PROGRAMMING 2023
The Immigrant Artist Biennial 2023: Contact Zone
September 8 2023 - 14 January 2024
Curated by Bianca Abdi-Boragi, Katherine Adams, and Anna Mikaela Ekstrand
Erika DeFreitas, an earnest weight in the crease, 2017, video still
The Immigrant Artist Biennial 2023 Launch
Remarks by Founding Artistic Director Katya Grokhovsky
Performance by Yali Romagoza
Videos: Keren Anavy, Ana Armengod, Erika DeFreitas, Juna Skenderi and more
September 8th 2023, 6-10 pm
Performance: 7.30 pm
PS122 GALLERY
150 First Ave (entrance on 9th)
New York,, NY 10009
Presented in Partnership with PS122 gallery and International Arrivals
Linnea Gad
Shoals - Two Sculptures in Nolan Park
September 9 - November 19, 2023
Performative Lecture: Linnéa Gad: “Oysters as Eyes,” October 1st, 2023, 1-3 PM Billion Oyster Project Building #16,
Governors Island.
Nolan Park
GOVERNORS ISLAND
New York, NY
Press Release
Presented in partnership with Billion Oyster Project
*This project was supported, in part, by a Foundation for Contemporary Art Emergency Grant. The fieldwork event is supported by the Consulate General of Sweden New York.
Coralina Rodriguez Meyer. Double Consciousness Infinity Mirror (detail), 2022
Coralina Rodriguez Meyer
Santuarios Gestion Desmadres
September 22 - November 18, 2023
Opening Reception: September 22, 2023 6-8pm
CUCHIFRITOS GALLERY
ARTISTS ALLIANCE INC
Storefront Installation
Inside Essex Market
88 Essex St #21,
New York, NY 10002
Presented in partnership with Artists Alliance Inc
Umber Majeed. Body of Water, 2015
Enmeshed, Dreams of Water
Artists: Keren Anavy, Sanie Bokharie, Magdalena Dukiewicz, Carlos Franco, Kathie Halfin, Bonam Kim, Umber Majeed, Jamie Martinez, Jonathan Ojekunle, Sa’dia Rehman, Leila Seyedzadeh, Masha Vlasova
October 6-November 1, 2023
Arena: Performance by Kathie Halfin, October 6, 2023 6:30-8PM
Opening Reception: October 13, 2023 6-9 PM
Fieldwork: Artist Talk/Closing Reception: October 30th, 2023 6.30pm-7.30pm
with Keren Anavy, Sanie Bokhari, Magdalena Dukiewicz, Kathie Halfin, Jamie Martinez, Leila Seyedzadeh. Moderated by Bianca Abdi-Boragi.
NARS Foundation GALLERY
201 46th St, 4th Floor
Brooklyn, NY 11220
Presented in partnership with NARS Foundation
*Enmeshed, Dreams of Water is sponsored in part, by the Greater New York Arts Development Fund of the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, administered by Brooklyn Arts Council (BAC). Contributors: Brooklyn Arts Council, New York City Department of Cultural Affairs.
Ana Armengod. My heart breaks every time her voice breaks, 2023
Roundtable: Undocumented Artists: The Politics of Visibility
Ana Armengod, Raul de Lara, Christopher “Unpezverde” Núñez, Annie J.Wang
Moderated by danilo machado
October 7th, 2023 6-7.30pm First Saturday
Auditorium
BROOKLYN MUSEUM
200 Eastern Pkwy,
Brooklyn, NY 11238
Presented in partnership with Brooklyn Museum
This event is sponsored by American Immigration Council and Define American
Young Joo Lee. Disgraceful Blue, 2016. Digital Animation. 10:24 min.
Parasites and Vessels
Anna Ting Möller, Young Joo Lee, and Juna Skenderi, Alexander Si
October 21 - November 19, 2023
Opening Reception: October 21, 2023 4-6PM
ACCENT SISTERS
1st street and Provost street,
150 Bay Street, Studio 206
Entrance on the corner of, 157A first sign,
Jersey City, NJ 07302
Presented in partnership with Accent Sisters
Top. Neema Githere, Hidden Hands Incantation AI. Chiarina Chen_ Heal Me Through your Nightmare
Fieldwork
As part of The Immigrant Artist Biennial 2023: Contact Zone’s Fieldwork programming guerilla theorist Neema Githere’s online workshop and posthumanist curator Chiarina Chen’s in-person dream-sharing person, both hosted by Wendy’s Subway, explore diasporic experiences affected by techbology and tethered to the subconscious.
Neema Githere: Afropresentism, Ancestry and Incantation
October 29, 2023 1-3pm
Workshop
Registration Link:
https://wendyssubway.com/programs/workshops/afropresentism-ancestry-incantation
Online
WENDY’S SUBWAY
Chiarina Chen: Heal Me through Your Nightmare
November 11th, 5-7PM
Workshop
Registration Link:
https://wendyssubway.com/programs/workshops/heal-me-through-your-nightmare
In person
Cultbytes HQ
85 Stanton st, suite 4A, 10002
Presented in Partnership with Wendy’s Subway
Erika DeFreitas. Her body is full of light (often, very often, and in floods), 2016. 04:22 minutes single-channel video. Image courtesy of the artist and Christie Contemporary
Conflictual Distance
Central Exhibition
Artists: Golnar Adili, Marcelo Brodsky, Pritika Chowdhry, Erika DeFreitas, Maria Kulikovska, Young Joo Lee, Keli Safia Maksud, Mila Panic, Jovencio de la Paz, Emilio Rojas, Nida Sinnokrot, Slinko, Rafael Yaluff
November 16th, 2023 - January 6th, 2024
Opening Reception: November 16th, 2023 6-8pm
Arena: Performance: Emilio Rojas: “Open Wound: A Gloria” December 9th 2023
Field Work: “Ukraine, Making Art in Times of War” November 18th Online
Closing: January 6th 4-6pm Poster Making Workshop
EFA PROJECT SPACE
323 W 39th St,
New York, NY 10018
Presented in partnership with EFA Project Space
Joiri Minaya. Container #4, 2020
Excavated Selves: Becoming Magic Bodies
Maya Hayuk Print
Artists: AYDO (A young Jusine Yu & Nicholas Oh), Selva Aparicio, Felipe Baeza, Ala Dehghan, Dominique Duroseau, Mia Enell, Raul de Lara, Anina Major, Joiri Minaya, Lilian Shetereva, Tariku Shiferaw, Francesco Simeti, Nyugen Smith
November 30, 2023 - January 13, 2024
Opening Reception: November 30, 2023 6-8PM
Biennial Closing Party: January 13, 2024 3-6PM
ALCHEMY GALLERY
55 Delancey St,
New York, NY 10002
Presented in partnership with Alchemy Gallery