His practice seeks to push boundaries between visual media and social engagement, employing still and moving images, multimedia installations, placemaking, and sound-based performances as sites of contestation and testimony.
While J. Paris’s ongoing Investigation explores the entanglements between stigmatised social experiences and contemporary built-environments. He is particularly interested in immersing modes of historiography: archiving through regenerative and hospitable notes.
My Ontological Corporeality
Multimedia Installation
2022, New Art Exchange, Nottingham
2022, Hangar CIA, documentation by Ana Garrido
2022, New Art Exchange, Nottingham
2022, Hangar CIA, documentation by Ana Garrido
J. Paris contemplates mobility and how these manifest in everyday life through materiality and embodied knowledges; the body in movement becoming a monument.
In the words of Greg Tate “the embodied weaponry of self-styled Black physicality”, could refer to corporeality as a starting point to question the complex relationship between a body and the architecture surrounding it — what gets to inhabit what?