ISCP Talk
August 13, 2023, 4–5pm

Bringing Worlds Together: A Rethinking Residencies Reader

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Rethinking Residencies is pleased to invite you to the Launch Event of their new book Bringing Worlds Together: A Rethinking Residencies Reader, taking place at Pioneer Works, Brooklyn.

Bringing Worlds Together: A Rethinking Residencies Reader is the first anthology on art residencies published in the United States. It is a companion to the Rethinking Residencies Symposium, which invited artists, curators, scholars, and residency organizations to address residency programs as critical sites of research and production within the visual arts. The eleven essays and three conversations in Bringing Worlds Together reflect on art residencies at present—at a time when residencies play a critical role in art’s ecosystem. They address a cross-section of ideas about residency programs, bound together by a deep concern for the care and ethics that go into shaping residency programs and hosting artists and curators.

Books will be available for purchase at the Launch Event, and/or may be pre-ordered here

The Rethinking Residencies Symposium invited artists, curators, scholars, and residency organizations worldwide to come together to address residency programs as critical sites of production within the field of visual arts. The symposium considered existing scholarship and cultivate new thinking about the history, institutional structures, and conditions of visual art residencies. More information about the 2021 Rethinking Residencies Symposium is available here.

Founded in 2014, Rethinking Residencies is the first network of New York-based artist and curator residency programs, and the symposium will be its most extensive event to date. The 15 member institutions of Rethinking Residencies generate knowledge and resources, anchored together in cooperation and collaboration. Collaborating organizations represent a wide range of models, scales and approaches and include: Abrons Art CenterEyebeamFire Island Artist ResidencyFlux FactoryInternational Studio & Curatorial Program (ISCP)The Laundromat ProjectLower Manhattan Cultural Council (LMCC)Queens MuseumPioneer WorksRecessShandaken ProjectsEFA Project Space’s SHIFT Residency, TriangleWave Farm, and Wave Hill.

Location: 159 Pioneer Street in Red Hook, Brooklyn

Exhibition
August 9, 2023–January 11, 2024

WAVE PHENOMENA: contemporary strategies of sonic agency

The International Studio & Curatorial Program is pleased to present WAVE PHENOMENA: contemporary strategies of sonic agency, a group exhibition curated by ISCP’s 2023-24 institution-in-residence, Atomic Culture. This exhibition recognizes the potential of sound as a catalyst for personal, political, and environmental considerations. The exhibition engages with artists working within or around sound, investigates their practices, and creates a discourse around sonic agency. WAVE PHENOMENA will explore the listening experience and the opportunities it creates for sympathetic resonance and sonic imagination.

The exhibition will serve as a resource for guests to learn from and have the opportunity to sit with or engage with resource materials, media, and related works of art. It will include scores, video, live performances, and recorded sound. Elements will be added to the installation throughout the duration of the presentation, offering a changing environment for visitors.

Exhibition participants include Raven Chacon (Diné) and Candice Hopkins (Carcross/Tagish First Nation), Haydeé Jiménez, Suzanne Kite (Oglála Lakȟóta), Damon Locks, Los Jaichackers (Julio César Morales & Eamon Ore-Girón), Warren Realrider (Pawnee/Crow), Tahnee Udero, Hajra Waheed, and Nathan Young (Delaware/Kiowa/Pawnee).

WAVE PHENOMENA public programs:
Tuesday, September 19, 2023, 6–8pm: Performance by Damon Locks
Saturday, November 11, 2023, 5:30–7pm: Performances by Suzanne Kite and Haydeé Jiménez

Atomic Culture is a curatorial platform founded by Mateo and Malinda Galindo in 2015. Their mission is to collaborate with artists and institutions on site-specific projects that reimagine and challenge discourse around histories, generating opportunities for various publics to actively engage with artists and their work. Past performance projects include the ongoing series Encoding: a future setting; Cinetelechy, an expanded indigenous film series in collaboration with Blackhorse Lowe; and the online series Re__. Atomic Culture has curated exhibitions internationally and in the United States, including Ojalá, 2018, Carlsbad Museum and Art Center, New Mexico; Entre Irse y Quedarse, 2018, Galeria Merida, Mexico; Future Now/Futura Ahora, 2017, Loisaida Center, New York; and Turn on/Take Cover, 2016, Carlsbad Museum and Art Center, New Mexico. They’ve also been guest lecturers at The New School, New York; Vera List Center, New York; San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco; and CampoSud Gramsci, Italy.

This exhibition 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; 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.

Open Hours: Open Hours: Monday–Friday, 10:30am–5:30pm
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Event
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