Event
February 17, 2023, 6–8pm

Undoing Exhibition: Closing Performances by HaeAhn Woo Kwon, and Ka Yan and Mountain

To mark the final day of Water Works, ISCP will host performances in the exhibition space by HaeAhn Woo Kwon and artist duo Ka Yan and Mountain.

The evening will begin with HaeAhn Woo Kwon adopting her piece It Gives Skin (2022), on view at the gallery. The fiberglass shower base sculpture will be used as a palimpsest for a text titled “Undoing Exhibition.”

Physically repositioned in the exhibition space, the sculpture will become a support structure for sound artists, Ka Yan and Mountain. They will present a sound bath with crystal singing bowls, and a poem as incantatory meditation, drawing from strategies of Reiki transmission (universal energy). According to the artist duo, “The mix of high vibrational sonic experiences will activate the water within us at a cellular level, assisting in a realignment of the atomic joy accessible to all.”

Together, the performances reflect the exhibition themes of cleansing and ritual, asking what it means to feel clean as physical, spiritual, and mental modes of being.

Water Works is a group exhibition in the second-floor gallery curated by Danielle Wu that brings together six artists who turn to the washroom as an aesthetic resource: Hana Al-Saadi, Laurie Kang, Ajay Kurian, Mia Raadik, Pauline Shaw, and HaeAhn Woo Kwon.

About the artists:

HaeAhn Woo Kwon is a Canada-based artist whose installations and assemblages bring together disparate materials and means of production, including hand-built, manufactured, found, and organic objects and images. Their work often reflects on the availability of excess goods and the necessity of inventiveness in our current moment. She has exhibited work at Franz Kaka, Toronto; Jack Barrett Gallery, New York; and Clint Roenisch, Toronto, among others.

Ka Yan and Mountain is a New York-based artist duo. Ka Yan is an interdisciplinary artist and film director from Hong Kong. Dedicated to bridging worlds together, Ka Yan expresses the transient complex beauty within a diaspora, integrating filmmaking, photography, publishing, performance, text, and installations. Her latest short film It’s The Most Beautiful Before It’s Gone (2021) was screened and performed at the Queens Museum. Mountain is a Filipino-American composer, music producer and researcher whose work with Pique Project has been featured by Adult Swim, Adidas, Warp Records, Apple Music, and Queens Museum. Currently he is working on a sound therapy project researching alternative access methods into memory through a process called “song threading.”

This program is supported, in part, by Hartfield Foundation; Milton and Sally Avery Arts Foundation; New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, in partnership with the City Council; New York State Council on the Arts and the New York State Legislature; and William Talbott Hillman Foundation.

By visiting ISCP, you agree to abide by the following health and safety policies. Please make sure to plan ahead for your visit.

Groups of four or more are required to schedule an appointment in advance. Please write to info@iscp-nyc.org
All visitors are encouraged to maintain social distancing while at ISCP.
Masks or face coverings are strongly recommended but not mandatory.
Hand sanitizer will be available for visitors.
If you have fever, chills, cough, muscle pains, headache, loss of taste or smell, or think you may have been exposed to COVID-19 prior to your visit, please contact us to reschedule.
An inherent risk of exposure to COVID-19 and other infectious conditions exists in any public space where people are present. Those visiting the International Studio & Curatorial Program voluntarily assume all risks related to exposure to COVID-19, other infectious conditions, and other hazards that may be present in a public space.

6–8pm

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In the center of this drawing three blue human figures sit on top of a white shower base. It resembles a raft floating in water at sunset - with yellow and orange light reflecting across the surface of a black and gray ocean.

HaeAhn Woo Kwon, A Wet Palimpsest, 2021, marker on paper, 12 × 9 in. (30.48 × 22.86 cm). Courtesy of the artist and Franz Kaka Gallery

Undoing Exhibition: Closing Performances of "Water Works" by HaeAhn Woo Kwon, and Ka Yan and Mountain, 2023. Courtesy of International Studio & Curatorial Program

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

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ISCP Talk
January 26, 2023, 6–7pm

Artists at Work: Johanna Mirabel with Stephanie Johnson-Cunningham

For this Artists at Work talk, ISCP artist-in-residence Johanna Mirabel will speak about her paintings and the complex, intersectional themes they depict with museum professional Stephanie Johnson-Cunningham. Mirabel is the recipient of the 2022 Ritzau Art Prize at ISCP which provides global visibility, professional development, and career-enhancing residencies in New York City to promising visual artists from the African continent and of African descent.

In her paintings, Mirabel explores pictorial representation, shifting between abstraction, expressionism, and realism. She stages contradictions and juxtapositions using lush vegetation, partially present and disparate objects to evoke the inherent complexity of life between different cultures. Inspired by French writer Édouard Glissant’s theory of creolization, Mirabel creates pictorial forms that appear to be in motion, with characters that are embedded, nested, and ready to merge with their environments. The artist invites us to inhabit her work, to mentally explore her images as if they were parallel realities.

Johanna Mirabel is a French artist of Guyanese and Caribbean origin who graduated from the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris. Mirabel has exhibited work at Thierry Goldberg Gallery, New York, United States; L’Espace des femmes in Paris, France; L’Orfèvrerie, Saint-Denis, France; Août Gallery, Beirut, Lebanon; and Luce Gallery in Turin, Italy; among other venues. She is the recipient of the 2021 Prize Hatvany & Fondation de France, as the member and president of the collective La Marge, and the 2019 Prize for Excellence/Grand International Prize, Takifuji Art Award, Tokyo, Japan.

Stephanie Johnson-Cunningham is the Executive Director of Museum Hue. Stephanie is committed to changing museums to bring about greater attention and constant awareness of racial issues through arts and culture. She stresses that the best pedagogical strategies include the cultural capital of communities to deepen knowledge and understanding of art, history, and culture. Stephanie holds a Bachelor’s degree in Art and Art History from Brooklyn College and a Masters degree in Cultural Heritage and Preservation Studies (CHAPS) from Rutgers University. She also received the Americans for the Arts 2019 American Express Emerging Leader Award for her work.

This program is supported, in part, by Tauck Ritzau Innovative Philanthropy; 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 and the New York State Legislature; The Milton and Sally Avery Arts Foundation; and William Talbott Hillman Foundation.

By visiting ISCP, you agree to abide by the following health and safety policies. Please make sure to plan ahead for your visit.

Groups of four or more are required to schedule an appointment in advance. Please write to info@iscp-nyc.org.
All visitors are encouraged to maintain social distancing while at ISCP.
Masks or face coverings are strongly recommended but not mandatory.
Hand sanitizer will be available for visitors.
If you have fever, chills, cough, muscle pains, headache, loss of taste or smell, or think you may have been exposed to COVID-19 prior to your visit, please contact us to reschedule.
An inherent risk of exposure to COVID-19 and other infectious conditions exists in any public space where people are present. Those visiting the International Studio & Curatorial Program voluntarily assume all risks related to exposure to COVID-19, other infectious conditions, and other hazards that may be present in a public space.

6–7pm

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Johanna Mirabel

This is a painting of three black women sitting in quiet contemplation inside a room with wood grain floors and murals of golden tropical leaves painted on the green blue walls.

Johanna Mirabel, Living-Room n.32, 2022, oil on canvas, 102⁵/₁₆ × 75⁵/₈ in. (259.84 × 192.02 cm)

IG LIVE of "Artists at Work: Johanna Mirabel with Stephanie Johnson-Cunningham" at ISCP, 2023

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
January 24, 2023, 6-7pm

Care Package: A Performance Series by Kyoung eun Kang

In conjunction with the exhibition Kyoung eun Kang: Every Morning, Every Evening, on view at ISCP through February 2, 2023, the artist will perform a new iteration of her Care Package series. Following the performance, Kang will talk with fellow artist and long time mentor Carol Saft about the exhibition and her collaborative multidisciplinary practice.

The Care Package performance series has developed over the last 15 years. The artist will start with a care package sent by her mother in South Korea, and proceed to unpack it while incorporating sound, objects, and movement. These performances invite the audience to consider notions of home, time, care and distance, evoked by the long separation between daughter and mother.

Kyoung eun Kang is a New York-based artist born in South Korea. She received a BFA and MFA in painting from Hong-ik University in Seoul, South Korea and an MFA from Parsons, The New School for Design, New York, NY. Kang works in a wide range of media, including live performance, video, painting, photography, installation, text, and sound pieces. Her work explores geographical and cultural identities, as well as universal human themes such as affection and attachment to raise questions about how we foster and maintain relationships in an ever-changing world.

Carol Saft is an artist, filmmaker, and activist. She was born in Newark, New Jersey, and received a MFA from SUNY Purchase. Her paintings have been shown at Canada Gallery, NYC; Marquee Projects, Bellport, NY; and Mt. Airy Contemporary, Philadelphia. Her video work has been shown at the Smithsonian Institute, Washington DC; Aurora Picture Show, Houston; United Nations World Conference; Islip Art Museum, NY; Guild Hall Museum, East Hampton, NY; Parrish Art Museum, Water Mill, NY; Pierogi Gallery, Brooklyn; Diverse Works, Houston; and CableVision’s 28sec project. Saft’s work is in the permanent collections of the Guild Hall Museum, Heckscher Museum, Parrish Art Museum, and Water Mill Center, all in New York State.

This program is supported by Alice and Lawrence Weiner; Danna and Ed Ruscha; Hartfield Foundation; Horace W. Goldsmith 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 33; New York City Council District 34; New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature; and William Talbott Hillman Foundation.

By visiting ISCP, you agree to abide by the following health and safety policies. Please make sure to plan ahead for your visit.

Groups of four or more are required to schedule an appointment in advance. Please write to info@iscp-nyc.org
All visitors are encouraged to maintain social distancing while at ISCP.
Masks or face coverings are strongly recommended but not mandatory.
Hand sanitizer will be available for visitors.
If you have fever, chills, cough, muscle pains, headache, loss of taste or smell, or think you may have been exposed to COVID-19 prior to your visit, please contact us to reschedule.
An inherent risk of exposure to COVID-19 and other infectious conditions exists in any public space where people are present. Those visiting the International Studio & Curatorial Program voluntarily assume all risks related to exposure to COVID-19, other infectious conditions, and other hazards that may be present in a public space.