Open Studios
November 17–November 18, 2020

2020 Fall Open Studios

Fall Open Studios Open Hours:

  • November 17, 2020, 4–8:30pm EST
  • November 18, 2020, 11am–3:30pm EST
  • Guest speaker Martha Wilson

Registration for Fall Open Studios is required here.

Download the Fall Open Studios Program here.

For assistance with event registration and Zoom login, please contact info@iscp-nyc.org.

The International Studio & Curatorial Program (ISCP) Fall Open Studios is a two-day presentation of international contemporary art by the 33 artists and 1 curator from 19 countries currently participating in the residency program. Martha Wilson, pioneering feminist performance artist and founding director of Franklin Furnace Archive, will make opening remarks each day reflecting on how the arts community is experiencing the seismic changes of our time.

Join us for our second ever online open studios, with an updated format this Fall to share our visionary residents’ work and experiences in a series of short talks, screenings, performances, studio tours, and interviews in a Zoom webinar. Q&A sessions will be built into each presentation.

This event is free and open to the public ($10 suggested donation).

Open Studios participating artists and curators: Svetlana Bailey (Australia/United States), Malte Bartsch (Germany), James Beckett (The Netherlands/South Africa), Maja Bekan (The Netherlands/Serbia), Anaïs Castro (Canada), Pamela Council (United States), Sara Cwynar (Canada), Nezaket Ekici (Germany), Carlos Franco (Puerto Rico), Moko Fukuyama (Japan/United States), Caroline Garcia (Australia), LaMont Hamilton (United States), Wieteke Heldens (The Netherlands/United States), Anaïs Horn (Austria), Silas Inoue (Denmark), Saya Irie (Japan), Lauren Kelley (United States), Conny Karlsson Lundgren (Sweden), Joiri Minaya (United States), Devin N. Morris (United States), Alison Nguyen (United States), Zai Nomura (Japan), Adjani Okpu-Egbe (Southern Cameroons/Ambazonia), Habby Osk (Iceland), Ede Raadik (Estonia), Kameelah Janan Rasheed (United States), Vibe Overgaard (Denmark), Civan Özkanoğlu (Turkey/United States), Bundith Phunsombatlert (Thailand/United States), Julie Stavad (Denmark), Sille Storihle (Norway), Charisse Pearlina Weston (United States), and Antoinette Zwirchmayr (Austria).

ISCP thanks the following residency sponsors: Alice and Lawrence Weiner; Australia Council for the Arts; BKA – Bundeskanzleramt Österreich Kunst und Kultur / Arts and Culture Division of the Federal Chancellery of Austria; Bunkacho – Agency for Cultural Affairs, Government of Japan; Canada Council for the Arts; Danish Arts Foundation; Estonian Contemporary Art Development Center; Hartfield Foundation; IASPIS – The Swedish Arts Grants Committee’s International Programme for Visual and Applied Artists; Joseph Robert Foundation; Mondriaan Fund; New York City Council District 34; New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, in partnership with the City Council; New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Andrew M. Cuomo and the New York State Legislature; Niedersächsisches Ministerium für Wissenschaft und Kultur and Niedersächsische Sparkassenstiftung; OCA – Office for Contemporary Art Norway; Pola Art Foundation; Senate Department for Culture and Europe, Berlin; Sobey Art Awards, National Gallery of Canada; Tauck Ritzau Innovative Philanthropy; The Dr. K. David G. Edwards & Margery Edwards Charitable Giving Fund; Toby Devan Lewis; and Vision Fund.

This program is supported, in part, by Consulate General of Canada in New York; Consulate General of Denmark in New York; Consulate General of Sweden in New York; Golden Artist Colors, Inc.; Google; Hartfield Foundation; Materials for the Arts; New York City Council District 34; New York City Council Member for the 33rd District Stephen Levin; New York City Council Member for the 34th District Antonio Reynoso; New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, in partnership with the City Council; New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Andrew M. Cuomo and the New York State Legislature; Nordic Culture Fund; NYC & Company Foundation, One Brooklyn Fund, Inc., and the Office of The Brooklyn Borough President; NYC COVID-19 Response and Impact Fund in The New York Community Trust; Royal Norwegian Consulate General in New York; Shelley & Donald Rubin Foundation; Stavros Niarchos Foundation (SNF); The Kettering Family Foundation; The Milton and Sally Avery Arts Foundation; William Talbott Hillman Foundation; and VIA Art Fund.

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

This event will be recorded.

Open Hours: November 17, 2020, 4–8:30pm EST and November 18, 2020, 11am–3:30pm EST
Download Fall Open Studios Program (PDF)Download Press Release (PDF)

ISCP Talk
October 20, 2020, 4–5pm

Artists at Work: Luiza Gottschalk on Instagram Live

Artist-in-residence Luiza Gottschalk presents I Had an Accident, a performance from her home in São Paulo, Brazil, in a set designed by architect Tito Ficarelli.

Utilizing a two-channel split screen via Instagram live, this work is an interdisciplinary experiment where the artist will synthesize spoken word, choreographed movements, painting, and sound. By harmonizing elements inspired from a single narrative written in 2016, Gottschalk expands on a descriptive tale about a corporeal meeting.

Luiza Gottschalk’s paintings are inspired by Brazilian nature. The artist works with water and pigments, and employs what she refers to as organic gestures throughout her practice. Gottschalk has exhibited work at Praça das Artes; Estação Satyros; and Brazilian Art Museum (MAB), all São Paulo, among others.

Tune in through this link, here.

This program is supported by 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; NYC COVID-19 Response and Impact Fund in The New York Community Trust; Hartfield Foundation; Shelley & Donald Rubin Foundation; Stavros Niarchos Foundation (SNF); and VIA Art Fund.

4–5pm

Participating Residents

ISCP Talk
October 13, 2020, 4–5pm

Artists at Work with Nezaket Ekici: Transmission on Instagram Live

In this live online performance titled Transmission, residence Nezaket Ekici will create a connection between the real world and the virtual world using the pattern of a QR Code, a formative image for the Internet age. The QR Code was developed in 1994 by Masahiro Hara in Japan for the purpose of allowing quick access to content on the Internet – be it text, photos, movies or music – via a URL.

Ekici will broadcast herself over Instagram Live manipulating various black sculptural objects, which she’ll arrange on a white platform. The result will be a large floor installation of an oversized QR Code. By treating the graphic forms like three-dimensional sculptural elements, the Internet world will be drawn into reality. 

Viewers will be able to scan the finished QR Code with their cell phone cameras to follow the link, which will grant access to a video. In doing so, the artist wishes to release the audience back into the virtual world at the end of her performance. 

Tune in through this link, here.

This event is made possible with the financial support of the Consulate General of the Federal Republic of Germany New York.

This program is also supported by Senate Department for Culture and Europe in Berlin; 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; NYC COVID-19 Response and Impact Fund in The New York Community Trust; Hartfield Foundation; Shelley & Donald Rubin Foundation; Stavros Niarchos Foundation (SNF); and VIA Art Fund.

4–5pm

Participating Residents