Event
October 9, 2024, 3:00–4:30pm

Metropolitan Voids Agency: A Book Launch with Margherita Moscardini and Zasha Colah

Metropolitan Voids Agency is the first monographic publication dedicated to the work of artist Margherita Moscardini. The International Studio & Curatorial Program (ISCP) will host a presentation of Metropolitan Voids Agency with Moscardini and curator Zasha Colah, co-editor of the book.

The book covers part of the work carried out by Moscardini over the span of 17 years, from 2008 to 2024, encouraging readers to interpret her practice as an investigation into voids—those Moscardini has identified and designated as such, or those she has invented—in urban spaces, sparsely populated areas, and within the gaps of legal frameworks. Metropolitan Voids Agency is published by Archive Books and commissioned by Ar/Ge Kunst. 

Born in Italy, Margherita Moscardini is an artist who, through large-scale interventions, sculptures, videos, and writings, explores the relationships between urban, natural, and social transformation processes in specific geographies. Her practice spans various fields, including architecture, cities, and citizenship, aiming to create sculptures conceived as unclaimable objects and spaces that legally distance themselves from the sovereignty of the territory they occupy. Moscardini was an ISCP artist-in-residence in 2015.

Zasha Colah is a curator based in Turin, Italy, who is interested in cultural sovereignty and cultural transference under repression. She is a lecturer in Curatorial Studies at Nuova Accademia di Belle Arti in Milan, Italy; Artistic Co-Director of Ar/Ge Kunst, Italy (with Francesca Verga; Bozen-Bolzano); and a member of Archive in Berlin, Germany, Dakar, Senegal, and Milan, Italy. From 2010-2022, she was co-founder of the Clark House Initiative in Mumbai, India. In 2017, she co-curated the third Pune Biennale with Luca Cerizza, and in 2018, she was part of the curatorial team led by Marco Scotini of the second Yinchuan Biennale. She is curator of the 13th Berlin Biennale to open in 2025. Colah was an ISCP resident in 2012.

This project  is supported by the Directorate-General for Contemporary Creativity of the Italian Ministry of Culture under the Italian Council program (12th edition, 2023), which aims to promote Italian contemporary art worldwide.
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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.

3:00–4:30pm
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Margherita Moscardini, Metropolitan Voids Agency #Istanbul , 2013-2023, photo print on paper, framed , 165/16 × 24 × 13/16 in. (41.4 × 60.96 × 3.05 cm). Courtesy the artist and Gian Marco Casini Gallery, Livorno

Current and Upcoming Events & Exhibitions

Sujin Lim: The Land, Dark and Muddy

Through February 7
Exhibition

Somewhere Inside: ISCP and the Studio

Through March 7
Exhibition

ISCP Talk
September 25, 2024, 6:30–7:30pm

Artists at Work: Kearra Amaya Gopee in conversation with Evyn Bileri Banawoye

For this Artists at Work, recent ISCP artist-in-residence Kearra Amaya Gopee will be in conversation with artist and curator Evyn Bileri Banawoye. They will discuss Gopee’s practice and their overlapping interests. A Q&A with the audience will follow.

Kearra Amaya Gopee (they/them) is an anti-disciplinary visual artist from Carapichaima, Kairi (the larger of the twin-island nation known as Trinidad and Tobago), living on Lenape land (New York). Using video, sculpture, sound, writing and other media, they identify both violence and time as primary conditions that undergird the anti-Black world in which they work: a world that they are intent on working against through myriad collective interventions. They live and work between Trinidad and Tobago and New York City. Kearra Amaya Gopee has exhibited work at The Kitchen, New York; Third Horizon Film Festival, Miami; and REDCAT, Los Angeles, among others.

Evyn Bileri Banawoye (they/them) is a Togolese American artist and curator based in Brooklyn. They explore experiences of ancestry, queerness, and the self across the African Diaspora through an anti-disciplinary approach; working with ceramics, writing, and curation. They have helped organize multiple exhibitions at Picture Theory, New York, including a traveling suitcase exhibition with 60 artists from New York and Vienna, Austria. Banawoye holds a B.A from New York University and has exhibited in New York City.

This program is supported by Vision Fund; 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.

6:30–7:30pm
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Participating Residents

Kearra Amaya Gopee
Kearra Amaya Gopee, divinity surplus, 2024, installation, dimensions variable. Photo by Ally Caple

Current and Upcoming Events & Exhibitions

Sujin Lim: The Land, Dark and Muddy

Through February 7
Exhibition

Somewhere Inside: ISCP and the Studio

Through March 7
Exhibition

Event
September 24, 2024, 6:30–7:30pm

Artists at Work: Timothy Manalo in conversation with Iris Luo

For this Artists at Work, ISCP artist-in-residence Timothy Manalo will be joined by researcher and curator Iris Luo. Manalo will present on his practice and speak with Luo about his interests in ontology, gathering places, and world-building in relation to sculpture, installation, and textiles. They will also discuss Manalo’s research on social spaces as sites for knowledge production. A Q&A with the audience will follow.

Timothy Manalo explores dissonances between knowledge and objects. Casting molds and weaving, he plays with materiality and form and the familiar and the unfamiliar to highlight the meaning of things or destabilize them. At the core of his practice is an ongoing investigation into pluriversal perspectives that acknowledge we are part of a multiplicity of interconnected yet distinct worlds and reality is constituted by different ways of knowing and being. Manalo has exhibited work at The Canadian Sculpture Centre, Toronto; Franconia Sculpture Park, Minnesota; and Tufts University Art Galleries, Massachusetts, among others.

Iris Yiqun Luo, who will join the talk by Zoom, is an interdisciplinary researcher, curator, and educator from China. Currently, she is a PhD student at Cornell University in the Department of Human Centered Design. She explores the intersection of ontological design and knowledge justice with cultures, technology, and ancestral memories. From digital archiving to participatory action research, her work focuses on knowledge production through intra-action among pluriversal worldviews and challenges the bias of cognition. At the College of Human Ecology, Cornell University in September 2024, Luo will curate The Making of Barkcloth: Place, Gender, and Trans-Local Community, which traces the migration of Austronesian-speaking ancestors from Maritime Southeast Asia to Oceania through both cultural and scientific lenses.

This program is supported by Canada Council for the Arts; Toronto Arts Council; 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.

6:30–7:30pm
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Participating Residents

Timothy Manalo
Timothy Manalo, Medriñaque and Ancestral Diet, 2018-19, polypropylene twine, gold foil fringe and sugar-plaster mix casts, 130 × 100 × 3 in. (330.2 × 254 × 7.62 cm)
Timothy Manalo, I've Seen The Elephant, 2021, marine vinyl, insulation foam, wood and ceramic, 84 × 53 × 100 in. (213.36 × 134.62 × 254 cm)

Current and Upcoming Events & Exhibitions

Sujin Lim: The Land, Dark and Muddy

Through February 7
Exhibition

Somewhere Inside: ISCP and the Studio

Through March 7
Exhibition