Project Description

Tarik Garrett

FSC-Harvard Fellow 2025-26

Tarik Garrett is an artist working between Los Angeles and Cambridge, MA. His work interrogates his research, focusing on embodied epistemology rooted in African diasporic cultural traditions in the Americas. Garrett works in sculpture, photo writing, video, printmaking, and audio. He is particularly interested in how we think, what we believe, and what bearings our answers to these questions have on our being. In this way, Garrett’s practice is rooted in the immanent critique that typifies the Black Radical Tradition. Currently pursuing a PhD in Film and Visual Studies at Harvard, with a secondary field in Critical Media Practice, Garrett holds an MFA in Studio Art from UC Irvine (2021) and a BFA from Cooper Union (2013).

FSC Works

Preforming on The Edge of History And Memory With Beverly Buchanan

Tarik Garrett

Preforming on The Edge of History And Memory With Beverly Buchanan is a journey across the US state of Georgia searching for traces the artist Beverly Buchanan has left behind through her sculptural work and interest in “vernacular architecture.” The film takes an interdisciplinary approach, blending forms of nonfiction, experimental, and ethnographic filmmaking with theoretical concerns of contact, projection, and subaltern cosmology to track the ghostly presence of Buchanan and the communities and histories that she orientates us to connect with by way of her engagement with the landscape.