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August 9, 2023, 5–9pm

2023 Summer Open House

ISCP announces Summer Open House 2023, a day of studio presentations by artists and curators currently in residence. This event is free and open to the public.

Come and celebrate a summer evening with friends and take part in conversations about international contemporary art with arts professionals from around the world in ISCP’s loft building on the border of Bushwick and Williamsburg. Founded in 1994, ISCP was established to support the creative advancement of an international community of artists and curators in New York City.

Three artists-in-residence will present performances during the event: 

Starting at 7:00pm in Studio 219, Coralie Vogelaar will present Multi-Gesture Gym, a performance incorporating sound and sculpture comprising recombined deconstructed fitness devices, with choreography by Marjolein Vogels, performance by Avery Gerhardt, and soundscape by Hendrik-Jan Grievink.  

From 7:30–8:15pm in Studio 304, Gregor Petrikovic will present a film installation accompanied by a live score performed by composers J. Mordechai and Jacob “NTHNL” Rudin.

At 8:30pm, Nadia Markiewicz will premiere her new work Bad Star in ISCP’s loading dock. In this performance, Markiewicz attempts to reclaim the grotesque body in the context of a scary story; she faces the archetype of the wrongdoer from a subjective point of view.

Alchemyverse: Messa in Luce, an exhibition by resident collaborative artist duo Alchemyverse, curated by Jess Wilcox, will be on view in the first floor project space. Messa in Luce is an immersive scale-shifting installation of work developed in and about Chile’s Atacama Desert. The artists invite exhibition goers to walk onto an elevated floor that vibrates with desert audio and houses artifacts from their field work, which can be viewed from above.

In addition, WAVE PHENOMENA: contemporary strategies of sonic agency, an exhibition by Atomic Culture, the 2023-24 ISCP institution-in-residence, will be on view in the 2nd floor gallery. The exhibition manifests the potential of sound as a catalyst for personal, political, and environmental reflection, and explores the practices of artists working within or around sound, presenting discourses on sonic agency.

Summer Open House is hosted by ISCP’s Young Patrons, a dynamic group that offers unique contemporary art events and programming, and provides support for institutional programs and operations. For further information and to become a member, please contact youngpatrons@iscp-nyc.org.

ISCP thanks all of the generous collaboration and funding of residency sponsors and supporters.

This program is also supported, in part, by Alice and Lawrence Weiner; Danna and Ed Ruscha; Hartfield Foundation; Horace W. Goldsmith Foundation; 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 the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature; James Rosenquist Foundation; and William Talbott Hillman 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

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

5–9pm
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This image is a video still. It presents the front half of a toy pink convertible Cadillac, shot a bit from above, diagonally cutting through the frame, from the bottom right corner, heading towards the top left one, but not reaching it. The car is placed on a background made from fake green grass. In the car, at the steering wheel is a white woman with brown long hair flowing in the wind, wearing a black tank top. She is presented from the back, and is resting her left elbow on the door of the convertible. Her left arm ends right under her elbow.
Nadia Markiewicz, DRIVE-THRU (The Runaway), 2022, video, dimensions variable

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
July 25, 2023, 6–7:30pm

Curators at Work: Yen-Yi Lee with Zhenzhen Qi

For this Curators at Work, ISCP curator-in-residence Yen-Yi Lee will discuss her research with Brooklyn-based artist and researcher Zhenzhen Qi. A Q&A with the audience will follow. 

Lee will reflect on automation, economic structures, and how they impact society and asks “Can art and culture navigate obstacles by glitching the system? When patterns appear without centralized planning, we call it Emergence.” Zhenzhen Qi will be speaking about emergence in physical and virtual worlds, and introducing its connection to Uncomputable and Collective Intelligence. 

Yen-Yi Lee is a curator based in Taipei, Taiwan. Her ongoing curatorial research focuses on failure and risk management. She is the founder of the contemporary art zine, HAGAI HUAKAI and co-founder of SYNERGY festival. With a focus on art and technology, she curated exhibitions at the National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts, Taiwan; Taipei Digital Art Festival, Digital Art Center, Taiwan; and Open Space Bae, South Korea, among others. Lee’s residency at ISCP is sponsored by the Ministry of Culture, Taiwan.

Zhenzhen Qi is a researcher, artist and technologist from China, currently based in Brooklyn, New York. Since 2014, she has taught interactive media, web, and game development courses at Cooper Union, New York University, Columbia University, City University of New York (CUNY), and Guangzhou Academy of Art (GAFA). She has been a member of NEW INC and a resident of Eyebeam and Pioneer Works. Zhenzhen is a candidate for Doctor of Education (EdD) at Teacher’s College, Columbia University, researching software simulation as a mode of collective re-making and un-looping.

This program is supported, in part, by the Ministry of Culture, Taiwan; Hartfield Foundation; 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; Sherrill Collection of American Art Foundation; South Arts; James Rosenquist Foundation; Joseph Robert Foundation; and William Talbott Hillman 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

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

6–7:30pm
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Yen-Yi Lee
Website and 3D sculpture by eg.lio featured in contemporary art zine 'HAGAI HUAKAI' founded and edited by Yen-Yi Lee.

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
July 18, 2023, 6–7pm

Spindles & Circuits: A Closing Presentation by Vibe Overgaard

Held in conjunction with Vibe Overgaard: Spindle City on view at ISCP through July 21, 2023, Vibe Overgaard will deliver an artist presentation on the circuits of technology, industry, capital, and social relations running through her objects and research. The event will be followed by a short Q&A between the artist and independent curator Laurel Ptak. 

Vibe Overgaard is a Danish visual artist working with installation, sculpture, performance, video, archive material and critical writing. Her research-based practice focuses on economies seen from a historical perspective. Often researching industry and production relations of a specific location, her work links local circumstances to greater global-political questions and critiques. She has exhibited work at Kunsthal NORD, Denmark; Goethe-Institut, Palestine; and Floating Projects, Hong Kong; among others. She was an ISCP artist-in-residence in 2022 and 2023 supported by the Danish Arts Foundation.

Laurel Ptak is a New York-based curator, educator and writer. She has held positions at non-profit art institutions in the United States and internationally including Art in General, New York; Guggenheim Museum, New York; MoMA PS 1, New York; Museo Tamayo, Mexico City; and Tensta Konsthall, Stockholm, among others. Ptak is a co-founder of Art+Feminism Wikipedia-Edit-A-Thon, a community that confronts gender disparities online and their effects on public forms of knowledge, with events held yearly at the Museum of Modern Art and co-organized by thousands of art institutions, civic institutions, and universities around the world.

This program is supported, in part, by Consulate General of Denmark in New York; Danish Arts Foundation; Hartfield Foundation; 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 State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Andrew M. Cuomo and the New York State Legislature; and William Talbott Hillman 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

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

6–7pm
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Vibe Overgaard
Installation view of 'Vibe Overgaard: Spindle City' in ISCP's second floor gallery, 2023. Photo by Shark Senesac

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

Related Events & Exhibitions

Vibe Overgaard: Spindle City

This is a digital rendering of dark gray sculptural pieces that resemble machine parts sitting on a flat light gray background. Their layout is reminiscent of a city street seen from above. Coming from the left side are four strands of white light that look like glowing strings.
March 17–July 21, 2023
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