Current Resident: Dec 1, 2017–Dec 31, 2019
Alice and Lawrence Weiner, New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, in partnership with the City Council, New York City Council District 34, Jacques and Natasha Gelman Foundation, New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Andrew M. Cuomo and the New York State Legislature
Furen Dai
Furen Dai’s practice has focused largely on the economy of culture industry, and how languages lose function, usage, and history. Dai’s hybrid art practice utilizes video, sound, sculpture, painting and collaboration. Her years as a professional translator and interest in linguistic studies have guided her artistic practice since 2015. She has been researching and developing the nearly extinct language of NüShu. The language, derived from Chinese characters, was created and used exclusively by women.
Furen Dai has exhibited work at the 13th Athens Digital Arts Festival, Greece; 2016 International Video Art Festival Now&After, Moscow, Russia; and Edinburgh Artists’ Moving Image Festival, Scotland, amongst other.
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Furen Dai, The Experiential Industry, 2017, sculpture and video installation.
Furen Dai, Language Producing Factory, 2017, sculpture and video installation.
Furen Dai, Truth or Consequences, 2017, sculpture and video installation.
Furen Dai, Green for The Future, 2017, sculpture and video installation.
Furen Dai, #Silverwords, 2017, participatory performance.
Ground Floor Residents
Current Resident: Jan 1, 2019–Dec 31, 2020
Alice and Lawrence Weiner, New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, in partnership with the City Council, New York City Council District 34, Jacques and Natasha Gelman Foundation, New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Andrew M. Cuomo and the New York State Legislature
Alison Nguyen
Alison Nguyen’s work explores the ways in which images are produced, disseminated, and consumed within the current media landscape, exposing the socio-political conditions from which they arise. Creating strategies for dissent, she re-articulates mainstream cinematic language in unsettlingly seductive installation, video, and sculptural works that generate a self-aware gaze within which the viewer becomes both producer and consumer of their own spectacle.
Alison Nguyen received her B.A. from Brown University. She has presented work at Ann Arbor Film Festival; CROSSROADS presented by San Francisco Cinematheque and San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; Channels Festival International Biennial of Video Art, Melbourne; Microscope Gallery, New York and AC Gallery, Beijing, among others. Nguyen has participated in residencies and/or been awarded fellowships from The Institute of Electronic Arts, Squeaky Wheel Film and Media Art Center, and BRIC. She has been awarded grants from NYSCA and The New York Community Trust. In 2018, Nguyen was featured in Filmmaker Magazine’s 25 New Faces of Independent Film.
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Alison Nguyen, Dessert-Disaster, 2017-18, HD double-channel video installation, color, and sound, 3:54 min., loop.
Alison Nguyen, Dessert-Disaster, 2017-18, HD double-channel video installation, color, and sound, 3:54 min., loop.
Alison Nguyen, you can't plan a perfect day sometimes it just happens, 2017, HD single-channel video, 8:24 min.
Alison Nguyen and Hemant Sreekumar, Signal, 2017, black and white single-channel video and sound, 9:13 min.
Alison Nguyen, every dog has its day, 2018-19, HD single-channel video, color, and sound, 7 min.
Ground Floor Residents
Current Resident: Jan 1, 2018–Dec 31, 2019
Alice and Lawrence Weiner, New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, in partnership with the City Council, New York City Council District 34, Jacques and Natasha Gelman Foundation, New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Andrew M. Cuomo and the New York State Legislature
Joshua Liebowitz
Joshua Liebowitz’ practice is research focused and medium diverse. He is interested in a type of navigational project for Art which can inscribe as much as redirect the absurdity of the human condition through installations and events which negotiate between communication technologies, archive, narrative, and the articulation of social structures.
Joshua Liebowitz earned his BA at Columbia University. Liebowitz’ most recent solo exhibition was on view at this year’s SPRING/BREAK (New York, 2019). His work has been presented at CAFA International Gallery (Beijing); ISCP; NARS Foundation; Pioneer Works, and St. Mark’s Church (New York), amongst others. Joshua’s projects have been discussed in a variety of publications and media, including ARTNews, The Atlantic, Gothamist, Art F City, Art Uncovered, Packet BiWeekly, Bedford+Bowery, and Jacket2. He lives and works in New York City.
joshualiebowitz.comEvents & Exhibitions
Joshua Liebowitz, Rahel Aima, and Patrick Jaojoco on the Representation of Mass Violence
November 19–November 19, 2019
2019 Fall Open Studios
November 15–November 16, 2019
Ungrounded
October 8–December 6, 2019
Spring Open Studios 2019
March 29–March 30, 2019
Fall Open Studios 2018
November 9–November 10, 2018
Joshua Liebowitz, Autonomous Thinking in the Exhaustion Years, 2018.
Joshua Liebowitz, Rental of Automatic Nervous System, 2017, screen, tennis ball and text, dimensions variable.
Joshua Liebowitz, Infrastructures, 2018, installation view.
Joshua Liebowitz, Miasma and Lure, 2018.
Joshua Liebowitz, The Park Weapon in Walaja, 2018.