Artist cv
Education
Pratt Institute, MFA in Performance and Performance Studies, (May 2019 completion)
California Institute of the Arts, BFA, 2003, MFA, Film/Video 2007
Whitney Museum Independent Study Program, New York, 1995
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Awards * Fellowships * Grants
Pratt Institute Full Tuition Award 2016
League of Allied Arts Corporation Scholarship 2003
California Institute of the Arts Scholarship 2001-05
Alaska Hi-Tech Business Council Fellowship Award 2000
Selected Artist, Artist Create for the New Millennium, NEA &
Mid-Atlantic Arts Foundation collaborative project 2000
In the Public Realm, Public Art Fund, NYC 2000
Vito Russo Award, The New Festival 1998
Virginia Center for the Creative Arts/NEA Fellowship 1997
New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship 1996
Jerome Foundation Video Production Grant 1995
New York State Council for the Arts/Production Grant 1995
Astraea National Lesbian Foundation Grant 1995
Art Matters Fellowship Grant 1995
Filmography (all titles directed, and produced by Jocelyn Taylor aka Jaguar Mary)
Whisper, performance on video, 2018
A Beckoning, performance on video, 2018
Emotional Body, performance on video, 2017
Hold Up, Pantene, performance on video, 2016
Ho’oponopono For Us All, performance on video, 2016
I Am the Kingdom, 16mm & digital video, 2007
The Sweet Dupe, 6min, digital video, 2006
Consumption, 2 min, 2-channel 16mm film & video, 2004
Desert Time, 4min, DVD, 2003
Underground, 3min, 16mm, 2002
Millennium Video Project, 25min, digital video, 2000
Armide 2000, 7min, digital video, 2000
Eight Times, 10min, video, 1998
Beauty Speaks, 8min, video, 1997
Bodily Functions, 18 min, video, 1995
Frankie & Jocie, 14min, video, 1994
24 Hours A Day, 8min, video, 1993
Looking for LaBelle, video, 1991
Father Knows Best, 20min, video, 1991
Performances
TOUCHED: A Mythic Bird Performance, Pratt Institute Chapel, NYC, 2018
I Am My Own Primal Parent, live performance and video screening, KARST, Plymounth UK, 2018
An Opening, live performance, Grace Exhibition Space, 2018
Whisper, live performance and video, Plaxall Gallery, NYC, 2018
Soul in A Body, live performance, Grace Exhibition Space, NYC, 2018
A Beckoning, live performance and video, Panoply Lab, NYC, 2018
45 Cracks, live performance, Grace Exhibition Space, 2018
Phoenix Rising, live performance and video, Rosekill Art Barn, Rosendale, NY, 2017
Birth of Afrekete, live performance, 2016
Kali Speaks, live performance, 2016
Watermelon Woman, feature film by Cheryl Dunye. 1996
Jocelyn Taylor’s Erotica, featured segment, Reel Sex, HBO, 1996
Greetings from Africa, short film by Cheryl Dunye. 1995
Murder and Murder, film by Yvonne Rainer, 1995
Naked Women, written by Divianna Ingravallo, The Kitchen, NYC 1992
Sluts and Goddesses, video by Annie Sprinkle and Maria Beatty, 1992
Residencies
ART/LIFE Intsitute – Kingston, NY January 2019 – Present
Using studio for movement practice and researching written and performance thesis. Organizing performance evenings and a performance art film festival with local artists.
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Artist in Residence – Artists and Communities: America Creates for a New Millennium, a project of the Mid-Atlantic Arts Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts. May 2000 – October 2000
Trained a diverse group of LGBTQ Alaskan teens in video production and co-created a video based on their perspectives on family and culture for the new millennium.
Artist in Residence - Art Center South Florida, November & December 1997
Guided Miami High School students in the creation of six public service announcements that were exhibited at the Miami International Airport, Art Center South Florida, and Dade County Public Access Television.
Creative Residency – Virginia Center for the Creative Arts (VCCA), Spring, 1997
Artist in Residence – Art-In-General, New York City, Summer, 1996
Taught and advised teen-aged girls in video production and aesthetics.
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Projects
Co-producer – Thesis Festival, Pratt Institute – Brooklyn, New York. Present.
Organizing the presentations of the graduating class of the Performance and Performancs Studies cohort, April 21-22, 2018. Assisting professors and students with logistics and timelines.
Producer – Spring Salon Performances, Pratt Institute – Brooklyn, NY. March 2018
Curated and programed student projects, organized promotional material, set-up tech specifications, documented the event.
Producer – WOKE AMP (Art+Music+Presence) RADIO, Pratt, Sept 2016 – Present
I produce, curate and promote a weekly radio show on the WPIR, the radio station of Pratt Institute. There are weekly guests from the performance art, activist and academic community on the show. Replays of can be heard on the WOKE AMP Mixcloud channel https://www.mixcloud.com/WOKE_AMP/
Founder/Promoter - Sacred Circularities – Bali, Indonesia & Sedona, AZ 2009- 2016
Created, promoted and programmed a dance and meditation retreat. Hired staff, organized excursions, managed talent for special retreat events, and created and researched content for year-round video programming on Youtube, Facebook and Instagram. Interfaced with vendors, hotel management and emergency medical staff. Guided group learning experiences, acted as retreat “space holder” and emotional support for 20+ participants per retreat. Light bookkeeping. Created and designed company website. Multi-tasked between retreat oversight and production, promotional tasks and human resources.
Projects (continued)
Director’s Liaison – New York Film Festival, September-October, 1996-1998
Acted as information support link between A-list directors and actors coming to the international festival and the NYFF curatorial selection committee. Provided administrative support for Film Society staff. Arranged airport pick-ups, hotels, per diems, and post-screening question and answer sessions.
Screening Director – Downtown Community Television Center, New York, 1992-95
Organized video screenings for non-profit media facility in Chinatown. Created and distributed publicity, curated weekly programming and three annual video festivals showcasing local and national artists. Liaisoned with queer filmmakers and community organizers to promote and highlight activist video production. Taught video to community-based activists and organizers.
Programming Director – ABC No Rio, New York City, 1991
Organized and publicized multi-media events for artist-run non-profit space in the Lower East Side. Located and promoted queer artists living in the Lower East Side. Organized screenings and interactive visual and performance art events.
Teaching Experience
Workshop Leader – Sacred Circularities Movement Meditation Retreat, 2010-2015
Organized and led a series of workshops on movement meditation in Bali, Indonesia and Sedona, Arizona for an international participants aged 18 – 40
Instructor – Out North Contemporary Art House, Anchorage, May – October, 2000
Taught video production and Final Cut Pro to young adults
Adjunct Professor - New York University, Steinhardt School of Culture, 1998-99
Taught “Introduction to Video Art” including theory and production.
Instructor - Media Workshops, Dyke TV, 1995-2000
Taught aspiring television producers in camera and editing.
Instructor - Manhattan Neighborhood Network, Summer, 1998
Taught character generator, studio, camera, and editing workshops.
Curatorial
WOKE Radio, WPIR Pratt Institue Radio, Pratt Institute, 2016 - Current
New York Foundation for the Arts Artist Advisory Board, 1998-2000
Selection Committee - New York Video Festival, Lincoln Center, 1999
Assistant Director - DNA Gallery, Provincetown, MA, Summer, 1997
Screening Director - Downtown Community Television Center, 1992-95
Gender Playground, video screening, Art-In-General Gallery, NYC, 1995
My Return, Your Forward, video screening, The Knitting Factory, NYC, 1995
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Television/Web/Special Projects
Videographer – Brave New Films – December 2009
Followed Afghan veterens on Capitol Hill as they lobbied against the continuation of the war in Afghanistan.
Videographer/Editor – Balispirit Festival of Yoga, Dance, and Music, March – June 2008
Shot and edited three promotional films for this yearly festival in Ubud, Bali, Indonesia
Director – LED Experiment shoot, Mannheim, Germany, November, 2007
Directed segment of an experimental project involving dancers, jugglers, poi-spinners, and LED lights.
Videographer/editor – Playpoi Studios, June 2007 – October 2009
Shot on location in Indonesia, Poland, Austria, and Switzerland. Edited tutorials for fire-spinner, Nick Woolsey. Acted as roving camera, capturing footage in a “reality TV” style format. Prepared tutorials for web broadcast on YouTube.
Videographer/editor – Webs and Ties Conference, Cortona, Italy, September 2007
Produced a trailer for the ETH Zurich Institute of Technology about a yearly conference on science and spirituality. Developed concept, conducted interviews, shot and edited two 10-minute trailers for the ETH.
Videographer/Editor – Boston Arts Academy, Boston Public Schools, March 2006
Created a trailer about Soul Element, a traveling theater ensemble consisting of young adult men of color whose work centers on empowering and educating high-school aged students in Boston, MA.
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Producer - Dyke TV, New York City, June 1993 – May 2000
Segment producer for the volunteer-run activist public access television program. Coordinated fundraisers, acted as spokesperson on panels, helped develop nationwide distribution and community participation, strategized and implemented programming for the season, conducted outreach for new producers, made international connections for program screenings and segments, taught media workshops, produced Dyke TV media team for the 1995 World Conference on Women in Beijing, China.
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Selected Bibliography
Cercone, Katie. “Top Ten NYC Artists Now.” Art511 Magazine, art511mag.com/top-ten-nyc-artists/.
Hotchkiss, Sarah. “Black Visibility Is Just the Beginning in Exhibition of Early '90s Video Art.” KQED, 19 Apr. 2017, www.kqed.org/arts/13073907/black-visibility-is-just-the-beginning-in-show-of-early-90s-video-art.
Maria Zimmerman Brendel, “Picturing the Modern Amazon”, Espace Magazine, Fall, 2000
NYArts Magazine, January, 1999 (cover and centerfold project)
O.Donald Odita, “Non-Fiction: Artists in their own words”, aRude Magazine, number 8, 1997
Regina Woods, “The Gaze”, Flash Art, Summer, 1997
Larry Qualls, “Five Video Artists”, Performing Arts Journal #54, 1996
Dangerous Bedfellows, eds. “Going Public: A Conversation with Lidell Jackson and Jocelyn Taylor”, Policing Public Sex (South End Press, 1996)
Martha Schwendener, “Jocelyn Taylor, Alien at Rest”, Time Out New York Art Review, Iss.21
Yasmin Ramirez, “Jocelyn Taylor at Deitch Projects”, Art in America, April, 1996
Roberta Smith, “Naked in SoHo-Art in Review”, New York Times, February 16, 1996
Photo by Geo Geller
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Artist Bio
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Jaguar Mary is a performance artist, glossolalia vocalist, filmmaker and hoop dancer. Her specific concerns, and the directives that have driven her art practice, engage black feminist discourse, questions of history, and recently, ritual performance and practice in art. Jaguar Mary aka Jocelyn Taylor has shown and performed internationally, at the Johannesburg and Havana Biennials, the New Museum, Museum of Modern Art, KARST Gallery in the UK and Dietch Projects in New York. In 1989, she co-founded the historic Clit Club with Julie Tolentino.
Jaguar Mary has also collaborated with feminist artists Annie Sprinkle, Yvonne Rainer and Cheryl Dunye and others. Her essay, “Testimony of a Naked Woman” about being a black feminist sex-worker was included in Afrekete: An anthology of Black Lesbian Writing edited by Catherine McKinley and Joyce Delaney. Under the name Jocelyn Taylor, she was commissioned to make work for the Public Art Fund and the Mid-Atlantic Arts Foundation. She's also received grants from the Jerome Foundation and the New York Foundation for the Arts.
She is an alum of the Whitney Independent Study Program and has an MFA in Film and Video from California Institute for the Arts. Jaguar Mary received a full scholarship from Pratt Institute and will complete an MFA in Performance and Performance Studies in May 2019. Jaguar Mary is based in the East Village, New York City and is an artist-in-residence at the Art/Life Institute in Kingston, NY until May, 2019. She will be performing in the first Bioculturealities Practical Symposium and Performance Festival at MARSH (Materializing & Activating Radical Social Habitus), in Carondelet, St. Louis, June 9-16, 2019.