Ashanti Harris

Ashanti Harris is a multi-disciplinary artist and researcher based in Glasgow. Working with dance, performance, facilitation, film, installation and writing, Ashanti’s work disrupts historical narratives and reimagines them from a Caribbean diasporic perspective. Recent commissions and exhibitions include: An Archive: The Rehearsal, Edinburgh Art Festival, Edinburgh (2022); Dancing a Peripheral Quadrille, Edinburgh Sculpture Workshop, Edinburgh (2022); The Ignorant Art School: Sit-in #2, Cooper Gallery, Dundee (2021/22); An Exercise in Exorcism, GoMA, Glasgow (2021); Opening Night, Timehri Film Festival, Georgetown (2021); JUMBIES, Glasgow International, Glasgow (2021); This Woman’s Work, Third Horizon Film Festival, Miami (2021); and Miraculous Noise, Viborg Kunsthal, Viborg (2021).

Ashanti Harris, An Exercise in Exorcism, 2021. Image courtesy of the artist. Photo: Gavin McCourt.
Ashanti Harris, An Exercise in Exorcism, 2021. Image courtesy of the artist. Photo: Gavin McCourt.