Various woven works: wall hangings, runners, installations, etc., using traditional Swedish patterns Jämtlandsdräll and Daldräll (a type of dräll structure paired with a place name—toponym—that corresponds with the regions they were practiced. (2021-present). Cotton, linen, wool, nettle.
Lineages explores multi-directional histories through weaving and its site-specific environments, structures, associations, and temporal rhythms. Through a series of installations, weavings, sound and video, sister-artists Debbie Barrett-Jones and Kristine Barrett present kinship and cultural identity as a fluid process rather than a given: connecting, dissolving and reconstituted through memory, practice, and relationship. This (re)membering relates to the act of weaving and textile practice itself: weaving disparate threads (or bodies, sounds, images, narratives, geographies, and names) into relationship with one another: sewing-severing-suturing. Other ‘genealogies’ emerge through this process that intersect, intervene, disrupt, and further entangle.
Digital photo composites, various sizes, 2018-present.
This on-going series explores place and the multi-species intimacies formed through decades of walking through, and living amongst, various locations in Marin County (USA, SF Bay Area). As an avid walker and hiker, I have spent hours in these places I not only call home, but count as kin. Rather than simply creating single-shot landscape prints of each place, I carefully composite layers of images (upwards of 50 for each image) of the same location—using a variety of macro/micro shots of the layers of inhabitants (flora and fauna), rock formations, textures, waterways, etc. Tenderly compiled, each image is a portrait of place—revealing the intricate assemblages of live within a given space/place.
Kristine Barrett has been performing, composing, and arranging music for almost three decades. Her journey as a vocalist has been diverse and broad—spanning many different genres and vocal techniques. After years as a rock and folk singer, Barrett began her formal training in 2001, where she studied opera for three years at the University of Missouri Kansas City Conservatory of Music. She then shifted her studies while at Mills College in Oakland, CA, studying and performing early music, in addition to experimental new music. While there, she performed with the Mills College Early Music and Baroque Ensembles from 2004-2006. With a vocal career spanning punk, rock, jazz, metal, musicals/opera, early music/chant, and traditional folk music, Barrett currently specializes in vocal arts traditions from Eastern Europe, the Caucasus, Balkan, Scandinavian, Baltic, Sephardic Spain, and Ireland. For a over a decade, she has studied, performed, and collaborated with a variety of master singers, including: Svetlana Spajić (Serbia), Mahsa Vahdat and Marjan Vahdat (Iran), Tzvetanka Varimezova (Bulgaria), Carl Linich and Trio Kavkasia (USA/Georgia), Ketevan Mindorashvili (Georgia), Basiani Ensemble (State Ensemble of Georgia), David Shugliashvili (Georgia), Islam Pilpani (Svaneti, Georgia), Ana and Madona Chamgeliani (Svaneti, Georgia), Adilei (Georgia), Kurbasy (Ukraine), Mariana Sadovska (Ukraine), and many others. In addition, Barrett also performs and arranges music for Los Cantadors + Hot Clams, I music collective specializing in jazz manouche/hot jazz, folk cabaret, French/Italian/Spanish/Greek cafe music, bossa nova, and Fado.
Music collective specializing in various music found in city cafes and burrows throughout the world - folk cabaret, jazz manouche, Fado, Sephardic, Italian, and Greek music.
Two-panel video installation, 2023. Each panel contains filmed locations between Minnesota/Anishinabewaki and Jämtland Sweden/South Sapmi through hand-drawn traditional cross stitch patterns from Swedish archives. The installation explores the connections—lineages—between family in two locations.
Cotton 15”x 240”, 2020. Woven meditation regarding the deaths of family and friends during the covid-19 pandemic. Laid out on a table, the cloth is open for viewers to touch—materializing grief and the threads the bind the living and the dead.
