ISCP Talk
February 21, 2023, 6–7pm

Curators at Work: Anamaría Garzón Mantilla

For this live event, ISCP curator-in-residence Anamaría Garzón Mantilla will speak about her curatorial practice, discussing a selection of her exhibitions, publications, and presenting institutions. She will focus on collaborative curatorial projects including Estado Fósil, a multimedia investigation of oil exploitation in Ecuador, and the platform Arte + Activismos, which fosters dialogues between artists and activists.

A Q&A with the audience will follow.

Anamaría Garzón Mantilla is an art historian and professor at the Universidad San Francisco de Quito, Ecuador. She is the director of post(s), an academic journal dedicated to art, culture and new media. She holds an MA in Contemporary Art from Sotheby’s Institute of Art, New York and is currently a PhD student in the Art History and Theory program at the University of Essex.

Her work focuses on the transitional period between modern art and contemporary art in Latin America. She has presented research projects at academic conferences and has curated several exhibitions of contemporary Ecuadorian artists. From 2017 to 2020, Garzón was Creative Director of Khôra, a non-profit experimental space located in Quito.

This program is supported by the Jane Farver Memorial Fund; 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.

By visiting ISCP, you agree to abide by the following health and safety policies. Please make sure to plan ahead for your visit.

Groups of four or more are required to schedule an appointment in advance. Please write to info@iscp-nyc.org
All visitors are encouraged to maintain social distancing while at ISCP.
Masks or face coverings are strongly recommended but not mandatory.
Hand sanitizer will be available for visitors.
If you have fever, chills, cough, muscle pains, headache, loss of taste or smell, or think you may have been exposed to COVID-19 prior to your visit, please contact us to reschedule.
An inherent risk of exposure to COVID-19 and other infectious conditions exists in any public space where people are present. Those visiting the International Studio & Curatorial Program voluntarily assume all risks related to exposure to COVID-19, other infectious conditions, and other hazards that may be present in a public space.

6–7pm

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Anamaría Garzón Mantilla

Installation image of a gallery with white walls and a concrete floor. There is a black podium in the center foreground with colorful scientific diagrams and white text displayed on its sides and a microphone on top. Behind the podium there are many small glowing white lights installed on the walls, all connected to a central point on the floor with white wires.

Installation view of "Interdimensional Communication Theory," 2022, by Ruth Cruz Mendoza from the exhibition “Doblar la esquina” at N24 Gallery, Quito, curated by Anamaría Garzón Mantilla. Courtesy of N24 Gallery. Photo by Daniela Meythaler

Installation view of "Natura Naturata," 2019, at Violenta Gallery, Guayaquil. On view, works by Brenda Vega, Cristian Villavicencio, Bia Monteiro, and Sofía Acosta & Martina Aviles. Curated by Anamaría Garzón Mantilla. Photo by Ricardo Bohorquez

Instagram LIVE of 'Curators at Work: Anamaría Garzón Mantilla', 2023

Current and Upcoming Events & Exhibitions

Somewhere Inside: ISCP and the Studio

Through January 20

Exhibition

Sujin Lim: The Land, Dark and Muddy

Through February 7

Exhibition

Event
February 17, 2023, 6–8pm

Undoing Exhibition: Closing Performances by HaeAhn Woo Kwon, and Ka Yan and Mountain

To mark the final day of Water Works, ISCP will host performances in the exhibition space by HaeAhn Woo Kwon and artist duo Ka Yan and Mountain.

The evening will begin with HaeAhn Woo Kwon adopting her piece It Gives Skin (2022), on view at the gallery. The fiberglass shower base sculpture will be used as a palimpsest for a text titled “Undoing Exhibition.”

Physically repositioned in the exhibition space, the sculpture will become a support structure for sound artists, Ka Yan and Mountain. They will present a sound bath with crystal singing bowls, and a poem as incantatory meditation, drawing from strategies of Reiki transmission (universal energy). According to the artist duo, “The mix of high vibrational sonic experiences will activate the water within us at a cellular level, assisting in a realignment of the atomic joy accessible to all.”

Together, the performances reflect the exhibition themes of cleansing and ritual, asking what it means to feel clean as physical, spiritual, and mental modes of being.

Water Works is a group exhibition in the second-floor gallery curated by Danielle Wu that brings together six artists who turn to the washroom as an aesthetic resource: Hana Al-Saadi, Laurie Kang, Ajay Kurian, Mia Raadik, Pauline Shaw, and HaeAhn Woo Kwon.

About the artists:

HaeAhn Woo Kwon is a Canada-based artist whose installations and assemblages bring together disparate materials and means of production, including hand-built, manufactured, found, and organic objects and images. Their work often reflects on the availability of excess goods and the necessity of inventiveness in our current moment. She has exhibited work at Franz Kaka, Toronto; Jack Barrett Gallery, New York; and Clint Roenisch, Toronto, among others.

Ka Yan and Mountain is a New York-based artist duo. Ka Yan is an interdisciplinary artist and film director from Hong Kong. Dedicated to bridging worlds together, Ka Yan expresses the transient complex beauty within a diaspora, integrating filmmaking, photography, publishing, performance, text, and installations. Her latest short film It’s The Most Beautiful Before It’s Gone (2021) was screened and performed at the Queens Museum. Mountain is a Filipino-American composer, music producer and researcher whose work with Pique Project has been featured by Adult Swim, Adidas, Warp Records, Apple Music, and Queens Museum. Currently he is working on a sound therapy project researching alternative access methods into memory through a process called “song threading.”

This program is supported, in part, by Hartfield Foundation; Milton and Sally Avery Arts Foundation; New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, in partnership with the City Council; New York State Council on the Arts and the New York State Legislature; and William Talbott Hillman Foundation.

By visiting ISCP, you agree to abide by the following health and safety policies. Please make sure to plan ahead for your visit.

Groups of four or more are required to schedule an appointment in advance. Please write to info@iscp-nyc.org
All visitors are encouraged to maintain social distancing while at ISCP.
Masks or face coverings are strongly recommended but not mandatory.
Hand sanitizer will be available for visitors.
If you have fever, chills, cough, muscle pains, headache, loss of taste or smell, or think you may have been exposed to COVID-19 prior to your visit, please contact us to reschedule.
An inherent risk of exposure to COVID-19 and other infectious conditions exists in any public space where people are present. Those visiting the International Studio & Curatorial Program voluntarily assume all risks related to exposure to COVID-19, other infectious conditions, and other hazards that may be present in a public space.

6–8pm

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In the center of this drawing three blue human figures sit on top of a white shower base. It resembles a raft floating in water at sunset - with yellow and orange light reflecting across the surface of a black and gray ocean.

HaeAhn Woo Kwon, A Wet Palimpsest, 2021, marker on paper, 12 × 9 in. (30.48 × 22.86 cm). Courtesy of the artist and Franz Kaka Gallery

Undoing Exhibition: Closing Performances of "Water Works" by HaeAhn Woo Kwon, and Ka Yan and Mountain, 2023. Courtesy of International Studio & Curatorial Program

Current and Upcoming Events & Exhibitions

Somewhere Inside: ISCP and the Studio

Through January 20

Exhibition

Sujin Lim: The Land, Dark and Muddy

Through February 7

Exhibition

ISCP Talk
January 26, 2023, 6–7pm

Artists at Work: Johanna Mirabel with Stephanie Johnson-Cunningham

For this Artists at Work talk, ISCP artist-in-residence Johanna Mirabel will speak about her paintings and the complex, intersectional themes they depict with museum professional Stephanie Johnson-Cunningham. Mirabel is the recipient of the 2022 Ritzau Art Prize at ISCP which provides global visibility, professional development, and career-enhancing residencies in New York City to promising visual artists from the African continent and of African descent.

In her paintings, Mirabel explores pictorial representation, shifting between abstraction, expressionism, and realism. She stages contradictions and juxtapositions using lush vegetation, partially present and disparate objects to evoke the inherent complexity of life between different cultures. Inspired by French writer Édouard Glissant’s theory of creolization, Mirabel creates pictorial forms that appear to be in motion, with characters that are embedded, nested, and ready to merge with their environments. The artist invites us to inhabit her work, to mentally explore her images as if they were parallel realities.

Johanna Mirabel is a French artist of Guyanese and Caribbean origin who graduated from the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris. Mirabel has exhibited work at Thierry Goldberg Gallery, New York, United States; L’Espace des femmes in Paris, France; L’Orfèvrerie, Saint-Denis, France; Août Gallery, Beirut, Lebanon; and Luce Gallery in Turin, Italy; among other venues. She is the recipient of the 2021 Prize Hatvany & Fondation de France, as the member and president of the collective La Marge, and the 2019 Prize for Excellence/Grand International Prize, Takifuji Art Award, Tokyo, Japan.

Stephanie Johnson-Cunningham is the Executive Director of Museum Hue. Stephanie is committed to changing museums to bring about greater attention and constant awareness of racial issues through arts and culture. She stresses that the best pedagogical strategies include the cultural capital of communities to deepen knowledge and understanding of art, history, and culture. Stephanie holds a Bachelor’s degree in Art and Art History from Brooklyn College and a Masters degree in Cultural Heritage and Preservation Studies (CHAPS) from Rutgers University. She also received the Americans for the Arts 2019 American Express Emerging Leader Award for her work.

This program is supported, in part, by Tauck Ritzau Innovative Philanthropy; 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 and the New York State Legislature; The Milton and Sally Avery Arts Foundation; and William Talbott Hillman Foundation.

By visiting ISCP, you agree to abide by the following health and safety policies. Please make sure to plan ahead for your visit.

Groups of four or more are required to schedule an appointment in advance. Please write to info@iscp-nyc.org.
All visitors are encouraged to maintain social distancing while at ISCP.
Masks or face coverings are strongly recommended but not mandatory.
Hand sanitizer will be available for visitors.
If you have fever, chills, cough, muscle pains, headache, loss of taste or smell, or think you may have been exposed to COVID-19 prior to your visit, please contact us to reschedule.
An inherent risk of exposure to COVID-19 and other infectious conditions exists in any public space where people are present. Those visiting the International Studio & Curatorial Program voluntarily assume all risks related to exposure to COVID-19, other infectious conditions, and other hazards that may be present in a public space.

6–7pm

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