For this Artists at Work, current artists-in-residence Simon Liu and Charlie Perez-Tlatenchi will stage the first iteration of an ongoing collaboration titled Ocean Terminal, a performative lecture and audiovisual presentation that formally welds their overlapping interests in mining the psychic architecture and global undercurrents of their respective home cities of Hong Kong and New York. Oscillating between expanded cinema, live noise music, and a sequence of subversive artist presentations, this event will translate themes and histories that words alone struggle to convey. Using collage, abstraction, coded language, and opaque references to personal memories, Liu and Perez-Tlatenchi reflect on shared experiences that they propose, in their words, are conveyed through “images that were meant to show us what goes where but we can no longer make out the path. Maybe we should lay them across the wall and try to put the pieces back together.”

Simon Liu is an artist filmmaker whose practice centers on the rapidly evolving psychological and sociopolitical climate of his homeland of Hong Kong through material abstraction, speculative history, and subversion of documentary cinema practices via short films, multi-channel video installations, mixed media prints, and 16mm projection performances. His work has been exhibited at institutions including the Whitney Museum of American Art; The Museum of Modern Art; The Shed; and Museum of the Moving Image, all in New York; Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles; Portland Institute for Contemporary Art, Oregon; Tai Kwun Contemporary, Hong Kong; Moderna Museet, Stockholm; and the M+ Museum, Hong Kong.

His films have screened at festivals globally including the Toronto, New York, Berlin, Rotterdam, BFI London, Edinburgh, Jeonju, and Hong Kong International Film Festivals alongside the Sundance Film Festival, New Directors/New Films, CPH:DOX, Cinéma du Réel, Punto de Vista, Viennale, and the Media City Film Festival. 

Charlie Perez-Tlatenchi produces work that crosses the boundaries between photography, painting, and printmaking. His work reflects on the hidden histories still operating under the shadows of globalization. Charlie delves deep into diasporic experiences depicted through an interplay of images, made by combining and compositing printing techniques to reflect on how colonial histories recede into the background of everyday life. He has participated in solo and group exhibitions at Window Unit, New Jersey (2023); Sikkema Jenkins & Co., New York (2022); haul gallery, New York (2021); FLUC, Vienna, Austria (2019); Elizabeth Leach Gallery, Portland, OR (2018); Canada Gallery, New York (2017), among others.

This program is supported by The New York Community Trust’s Edward and Sally Van Lier Fund; Hartfield Foundation; James Rosenquist Foundation; Joe Sultan; 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. This presentation contains stroboscopic imagery and sustained sound at higher volumes.

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 programs@iscp-nyc.org to request a parking space and/or freight elevator usage.