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SATELLITE ART SHOW
11.30.2021-12.4.2021
CURATED BY PERFORMANCE IS ALIVE
Satellite Art Show November 30 - December 4, 2021 1655 Meridian Avenue, Miami, FL 33139 Satellite Art Show and Performance Is Alive continue their five-year collaboration by exclusively spotlighting contemporary performance art and time-based media at Miami Art Week 2021. Leading the curatorial vision is artist, Quinn Dukes of Performance is Alive and returning once again as founder and creative director is artist, Brian Andrew Whiteley . The fair is a platform for an international roster of live performers – an interactive space where guests can engage directly with the artists. Performance artists return to live actions, some choosing to engage virtually and others performing at an interactive distance. As the week progresses, the fair installation will evolve through the performances and the performance artifacts that remain in the space. Dukes and Whiteley have curated a multi-sensory experience with musical performances, drag shows, and revitalizing classic underground performative parties alongside a robust daytime program. In the wake of the pandemic, this program represents the re-emergence and reclamation of the body. The selected artists recognize the revolutionary power of the body through actions that often serve as a release from the trauma inflicted through centuries of heteronormative and colonial conditioning. In addition, this year’s program seeks work that actively rejects the systems perpetuating injustice and serves as a safe space for historically marginalized communities. This is the liberation of the body. -Quinn Dukes, Curator
SATELLITE ART SHOW presents interactive projects by young dealers, artist-run spaces and non-profits. By fostering a range of programming, SATELLITE is able to offer patrons and collectors a unique experience where art is at the forefront of creative expression, activism, and curiosity. Our exhibitors are encouraged to provide our visitors both an opportunity to collect new works of art as well as to present exhibitions that are engaging, experiential and interactive. SATELLITE is expanding perceptions on art and community and providing an inclusive environment for guests to feel comfortable in exploration and discovery. #satelliteartshow | satellite-show.com Performance Is Alive is an online and curatorial platform featuring the work and words of current performance art practitioners. Through interviews, artist features, sponsorship and curatorial projects, we aim to support the performance community while offering an access point to the performance curious. #performanceisalive | performanceisalive.com
PERFORMANCES BY
Thomas Albrecht (K ingston, NY, USA), Jocelyn Beausire (P rinceton, NJ, USA), Ama BE (Washington D.C, USA/Ghana), Katina Bitsicas (Columbia, MO, USA), Jessica Elaine Blinkhorn (Atlanta, GA, USA), Caitlin Mary Margarett (M adison, WI, USA), Hope Esser (Chicago, IL, USA), Xxavier Edward Carter (Dallas, TX, USA/Mexico City, Mexico), Vivian Chinasa Ezugha (Hampshire, UK/Nigeria), Oya Damla (Brooklyn, NY, USA), Agua Dulce (M iami, FL, USA), Gabriela Fernandez (Miami, FL, USA/Cuba) and Khánh Nguyên H. Vũ (Miami, FL, USA/ Vietnam), Alexandra Hammond (NYC, NY USA), Amanda Kleinhans (Tallahassee, FL, USA), Miss Art World (Los Angeles, CA, USA), Arantxa Araujo (NYC/Mexico), Verónica Peña (NYC/Spain), and Yali Romagoza (NYC/Cuba), Neill Prewitt (Atlanta, GA, USA), Sylvain Souklaye (B rooklyn, NY, USA/France) VIDEO SCREENINGS FEATURING
Ali Asgar Tara (B rooklyn, NY, USA/Bangladesh), Meghan Moe Beitiks (G ainesville, FL USA), gustaf broms (Sweden), Maureen Catbagan and IV Castellanos (Brooklyn, NY, USA), Ayça Ceylan (Istanbul, Turkey), Alex Côté (Montreal, Canada), Adán De La Garza (Denver, CO, USA), Victor de La Rocque (São Paulo, Brazil), Alma García Gil (Mexico City, Mexico), Rae Goodwin (Lexington, KY, USA) and Casey McGuire (Carrolton, GA, USA), Marta Lodola (Berlin, Germany/Italy), Stephanie McGovern (NYC, USA), Tuty Moreno Campos (Mexico City, Mexico), Barbara Rosenthal (NYC, USA), Sylvain Souklaye ( Brooklyn, NY, USA/France), Kailas Sreekumar (Kerala, India), Natacha Voliakovsky (Buenos Aires, Argentina), Claire Zakiewicz (NYC, USA/ London, UK) INTERACTIVE INSTALLATION + VIDEO
Milk & Honey by Isla Gordon and Ashley Kaye (Bethlehem, PA, USA) NY FEM FACTORY by Jessica Yatrofsky (New York, NY, USA) SPECIAL PROJECTS
Grace Exhibition Space Wild & Alive: 15 Years of Performance Art in NYC (New York, NY, USA) Subtropical Affairs The Center for Subtropical Affairs (Miami, FL, USA) Official Billy Joel Piano Man Bar (New York, NY, USA) SATELLITE 2D
FEATURING: Jill Taffet (Sarasota, FL), Jennifer McDermott (New York, NY), Kelly Boehner (Savannah, GA), Nancy Gifford (Scottsdale, AZ), Anita Arliss (Atlanta, GA), Rafael Fuchs (Brooklyn, NY), Michael Wyshock (Sarasota, FL), Jason Isolini (Brooklyn, NY), Edie Beaucage (Los Angeles, CA), Glenyse Thompson (St. Petersburg, FL), Emily Roynesbal (Denver, CO), Jacki Davis (New York, NY), Sean Naftel (Brooklyn, NY), Roxanne Faber Savage (Fairfield, CT), Janet Mueller (Miami, FL), Royal Uban (Los Angeles, CA), Spencer Young (New York, NY), Tom Hooper Seaman (New York, NY), Alfredo Travieso (Miami, FL)
PROGRAMMING SCHEDULE
TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 30
LIVE PERFORMANCES 3:00PM Miss Art World (Los Angeles, CA, USA), Guillotine 4:00PM Xxavier Edward Carter (Dallas, TX, USA/Mexico), Sisyphus & The Myth of The New World 5:00PM Jessica Elaine Blinkhorn (Atlanta, GA, USA), REVERENCE: WE 3 (Miami) 6:00PM Jocelyn Beausire (P rinceton, NJ, USA), very hot : very sweet AFTER-HOURS 9:00PM-11:00PM Opening Night Party with DJ Set by DJ Mars Fox
WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 1
PANEL DISCUSSION 2:00PM 15 Years of presenting performance art in NYC with Jill McDermid-Hokanson (Grace Exhibition Space) LIVE PERFORMANCES 3:00PM Jessica Elaine Blinkhorn (Atlanta, GA, USA), REVERENCE: WE 3 (Miami) 6:00PM Gabriela Fernandez (Miami, FL, USA/Cuba) and Khánh Nguyên H. Vũ (Miami, FL, USA/ Vietnam), Untitled (A Keepsake to Movement) SCREENING & DISCUSSION 7:30PM Barbara Rosenthal (NYC, NY, USA), How Much Does The Monkey Count; Existential Ultraviolet Photo-Run; Barbara Rosenthal Discusses Two Performance Videos in Relation to All Her Work AFTER-HOURS 8:30-10:00PM Hajime Kinoko (Tokyo, JP) Shibari Performance presented in partnership with Playground Detroit.
THURSDAY, DECEMBER 2
LIVE PERFORMANCES 2:00PM Alexandra Hammond (NYC, NY, USA), Flag Repair: Rebuilding Relationship with Symbolic Self and Community 3:00PM Jessica Elaine Blinkhorn (Atlanta, GA, USA), REVERENCE: WE 3 (Miami) 6:30PM Katina Bitsicas (Columbia, MO, USA), In Memoriam 7:00PM Hope Esser (Chicago, IL, USA), Chatter 8:00PM Vivian Chinasa Ezugha (Hampshire, UK/Nigeria), Tongues 8:30PM Oya Damla (Brooklyn, NY, USA), The Weight of Pleasure AFTER-HOURS 9:30-11:00PM Art Handlers Ball an evening honoring all those working the Art Fairs. Featuring LIVE performances from: Mildred Hurtful & Wrongo Starr (Glasgow), John Pizza (NYC), Hweeqo (NYC), Rompers (NYC); DJs: J. Stroke (NYC), Breakfast Spaghetti (Zurich), Phase Pattern (London)
FRIDAY, DECEMBER 3
LIVE PERFORMANCES 2:00PM Agua Dulce (M iami, FL, USA), CareGiving 4:00PM Ama BE (Washington D.C, USA/Ghana), bête noir 7:00PM Amanda Kleinhans (Tallahassee, FL, USA), I’m Ready for My Close-Up 8:00PM Arantxa Araujo (NYC/Mexico), Verónica Peña (NYC/Spain), and Yali Romagoza (NYC/Cuba), SIRRERAS FEM II 9:00PM Neill Prewitt (Atlanta, GA, USA), Our Heart Beats
PROGRAMMING SCHEDULE
FRIDAY, DECEMBER 3 (CONT'D)
AFTER-HOURS 9:30PM-12AM Satellite x Superchief present: HEAT WAVE MIAMI! A Party featuring Rich Furniss, Wonder, Marsweather, Kate Garvey, Earn Money, Jack South + Special Guests. Partnered with Nextwave and wave space.
SATURDAY, DECEMBER 4
LIVE PERFORMANCES 2:00PM Caitlin Mary Margarett (M adison, WI, USA), for the love of god 3:00PM Thomas Albrecht (K ingston, NY, USA), Dirt PANEL DISCUSSION 4:00PM FIAP International Performance Art Festival Curators, Henri Tauliaut, Alicja Korek, and Annabel Guérédrat (Fort de France, Martinique) LIVE PERFORMANCES 6:00PM Ama BE (Washington D.C, USA/Ghana), bête noir 8:00PM Sylvain Souklaye (B rooklyn, NY, USA/France), UNDERYOURSKINS [.UNFOLDED. ] AFTER-HOURS 9:00-11:00PM Closing Party! INSTALLATION SPOTLIGHT
MILK AND HONEY by Isla Gordon and Ashley Kaye (Bethlehem, PA, USA) Cultivating Mass Their sprawling artistic practice engages mimicry and performance to reject adherence to heteronormative aesthetics and modes of storytelling. Participating as both documentary subjects and performers, the artists believe vulnerability and generosity is a necessary condition of art. Present in the work in varying states of undress, or in physically uncomfortable situations, the artists give form to their own anxieties and external pressures. With lushly crafted images and textiles, their work evokes the aesthetics of pop culture and advertising, questioning the ideas around gender and the body that have been sold to them. Balancing beauty and cruelty; discomfort and tenderness, their work contemplates new ways of being. Isla P Gordon and Ashley Kaye are life partners based in Pennsylvania. Their creative practices have been entwined for nearly as long as they have known each other. Their work focuses on their experience in a queer marriage as a transgender woman and gender non-conforming person. Using photography, soft sculpture, video and performance, Ashley and Isla use their practice to orient themselves in a gendered world and contemplate new ways of being. Recent recipients of Artist 360 Grants from the MidAmerica Art Alliance, their performances & installations have been featured at Theatre Squared, Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, and Paradice Palase. MindofMilkandHoney.com IslaPGordon.com | ashleykaye.net
VIDEO ARTIST PROFILES Meghan Moe Beitiks (G ainesville, FL), Dissatisfying Videos. Meghan Moe Beitiks is an artist working with associations and disassociations of culture/nature/structure. She analyzes perceptions of ecology though the lenses of site, history, emotions, and her own body in order to produce work that analyzes relationships with the non-human. She was a Fulbright Student Fellow, a recipient of the Claire Rosen and Samuel Edes Foundation Prize for Emerging Artists, a MacDowell Colony fellow, and an Artist-in-Residence at the Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts. She is currently an Interdisciplinary Studio Art Lecturer at the University of Florida. meghanmoebeitiks.com | @culturenaturestructure
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Adán De La Garza (Denver, CO, USA), Protest Etiquette Originally from Tucson, Arizona Adán De La Garza holds a BFA in Photography from the University of Arizona and an MFA in Interdisciplinary Media Arts Practices from the University of Colorado at Boulder. Adán was a founding member of the Sound, Video and Performance Art collective The Flinching Eye (2011-2020), a co-conspirator of the media arts exhibition series Nothing To See Here (2013-2016), a participant at Collective Misnomer(2016 - present), and smashes a lot of buttons with Dizzy Spell(2018 - present). Adán is currently based in Denver, Colorado. adandelagarza.com Natacha Voliakovsky (Buenos Aires, Argentina), I need a place to escape Natacha Voliakovsky is an activist and Bio Hard-Core performance artist, ArgentoSudaca-Judia, Hi-Testosterone woman. Her work fights for the sovereignty of the body through performance pieces that hack the system from the inside. She was selected at EMERGENYC at the Hemispheric Institute for Performance and Politics (NYU, 2019), the intensive workshop in performance art at Venice International Performance Art Week (2018), Überbau Haus, Brazil residency (2017) and Sur Polar residency, Antarctica (2014), among others. As of 2019, she’s developing Argentina Performance Art, the first research platform on performance art in Argentina. natachavoliakovsky.ru | @natachavoliakovsky | Twitter: @n_voliakovsky Stephanie McGovern (NYC, USA), wrong way to eat a banana Stephanie McGovern, a.k.a. Mimi Silk, is an interdisciplinary and performance artist based in Queens, New York. Through the lens of drag, burlesque and stage spectacle, her work explores the conflicts between conventional female allure and the authentic self. McGovern’s performances are built around deconstructing femininity, and generating a protest against the sexualized gaze. By combining her body with abject material - slime, food, paint, stage blood, etc. - she creates a conflict of desire and confusion for her audience to sort out. mimisilk.com | @meemeesilk Tuty Moreno Campos (Mexico City, Mexico), Transition Tuty Moreno Campos is a multidisciplinary Argentinian artist. She completed a BA with an emphasis in painting in Buenos Aires and delved in other artistic practices in programs, residencies and courses in Argentina, Mexico, Estonia and Arkansas. Her work reflects on the dialogue between body and disease, how our bodies can cope with contextual demands, the conceptual construction and boundaries of what a body is, and how it should behave. By developing video, photography and sound in performative pieces she places her practice as a continuous rupture and reconfiguration of herself and her way of thinking and as an empowering tool. tutymorenocampos.com | @tutymorenocampos Ali Asgar Tara (B rooklyn, NY, USA/Bangladesh), ঘ রে বা ই রে | Indoor Outdoor Born in 1991, Ali Asgar Tara is a Bangladeshi transgender artist who focuses primarily on body and space as the main element of their practice. Tara's work surrounding gender, sexuality, and social taboos often reflects upon their personal struggle with the conservative Bangladeshi attitude towards members of LGBTQ communities. Tara combines video, text, drawing, and community performance to create political, site responsive and cross-disciplinary collaborations. Tara's artwork is reflective of their past & present experiences in a very different muslim conservative social, cultural, political, and educational environment. They are currently based in Brooklyn, continuing politically inspired hybrid projects that emphasize trauma, dislocation, isolation, body politics, and queer identity. aliasgarart.com | @aliasgartara | Twitter: aliasgarart
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VIDEO ARTIST PROFILES 7
gustaf broms (Sweden), THE SITTING an ”i” found itself inside this Hu_Man body, to use the time in this predicament as a way to explore the nature of consciousness. as the flow of life coagulates into a condensed symbol, it becomes a tool for understanding. a tool to explore this BEING in a time and place, where identification with the thin membrane of skin, as container of self slowly dissolves, as borders between beings evaporate, the environment disintegrates into a myriad of sentient beings. There is no there, there! orgchaosmik.org | @gustafbroms2 | FB: gustafbroms
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Alex Côté (Montreal, Canada), Plastic.Water Born in Montreal / Tiöhtià:ke, Alex Côté practices performance, photography, video, mapping, as well as site-specific and land art. Evolving in front of and behind the camera, the LGBTQ + artist has participated in group exhibitions, residencies, and festivals in France, Ireland, Italy, Spain, Poland and Portugal, including performances in Montreal, Venice, New York and Fort-de-France. He was selected by De Serres to be one of the emerging artists of the Toronto Art Fair 2019. Alex Côté’s art seek to reconnect with the primitive spirit, the roots and the spiritual connection that binds nature and human beings. alexcoteh.com | @alexcote.h | Twitter: @alexcoteh
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Sylvain Souklaye (B rooklyn, NY, USA/France), Black Man Breathing Sylvain Souklaye is a Brooklyn based French multi-modal artist. He is obsessed with sampling intimacies about people who don't belong to a determinate identity, gender, class, colour or nationality. Sylvain Souklaye performances are a collage of individual memories which are relived for and via the audience. Self-taught, he began performing with vandalism in Lyon, and then intimate happenings, radio experimentation and action poetry. He later developed digital art installations using field recording techniques as a narrative layer while pursuing his writer’s path. sylvainsouklaye.com | @sylvain.souklaye | sylvainsouklaye.bandcamp.com
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Maureen Catbagan and IV Castellanos (Brooklyn, NY, USA), Object II Body Studies Maureen Catbagan is a Filipinx American, multi-media artist based in New York whose work engages social collectivity, examines relations between identity and experience, and explores new forms of empowerment. They have also written critical essays with Dr. Amber Jamilla Musser. Catbagan has exhibited in venues such the Whitney Museum of American Art and The Contemporary Museum of Honolulu. IV is a gender deficient Queer Trans* mx Indige POC. One's work bridge's abstract performance art, sculpture and group task based vignettes. The anchor is the futility of labor and generating an action without a ‘purpose' or with no inherent value; questioning value structures. maureencatbagan.com | @moofro | vcastellanos.com | @iv__castellanos Victor de La Rocque (São Paulo, Brazil), symphony for left and right Victor de La Rocque is a multiple artist, studied classical music at the Carlos Gomes Conservatory, Performing Arts at the Federal University of Pará, graduated and graduated in Visual Arts at the University of Amazônia. He participates in exhibitions, festivals and artistic residencies in Brazil and abroad. "symphony for left and right" is a video performance that requires the participation of the audience for it to be activated. The work, in addition to providing instructions to the public, wants to make evident the confusion about political lateralities and ideologies. Action reflects the Brazilian political moment, the advance of authoritarianism and democratic crisis in dialogue with the world. victordelarocque.com | @artistaputinho Marta Lodola (Berlin, Germany/Italy), Dissolvenze Marta Lodola (born in 1985, Borgosesia) is a visual and performance artivist. She graduated in Painting at Brera Academy of Fine Arts. She works with video, photographic self-timer, performace art and illustration, interested as well in sociology, anthropology and cultural processes. er work has been supported by European Cultural Fundation and Compagnia San Paolo."Dissolvenze" is a research based video performance project, dedicated to the industrial archeological site of Amideria Chiozza (Ruda, Udine IT), which was active from 1865 to 1986. victordelarocque.com | @artistaputinho
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Alma García Gil (Mexico City, Mexico), Combat Kites I nterdisciplinary artist. They deeply explore their life episodes and amplified unconscious evocations to generate intimate narratives through performance art. Their body is presented as vestige of identity configuration and a vehicle for selfknowledge healing rituals. Currently works and lives in Mexico City. "Jóvenes Creadores" 2019-2020, granted by the National Fund for Culture and the Arts. I don't have many memories of my father and our live together before he abandoned me at the age of seven. One of the things I remember from my father is that we used to fly kites together. Not the cute kind. Black combat kites with fangs and bloody mouths. This is the first chapter (Memories) of an ongoing series of portraits dedicated to build a personal image of my father, 2009-Present. @therivertakesme Kailas Sreekumar (K erala, India), ex-existence Kailas Sreekumar (b. 1995) is a performance and video artist. His works are often responses/provocations to socio-political phenomena happening around him, with a key focus on institutional violence and human rights violations. Sreekumar completed his Bachelor’s in Creative Arts from Srishti Institute of Art, Design and Technology, Bangalore (India), and earned his Master’s in Contemporary Fine Art from University of Cumbria (UK). ‘ex-existence’ was conceived as a response/provocation to the government of India’s (irresponsible and inhumane) statement that there were no deaths due to oxygen shortage in the country during the 2nd wave of the pandemic; in reality thousands were gasping for breath on pavements and hospitals. ‘ex-existence’ pays homage to the undocumented deaths due to oxygen shortage during the pandemic and aims to make the government accountable for its negligence. kailassreekumar.webflow.io Rae Goodwin (Lexington, KY, USA) and Casey McGuire (Carrolton, GA, USA), Grab: Shaconage (Great Smoky Mountains National Park) This new work is a performance art project that took place on location in the Smokies in September of 2021. A satirical conversation with American history, its male heroes, their expeditions and their romanticized memorials. We question the nature of expedition, ownership and tourism. We also question Manifest Destiny, our cultural perceptions of bravery and the stereotypes around American pride. Indigenous people lived in Shaconage for 12,000 years before their land was taken from them and they were removed. In this twenty-four minute work, we remark on exploring as exploiting, American “settlers” stole land as they moved across this continent in order to be “free”. raegoodwin.com | @goodwinrae | aseymaymcguire.com |@ materialsgurl Ayça Ceylan (I stanbul, Turkey), #MyInnerFlora (manifest) #MyInnerFlora is a long term research based, site-specific performance art series that deals with the relationship between the language of plants and our inner life in the context of ecofeminism. Performance artist and art writer Ayça Ceylan produces site-specific performances about our perception processes through employing disciplines such as dance, mythology, psychology, herbalism, literature and technology together. In her performances, she focus on how the body and space construct each other, reparation processes, body politics and multi-species. After graduating from Istanbul Technical University, Department of Mechanical Engineering, she continues her education at Istanbul Bilgi University, Department of Performance Arts. Ceylan is the founder and creative director of Body in Perform, founded in 2018. aycaceylan.wordpress.com | @ayca_ceylan Claire Zakiewicz (NYC, USA/ London, UK), Itinerant To be itinerant is to travel on foot, connected to the ground while in motion. This work by performance painter Claire Zakiewicz includes a series of processes that explore the balance of control and surrender through experiments in remote painting and musical scoring. Claire Zakiewicz is an interdisciplinary artist living in London and New York. She has a background in improvised and experimental music, which she incorporates into her performance drawing and painting practices. Her work examines the unconscious mind in relation to sound and drawing. Some of the relationships between modes of perception are more physical, immediate and felt, others conceptual, reflective and considered. The process of attunement between them highlights the processes that underlie our relationship with art and the communicative aspect of our human experience. clairezakiewicz.com | @clairezakiewicz Barbara Rosenthal (NYC, NY, USA) , How Much Does The Monkey Count; Existential Ultraviolet Photo-Run; Barbara Rosenthal Discusses Two Performance Videos in Relation to All Her Work A native New Yorker, Barbara Rosenthal is a prolific, idiosyncratic, Media and Performance artist. Her major books are Clues to Myself, Sensations, Homo Futurus, Soul & Psyche and the new novel Wish for Amnesia. She has made 130 video shorts since 1976, often combining photography, text, philosophy and performance. Her existential work explore the intersection of the individual, the greater aggregate, and the concept of communication. I pioneer in intermedia, she has been referred to "Media Poet" by The Village Voice and elsewhere since the 1980s. At her 2016 performance at Waterloo Action Center, London, she was introduced as “Old Master of New Media.” Her book works are in the collections of MoMA, The Whitney, The Tate, and Artpool Budapest. barbararosenthal.org
DAILY VIDEO SCREENING SCHEDULE
3:00PM - 5:30PM // 5:30 - 8:00PM (Listed in Screening Order*) 1. Meghan Moe Beitiks (G ainesville, FL), Dissatisfying Videos. 2. Adán De La Garza (Denver, CO), Protest Etiquette 3. Natacha Voliakovsky (Buenos Aires, Argentina), I need a place to escape 4. Stephanie McGovern (NYC, USA), wrong way to eat a banana 5. Tuty Moreno Campos (Mexico City, Mexico), Transition 6. Ali Asgar Tara (B rooklyn, NY, USA/Bangladesh), ঘ রে বা ই রে | Indoor Outdoor 7. gustaf broms (Sweden), THE SITTING 8. Alex Côté (Montreal, Canada), Plastic.Water 9. Sylvain Souklaye (B rooklyn, NY, USA/France), Black Man Breathing 10. Maureen Catbagan and IV Castellanos (Brooklyn, NY, USA), Object II Body Studies 11. Victor de La Rocque (São Paulo, Brazil), symphony for left and right 12. Marta Lodola (Berlin, Germany/Italy), Dissolvenze 13. Alma García Gil (Mexico City, Mexico), Combat Kites 14. Kailas Sreekumar (K erala, India), ex-existence 15. Rae Goodwin (Lexington, KY, USA) and Casey McGuire (Carrolton, GA,USA), Grab: Shaconage (Great Smoky Mountains National Park) 16. Ayça Ceylan (I stanbul, Turkey), #MyInnerFlora (manifest) 17. Claire Zakiewicz (NYC, USA/ London, UK), Itinerant FEATURED SCREENING
WED, DEC 1 7:30PM SCREENING & DISCUSSION * Barbara Rosenthal (NYC, USA), How Much Does The Monkey Count; Existential Ultraviolet Photo-Run; Barbara Rosenthal Discusses Two Performance Videos in Relation to All Her Work
11.30.2021-12.4.2021
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NOV 30 | 3:00PM
MISS ART WORLD (LOS ANGELES. CA. USA),
"Guillotine " is a Marie Antoinette-inspired hair installation sprawling up to the ceiling and imprisoning the artist below. The hair’s restraint is society’s obsession and unrealistic expectations for the “perfected” physical form. The hair installation is stuffed full of the influences and products used to achieve beautification. Using my experiences within the beauty industry and feeling their demand for long blonde hair this performance critiques dominating ideologies of beauty fused with the disturbing and obsessive struggle to obtain it. Miss Art World is a Los Angeles-based conceptual interdisciplinary artist specializing in performance art that explores beauty, body image, and gender inequity. She completed her Bachelor of Fine Art from California State University, Bakersfield, and her Master of Fine Art from Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, NY. Katherine was diagnosed with incurable eye disease at the age of ten and has struggled with her vision ever since. As Katherine’s vision started to deteriorate, the rejection and prejudices that arose from the academic environment led her to seek out other means of fulfillment. This came in the form of beauty pageants and modeling. She found acceptance within the beauty industry but this came with disturbing experiences and issues that she now uses to fight against within her art. MissArtWorld.com / @MissArtWorld
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NOV 30 | 4:00PM
XXAVIER EDWARD CARTER (DALLAS. TX. USA/MEXICO)
Sisyphus & The Myth of The New World - This myth and its origins much like the ideals inside of the men exploring the "New World" are a baggage transferred to the indigenous populations ravaged by colonization. Through name, this performance takes a closer look at an individual in the throes of a ceaseless effort. The body and its efforts all end at the same place, death, this breaking point divides all people. For myself this is a spiritual effort, one of meditation, one looking for the point of connection, struggle, distance, power, and isolation as they dwell inside of me while I try and place myself in this world. The objects used in the creation of this work references the natural landscape, tools that operate between play and violence, communication devices, and the source material from the philosopher Albert Camus. What we put this effort towards for our lives is our rock, and as Camus has stated, “A face that struggles so close to stone is stone itself.” Xxavier Edward Carter (born 1986, Dallas, Texas) is a transdisciplinary artist with a BFA from Stanford University and an MFA from Southern Methodist University. His work is presented as videos, publications, installations, and performances to encompass multi-sensorial and layered circumstances encountered by the artist. Personal interactions, media bombardment, observed and lived experiences, and material excess/waste influence his work towards a complex revolutionary promise. These are ecologically centered works often heavily linked to the material history of currency in how it relates to the histories of marginalized people. Carter is of Black and Native American heritage and views his work as a continuation of the survival and storytelling practices of these cultures. More broadly, he is interested in how these practices have analogies across cultures worldwide. Stories of origins, the afterlife, superhuman beings, and of love and tragedy are the most compelling for him. Carter creates work dealing with what these stories mean in an often violent and oppressive context and the power they have toward influencing revolutionary momentum. xxavierismyname.com
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NOV 30 | 5:00PM
ALSO PERFORMING: DEC 1 | 3:00PM DEC 2 | 3:00PM
JESSICA ELAINE BLINKHORN (ATLANTA. GA. USA)
"REVERENCE: WE 3" is a series of performances that take place across the American landscape to pay tribute to the Disabled and Aging community, my community. While in position, I am in full warrior garb and joined by two empty wheelchairs representing the memory of my siblings and those who have fought and continue to fight for equity, equality, and inclusion for the Disabled and Aging communities. I look forward and play role a of silent and revenant warrior for 3 hours for the three days I am in Miami. During this time, individuals are invited to bring flowers to the performance area and place them around the area and/or in the seats of the vacant wheelchairs. Following the 3-hour performance, the audience will be invited into the performance area to remove the petals from every flower. Those participating will be asked to scatter the pedals in the area to create a beautiful mosaic of inclusion followed by a monologue where I ask those who have been affected by the disabled community or are living with disability to silently bow their heads and reflect for 33 seconds. Jessica Elaine Blinkhorn is an Atlanta-based Interdisciplinary Artist. Blinkhorn’s work advocates for the Disabled, Aging, and LGBTQ+ communities. Blinkhorn, who was diagnosed with Spinal Muscular Atrophy (SMA) Type 2 at 19 months, uses a powerchair for everyday independence. Her work focuses on acceptance through acknowledgement of difference, body positivity, disability education through experience and exposure, human sexuality, and story-telling. jeblinkhorn.wixsite.com @wheelie_an_artist | FB: jessica.e.blinkhorn
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NOV 30 | 6:00PM
J O C E L Y N B E A U S I R E ( P R I N C E T O N . N J . U S A )
very hot : very sweet In the morning, after washing my clothes, my mother would kneel beside the bathtub to wash her hair. I would watch from a distance. At night, my wet hair stains my pillows and leaves rashes on the back of my neck. Scrubbing, my skin becomes angry instead of clean. I am denatured, the boundary between body and environment is heated and made raw. “To live is to leave traces.” Attempting absolute cleanliness, I recede into placelessness, subservience, self-obliteration. I am intimate with my surroundings, but that intimacy destroys me. The space is saturated with polarities – anonymity and intimacy, presence and absence, soft power and submission. We breathe in the cloying steam. An airing of dirty laundry, presented with open palms. An obsessive maternal instinct, unearthed and positioned. I am small, and the dirt my body makes is yours, hot and sweet. Does it please you? Jocelyn Beausire is a performance artist, musician, and spatial researcher based in Princeton, NJ. Her work functions as temporal architecture, constructing and activating an emotional, multi-sensory ecology that reveals relations between the performer, audience, and environment. Site-specific histories are unearthed and distilled into a series of loaded but simple actions. Her work explores an underlying fascination with the impact and creation of place, and the ways in which human beings’ relational identities are shaped by external environmental spaces and the spaces within their bodies. Through proffering performative control to the viewer, Beausire acknowledges, contextualizes, and augments perceptions of her body as a place of constructed and performed youth, vulnerability, queerness, and femininity, as an artifact of her ancestry, and as a site of present action. jocelynbeausire.com / @jossslug
DEC 1 | 2:00PM
JILL MCDERMID-HOKANSON (NYC. USA)
PANEL DISCUSSION 15 Years of presenting performance art in NYC with Jill McDermid-Hokanson (Grace Exhibition Space) and Quinn Dukes (Performance is Alive and Satellite Art Show). EXHIBITION Throughout SATELLITE, Grace Exhibition Space presents highlight reels of performances presented over their 15 year history. The impressive screenings showcase seminal, international performance artists like: Linda Mary Montano, VestAndPage, Ron Athey, La Congelata de Uva (Rocio Bolivar), and Martin O'Brien. ABOUT Opened in 2006, Grace Exhibition Space is devoted exclusively to Performance Art. We offer an opportunity to experience visceral and challenging works by the current generation of international performance artists whether emerging, midcareer or established. Our events are presented on the floor, not on a stage, dissolving the boundary between artist and viewer. This is how performance art is meant to be experienced and our mission is the glorification of performance art. Grace Exhibition Space presents over 30 curated live performance art exhibitions each year, showcasing new work by more than 800 performance artists from across the United States and the world since 2006. grace-exhibition-space.com DEC 1 | 3:00PM
UP NEXT JESSICA ELAINE BLINKHORN (Atlanta. GA. USA) *Bio on p. 9
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DEC 1 | 6:00PM
GABRIELA FERNANDEZ (MIAMI. FL. USA/CUBA) + KHÁNH NGUYÊN H. VŨ (MIAMI. FL. USA/ VIETNAM)
Untitled (A Keepsake to Movement) The creation of a physical marker, a reminder of the action of movement through the lens of body modification and ritual. The new mark is a set reminder of the action not just physically, but mentally as well. Placed in the area of the body that would reflect if the action is being held true over time, as the mark fades it keeps the faith of the intention of this new ritual. While being adorned with this new mark the body in itself will create its own form of recordings through the ideas of the non physical. Khánh Nguyên Hoàng Vũ is [goes by just: Vũ] is an artist that was born in, Biên Hòa,Vi ệ t Nam. With an oeuvre that spans from painting to installation (and then some), their work opens a unique poetic vein that reflects upon the intensity and constant shifts in contemporary existence. They develop forms that do not follow binary systems that we were brought up around; these works serve as a safe space for some soft, deep-seated and honest self reflection. Vũ currently lives and works in Miami. Gabriela Fernandez was born in Havana, Cuba. Currently residing in Miami, Florida, an area that houses various cross-sections of culture through the Latinx and Caribbean diaspora. As a first-generation immigrant taking reference from this multicultural, temporal and migratory space. Exploring the process of disidentification, and the existence of manifested identifications in relation to time, ephemeral space and the disorientated body. Exploring the dis-identification of the existence of an identity with the intersection of both trauma and nostalgia in contemporary language Looking at how the environment and unconscious movements affect interaction between all. gabriela-fernandez.com/@skrabzhuk/ inhalingnow.com/@inhalingnow
DEC 1 | 7:30PM
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BARBARA ROSENTHAL (NYC. USA),
SCREENING & DISCUSSION
How Much Does The Monkey Count; Existential Ultraviolet Photo-Run; Barbara Rosenthal Discusses Two Performance Videos in Relation to All Her Work. Three video shorts by Barbara Rosenthal, followed by a discussion on Zoom: 1. "How Much Does The Monkey Count," 1988, 4mins. A simple ventriloquism performance video about a complex issue: the contemporary psyche and its primitive roots. 2. "Existential Ultraviolet Photo-Run," 2017-2021, Excerpted documentation video in which she appears on a London stage, blinded by her costume and the projector lamp as she attempts to follow the light beaming distorted photos from her Surreal Photos Project. 3. Rosenthal tells of the origin of these two seemingly disparate videos, and speaks to the profound question of how much we as individuals and as a species are driven by our primitive foundations, and the search for identity in the barest and most essential elements, common to us all. A native New Yorker, Barbara Rosenthal is a prolific, idiosyncratic, Media and Performance artist. Her major books are Clues to Myself, Sensations, Homo Futurus, Soul & Psyche and the new novel Wish for Amnesia. She has made 130 video shorts since 1976, often combining photography, text, philosophy and performance. Her existential work explore the intersection of the individual, the greater aggregate, and the concept of communication. I pioneer in intermedia, she has been referred to "Media Poet" by The Village Voice and elsewhere since the 1980s. At her 2016 performance at Waterloo Action Center, London, she was introduced as “Old Master of New Media.” Her book works are in the collections of MoMA, The Whitney, The Tate, and Artpool Budapest. barbararosenthal.org | en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbara_RosenthalARTSY @BRartistNYC | FB:@barbara.rosenthal1 | @barbararosenthal_emedialoft
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DEC 1 | 8:30PM
HAJIME KINOKO (TOKYO. JP)
A Contemporary Take on Shibari : Hajime Kinoko Widely considered to be the world’s leading shibari artist, Hajime Kinoko has been working with ropes since as far back as 2001. Since then, he has continued to push the boundaries of what can be done with just ropes and the human body via his unique style. In addition to being a world class creator of art, Hajime Kinoko has also won many awards for his work and has even held a session at the prestigious Kyoto University. Additionally, he has also done shibari installations overseas for high profile events like Burning Man. For me, shibari is about “connection.” When tying someone, it’s not about capturing or tying that person. I cherish the “connection” with the model the most. To me it feels like I am tying myself with the model like strings connecting two paper cups to make a paper toy telephone. When I tie someone with a strong feeling that the model is important, I can feel many things such as how they want to be tied with rope, at what timing and where. And I can tie depending on the models’ desires. The lines created when I tie that way are like waves that carve rocks and create cliffs. I create lines are like those created by nature, and only exist between the model and I. I feel those are wonderful and beautiful. That is the shibari that I pursue.
shibari.jp @kinoko_shibari
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DEC 2 | 2:00PM
ALEXANDRA HAMMOND (NYC. NY. USA)
Flag Repair: Rebuilding Relationship with Symbolic Self and Community As part of an ongoing participatory performance project, Boa's Repair Shop, Alexandra Hammond offers “Flag Repair" This workshop is an opportunity to rebuild our relationships with our symbolic selves and our imagined community. Participants will be invited to remake the symbol of the Flag—culturally, historically, visually—and what it would look like to produce a version that represents our own knowledge, identity, and experiences. We will engage in a guided visualization exercise then create a collective flag with the symbols that arise from tapping into the wellspring of the imagination. Alexandra Hammond’s art practice spans painting, installation and interaction. She believes that all beings, objects and Earth inter-are and inter-be. She employs the specificity of images and manners as an invitation into an awareness of the undifferentiated—pure consciousness, endless possibility, blue sky. She was born and raised on a ranch in the foothills of California’s Coast Range and now lives and works in New York City. She holds an MFA from the School of Visual Arts and BA from NYU’s Studio Art department. Hammond is currently a Fellow for Utopian Practice with CulturePush, developing her socially engaged project, Boa’s Repair Shop. Her projects have been shown at Mass MoCA, SPRING/BREAK Art Show, Beverly's, Satellite Art Fair, and in Europe and Asia.
alexhammondstudio.com | @alexhammondstudio
DEC 2 | 3:00PM
UP NEXT JESSICA ELAINE BLINKHORN (Atlanta. GA. USA) *Bio on p. 9
DEC 2 | 6:30PM sacistiB anitaK yb mairomeM nI KATINA BITSICAS (COLUMBIA. MO. USA)
In Memoriam celebrates the life of my father by creating the funeral he couldn’t have due to COVID-19. An art installation-based memorial service featuring a projection-mapped body, a hand-made abaca and ash casket, and floral arrangements came together for a oneday intimate installation. The live performance, In Memoriam, uses the flowers from the memorial that have been preserved in silica gel, maintaining their color and shape. The flowers are no longer living, but still appear vibrant, reflecting on the way our memories of those we've lost are preserved, which are sometimes so vivid that we forget they are no longer still alive. Three felted wool shrouds are placed on the ground, a biodegradable material commonly used for natural burials that becomes a natural rich compost for tree pod burials. Red thread creates my connection to the dead and to the earth beneath me, slowly wrapping around my body, tightening, and pulling me closer to the ground as I move between the wool coffins, placing preserved flowers on the graves. A woven pattern of thread emerges on the ground as I move between the shrouds and the various points of tethered thread, establishing a permanent connection to those we have lost. The audio gradually swells as the connections tighten. A skeletal structure forms within each shroud as I place the preserved flowers. I wear modernized funeral garb as I decorate the three caskets, one for each member of my family. Katina Bitsicas is a new media artist who utilizes video, photography, and performance in her artworks to explore grief, loss, trauma and memory. She has exhibited worldwide, including The Armory Show, PULSE Art Fair, Satellite Art Fair, Superchief Gallery NFT, the Wheaton Biennial curated by Legacy Russell, HereArt in New York, Art in Odd Places in Orlando, Digital Graffiti Festival, and the St. Louis International Film Festival. She received her BA from Kalamazoo College, Post-Bacc from SACI in Florence, Italy, and MFA from the University of South Florida. She is an Assistant Professor and Coordinator of Digital Storytelling at the University of Missouri, where she also conducts research with the MU School of Medicine on utilizing digital storytelling as a meaning-making intervention for bereaved family members. katinabitsicas.com | @katinabitsicas
DEC 2 | 7:00PM
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HOPE ESSER (CHICAGO. IL. USA)
Chatter I emerge carrying a box full of chattering teeth wind up toys. The teeth are bound shut and I take out one toy at a time, wind each one and place them on the floor. Once they have been laid out, I cut the strings holding the mouths shut, and set the teeth off in a wave of chattering. Hope Esser (she/her, b. 1984, New York, NY) is a Chicago-based multidisciplinary artist working in performance, garment, sculpture, and video. She earned her BA in Studio Art and Art History cum laude from Oberlin College (2007) and her MFA from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago (2012), where she was awarded the Toby Devan Lewis Fellowship and the James Nelson Raymond Fellowship. She has been an artist-in-residence at Triangle Arts Association, ACRE, Hatch Projects, the Watermill Center, and Ox-Bow, where she was a recipient of the Joan Mitchell Scholarship. She has performed, screened, and exhibited at the Indianapolis Museum of Art (Indianapolis, IN), the Watermill Center (Long Island, NY), Gallery 400 (Chicago, IL), Roots and Culture (Chicago, IL), Grace Exhibition Space (Brooklyn, NY), Links Hall (Chicago, IL), the Arts Club of Chicago (Chicago, IL), ExGirlfriend (Berlin, Germany), and La Esquina Gallery (Kansas City, MO), among others. Esser is an Associate Professor, Adj. in the Contemporary Practices and Performance Departments at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and was awarded an SAIC Faculty Enrichment Grant in 2016, 2018, and 2020. hopeesser.com | @professoresserdotbiz
DEC 2 | 8:00PM
Please find a space where you can sit or be comfortable and listen.
Close your eyes and listen Imagine, breathe, always remember to breathe.
Thank you for listening.
Black and white drawing, Chinasa Vivian Ezugha VIVIAN CHINASA EZUGHA (HAMPSHIRE. UK/NIGERIA)
Tongues The piece ‘Tongues’ approaches glossolalia as a summoning speech that started as audio recordings from prayer sessions while in Covid-19 lockdown and together. The piece plays with rhythm and repetition to present a poetic rendering of glossolalic utterances. Chinasa Vivian Ezugha (she/her) is an award-winning Nigerian-born, British artist living and working in Hampshire. Her interdisciplinary practice spans Live Art, film and drawing. Interested in history and how it is performed in the mundanity of everyday living, performance for her is an embodiment of past, present and future experiences.
vcezugha.wix.com/work-in-progress @iamgodschild91
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DEC 2 | 8:30PM
OYA DAMLA (BROOKLYN. NY. USA)
The Weight of Pleasure. This piece, intended for live performance, will consist of an evolving, sitespecific sound installation with the intention of creating a visceral yet purely visual symbology of existential self awareness set against an invisible, sonic spectrum of self abandon. Oya Damla is a conceptual artist based in Brooklyn, NY working within the intersection of performance, installation and sound art. Rooted in conceptual frameworks ranging from phenomenology, gender, body dysmorphia to first / second generation immigrant identity studies, Damla's multidisciplinary practice works to explore the body in relation to thought formation, the experiential components of sound making and the process of identity navigation. Through the use of her own body as medium, some of her performances specifically work to subvert the eroticization of sexual experience within the context of a multidimensional experience of the self and ‘being in the world’.These frameworks occasionally function as her response to the hyper sexualization of the middle eastern woman as "exotic" or inherently erotic, often experienced in predominately white colonial/western environments and especially in Damla's personal life as a first generation Turkish-American. Founder of The Ear, a performance arts venue / gallery / curatorial platform based in Brooklyn, Damla works towards creating a neutral, communal space charged with the intention of bringing together emerging & established artists of diverse backgrounds & disciplines.
oyadamla.com | @oyadamla
DEC 2 | 9:30PM AFTER-HOURS
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Art Handlers Ball an evening honoring all those working the Art Fairs. Featuring LIVE performances from: Mildred Hurtful & Wrongo Starr (Glasgow), John Pizza (NYC), Hweeqo (NYC), Rompers (NYC) DJs: J. Stroke (NYC), Breakfast Spaghetti (Zurich), Phase Pattern (London)
DEC 3 | 2:00PM
CareGiving Individual audience members are invited to step into a defined sacred space to intimately experience CareGiving, Agua Dulce's performance. Upon entering the healing portal, guests witness the artist sitting patiently and peacefully on the floor, where they are welcomed to join them. After consulting with consent the artist holds, or is held by, the visitor. The person being held is free to express whatever they have been feeling, whatever has been on their mind and weighing on their spirit verbally or as an emotional release. Agua Dulce is as fluid and as sweet as their name would have you think. A neurodivergent cobre-brown trans-fluid Milalmas, Agua Dulce is an ancestor awakened in the now, building bridges of truths to the past that colonization would have you forget. En su practica artistica, Agua Dulce utilizes their body and voice to express. To push back white heteronormative patriarchal boundaries. To liberate all bodies and mentes. To heal. As a healer, Agua Dulce meddles magia with reality and resistencia with pleasure, in the hopes of bringing us back to our oneness with nature. La pasión de Agua Dulce se manifiesta en creación de poesía, canción, spoken word, sculpture, performance, and healing body adornments via jewelry and tattoos. @_agua.dulce | @fruta.de.pasion | @gotas.de.manifestacion
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A G U A D U L C E ( M I A M I . F L . U S A )
DEC 3 | 4:00PM
DEC 4 | 6:00PM
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ALSO PERFORMING:
AMA BE (WASHINGTON D.C. USA/GHANA)
bête noire is a two day durational performance centered on sugar cane It calls out the barbaric history of its commodification, and its mutation from sacred plant to toxic product. The performance interrogates commodification as an inherently corrupting force. It draws from archives documenting brutal enslavement and torture, the processes of cultivation and harvest, celebrated commercial successes of the sugar industry throughout the Caribbean, Americas, Pacific islands and India. Performed by Ama BE and the public, bête noire invites the public to adorn her by threading black sugar cane beads onto her metal collar. Seated on a pedestal, and surrounded by piles of black sugar cane beads, Ama BE simultaneously projects an audio installation composed of archival audio from her body throughout the performance. At the conclusion of each daily performance, Ama wrestles with the adornment. Ama BE is an interdisciplinary artist who explores dimensions of embodiment through performance, screen-based media and handmade paper sculpture. Through the lenses of her Ghanaian heritage and American upbringing, she takes interest in the porous distinctions between materiality and sentience; indigeneity and memory as it relates to personal, familial and forced migrations. In her recurrent use of tobacco, sugarcane, palm oil, water and lace in practice, she interrogates materials with antithetical links to hegemonic trade, spirituality and healing. Her research-informed practice questions the effects of commodification on these bodies as she retraces and reimagines their form and function. Ama’s past performances have employed ecstatic touch, Ghanaian cuisine, and flora as mediums to challenge visibility, and highlight cultural distortions. Her new work thus uses layering, repetition and simplistic gestures to experiment with themes of presence and embodiment, and explore sentience as a medium. afreecan.me | @afreecan
DEC 3 | 7:00PM
I’m Ready for My Close-Up In media coverage of fatness, specifically through news channels, images of people with fat bodies walking through a sea of people in an over-crowded setting or a fat person eating are used. Even in recent coverage of COVID-19’s morbidity rate of fat people over thinner people, footage of a fat person eating a corndog was used. Modern media and news outlets are responsible for taking a simple, necessary task and turning it into a spectacle based on the type of body performing the act. I’m Ready for My Close-Up invites viewers to experience the spectacle of a fat person eating off-the-screen and in-person to provide a moment of reflection and confront their own guilts related to the act of eating, especially in a public setting. Creating hyper-focus and attention to this event by the amplification of the sounds of eating and zoomed-in live footage echoes the heightened levels of self-awareness some experience when eating around others. Amanda Kleinhans is an interdisciplinary artist currently living in Tallahassee, FL. Kleinhans received their Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in Sculpture / Ceramics from the University of Southern Mississippi and their Master of Fine Arts in Studio Art from Florida State University. Their work brings the fat body and the fat experience to the forefront by confronting audiences with how the two are perceived within modern society. Although we are in the throes of the “body positivity” movement, there is a lapse in fat acceptance. Through their work, Kleinhans calls out these oversights and seeks to find resolutions. @amandakleinhans
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AMANDA KLEINHANS (TALLAHASSE. FL. USA)
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DEC 3 | 8:00PM
ARANTXA ARAUJO (NYC/MEXICO). VERÓNICA PEÑA (NYC/SPAIN) & YALI ROMAGOZA (NYC/CUBA)
SIRRERAS FEM II is the second collaborative performance of Arantxa Araujo, Verónica Peña, and Yali Romagoza focused on human growth, the decolonization of bodies and land, the Latinx identity, new collective discoveries of ways of being, and overall, the articulation of a system for all voices to be heard without oppression. As a group of multicultural immigrant women artists based in the United States, Araujo, Peña, and Romagoza are interested in the diasporic body, the dissolution of geo-psychological borders, challenging patriarchal stereotypes, relearning how to listen to the silenced voices, and the coexistence of multiple identities, choices, and sensitivities. SIRRERAS FEM II proposes an unlocking, a turn, a challenge to the barriers that limit how we are perceived, and what we want to be. The performance is a roar, not to impose the law of the strongest, but to claim a space of freedom to be. Through our work, three migrant women come together to state: this body, this place, this moment, this community is us. ARANTXA ARAUJO (Mexico/US) is a multidisciplinary artist and arts administrator with a background in neuroscience. Her work is essentially feminist, meditative, and rooted in biobehavioral research; exploring gender, identity, and the politics of migration. Araujo’s projects have been shown in the Brooklyn Museum, Queens Museum, AIOP, Miami Art Week, Illuminus Festival, SPACE Gallery, Monumento Revolución, Explanada MUAC, and Nuit Blanche. Araujo is a Franklin Furnace, BAC and LMCC grantee and has received support through Leslie-Lohman Museum, Creative Capital, ITP Camp, and EMERGENYC. Araujo was awarded a full scholarship from Mexican Government Institution CONACYT. VERÓNICA PEÑA (Spain/US) is an interdisciplinary artist, curator, and international-community advocate. Her work explores absence, separation, and the search for harmony through Performance Art. Her performance/installations combine underwater submersion, visual metamorphosis, and participation to address global issues of migration, cross-cultural dialogue, peaceful resistance, liberation, fluidity, and women’s empowerment. She exhibits principally in Europe and America. US: NARS Foundation, Franklin Furnace, Grace Exhibition Space, Smack Mellon, Queens Museum, Hemispheric Institute, SAIC, Times Square, Armory Show, among others. YALI ROMAGOZA (Cuba/US) is an interdisciplinary artist exploring cultural displacement, Latinx feminism, marginalization, and political trauma on the individual. Romagoza graduated with an MFA in Fashion from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and a BA in Art History from Havana University. She has exhibited in Havana Biennial, The Immigrant Artist Biennial, Links Hall Theater, White Box, Art in Odd Places, Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art, Grace Exhibition Space, among others. She has been granted awards and residencies, including Cátedra Arte de Conducta by Tania Bruguera, Bétonsalon Centred’ art et de recherché, NYFA Immigrant Artist Mentoring Program; Creative Capital NYC Taller, Franklin Furnace Fund. arantxaaraujo.com | veronicapena.com | yaliromagoza.org
DEC 3 | 9:00PM "staeB traeH ruO" gnimrofrep ttiwerP llieN
NEILL PREWITT (ATLANTA. GA. USA)
In Our Heart Beats , I use a microphone, looping pedal, and speaker, and improvise sounds and movements in response to objects I find at the event - I'm imagining I'll be seeing lots of plastic cups, napkins, maybe nametags - as well as objects I collect on my way to the event, like umbrellas and magazines. Neill Prewitt is an Atlanta-based artist whose creative work is in video, sound, performance, participatory art, and installation. Neill has produced videos and installations that have been shown nationally including at 621 Gallery in Tallahassee FL, Lump in Raleigh NC, and Freedman Gallery at Albright College in Reading PA. Neill has performed and produced participatory and performance art nationally including at the Amos Eno Gallery in Brooklyn NY, the OBX Art Truck in Elizabeth City NC, and Silent Barn in Brooklyn NY. With the collective Yuxtapongo, Neill has produced art for public spaces including public access TV as well as installations that have been shown at the Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University in Durham NC. neillprewitt.com | @neillprewitt
DEC 3 | 9:30PM AFTER-HOURS
SUPERCHIEF GALLERY (NYC)
X SATELLITE PARTY
Satellite x Superchief present: HEAT WAVE MIAMI! A Party featuring Rich Furniss, Wonder, Marsweather, Kate Garvey, Earn Money, Jack South + Special Guests. Partnered with Nextwave and wave space. Superchief Gallery is an independent artist-run gallery founded in 2012 by Edward Zipco & Bill Dunleavy in Brooklyn, N.Y. Superchief has a history of supporting artists from disparate scenes & collectives, enabling them to participate in the larger community. As a multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary platform, Superchief Gallery is an extension of the cultural landscape in its most raw and honest form. superchiefgallery.com
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DEC 4 | 2:00PM
C A I T L I N M A R Y M A R G A R E T T ( M A D I S O N . W I . U S A )
for the love of god Through a combination of ceramics, sand, and audio, this performance elucidates anxieties surrounding the ecological disruption of our collective home. In the Midwest, the crisis has emerged in the form of superstorms and flooding, droughts and vicious tornados. Caitlin Mary Margarett’s performance “for the love of god” draws on her most recent “once in a lifetime'' climate disaster, the 2020 derecho that swept across Iowa and devastated her city. Caitlin Mary Margarett is a Midwestern artist, born and raised between Minnesota and Iowa. Her work bridges art disciplines in the form of live durational performance, video art, and craft practices. She currently attends the University of Wisconsin-Madison, seeking an MFA in 4D (2024). She received her BFA in performance art and BA in art history at the University of Northern Iowa in 2018. CMM's work explores the divide between seeking an esthetic, spiritual ambience, and an immediate frenetic urgency about our climate crisis. Through her practice, she makes sense of her own feminist spirituality within systems of flourishing and suffering. She aims to highlight and ask questions about individual agency, and the experience of being locked in cycles of redemption and reemergence. These recurring threads, now woven into narratives around site specificity and our connection to place, coalesce into new work that asks what our own individual roles are as we brace for the impact of our climate emergency. CMM’s work has been shown throughout the Midwest, at Louisiana State University for the 2019 Queeramics Symposium, in Ceramics Monthly, Emergency Index V. 8 and V. 9, and Aesthetica Magazine. She is currently preparing for her research trip and solo show in Berlin, Germany, at LiTEHAUS GALERIE & PROJEKTRAUM, slated for 2022. CMM's next upcoming solo show is scheduled at ARTIFACT Gallery, New York, NY, on January 11-29, 2023. caitlinmarymargarett.com | @caitlin_mary_margarett
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T H O M A S A L B R E C H T ( K I N G S T O N . N Y . U S A )
Dirt The past eighteen months the world has been focused on being clean, remaining clean. Staying safe, and saved, from an unseen virus that is equally manifest, has isolated many, leaving us to feel vulnerable in ways never experienced. In our masking and hand washing, we have tried to make ourselves clean. An invisible, unexpected threat has made colleagues, neighbors, and family visible threats. The virus is both intangible and palpable in our individual and collective bodies. My performance contemplates this global moment of extreme dualities, focusing on the metaphorical aspects of dirt that function cross culturally: clean versus unclean and the impossibility/absurdity of trying to rid oneself, and society, of the very dust we come from. Our redemption, perhaps, comes in the middle space, that threshold betwixt bodies giving and receiving both empathy and care. Thomas Albrecht’s performance art projects explore ritual and language in public spaces, galleries, and museums, prodding cultural beliefs and individual doubts. He has performed and exhibited work throughout the United States and internationally, notably at Grace Exhibition Space (New York); Defibrillator Performance Art Gallery (Chicago); Panoply Performance Laboratory (New York); Queens Museum; Dimanche Rouge Paris, and during festivals such as the Brooklyn International Performing Arts Festival, Month of Performance Art Berlin, Performatorio IV in the Dominican Republic, and Satellite 2.0 during Art Basel in Miami. He serves as Associate Dean in the School of Fine and Performing Arts, and as Chair and Professor in the Art Department, at the State University of New York at New Paltz. thomasalbrecht.com | @thomasalbrecht_artist / @thomas.albrecht.908
DEC 4 | 4:00PM
HENRI TAULIAUT . ANNABEL GUÉRÉDRAT (FORT DE FRANCE. MARTINIQUE) AND ALICJA KOREK (POLAND)
PANEL DISCUSSION Featuring FIAP International Performance Art Festival Curators, Henri Tauliaut and Annabel Guérédrat (Fort de France, Martinique) and Alicja Korek (Poland) FIAP Martinique enters it's 3rd edition of the performance art festival in 2022 with an emphasis on building longstanding relationships with selected participants via residencies and workshops with the festival curators. Artists and curators, "Martinique's issues are linked to its colonial history, its current means of production, its ecology, its insularity. The theme of this 3rd edition is about Martinique, an ecosystem in precarious balance. Annabel Guérédrat and Henri Tauliaut are a performance art pair based in Martinique and co-founders of FIAP, an international festival of performance art. Guérédrat is a choreographer and dancer and Tauliaut a visual artist. They started working together in 2015, when Tauliaut invited Guérédrat to be in Nude Descending a Staircase and have made over twelve performances, taking place in Martinique, Guadeloupe, the French department north of Martinique, Jamaica, and the United States. Their pieces include The Smell of Success, which involved Guérédrat blessing the graves of the deceased with scented liquid at Guadeloupe's Morne-à-l'Eau cemetery and the series Parade Nuptiale Iquanesque. Their pieces operate under the principle of the four golden positions: standing, lying, walking, and sitting. Guérédrat is also the founder of the nonprofit performance group Artincidence, based in Trois-Îlets, Martinique. fiap-martinique.com
DEC 4 | 6:00PM
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UNDERYOURSKINS [.UNFOLDED. ] UNDERYOURSKINS [.UNFOLDED. ] is an impromptu dialogue, a duo between Sylvain Souklaye and the audience. I extend my-your-our connections and link them to the audience during three movements. Together, the performer and the audience develop an improvised and warm jazz: like a relay poem made of words and gestures. UNDERYOURSKINS [.UNFOLDED. ] is a living, fragile and visceral experience, exploring a silent past and an uncertain future. UNDERYOURSKINS [UNTOLD.UNFOLDED. ] begins and unveils an unbalanced silent past. Then it creates a discreet alphabet whispering and diving into a tense present. Finally, it enables and spreads a hopeful and chaotic future screaming to the unknown. Sylvain Souklaye and the audience connect all of them to create an endless movement. UNDERYOURSKINS [.UNFOLDED. ] uses experimentation and improvisation as an echo chamber to reach ancient epigenetic memories. Sylvain Souklaye is a Brooklyn-based French multi-modal artist. He is obsessed with sampling intimacies about people who don't belong to a determinate identity, gender, class, colour or nationality. Sylvain Souklaye's performances are a collage of individual memories which are relived for and via the audience. Self-taught, he began performing with vandalism in Lyon, and then intimate happenings, radio experimentation, and action poetry. He later developed digital art installations using field recording techniques as a narrative layer while pursuing his writer’s path. Among his best-known pieces are la blackline, a 5-year durational radio performance about socioeconomic survival and urban absurdity, le déserteur a digital art installation dwelling on the notion of abandonment, TME a docudrama performance exploring self-inflicted amnesia and resilience, and MIGRANT MARKET a remake of the slave market updated for the uber economy. Sylvain Souklaye's methods characteristically involve intense physical acts as well as the use of unsettling intimacy. sylvainsouklaye.com | @sylvain.souklaye | sylvainsouklaye.bandcamp.com
SATELLITE ART SHOW 11.30.2021-12.4.2021 CURATED BY PERFORMANCE IS ALIVE