Jared Robison is a performance and video artist whose work engages with time and space as a means to reflect broader ontological questions and existential anxieties that underlie the human condition. He is currently living in Tucson, Arizona, where he...
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Jared Robison is a performance and video artist whose work engages with time and space as a means to reflect broader ontological questions and existential anxieties that underlie the human condition. He is currently living in Tucson, Arizona, where he graduated from the University of Arizona with an MFA in 3D+Extended Media in May of 2020. In 2016 he received a BFA from Slippery Rock University in Digital Media and Painting.
By combining durational-performance and video art into site-specific locations, my work plays with the idea of altering the human psyche and body while practicing presentness. I rely on various transformative processes as a means to reflect upon broader ontological questions and existential anxieties that underlie the human condition. This is an ongoing inquiry into strategies that foster the contemplation of what it means to fundamentally be and exist as a social creature in a world that appears to exist (dualistically) separate from the Self. Thinking about personal dualisms and the processes behind individuation, my current work explores the intersection of personal identity and interconnectedness with transformative objects. It is here where I circumambulate and meditate upon patterns of meaning, purpose, and time through metaphorical reenactments with my mind, body, and everyday objects. There is a level of humor and absurdity that reveals itself in my practice, and there are long spans of time where I question the meaning and purpose of my pursuit. The process of Self-exploration tends to be circular in nature, and a feeling of senselessness begins to manifest if taken too seriously for too long. But what I feel is most important to questioning the Self or any journey one finds themselves in, is to, for if only a brief moment, get lost in its grandeur. To get lost in its process, to free associate and listen to the unconscious part of our being. For it is there where we can become informed of a higher expression of ourselves. As an overarching approach to my curiosity, I continue to question the Self beyond what it appears to be and propose that to live in the present moment means to actively play hide-and-seek in the paradox of Selfhood. It is here where one's awareness perpetually maintains imprisonment to habitual patterns of behavior and ineffable experience. My methodology embraces the other, the unknown, and the uncomfortable while emphasizing the process over the outcome. Through the implementation of these fundamental and, at times, absurd approaches, I gain a greater understanding of my place within it all.