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.