ISCP Talk
May 12, 2023, 7–8pm

Six Healing Sounds

Six Healing Sounds is held on the occasion of the exhibition Clae Lu: Playroom, on view in ISCP’s Project Space. This hour-long event is a collaboration with artist Daria Garina, who will lead participants through a series of six QiGong healing breaths, while Clae Lu offers improvisational sound on the 古筝 (gu zheng, a traditional Chinese zither).

Situated within the exhibition space, Six Healing Sounds aligns with the themes of rest, play, and joy that Lu explores through their intertwined music and visual art practice. Described by Lu and Garina as “a sonic journey through the body,” the event aims to affect participants’ emotional and physical health by guiding the five “elemental souls,” described as Wood, Fire, Earth, Metal, and Water in Traditional Chinese medicine, to come together to form a unified sense of self.

This event is free and limited to 20 participants due to space capacity. Please RSVP on Eventbrite.

Six Healing Sounds will run for approximately 60 minutes and will start at 7pm, which includes a 5-10 minute introduction while participants get settled in. Participants are invited to bring their own mat, cushion, blanket, etc. for sitting, standing, or laying down on.

Daria Garina (he/him) is a trans, disabled medium, multidisciplinary artist, and refugee of Russian and Kazakhstani-Chinese descent. At Accountability Mapping, Daria teaches transformative justice through the body. At Red Rabbit Astrology, Daria helps BIPOC people chart the course of their own destiny.

Clae Lu (they/them) is a queer, second generation Han Chinese American from Queens, NY. They identify as an artist, designer, cultural worker, and 古筝 (gu zheng) musician working on land that is unceded territory of the Lenni Lenape. Lu believes in the power of arts and grassroots activism to create spaces for conversation, reflection, and action. They have performed at the Metropolitan Museum of Art; MoMA PS1; Elsewhere; Brooklyn Museum; Movement Research; Symphony Space; and Abrons Art Center. They have shown work at The W.O.W. Project, Wook + Lattuada Gallery, and the Honolulu Museum of Art. Their residency at ISCP was sponsored by The New York Community Trust’s Edward and Sally Van Lier Fund.

This program is supported by The New York Community Trust’s Edward and Sally Van Lier Fund; James Rosenquist Foundation; Hartfield Foundation; Milton and Sally Avery Arts Foundation; New York City Council District 33; New York City Council District 34; New York State Council on the Arts and the New York State Legislature; and William Talbott Hillman Foundation.
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Accessibility information: There will be a captioned pre-recording of the practice available on ISCP’s vimeo page and on the archived listing for this event on our website. Please contact Darlyn Villalona at dvillalona@iscp-nyc.org if you have any questions, would like to receive the recording, or be added to the waitlist in the case the event is full.

Please note that the entrance to the first floor exhibition space where the event will be held, has seven steps and a ramp, which is ADA compliant. ISCP can offer two reserved parking spaces on request. There is an accessible bathroom on the first floor, up one step, down the hall from the event space. The collaborators of this event request that participants consider chemical sensitivity and refrain from wearing heavy fragrances. Please email vsanchez@iscp-nyc.org to request a parking space and/or freight elevator usage.

7–8pm

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Clae Lu, installation view of 'Playroom' in ISCP project space, 2023. Photo by Shark Senesac

Current and Upcoming Events & Exhibitions

Somewhere Inside: ISCP and the Studio

Through January 20

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Sujin Lim: The Land, Dark and Muddy

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Open Studios
April 21–April 22, 2023

2023 Spring Open Studios

Opening Reception: Friday, April 21, 6–9pm
Open Hours: Saturday, April 22, 1–7pm

The International Studio & Curatorial Program (ISCP) Spring Open Studios is a presentation of international contemporary art organized by the 35 artists and curators from 28 countries currently in residence. Guest speaker, Jennifer Gutiérrez, City Council Member for New York City’s 34th District, will make remarks during the opening reception.

This event is free and open to the public.

Twice a year, ISCP offers the public access to private artists’ and curators’ studios to view artwork and share one-on-one conversations. This spring, ISCP invites the public to engage in dialogue around contemporary art with arts professionals from across the globe. Concentrated in a three-story postindustrial loft building on the edge of Bushwick, ISCP supports the creative advancement of residents, with a robust program of individual workspaces and professional benefits.

Clae Lu: Playroom, a solo exhibition of work by Clae Lu, recipient of The New York Community Trust’s Edward and Sally Van Lier Fund residency at ISCP, will be on view in the first floor project space. Curated by Kathy Cho, the exhibition presents a variety of experimental works that range from painting, to a meditative installation, to sonic compositions on the 古筝 (gu zheng), also known as the Chinese zither. All of these creative practices are meant to create space for and support the artist’s chosen families, their closely connected community. Throughout the exhibition, Lu asks, “What does it mean to celebrate the mundane?” and “How does my community come together to create new traditions?

In addition, Vibe Overgaard: Spindle City, a solo show curated by Media Farzin, will be on view in the second floor gallery. The show takes the textile industry as a context from which to examine the workings and impact of growth economies. It is based on artist Vibe Overgaard’s research in Pawtucket, Rhode Island, and Lowell, Massachusetts, major hubs of industrial cotton production in the United States, and draws on the artist’s background growing up in a Danish town founded as a manufacturing center for textiles. The exhibition features a video essay, Spindle City, and a series of sculptures made of ceramic, wood, metal, and thread. The circuit is a recurring motif: from the fiber that winds through sculptures that evoke industrial looms, to the animated lines of the video, which symbolically trace a critical path through legacies of capitalism, colonialism, slavery, and the welfare state.

Open Studios participating artists and curators:

Alchemyverse (Bicheng Liang and Yixuan Shao) (China/United States), Hellen Ascoli (Guatemala/United States), Felipe de Ávila Franco (Brazil/Finland), James Beckett (South Africa/The Netherlands/United States), Pascale Birchler (Switzerland), Hung-Yen Chang (Taiwan), Nathaniel Donnett (United States), Veronika Eberhart (Austria), Kyoung eun Kang (South Korea/United States), Mandy Espezel (Canada), Kokou Ferdinand Makouvia (Togo/France), Eda Gecikmez (Turkey), Anawana Haloba (Norway/Zambia), Janet Jones (Canada), Levon Kafafian (United States), Hanni Kamaly (Sweden), Kahori Kamiya (United States/Japan), Tali Keren (United States, Israel/Palestine), Felix Kindermann (Belgium/Germany), Yen-Yi Lee (Taiwan), Shanekia McIntosh (United States), Joiri Minaya (United States/Dominican Republic), Azita Moradkhani (Iran/United States), Ruth Owens (United States), Evelyn Plaschg (Austria), Dana Robinson (United States), Akshay Sethi (India), Anna Schimkat (Germany), Oriane Stender (United States), Charlotte Sprogøe (Denmark), Mikhail Tolmachev (Russia/Germany), Sarah Tortora (United States), Coralie Vogelaar (The Netherlands), and wdha (Qatar).

ISCP thanks the following residency sponsors:

AES+F; Alberta Foundation for the Arts; Alice and Lawrence Weiner; Artist Relief; Atelier Flex – Kanton Zug; Canada Council for the Arts; Danish Arts Foundation; Danna and Ed Ruscha; Dimitri Offengenden; Federal Ministry for Arts, Culture, the Civil Service and Sport of Austria; Fire Station – Qatar Museums; Hartfield Foundation; Horace W. Goldsmith Foundation; IASPIS – The Swedish Arts Grants Committee’s International Programme for Visual Artists; Inlaks Shivdasani Foundation; Jerome Foundation; KdFS Kulturstiftung des Freistaates Sachsen; La Fondation pour l’Art Contemporain Claudine et Jean-Marc Salomon; Ministry of Culture of the Flemish Community Visual Arts Department; Ministry of Culture, Taiwan; Mondriaan Fund; National Endowment for the Arts; New York City Council Member for the 34th District; New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, in partnership with the City Council; New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature; OCA – Office for Contemporary Art Norway; Pollock-Krasner Foundation; Pro Helvetia; SAHA Association; Sherrill Collection of American Art Foundation; South Arts; The Puffin Foundation; The Joseph Robert Foundation; The Kettering Family Foundation; Toby Devan Lewis; Tony & Sissi Moens; Uniarts Helsinki Academy of Fine Arts in partnership with Saastamoinen Foundation; Vision Fund; and Wilhelm Family Foundation.

This program is also generously supported, in part, by:

Austrian Cultural Forum New York; Consulate General of Denmark in New York; Consulate General of the Netherlands in New York; Consulate General of Sweden in New York; Council for Canadian American Relations; Danish Arts Foundation; Evelyn Toll Family Foundation; Golden Artist Colors, Inc.; Google; Grimm Artisanal Ales; Hartfield Foundation; Materials for the Arts; Milton and Sally Avery Arts Foundation; New York City Council Member for the 34th District; New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, in partnership with the City Council; New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature; Royal Norwegian Consulate General in New York; The New York Community Trust’s Edward and Sally Van Lier Fund; and William Talbott Hillman Foundation.

In addition to the many individuals who support ISCP, the members of Director’s Circle are also thanked for their largesse: Anne Altchek, Barbara van Beuren, Samar Maziad, and Laurie Sprayregen.

Please note that the entrance to ISCP has seven steps and a ramp, which is ADA compliant. There are seven artist studios and one exhibition space which can be accessed on the first floor of ISCP. There is an accessible bathroom on the first floor at the end of the hallway, up one step, where the artist studios are located. To access the second floor there is a staircase with a grab bar installed on the right side with 22 steps. The second floor has 22 artist and curator studios, one exhibition space, and a lounge where remarks by our guest speaker will take place. To access the third floor there is a staircase with a grab bar installed on the right side with 24 steps. The third floor has five artist and curator studios. ISCP can access a freight elevator to bring visitors between the first and second floors on request.

ISCP can offer two reserved parking spaces on request for people with disabilities. Please email dvillalona@iscp-nyc.org to request a parking space and/or freight elevator usage.

Opening Reception: Apr 21, 2023, 6–9pm

Open Hours: 1–7pm

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Felipe de Ávila Franco, Favela Offshore #2, 2021, video. Courtesy of the artist

Felix Kindermann, studio installation view from Spring Open Studios 2023. Photo by Martin Parsekian

Kyoung eun Kang, studio installation view from Spring Open Studios 2023. Photo by Martin Parsekian

Janet Jones, studio installation view from Spring Open Studios 2023. Photo by Martin Parsekian

wdha, studio installation view from Spring Open Studios 2023. Photo by Martin Parsekian

Current and Upcoming Events & Exhibitions

Somewhere Inside: ISCP and the Studio

Through January 20

Exhibition

Sujin Lim: The Land, Dark and Muddy

Through February 7

Exhibition

ISCP Talk
April 12, 2023, 6–7pm

Vibe Overgaard, Mary. N Taylor, and Rakhee Kewada discuss ‘Spindle City’

In conjunction with the exhibition Spindle City, on view at ISCP through July 21, 2023, artist Vibe Overgaard, anthropologist and urban theorist Mary N. Taylor, and geographer Rakhee Kewada will discuss the history of capitalist industrialization, the legacy of its visual and architectural forms, and its role in shaping urban space, social practices, and popular movements.

Their conversation will explore the value of artistic practice as a means for considering the contradictions of capitalism, and trace the critical path that is illuminated in the artist’s video work, Spindle City, which was produced for the exhibition.

Vibe Overgaard is a Danish visual artist working with installation, sculpture, performance, video, archive material and critical writing. Her research-based practice focuses on economies seen from a historical perspective. Often researching industry and production relations of a specific location, her work links local circumstances to greater global-political questions and critiques. She has exhibited work at Kunsthal NORD, Denmark; Goethe-Institut, Palestine; and Floating Projects, Hong Kong, among others. She was an ISCP artist-in-residence in 2022 and 2023 supported by the Danish Arts Foundation.

Mary N. Taylor is the Assistant Director of the Center for Place, Culture, and Politics at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. Working at the intersection of anthropology, urbanism, and dialogical art, her praxis investigates sites, techniques, and politics of civic cultivation and the production of political personhood, the ethics and aesthetics of nationalism/cultural differentiation, and the history of communist experiments. She is the co-editor of Co-revolutionary Praxis: Accompaniment as a Strategy for Working Together and author of Movement of the People: Folk Dance, Populism, and Citizenship in Hungary, a historical ethnography. Most recently, she co-authored The Commonist Horizon: Futures Beyond Capitalist Urbanization. Her work has also appeared in numerous journals. Taylor has taught at Hunter College, the Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art, and the Parsons School of Design. She is a founding member of the LeftEast collective.

Rakhee Kewada is a Zimbabwean geographer whose research interests include agrarian studies, development of the global south, and decolonization. Kewada is a PhD candidate in Earth and Environmental Sciences (Geography) at the Graduate Center, CUNY where her dissertation research on cotton and textile production in postcolonial Tanzania examines changing geographies of underdevelopment in the 21st century. Kewada has taught Urban Studies at Hunter College and Queens College.

This program is supported, in part, by Consulate General of Denmark in New York; Danish Arts Foundation; Hartfield Foundation; Milton and Sally Avery Arts Foundation; New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, in partnership with the City Council; New York City Council District 34; New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Andrew M. Cuomo and the New York State Legislature; and William Talbott Hillman Foundation.

6–7pm

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