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

Participating Residents

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

Participating Residents

Exhibition
Through January 20

Somewhere Inside: ISCP and the Studio

Commemorating ISCP’s thirtieth anniversary, Somewhere Inside: ISCP and the Studio offers a focused look at the ways that five artists—Martine Gutierrez, Daniel Guzmán, Joiri Minaya, Sophie Tottie, and Frank WANG Yefeng, all alumni of the program, find inspiration from the materials and imagery around them in the studio. The mystery of the artist’s workspace is deeply rooted in the public imagination. Traditionally seen as a sacred place of refuge, the modern studio has adapted and evolved, taking myriad forms: a solitary retreat, a collective workshop or factory, a community setting, an office or a kitchen table, an exhibition or performance venue, and even a portal within the artist’s mind. The artists in this presentation have distinct practices, yet they all approach the studio as a nourishing and exploratory space where they can develop and mine their own creative archive—one enriched by a porous connection to the outside world.

Somewhere Inside takes its title from the words of Bruce Nauman, who playfully interrogated the activities of the studio: “It’s always interested me how one does any work in the studio at all, what it’s supposed to be about, how you get things started or make any sense out of the process. Even though the work is coming from somewhere inside, you can’t put your finger on the source.”

Reflecting on the alchemy of the studio, the exhibition highlights different strategies for accumulating and making use of what the artist holds within their studio—source material from books, magazines and online searches, sketches, costumes and props, earlier artworks, and other collected objects. For each artist in Somewhere Inside, the studio contents also serve as an archive of materials, imagery, and ideas, and it is from this archive that they often make discoveries and produce new artworks.

The studio environment is the lifeblood of ISCP. Established in 1994 with the goal of fostering an international community of artists in New York City, ISCP emerged as a visual arts residency at a time when affordable studio space in Manhattan had become increasingly scarce. Now in an old printing factory in East Williamsburg, Brooklyn, ISCP continues to provide individual studios as well as opportunities for support and exchange to artists and curators from all over the world. Today ISCP plays a vital role in bridging divides, championing diverse viewpoints, and creating a more inclusive and dynamic artistic community in New York City and beyond.

This exhibition is curated by Melinda Lang, ISCP’s Director of Programs and Exhibitions.

Somewhere Inside: ISCP and the Studio is supported by Brooklyn Borough President Antonio Reynoso; Hartfield Foundation; James Rosenquist Foundation; Milton and Sally Avery Arts Foundation; New York City Council District 34; New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council; New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Kathy Hochul and the New York State Legislature; Swedish Arts Grants Committee; van Beuren Charitable Foundation; William Talbott Hillman Foundation; and Woodman Family Foundation.

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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.

Opening Reception: Sep 17, 2024, 6–8pm
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Participating Residents