & Technology (Sep 2011 - Mar 2013) |
| 💼 Occupation | |
Career[7][edit]
- Leilah Weinraub, New York, NY, US, Office Manager/Post Production Assistant (Jul 2011 - Jun 2013)
- Hood By Air, New York, NY, US, Video Production Assistant for NYFW (New York Fashion Week) (Jun 2013 - Mar 2014)
- Bronx River Art Center, Bronx, NY, US, Curatorial Assistant (Dec 2013 - May 2014)
- AC Institute, New York, NY, US, Guest Curator (May 2014 - Sept 2014)
- Ooga Booga, New York, NY, US, Booth Assistant (Sep 2011 - )
Major exhibitions[3][edit]
[2017][edit]
Julius Eastman Retrospective, Bowerbird, Philadelphia, PA
[2016][edit]
people sometimes, die – Edel Assanti, London, U.K
Authority Figure, Knockdown Center, Brooklyn, NY
Dear Betty : Run Fast, Bite Hard Galleria D’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea di Bergamo, Italy
[2015][edit]
WE BEEN HERE TM, Paradise Garage, Los Angeles, CA WE BEEN HERE : CATACLYSM, MoMA PS1, Queens, NY
POWERPLNT, Hunter East Harlem Gallery, New York, NY
New Negress Film Society – ‘I Cried, Power!’, The Emerson, Brooklyn, NY
Creamcake, Sudblock, Berlin, Germany
UNREALITY, Zucher Salon at Palais de Tokyo, Paris, France
[2014][edit]
KNOW WHO YOU ARE AT EVERY AGE, Bronx River Art Center, Bronx, NY
Honest Bodies, Project Reach, New York, NY
Future Perfect, Bureau of General Services-‐Queer Division, Cage Gallery, NY
Health GAP Global Health Justice Awards, Judson Memorial Church, New York, NY
HOOD BY AIR “TRANS” Runway Presentation, New York, NY
Selected Work[edit]
DATABASE[edit]
“DATABASE[8] is an ongoing network that aims to document people of colour killed by extrajudicial forces beginning in the year 2012.” - Yulan Grant
Piece featured in PostureMag[9], Yulan’s main purpose of creating DATABASE was because “people of color (POC) are killed all the time, and you never know” she sheds light on police brutality and stands with social justice blogger peers with this cause.
Apocalypse Medley[edit]
Apocalypse Medley is a one-minute video created in 2013 showcases a virtual city being hit by a tidal as a peaceful hymn is playing in the background. The video is described as a meditation on mortality. The title of the video describes a mixture of final destruction. A common theme of natural disasters is established. After, the city has been destroyed by the wave an overlay image of a beautiful woman is displayed. The depiction of the woman alongside the audio is used to touch on the subject of spirituality. [5]
WE BEEN HERE: CATACLYSM (2015)[edit]
WE BEEN HERE : CATACLYSM[10], organized by Grant is a performance environment that utilizes sound and body to invite the audience into a “child-like fantasy.”
This piece “calls for the convergence of sound, the body and imminent destruction. The installation welcomes the apocalypse with open arms” - The Museum of Modern Art[11]
Contributors to WE BEEN HERE:
“Sound artist Marco Gomez[12] aka False Witness, with Jahmal Blair-Golden, Alexis Thompson, Andre Singleton, Shaquilla Dillon, Darlene Turner, Sam Coffie, Williams Hassan and Karl Andre.” - The Museum of Modern Art
“Sunday Sessions[13] is a weekly presentation of performance, moving images, dance, music, and discursive programs. Its mission is to embrace live arts as an integral aspect of contemporary practice and ask how art forms, which unfold in the here and now, produce specific ways of thinking and useful means to engage with the broader world. Every Sunday different artists, curators, thinkers and a range of other cultural agents are invited to share their latest projects and ideas with the MoMA PS1 audience.” - The Museum of Modern Art
Storm 1[edit]
Storm 1 is a ten-minute art video published in 2015 which incorporates a montage of natural disasters, sirens, and news reports. The video exemplifies a juxtaposition of the beauty of nature but its deadly consequences. It describes the consequences as a result of the Anthropocene. “The camera lenses are not wide enough for you to see all of the destruction. All you can do is sit there and try to process it all.”
Guzzum Power (2017) - SHYBOI[edit]
This piece was performed at Fridman Gallery on January 16th, 2017 and was a part of Kevin Beasley’s series, the Listening Room [14] [15]. Yulan Grant, or known as SHYBOI in the electronic music genre, “Guzzum Power”, is a reflection of the hurt and abuse of power from the past and the recognition of the historical amnesia of our past that is being felt presently, which is a goal that Yulan Grant specified in an interview with VICE Magazine[14][16]. In this piece, Grant incorporates audio clips from viral media recordings of social injustice[14]. Some of the topics of audio that Grant incorporates into this project includes the Black Lives Matter movement, #SayHerName movement which calls attention to police violence against African-American women, the feminist movement with the goal of ending the trope that women’s bodies are objects, and trans rights and LGBTQ women’s rights with a plea to stop the acts of violence against these groups[14]. With all of the violence and destruction, Grant told VICE, “In the end, it's solemnly celebratory and hopeful”[14][16]
External Links[edit]
Website: https://yulangrant.tumblr.com
Relevant Social Media Handles:
- Twitter: @yu_whoooo
- Instagram: @yu_who
- Vimeo: Yulan Grant
Soundcloud: SHYBOI
LGBTQ New Media Art New Media Artist American culture Caribbean culture Dominant Culture Ideals Racism Inequality Electronic Music
References[edit]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 "Artist Yulan Grant Transgresses the Confines of Caribbean LGBTQ Culture". Cultured Magazine. 2018-02-16. Retrieved 2019-06-05.
- ↑ "Meet the Producer Behind Chromat's Energetic NYFW Sound Collage". Vogue. Retrieved 2019-06-05.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 "Yulan Grant – Rema Hort Mann Foundation". Retrieved 2019-06-05.
- ↑ "out and bad | a conversation with yulan grant". Schön! Magazine. Retrieved 2019-06-05.
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 "Study Sessions: Yulan Grant". www.whitney.org. Retrieved 2019-06-05.
- ↑ "Help:Referencing for beginners", Wikipedia, 2019-05-11, retrieved 2019-06-05
- ↑ "Yulan Grant's Archinect profile". Archinect. Retrieved 2019-06-05.
- ↑ "DATABASE". Vimeo. Retrieved 2019-06-05.
- ↑ "Posture Magazine champions underrepresented creators and entrepreneurs". Posture Magazine. 2013-07-24. Retrieved 2019-06-05.
- ↑ The Museum of Modern Art (2015-10-16), WE BEEN HERE: CATACLYSM | Sunday Sessions, retrieved 2019-06-05
- ↑ "WE BEEN HERE: CATACLYSM | MoMA". The Museum of Modern Art. Retrieved 2019-06-05.
- ↑ "Marco Gomez". Mask Magazine. Retrieved 2019-06-05.
- ↑ "VW Sunday Sessions | MoMA". The Museum of Modern Art. Retrieved 2019-06-05.
- ↑ 14.0 14.1 14.2 14.3 14.4 Iadarola, Alexander (2016-02-03). "KUNQ Member SHYBØI Deftly Explores Traumas and Power Traps on New Mix". Thump. Retrieved 2019-06-05.
- ↑ "New Ear Festival: Miya Masaoka's Vagina Dialogues". Amirtha Kidambi. Retrieved 2019-06-05.
- ↑ 16.0 16.1 Staff, THUMP (2016-12-06). "The 20 Best Mixes of 2016". Thump. Retrieved 2019-06-05.
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