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	<title>A S H A T A M I R I S A</title>
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	<pubDate>Sun, 19 Jul 2026 11:17:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Index</title>
				
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		<pubDate>Sun, 19 Jul 2026 11:17:16 +0000</pubDate>

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		<title>Smoke Gets in Your Eyes</title>
				
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		<pubDate>Sun, 19 Jul 2026 11:17:16 +0000</pubDate>

		<dc:creator>A S H A T A M I R I S A</dc:creator>

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		<description>Smoke Gets in Your Eyes&#38;nbsp;
experimental documentary&#38;nbsp;

In Development&#38;nbsp;
support from LEF Moving Image Fund
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Smoke Gets in Your Eyes is an experimental documentary that drifts with wildfire smoke and the traces it leaves behind—on landscapes, bodies, memories, and ways of seeing. Moving between the environmental and the intimate, the film explores smoke as a material consequence of climage change and a catalyst for rethinking our relationships to place, time, perception and one another. 
updates:&#38;nbsp;︎





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images: still from Lisa Moffitt and Piper Bernbaum’s burn model (Ottawa); still from Trinity Bellwoods Park (Toronto); still of smoky sky (Montreal)&#38;nbsp;

FILM SUMMARYSmoke Gets in Your Eyes is an experimental documentary about wildfire smoke and the traces it leaves behind—on landscapes, bodies, memories, and ways of seeing. Smoke obscures visibility and destabilizes orientation; the film responds by embracing gentle fragmentation, where images, sounds, and memories move associatively rather than linearly. The film drifts through places across northeastern North America transformed by wildfire and smoke, collecting testimony, observation, atmosphere, and landscape into a poetic and immersive cinematic experience.
Central to the&#38;nbsp; film are media diaries collected from participants across Canada and the United States during wildfire smoke events. Influenced by social media vernaculars, these recordings capture extemporaneous first-person observations of smoke’s effects on everyday life. Participants describe orange skies and hazy light, the smell, changes in routine, and feelings of awe and fear about the causes and implications of increasingly severe fire seasons. Together, these diaristic media create a polyphony of wildfire smoke’s impacts through multiple geographies, generations, and subjectivities.
These voices are woven together with conversations with&#38;nbsp; environmental scientists, forest and conservation workers, and trauma psychologists. These conversations illuminate why smoke changes the sky’s color, how fine particulates move through the body, how fire alters ecosystems and communities, and the psychological fog that can accompany prolonged crises. Rather than offering definitive explanations, the film allows these perspectives to circulate alongside lived experience, expanding the film’s emotional, ecological, and sensory dimensions.
Fire complicates the act of witnessing through the danger it poses to anything proximal and by hindering visibility. In response, the film develops an experimental, sensory ethnographic approach to smoke and fire. The film includes observational footage shot in locations directly impacted by the 2023 wildfire season and contemporaneous to the time of filmmaking, including Lebel-sur-Quévillon and Chibougamau, Quebec, as well as regions affected indirectly through drifting smoke. This footage will be shot on a combination of digital and super-8 film. The analogue film media will be hand-processed and treated using smoke, ash, heat, and fire, allowing smoke to contribute directly to the filmic image. The inclusion of analogue media offers a visceral visual texture, where landscapes flicker, decay, and change.
Sound plays a central role in the film’s form. The sound design treats the environment as an equal voice alongside the human, blending sync and non-sync sound, field recordings, atmospheric textures, and fragments of speech. The soundtrack blurs the boundary between the human and nonhuman world, treating the environment not as background, but as an active presence within the film.

Smoke Gets in Your Eyes treats smoke both as subject and cinematic language: something that drifts between people and places, carrying evidence of distant events while reshaping perception in the present and of the future. Historically, smoke functioned as a medium for communication capable of carrying complex messages across distance. The film inhabits the atmosphere in both intimate and expansive ways to explore and restore the complexity of language between the environment and how we see, feel, remember, and imagine. 

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		<title>The Bug That Bit Him</title>
				
		<link>https://ashatamirisa.net/The-Bug-That-Bit-Him</link>

		<pubDate>Sun, 19 Jul 2026 11:17:17 +0000</pubDate>

		<dc:creator>A S H A T A M I R I S A</dc:creator>

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		<description>The Bug That Bit Him&#38;nbsp;
2026

Expanded Media Performance&#38;nbsp;
︎︎︎ link to documentation

Installation version available
The Bug That Bit Him explores a family anecdote—part myth, part memory, part speculation—through text, found footage, and sound. Poetic narration is set against a counterpoint of randomly selected imagery and sound, creating tension between what is told, heard, and seen. Through this interplay, the work examines the ambiguity of the real in what we inherit, remember, and say, suggesting that histories are as much shaped by fiction as by fact.



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		<title>How to Move a Tree </title>
				
		<link>https://ashatamirisa.net/How-to-Move-a-Tree</link>

		<pubDate>Sun, 19 Jul 2026 11:17:17 +0000</pubDate>

		<dc:creator>A S H A T A M I R I S A</dc:creator>

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		<description>How to Move a Tree&#38;nbsp;
2026&#38;nbsp;

Artist Book&#38;nbsp;
Book Design by Draw Down Books


Support from:
Ellis Beauregard Project Grant
Space Gallery Kindling Fund&#38;nbsp;


Picnic Collective is a process-oriented art endeavor started by Carolina González Valencia and Asha Tamirisa. The name Picnic Collective emphasizes the idea of being together, utilizing whatever infrastructure may exist for collectivity. A picnic is a place where we find nourishment wherever we find each other. In a picnic, the foods brought together don’t always make sense. A picnic is about everyone gathering, and bringing whatever it is they wish to share. The result is a collage, and that’s what makes it beautiful. Like a picnic, we explore artistic methods that allow for collectivity and collaboration while encouraging difference. “How to Move a Tree,” the first project from Picnic Collective, is an artist book publication where six Maine-based artists “from away” followed a text score fashioned as a poetic “how-to” guide, using a tree as a metaphor to engage ideas of uprooting, transplanting, and finding agency and community. The invited artists manifested the score in their chosen mediums. The book contains the results of these projects, and is also an invitation for others to follow the score.


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		<title>Beyond Midnight</title>
				
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		<pubDate>Sun, 19 Jul 2026 11:17:18 +0000</pubDate>

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		<description>Beyond Midnight
2023&#38;nbsp;
Immersive Media Installation&#38;nbsp;
(4 channel video, stereo sound)&#38;nbsp;By Michel Droge, in collabroation with Carolina Gonzalez Valencia, Tristan Koepke
︎︎︎ link to excerpt&#38;nbsp;
Beyond Midnight is an immersive multimedia installation that envelops visitors in the mysteries and ecologies of the deep sea. The installation is rooted in the experience of visual artist Michel Droge’s participation in Schmidt Ocean Institute’s Artist-At-Sea program to explore the first known octopus nursery located off the Pacific coast of Costa Rica.
Beyond Midnight invites audiences into an otherworldly space of wonder, vulnerability, and ecological urgency. Through lush projections, layered sonic textures, and text, the installation conjures the ocean’s depths—from the Midnight Zone to the Abyssal Plain, nearly 3,000 meters below the surface. The work foregrounds the vibrant life that thrives in these remote and rarely witnessed ecosystems, framing the deep sea as a queer, generative space. As human industry turns its gaze toward deep-sea mining in search of metals and minerals, Beyond Midnight centers the vitality of these fertile underwater landscapes, resisting extraction through awe, care, and speculative embodiment.

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Exhibitions: 2023 Bates College, IMStudio 2024 UCR (Universidad Costa Rica) 2025 Space Gallery, Envision Resilience &#38;nbsp;</description>
		
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		<title>Envelope</title>
				
		<link>https://ashatamirisa.net/Envelope</link>

		<pubDate>Sun, 19 Jul 2026 11:17:18 +0000</pubDate>

		<dc:creator>A S H A T A M I R I S A</dc:creator>

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		<description>Envelope
2024Graphic/instructional score 



Envelope operates between the traditions of ready-mades, instructional scores, and mail art. Using a found envelope as both material and metaphor, the work invites participants to create a score that determines fluctuations in frequency and volume, guided by the physical characteristics of the envelope itself. 
The work draws attention to the technical meaning of the term “envelope” in sound, where it describes the changing contour of a sonic event over time. By translating a commonplace object into a tool for musical decision-making, Envelope collapses distinctions between everyday communication and sonic composition.

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To be published in:
Naming, Understanding, and Playing with Metaphors in Music. Co-edited by Nina Eidsheim, Dylan Robinson, Daniel Walden, and J. Martin Daughtry</description>
		
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		<title>Counter Archiving the Avant-Garde</title>
				
		<link>https://ashatamirisa.net/Counter-Archiving-the-Avant-Garde</link>

		<pubDate>Sun, 19 Jul 2026 11:17:19 +0000</pubDate>

		<dc:creator>A S H A T A M I R I S A</dc:creator>

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		<description>Counter-Archiving the Avant-Garde&#38;nbsp;
2023

web prototype&#38;nbsp;
Created for The Kitchen L.A.B. Research Residency x Simons Foundation x School for Poetic Computation.︎︎︎ link to site&#38;nbsp;
Counter-Archiving the Avant-Garde operates against the idea of an archive being aguarded, static authority on the past and instead imagines an archive as dynamic, relational, critical, and communal. Central to the platform is the notion of the "counter-archive" or the action, to "counter-archive":“...the ‘counter-archive’ represents an incomplete and unstable repository, an entity to be contested and expanded through clandestine acts, a space of impermanence and play. Taken as an action, the term entails mischief and imagination, challenging the record of official history. Employed as an artistic strategy it pushes our archival impulse into new territories, encouraging critique and material alteration/fabrication...To counter-archive is to counter-act, to rewrite, to animate over.”— Brett Kashmere, "Cache Rules Everything Around Me", Introduction to Incite Issue #2: Counter ArchiveCounter-Archiving the Avant-Garde allows for text edits, markup, and marginalia to expand the descriptive text of artworks pulled from primary source material in The Kitchen's archive. The web platform is organized around an eight-step instructional score, which invites visitors into counter-archival considerations and actions. In September 2023, Counter-Archiving the Avant-Garde was soft-launched as a prototype with seven artworks presented at The Kitchen in the first decade after its founding in 1971 (1971–79). In the future, more artworks will be added to the database of this platform.


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Presented at:- PioneerWorks, Code for Artists Day 2023- Global Audiovisual Archiving Confererenc (TIFF Lightbox, Eye Filmmuseum) Toronto, CA</description>
		
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		<title>A Long Breath</title>
				
		<link>https://ashatamirisa.net/A-Long-Breath</link>

		<pubDate>Sun, 19 Jul 2026 11:17:19 +0000</pubDate>

		<dc:creator>A S H A T A M I R I S A</dc:creator>

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		<description>A Long Breath&#38;nbsp;2021 

Public sound installation Commissioned by Friends of Congress Square Park ︎︎︎ link to video documentation
A Long Breath is an acoustic sound installation comprising of multiple wind harps that generate sound through their resonance with the wind. By transforming invisible and ephemeral environmental forces into audible experiences, the work makes the wind and atmosphere tangible. Originally installed in Congress Square Park in Portland, Maine, the piece invited visitors to engage in attentive listening within the heart of the city.
Created during the depths of the COVID-19 lockdown, A Long Breath offered a space for safe, communal listening at a time when shared public experiences were limited. Its title reflects both the hardship of the pandemic and the collective sense of relief many hoped would follow—a long exhale after a prolonged period of uncertainty. The work draws a parallel between this physiological experience of release and the wind itself, whose movement activates the installation and brings it to life.



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		<title>Sour Solvents</title>
				
		<link>https://ashatamirisa.net/Sour-Solvents</link>

		<pubDate>Sun, 19 Jul 2026 11:17:19 +0000</pubDate>

		<dc:creator>A S H A T A M I R I S A</dc:creator>

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		<description>Sour Solvents&#38;nbsp;
2020

Site-specific video installation
Exhibitions:&#38;nbsp;
Re-Site, Space Gallery
Passages in American Art, Portland Museum of ArtAcquisitions:Portland Museum of Art︎︎︎ link to video&#38;nbsp;
Sour Solvents lingers on a substance that played a little-known but profound role in Portland Maine’s economy: sugar. Portland was the site of one of the largest sugar refineries in the United States, importing sugar from the West Indies for decades and profiting from slavery’s ongoing presence in places like Cuba well into the 1870s and 1880s. Sour Solvents, originally on view in 2020 as a site-specific installation at the former location of the Portland Sugar House, is a three-part video that melds glimpses of granular sugar crystals with hourglass sand. Through this close juxtaposition, Tamirisa produces a kind of visual alchemy that gestures to the tendency of history to absorb and dissolve difficult truths. Spliced with terse subtitles excerpted from silent films documenting sugar production—“how we get sugar”—the video confronts the long pattern of distancing the luxury commodity from the horrific conditions endured by the enslaved laborers who harvested it.



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		<title>Surface / Belly </title>
				
		<link>https://ashatamirisa.net/Surface-Belly</link>

		<pubDate>Sun, 19 Jul 2026 11:17:20 +0000</pubDate>

		<dc:creator>A S H A T A M I R I S A</dc:creator>

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		<description>SURFACE / BELLY&#38;nbsp;
2020

web-basedExhibitions: Flourish Festival 
Collections:
Rhizome Art Base︎︎︎ link to project

SURFACE/BELLY is a web-based multimedia hypertext poem in which reflexively composed, graphically displayed text guides the reader between the surface and depths of a narrative. Through both form and materiality, the work poetically explores the relationship between interiors and exteriors. The cursor behaves like touch, returning to the text as if a scar, tracing the familiar path of a wound to understand its contours, histories, and depths. 



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