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Past Resident
2024: Celebrate the Studio

Artist

Vincent Chong

Vincent Chong is a queer gender-nonconforming Chinese American artist working in performance, painting, drawing, Chinese calligraphy, and seal carving. Their work explores the intersection of traditional culture with contemporary queer and trans Black, Indigenous, People of Color community in Brooklyn, New York.

Vincent Chong has exhibited work at Skanes Konstforening, Sweden; Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; and La MaMa Galleria, New York, among others.

Events & Exhibitions

Artists at Work: Vincent Chong in conversation with Melinda Lang

February 20, 2024, 6:30–7:30pm

A public performance in Manhattan Chinatown's Columbus Park for both my Queer and Trans Asian Pacific Islander community and the elders who spend time in that park. Black dress by Shawna Wu. Wig by Paul Keo. Green cape sewn and stoned by the Artist.

Vincent Chong, 花好月圓 Flowers Bloom & Full Moon, 2023, performance in Columbus Park, New York, 16:40 min. Photo by Marion Aguas

This image also represents a new direction in my work, which I am interested in exploring. Now that I have spent so much time working to paint realistically, I have been increasingly interested in painting from memory, imagination, and dreams.

Vincent Chong, Hay Fever, 2023, oil on canvas, 30 × 24 in. (76.2 × 60.96 cm)

A Painting, which began with spontaneous fan brush marks, which I then began to render as it grew organically.

Vincent Chong, lungs filled with liquid breeze, 2023, oil in linen

A painting of my dear friend Simon Sok. Simon is a member of my Queer and Trans Asian Pacific Islander community and chosen family in Brooklyn, New York. The painting depicts Simon in his home with a selection of his favorite objects

Vincent Chong, Psychic Simon, 2023, oil on linen, 48 × 68 in. (121.92 × 172.72 cm)

Residents from United States

Frank WANG Yefeng

United States, China

ISCP Alumni Fund

Studio #303

Efrat Hakimi

A table top arrangement of paper, cutout images, ephemera, and tools used in bookbinding.

United States

Artis

Studio #301

Bryan Fernandez

United States

The New York Community Trust’s Edward and Sally Van Lier Fund

Studio #216

The Netherlands

Past Resident
2024: Mondriaan Fund

Artist

Coralie Vogelaar

Coralie Vogelaar is a multidisciplinary artist who combines social science with her artistic practice. By viewing the human body from a machine-cognitive perspective, Vogelaar explores the relationship between humans and technology. She creates performances and multimedia installations in collaboration with experts from various disciplines such as data analysis, choreography, and sound design.

Coralie Vogelaar has exhibited work at Stedelijk Museum, The Netherlands; HeK (House of electronic Arts), Switzerland; and Photographers’ Gallery London, England, among others.

Events & Exhibitions

Artists at Work: Coralie Vogelaar in Conversation with Chiarina Chen

January 16, 2024, 6:30–7:30pm

2023 Fall Open Studios

November 10–November 11, 2023

2023 Spring Open Studios

April 21–April 22, 2023

This interactive installation examines our urge to exert control over our body, the uncontrollable nature of the conditions that influence how we feel, and the data systems that analyze our state of wellbeing. Visitors are invited to take a seat and place a sensor on their earlobe. Their heart rate variability (HRV), the period between heartbeats, will immediately become audible as the sound of ticking metal friction on ceramics, and squeaking polysterene. Changes in HRV directly impact on the sound composition by Sjoerd Leijten and vice versa. The sensors register all the irregularities of the heartbeat, which fluctuates in response to physical and emotional factors. Because of the complexities involved in identifying the cause of individual fluctuations, science often dismisses small variations as irrelevant, and only average readings are used for examinations. Coralie Vogelaar explores the “noise” that is ususally filtered out in this hybrid cross of technological research and fine art - the installation exudes the atmosphere of a test environment, with its aluminium tubing, visible cables, and the inbuilt and pre-programmed conditional rules. Vogelaar demonstrates that our mood states are more complex than would be suggested by an averaged out measurement. She embraces this complexity by combining data-sampling systems with the physical experience of sound, rather than imposing any scientific framework or delimitation

Coralie Vogelaar, Interpersonal Biofeedback Apparatus Encoding Cardiac Fluctuations, 2021, interactive 10-channel audio installation, 200 × 240 × 80 in. (508 × 609.6 × 203.2 cm)

This work explores deconstructed facial expressions according to the Facial Action Coding System. This system forms the basis of contemporary emotion recognition software. With the help of the tracking mechanism of a mobile phone the performance demonstrates a computational approach to our emotions.

Coralie Vogelaar, Emotions from an Algorithmic Point of View, 2018, live performance, 20 min.

Half human, half machine, the figure of the video installation Infinite Posture Dataset is stuck within the confinements of the screen and either following or giving certain instructions to the rhythm of the machine. She is wearing a tight suit reminiscent of the ones used for motion capture techniques, involving the digital registration of body movement. In the work the performer is talking about the feelings stirred in her body memory while performing the movements and which results in spoken out loud, incoherent emotions. Her limbs also seem to have been detached. All in all, the spectator is left with random pieces of the puzzle. In similar cases we would usually focus on the face, but that too is hidden. While observing the deconstructed and reformulated poses of the performer, could the machine perhaps understand what she is trying to communicate? Vogelaar reveals how the bigger picture continues to be intangible to both human and machine. Neither human, nor machine has all the answers

Coralie Vogelaar, Infinite Posture Dataset, 2020, 65 in flatscreen, Relax Zone Pro Inversion Table, weight plate and motor, 15 min.

Coralie Vogelaar, Infinite Posture Dataset (Making off), 2020, still image.

Two photographs of the same event, taken at the same moment and from the same vantage point: one of the photographs has appeared thousands of times on the Internet, the other barely or not at all. Why is one image more successful than the other? In Recognized / Not Recognized, Coralie Vogelaar (NL, °1981) creates a comparative study of popular and unpopular news images. The result is an intriguing video installation.

Coralie Vogelaar, Recognized/Not Recognized, a comparative movement analysis of popular and unpopular news images, 2017, two channel video installation, 9 min.

Residents from The Netherlands

Antonis Pittas

Greece, The Netherlands

Mondriaan Fund

Studio #219

Ginta Tinte Vasermane

Latvia, The Netherlands

Amsterdams Fonds voor de Kunst, Stichting Stokroos

2022

Nika Schmitt

rotating satelite dishes changing the self-generated feedback frequencies within the interior space. Four speakers and four different microphones picking up and playing live the changing sounds from different angles of the space.

Luxembourg, The Netherlands

Edward Steichen Award Luxembourg

2023

Denmark

Past Resident
2024: Danish Arts Foundation

Artist

Esben Weile Kjær

In his performances, installations and sculptures, Esben Weile Kjær examines identity among his own generation and explores the role of popular culture and technology in determining our experience of community and freedom.

Esben Weile Kjær has exhibited works at Arken-Museum of Contemporary Art, Denmark; Centre Pompidou, Paris; and Mumok, Vienna, among others.