Jerome Harris + Serubiri Moses + Gee Wesley
Site: Teatopia
ForCounterpublic, curators and artists Jerome Harris, Serubiri Moses and Gee Wesley have organized the first iteration ofDigitalMargins, a library and publishing site within Teatopia. Digital Margins is a print and web platform inviting underrepresented artists, collectives, curators, and researchers to consider the impact of the internet on digital art infrastructures and to occupy the web as a counterpublic for radical strategies, marginalized practitioners, and underrecognized artistic legacies.
This project explores the myriad ways in which the internet now serves as a domain for forging and bridging counterpublics among minoritarian cultural producers. Digital Margins looks to the neologism “counter-publish” as useful appellation for a diverse set of historical approaches that turn to publications to achieve non-hegemonic spaces of access and autonomy or, stated otherwise, to make public and to make publics.
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Jerome Harris is a graphic designer,educator, writer, and curator. He holds an MFA from Yale Universityand a BA from Temple University. Harris is currently a teaching fellow at Maryland Institute College of Art.
Serubiri Moses is an independent writer and curator. His essays are published in Chimurenga (South Africa), Frieze (U.K.), and C& – Contemporary And (Germany). His research and curatorial projects include: ‘Life mu City’ (2014), a series of public programs with the Goethe Center Kampala, and the biennial contemporary art festival, KLA ART – UNMAPPED (2014) among others. He has produced essays on African artists and curators for the online magazine C& – Contemporary And. He was on the curatorial team for the 10th Berlin Biennale for Contemporary Art, curated by Gabi Ngcobo. He has served as faculty – and is alumnus – of the Asiko International Art School, and was awarded the 2015 Stadtschreiber residency at the Bayreuth Academy of Advanced African Studies.
Gee Wesley is an arts organizer born in Monrovia, Liberia and based in Brooklyn where he is the Program Director of Recess. Currently, Wesley is faculty in the Curatorial Practice masters program at MICA, the 2019 InPractice Curatorial Fellow at the SculptureCenter, and a Public Programming Fellow at CUE Art Foundation. He is a founder and co-director of Ulises, a Philadelphia based bookshop and curatorial platform dedicated to artists’ books and indpendent art publications.
