The Department of Sculpture + Extended Media presents a visiting artist lecture by
SCRAAATCH
Wednesday, February 5th at 12 PM
Institute for Contemporary Art at Virginia Commonwealth University
601 W Broad St, Richmond, VA 23220
SCRAAATCH has performed and exhibited experiments at venues including MoMA PS1, Artists Space, The Kitchen, Museum of Contemporary African Diasporan Arts, the New Museum in New York, Institute of Contemporary Art in Philadelphia, Institute of Contemporary Art in Virginia, and Les Urbaines in Switzerland. They were 2020-2022 Harvard College Fellows in New Media, where they taught classes on performance and sound, and recently attended Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture. They were recent resident artists at the Center for AfroFuturist Studies in Iowa City and 2023 artists-in-residence at Bemis Center for Contemporary Art in Omaha. In 2024 they had their first solo exhibition, “Distortion Play”, at Company Gallery in New York.
In addition to being resident DJs on NTS Radio in London, SCRAAATCH releases have included “Teardrops EP” (2019), “DON’T TALK TO ME REMIXES” (2022), Distortion Études (Bunny Jr. Tapes, 2024) and contributions to compilation albums by Parisian label ParkingStone’s “Virgō” (2021), artist Kevin Beasley’s “A View of a Landscape” (2023) and New York collective and label PTP’s “RESIST” (2024). The artists are originally from Prince George’s County, Maryland, and are based in Brooklyn, New York.
Photo credit: Keegan Dunn
