Julia Yezbick

JULIA YEZBICK

Yezbick has taken a unique role in the  NOW:FUTURE  exhibition and is collaborating with Red Stowall and her piece “Quarantine Chronicles” and filming and editing the dance work. For Marsae Mitchell’s piece Yezbick is also working hand in hand to capture, collage, and edit Mitchel’s multidimensional dance called “Reflect. Black. Times.”

Julia Yezbick is a filmmaker, artist, and anthropologist. She received her PhD in Media Anthropology and Critical Media Practice from Harvard University and an MA in Visual Anthropology from the University of Manchester. Her artistic work is grounded in long-term engagements with people and places and is often a critical part of her academic pursuits exploring labor and the body, the materiality of postindustrial urban landscapes, the senses, processes of creative knowledge production, and housing and the built environment.

Her audio and video work has shown at the Berlinale–Forum Expanded, the New York Library for Performing Arts, Ann Arbor Film Festival, the Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit, Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum, and the Art Gallery of Ontario. She is a recipient of the Dan David Prize Scholarship for the Plastic Arts and a 2018 Kresge Artist Fellow. Yezbick is the founding Editor of Sensate, an online journal for experiments in critical media practice, and co-directs Mothlight Microcinema. Yezbick is currently a Visiting Assistant Professor of Film at Oakland University and lives in Detroit with her partner and two kids.