ISCP Talk
February 25, 2022, 4–5pm

'Bursting Bubbles' Film Premiere: Director Maliyamungu Gift Muhande Interviews Adjani Okpu-Egbe

For the premiere of the short film Bursting Bubbles, filmmaker and current artist-in-residence Maliyamungu Gift Muhande will interview Adjani Okpu-Egbe, who is also an artist-in-residence at ISCP, and the main subject of the film.

Hailing from differing African contexts and generations, these two activist thinkers will talk about solidarity and current events, including the 2022 Africa Cup of Nations soccer tournament hosted in Cameroon. They will also compare and contrast their personal and professional experiences at home and abroad, within the contemporary art field and beyond.

Adjani Okpu-Egbe is a London-based multidisciplinary artist who uses mixed media, including found objects, to make works that shed light on socio-political and economic issues affecting Africa, its diaspora and reflecting on global social justice. His first solo show in the United States, On Delegitimization and Solidarity: Sisiku AyukTabe, the Martin Luther King Jr. of Ambazonia, the Nera 10, and the Myth of Violent Africa, curated by Amy Rosenblum-Martín, is currently on view at ISCP. Okpu-Egbe has exhibited work at Kunstverein Braunschweig Museum, Germany, SAVVY Contemporary, Berlin, Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Israel, Kunstpalast Museum, Düsseldorf, among many others.

Maliyamungu Gift Muhande is a Congolese documentary filmmaker and artist whose work explores the global history of the Black diaspora at the crossroads of anti-colonial change and personal creativity. Her work has presented work at the 2022 Sundance Film Festival, Salt Lake City; black beyond, New York; and Art Island, New York, among others.

This event is supported by Colleen Ritzau Leth; Evelyn Toll Family Foundation; Hartfield Foundation; Johnson Picture Framing & Galleries; Milton and Sally Avery Arts Foundation; New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, in partnership with the City Council; New York City Council District 34; New York City Council District 33; New York State Council on the Arts and the New York State Legislature; Tauck Ritzau Innovative Philanthropy; and William Talbott Hillman Foundation.

4–5pm

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Adjani Okpu-Egbe

Maliyamungu Gift Muhande

Maliyamungu Gift Muhande, Bursting Bubbles, 2021, film still featuring artist Adjani Okpu-Egbe. Courtesy of Maliyamungu Gift Muhande

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
February 8, 2022, 4–5pm

Artists at Work: Lisa Rosenmeier on Instagram Live

For this Artists at Work talk, current ISCP resident Lisa Rosenmeier of Denmark will discuss her photography, and recent solo exhibition, Transiency, presented in 2021 at CCA Andratx, Mallorca, with ISCP Arts Residency Manager Alison Kuo.

Rosenmeier creates photographs that are intended to mediate experiences of movement, and tap into a sense of the sublime felt by the wandering artist-traveler. Nearly all of the presentation images depict landscapes of Mallorca, which the artist describes as “magical.” In addition to the photographs and sound works, visitors to the exhibition site could venture outdoors to peer through a telescope that would show them digitally collaged scientific images of planets and auras of rainbow lights overlaid on top of the real mountainous landscape.

A Q&A with the audience will follow.

Tune into the Instagram Live here on Tuesday, February 8 at 4pm EST.

Lisa Rosenmeier studied at the Royal Academy of Fine Art in Copenhagen, and has exhibited at a number of museums including Kunsten Museum of Modern Art Aalborg, Denmark; CCA Andratx, Mallorca; Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek, Copenhagen; and Exit Art, New York City, among others.

This program is supported, in part, by Hartfield Foundation; 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.

4–5pm

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A hyper-detailed image of the planet Earth as seen from space hovers in the middle of a mountain landscape. A viewing platform and lone figure gazing at the mountains can be seen in the lower left hand corner, and from the right side of the image there is a blue semi-transparent aura over the mountain.

Lisa Rosenmeier, Transiency, 2021, video, print on glass, metal, paper, and photography, dimensions variable

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 27, 2022, 5-6pm

Carlos Franco and Florencia Escudero discuss 00:0_

For this public talk, artist in residence Carlos Franco will discuss topics that have informed his current solo exhibition at ISCP, 00:0_, with artist and Precog Magazine co-founder Florencia Escudero. A Q&A with the audience will follow.

Among the topics they plan to discuss are the shifting media landscape, including how bodies morph to contend with digital conditions and how that may impact political realities. Franco is interested in how we relate to symbols in this new ecosystem, and in connection, quotes philosopher Vílem Flusser: “Writing, in the sense of placing letters and other marks one after another, appears to have little or no future.” They will talk about how the super brief videos in 00:0_ are claimed by the artist to be micro-essays, about time, and perhaps about the collapse of global space into what Franco calls “corporate-sponsored instacommunities.”

Tune into the Instagram Live here on Tuesday, January 27 at 5pm EST.

Carlos Franco an ISCP Ground Floor Program resident currently based in Brooklyn, NY. He has exhibited at Diego Rivera Gallery, San Francisco; Nikolaj Kunsthallen, Copenhagen; and The Buffalo Institute for Contemporary Art (BICA), among others.

Florencia Escudero is an artist and editor based in Brooklyn, New York. Escudero received an MFA in Sculpture from the Yale University School of Art in 2012 and a BFA in Fine Arts from the School of Visual Arts in 2010. Her works have been exhibited at Kristen Lorello, Instituto Cervantes, Friedrich Petzel Gallery, Mrs. Gallery and Rachel Uffner Gallery among other venues. She is an editor and founder of Precog Magazine.

This program is supported, in part, by Hartfield Foundation; 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; Stavros Niarchos Foundation (SNF); The Milton and Sally Avery Arts Foundation; Teiger Foundation; Willem de Kooning Foundation; and William Talbott Hillman Foundation.

5-6pm

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