third kind

Collaborated with Dan Foley on a project for Leslie-Lohman Museum’s digital Pride celebration: Lockdown Loft. Our prompt was “…riffing on the idea of the online beauty tutorial, but are interested in all things bathroom, self-care, get ready with me, make-up, curated YouTube playlists, etc.”
Tender Buttons

By Jesse Harrod Sound by Dan Foley + Iris Devins “What’s Your Name?” – Written and Performed by Cousins Dedicated to Joseph Yoakum + Eugene Von Bruenchenhein   Featured in Mending and Repair in Response at Fleisher Ollman Gallery (PHL)
Mending and Repair in Response

Jesse Harrod & Lisi Raskin: Mending and Repair in Response Fleisher/Ollman Gallery, September 13–October 26, 2019 Fleisher/Ollman proudly presents Mending and Repair in Response, Jesse Harrod and Lisi Raskin’s first collaborative project spanning an ongoing artistic conversation begun in 2015. In taking up this conversation […]
Operator

Operator A sad and immobile penis dwells alone on a hillside, disembodied; or perhaps so embodied it requires no surrogate. Singing “Operator” by Jim Croce, the penis references the strap-on, that interchangeable cock used as part of queer sexual practices. Has this cock been discarded for […]
Wonder Twins

Wonder Twins Jesse Harrod asked Lisi Raskin a question about the relationship between color and affect. This tongue in cheek prompt (that Raskin couldn’t help but take at face value,) generated a four-minute sound file that Harrod “interpreted” through a series of drawings that playfully and respectfully take the piss out […]
Artist Statement

Artist Statement underscores the erotic tensions and sensual feelings that pervade our relations with quotidian objects and devices. Bringing together many of the questions touched upon across my artistic practice, Artist Statement registers the pleasures of hapticity and the ways in which objects and material […]