ISCP TalkJune 18, 2024, 6:30–7:30pm
Artists at Work: zeropowercut/Piyush Kashyap
For this Artists at Work, ISCP artist-in-residence zeropowercut/Piyush Kashyap will present his research on the relationship between oppression and art. He will engage the audience in a discussion about caste structures that attempt to fix a group of people into strata, preventing upward mobility as well as creative expression. Audience participation is encouraged but not required.
Kashyap is an artist who makes image-sculptures, handmade speakers, objects and drawings to locate how caste is coded in reality. He runs a research-and-development lab called zeropowercut to create collective productions of Dalit-Bahujan discourse from their small collaborative studio in the old city of Patna-Saheb, Bihar. In the artist’s words, “This practice-based-research considers how the caste-ideological-grading of workers, as various levels of Sudra (which means ‘insignificant, menial and knowledge-less’) counters Reality as unintelligible, by dissociating Knowledge and Work from the Body.” Kashyap has exhibited work at The Foundation for Indian Contemporary Art; The New Medium III; and Serendipity Arts Residency, all in India.
This program is supported by Inlaks Shivdasani Foundation; Hartfield Foundation; James Rosenquist Foundation; Lèna Saltos; Milton and Sally Avery Arts Foundation; New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, in partnership with the City Council; Brooklyn Borough President Antonio Reynoso; New York City Council District 34; New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Kathy Hochul and the New York State Legislature; Dr. Samar Maziad; Sarah Jones; van Beuren Charitable Foundation; William Talbott Hillman Foundation; and Woodman Family Foundation.
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This in-person event will be live streamed through Instagram: @iscp_nyc.
Accessibility information: 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 Veronica Sanchez at vsanchez@iscp-nyc.org to request a parking space and/or freight elevator usage.
Participating Residents
