Liquid Futures is a public arts and digital humanities collaboratory developed by Jaimey Faris (her publishing and legal name is Jaimey Hamilton Faris) as a co-learning platform developed with students, colleagues, and community.
Based in Honolulu since 2006, Faris is settler ally arts educator, writer, community organizer and regenerative cultures facilitator based in Ka Pae 'Āina (Hawai'i). She teaches Contemporary Art History, Critical Theory, and Environmental Public Humanities at the University of Hawai'i, Mānoa and is affiliate faculty in Pacific Islands Studies and the Institute for Sustainability and Resilience.
Her practice exists at the edges of teaching, theory, history, writing and art, where she imbues learning spaces with an ethics of care toward decolonial, eco-social, and 'āina-based futures. Much of her current focus is on water and how it offers elemental lessons for reconfiguring the intercultural currents of environmental justice in Oceania and beyond.
Her recent articles about art and climate justice in Oceania include: "Ocean Weaves: Reconfigurations of Environmental Justice in Oceania," (Feminist Review, 2022); "Art for Unsettling Times" in Contact (Tropic Editions, 2022); “Sisters of Ocean and Ice: On the Hydro-feminism of Kathy Jetn̄il-Kijiner and Aka Niviâna’s Rise: From One Island to Another” (Shima, 2019); “Gestures of Survivance: Angela Tiatia’s Lick and Contemporary Environmental Performance Art in Oceania” (Pacific Arts, 2021); and “Interfacing in the Ocean’s Weave,” in Oceans Rising, ed. Daniela Zyman, (Sternberg Press, 2021).
Faris co-founded and co-directed a non-profit arts project space, OFF[hrs] (2012-2013), directed UHM's artist residency program (2008-2014), and has curated solo and group exhibitions, including Alterna APEC (2008), Pan Pacific Nation, co-curated with Noelle M.K.Y. Kahanu (2009) and Inundation: Art and Climate Change in the Pacific (2020). She is the author of Uncommon Goods (Intellect 2013); and the editor of Almanac for the Beyond (2020) a volume of experimental eco-criticism devoted to critiques of petro-capital temporal structures. She’s currently working on a book about water care in community-based art practices.
FELLOWSHIPS and AWARDS: Faris has received the Excellence in Teaching Award from the University of Hawai'i, College of Arts and Humanities; the Faculty Diversity Award, University of Hawaii’s Commission on Diversity; the Junior Faculty Research Award; the Technology, Society and Innovation Grant, from the University of Hawaii, Research Council; She has been recognized for her community organization work by the Hawaii People’s Fund and have been a Critical Studies Fellow at Cranbrook Academy of Art and Writer in Residence at Banff Center for Arts and Culture, and VASE visiting scholar at University of Arizona.
Based in Honolulu since 2006, Faris is settler ally arts educator, writer, community organizer and regenerative cultures facilitator based in Ka Pae 'Āina (Hawai'i). She teaches Contemporary Art History, Critical Theory, and Environmental Public Humanities at the University of Hawai'i, Mānoa and is affiliate faculty in Pacific Islands Studies and the Institute for Sustainability and Resilience.
Her practice exists at the edges of teaching, theory, history, writing and art, where she imbues learning spaces with an ethics of care toward decolonial, eco-social, and 'āina-based futures. Much of her current focus is on water and how it offers elemental lessons for reconfiguring the intercultural currents of environmental justice in Oceania and beyond.
Her recent articles about art and climate justice in Oceania include: "Ocean Weaves: Reconfigurations of Environmental Justice in Oceania," (Feminist Review, 2022); "Art for Unsettling Times" in Contact (Tropic Editions, 2022); “Sisters of Ocean and Ice: On the Hydro-feminism of Kathy Jetn̄il-Kijiner and Aka Niviâna’s Rise: From One Island to Another” (Shima, 2019); “Gestures of Survivance: Angela Tiatia’s Lick and Contemporary Environmental Performance Art in Oceania” (Pacific Arts, 2021); and “Interfacing in the Ocean’s Weave,” in Oceans Rising, ed. Daniela Zyman, (Sternberg Press, 2021).
Faris co-founded and co-directed a non-profit arts project space, OFF[hrs] (2012-2013), directed UHM's artist residency program (2008-2014), and has curated solo and group exhibitions, including Alterna APEC (2008), Pan Pacific Nation, co-curated with Noelle M.K.Y. Kahanu (2009) and Inundation: Art and Climate Change in the Pacific (2020). She is the author of Uncommon Goods (Intellect 2013); and the editor of Almanac for the Beyond (2020) a volume of experimental eco-criticism devoted to critiques of petro-capital temporal structures. She’s currently working on a book about water care in community-based art practices.
FELLOWSHIPS and AWARDS: Faris has received the Excellence in Teaching Award from the University of Hawai'i, College of Arts and Humanities; the Faculty Diversity Award, University of Hawaii’s Commission on Diversity; the Junior Faculty Research Award; the Technology, Society and Innovation Grant, from the University of Hawaii, Research Council; She has been recognized for her community organization work by the Hawaii People’s Fund and have been a Critical Studies Fellow at Cranbrook Academy of Art and Writer in Residence at Banff Center for Arts and Culture, and VASE visiting scholar at University of Arizona.
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