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October 7, 2025, 6:30–7:30pm

Artists at Work: Robertas Narkus in Conversation with Job Piston

For this Artists at Work, ISCP artist-in-residence Robertas Narkus will be joined by curator Job Piston. Riffing on the format of an educational culinary show, this conversation will take place while the hosts, Narkus and Piston, cover a range of topics connected to Narkus’s artistic practice, including the agency of the artist, notions of chance, serendipity in the age of machine intelligence, migration and invasive species. They will also discuss Narkus’s plans for the 2025 Performa Biennial. A Q&A with the audience will follow.

Robertas Narkus is a multi-disciplinary artist based in Palanga, Lithuania, whose practice spans installation, happenings, performance and social entrepreneurship. He finds inspiration in an ethos of optimism and the myth of progress. Teetering on the edge of satire, Narkus’s works employ humor to interrogate social behavior and norms, performative masculinity, the culture of achievement, and the boundaries between the absurd and the cringe-worthy. He has presented work at XII Baltic Triennial, Contemporary Art Centre (CAC), Lithuania; Vilnius Biennial of Performance Art, Lithuania; KIM? Contemporary Art Centre, Latvia; de Appel, The Netherlands; Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, The Netherlands; Whitechapel Gallery, United Kingdom; Ballroom Marfa, Texas; Eastcontemporary, Italy; and Temninkova & Kasela, Estonia; among others. In 2022, Narkus represented Lithuania at the 59th Venice Biennale.

Currently serving as Curator-at-Large for the 2025 Performa Biennial, Piston has extensive experience organizing artist-driven projects, international partnerships, and innovative digital initiatives. He has curated influential programs and commissions featuring renowned artists such as Barbara Kruger, Tania Bruguera, Zanele Muholi, and Korakrit Arunanondchai among others. Passionate about expanding cultural dialogues, Piston has spearheaded Performa’s international programs like the Finnish Pavilion Without Walls and the Lithuanian Pavilion Without Walls.

This program is supported by Lithuanian Council for Culture; Lithuanian Culture Institute; 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.

6:30–7:30pm

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Robertas Narkus, Gut Feeling, installation at Lithuanian Pavillion, 59th Venice Biennale, 2022. Courtesy of the artist and Contemporary Art Centre (CAC), Vilnius, Lithuania .

Robertas Narkus, Gut Feeling, installation at Lithuanian Pavillion, 59th Venice Biennale, 2022. Courtesy of the artist and Contemporary Art Centre (CAC), Vilnius, Lithuania.

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Nifemi Ogunro: The First Act, 2025, installation view. ISCP's Project Space. Photo by Martin Parsekian.

Nifemi Ogunro: The First Act, 2025, installation view. ISCP's Project Space. Photo by Martin Parsekian.

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Anaïs Horn is an Austrian artist based in Paris and Lunigiana, Italy whose multidisciplinary practice explores the tension between presence and absence, tracing how memories and (her)stories resonate through the spectral presence of objects and spaces. Horn frequently introduces elements of illusion and mystery, situating her work within the space of the in-between. In 2022 she co-founded the publishing house Drama Books, and in 2023, she co-founded the artist-run space Cabanon in Paris. Recent solo and two-person presentations include Camera Austria, Graz; Fotohof, Salzburg, Austria; MLZ Art Dep, Trieste; Galeria RGR, Mexico City; Sophie Tappeiner, Vienna; NADA Projects, New York; and her upcoming exhibitions include National Library of Kosovo, Pristina and Austrian Cultural Forum New York. Monographs of her work have been published by DCV, Berlin; Meta/Books, Amsterdam; Edition Camera Austria, Graz; Edition Fotohof, Salzburg, and Drama Books, Paris.

Wendy Vogel is a writer and critic and occasional curator based in Brooklyn. Vogel’s research interests include legacies of feminist and identity-based practice, as well as the performative and ethical questions around contemporary art production and criticism. A former editor at Flash Art International, Modern Painters and Art in America, she has contributed to art-agenda, Art Review, BOMB, Brooklyn Rail, frieze, Kaleidoscope, Mousse and The New York Times, among other publications. Vogel has organized or co-organized curatorial projects at venues including the Hessel Museum at the Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, New York; Künstlerhaus Schloss Balmoral, Bad Ems, Germany; The Kitchen, New York; and Abrons Arts Center, New York.

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