ISCP Talk
August 15, 2017, 6:30–8pm

Salon: Ling-lin Ku and Maria Zervos

Ling-lin Ku’s recent sculptures call on commercial window displays and retail shelf architecture as spaces for self-projection, desire, collage and humor. Finding inspiration in food, language puns, free association, day dreaming, and material alchemy, Ku will discuss how these influences hybridize in her object making.

Maria Zervos will speak about her interests in peripatetics, home and exile, topos and utopia. She will present her recent project entitled Peripatetics (Athens) together with a book that includes poems and texts by the artist and others, which explore the current state of migration in relation to politics.

This program is supported, in part, by Ministry of Culture, Taiwan, 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 Andrew M. Cuomo and the New York State Legislature, and Wolf Inc.

6:30–8pm

Participating Residents

ISCP Talk
July 25, 2017, 6:30–8pm

Salon: Nicanor Araoz and Marius Ritiu

Nicanor Araoz will speak about his work through poetry and free association, a technique used in psychoanalysis. Araoz’s practice explores the body, disintegration and nature in relation to homicide, torture and pain. In his talk, he will also address how psychedelia influences his work, and his interest in the film Perdues dans New York (1989), the artist Leigh Bowery and the theorist Georges Bataille.

In his practice, Marius Ritiu explores ideas surrounding travel, motion, migration and cosmology, reflecting on the importance and/or triviality of heritage, borders, nationhood. Ritiu will speak about his ongoing series entitled The Global Citizen. For these sculptural works, he collects wood adorned with pre-Christian symbols from the ancient region Maramures in Romania. He cuts and reassembles the wood to form 12 pentagons, and uses a unique Roma processing method to then superimpose Belgian copper plates on top.

This program is supported, in part, by BARRO Arte Contemporáneo, Kunsten en Erfgoed, New York City Council District 34, New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, in partnership with the City Council and New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Andrew M. Cuomo and the New York State Legislature.

6:30–8pm

Participating Residents

ISCP Talk
July 11, 2017, 6:30–8pm

Salon: Jia-Jen Lin and Jonas Nobel

Jia-Jen Lin will speak about her interests in humanity’s experience of displacement, self-consciousness and loss and how memories change with the passing of time. Using her personal experience as a point of departure, she employs her body and mind as a platform to process materials drawn from her own life. She also will present several past and current works to illustrate her ongoing investigation into hybrid cultures and shifting identities.

Jonas Nobel will speak about his collaboration in Uglycute, a design and architect collective. Uglycute has produced a broad range of projects in different contexts around the world, by focusing on the surroundings of the actual work of art or product, rather than the work itself. Uglycute’s practice also addresses ways of production and sharing knowledge through workshops, several of which Nobel will discuss in his talk.

This program is supported, in part, by IASPIS – The Swedish Arts Grants Committee’s International Programme for Visual Artists, Ministry of Culture, Taiwan, New York City Council District 34, New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, in partnership with the City Council and New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Andrew M. Cuomo and the New York State Legislature.

6:30–8pm

Participating Residents