Artist Talk: Lisi Raskin

Multimedia artist Lisi Raskin is known for using large-scale drawings, collages, and installations to tackle themes that emerged during the Cold War, from nuclear panic and fallout shelters to the military command centers that brought humanity to the brink of destruction.

For the last decade, Raskin has been practicing ways of being that embrace what they now understand to have always been their trans and disabled embodiment. They have reshaped their creative and curricular practices into solo and together adventures that support them as they unlearn assimilationist and settler, white supremacist patterns of relation.

In this artist talk, Raskin will discuss their endeavors, including art making, that are responsive and accountable to the needs of their body and community. The artist’s forthcoming book, In Practice: From Higher Education to Liberatory Transformation, will be published by Punktum Books in 2024.