Our guest at the table tonight on Into the Absurd was visual artist, poet and founding director of the Institute for Advanced Study in Black Aesthetics, Theodore A. Harris (https://theodoreharris.weebly.com/).
Theodore A. Harris – born in 1966 in New York City and raised in Philadelphia, where his art practice is based. Harris is a collagist, poet, curator, and essayist on the intersection of art and politics. His work has been exhibited nationally and internationally in galleries and museums such as The Woodmere Art Museum, Philadelphia Pennsylvania; NeMe in Limassol, Cyprus; The University of Chicago Center in Paris, France; University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; Hammonds House Museum and Resource Center of African American Art, Atlanta, Georgia; Harmony House Stanford University, Stanford, California.
His work is in private and public collections including the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, La Salle University Art Museum, Center for Africana Studies University of Pennsylvania, Saint Louis University Museum of Art, Du Bois College House University of Pennsylvania, and Lincoln University. He has held residences at the Ashe Cultural Arts Center (New Orleans); 40th Street A-I-R (Philadelphia); Hammonds House Museum and Resource Center of African American Art (Atlanta, GA); International Festival of Arts and Ideas (New Haven, CT).
He has co-authored books with Amiri Baraka, Our Flesh of Flames (Anvil Arts Press); Malcolm X as Ideology, and with Fred Moten: i ran from it and was still in it (Cusp Books). His current book is from the series by the same name Thesentür: Conscientious Objector to Formalism. He is the founding director of The Institute for Advanced Study in Black Aesthetics.