Statement

Marz’s multimedia art practice blurs the line between private/public, political/personal, and art/culture primarily through video, sound/music, and performance. She presents and performs private, internal conversations and interventions with and within herself publicly as a means to individually and communally empathize, strategize, heal, and act. She models practices of vulnerability, curiosity, and radical love through art as a way to care for herself and her community. Marz believes that art should be used as one of many tools of the people in struggle, whether that struggle be personal, political, or oftentimes, some intertwinement of the two. As an artist embedded in social movements, Marz is not interested in “high art” over “low culture.” Rather, she is most interested in creating and facilitating cultures that see “high art” and its institutions as a foil to her and her community’s anticapitalist, anti imperialist, and abolitionist dreams.

Bio

Marz Jupiter is an artist, organizer, and educator born and raised in Richmond, Virginia. She received her M.F.A. in Studio Art from New York University (c/o 2017). Currently, Marz is a doctoral candidate in Media, Culture, and Communication at NYU. Additionally, she teaches courses on art, media, and decolonization as an adjunct professor at NYU. Marz is also a member of MTL+ Collective, a group of artists, writers, and educators who combine research and aesthetics in political action. MTL+ is  the facilitator of Decolonize This Place, an action-oriented movement centered around six strands of struggle: Indigenous struggles, Black liberation, free Palestine, de-gentrification, global wage workers, and dismantling patriarchy.