Current Resident: Apr 1, 2024–Jun 30, 2024
Inlaks Shivdasani Foundation
Studio #221
Artist
zeropowercut/Piyush Kashyap
zeropowercut/Piyush Kashyap makes art to locate how caste is coded in the real. Their practice-based-research is driven to articulate how the caste-ideological-grading of workers, as various levels of Sudra (‘insignificant, menial and unknowledgeable’) counters reality as unintelligible, by notionally dissociating the bridge of Knowledge and Work. Kashyap runs a research-and-development lab called zeropowercut to create collective productions of Dalit-Bahujan discourse from their small studio in the old city of Patna-Saheb, Bihar.
zeropowercut/Piyush Kashyap has exhibited work at The Foundation for Indian Contemporary Art; The New Medium III; and Serendipity Arts Residency 2023, all in India, among others.
zeropowercut.workEvents & Exhibitions
2024 Spring Open Studios
April 12–April 13, 2024
![a ‘sadabahar’ [the name translates to ‘always prosperous’] plant grow in the limited resources of a brick wall crack](https://iscp-nyc.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/sada1.jpeg)
zeropowercut/Piyush Kashyap, always everywhere, yet absent, 2022, bricks, sand, cement, soil, and live Sadabahar plant, 18 × 18 in. (45.72 × 45.72 cm)
![a ‘sadabahar’ [the name translates to ‘always prosperous’] plant grow in the limited resources of a brick wall crack](https://iscp-nyc.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/sada_baby.jpeg)
zeropowercut/Piyush Kashyap, always everywhere, yet absent, 2022, bricks, sand, cement, soil, and live Sadabahar plant, 18 × 18 in. (45.72 × 45.72 cm)
zeropowercut/Piyush Kashyap, anumanlok [English Name: guess-wor(l)d] w/ —out-of-line—, 2023, interactive voice response system, data phone and Bhojpuri/Hindi
zeropowercut/Piyush Kashyap, jangayek.txt w/ —out-of-line— and Raju Ranjan, 2023, online song performance and discussion, leather and plastic dafli (Drum) and text
zeropowercut/Piyush Kashyap, imitation, 2022, video-projection and broken-bucket speaker
Residents from India
Current Resident: Mar 1, 2024–May 31, 2024
Goethe-Institut New York
Studio #222
Artist
Farkhondeh Shahroudi
Berlin-based multidisciplinary artist Farkhondeh Shahroudi works with a variety of mediums that are in constant dialogue with one another. Shahroudi’s works in textiles, poetry, sculpture, and painting strive to convey a sense of wonder about a parallel universe.
Farkhondeh Shahroudi has exhibited work at Kupferstichkabinett, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Germany; Museum of Islamic Art, Germany; and Goodman Gallery, South Africa, among others.
farkhondehshahroudi.comEvents & Exhibitions
2024 Spring Open Studios
April 12–April 13, 2024
Farkhondeh Shahroudi, nightingale and flying carpets, 2017, carpet, carpet, stitched cloth, beton and bicycle tube, dimensions variable
Farkhondeh Shahroudi, Performative Poetics of Matter, 2021, hand embroidery on velvet carpet, dimensions variable
Farkhondeh Shahroudi, aaaaber, 2022, painted stitched cloths, stone, 56 × 36 × 12 in. (142.24 × 91.44 × 30.48 cm)
Farkhondeh Shahroudi, net, 2021-23, hair, stitched cloths, dimensions variable
Farkhondeh Shahroudi, net, 2022, carpet, dimensions variable
Residents from Germany
Current Resident: Jan 1, 2024–Jun 30, 2024
Pollock-Krasner Foundation
Studio #301
Artist
Keli Safia Maksud
Keli Safia Maksud is an interdisciplinary artist and writer working in sound, sculpture, installation, printmaking and embroidery. Maksud’s practice is concerned with histories of colonial encounters and their impact on memory and identities. Through her work she strives to destabilize established narratives in order to reveal state fictions.
Keli Safia Maksud has exhibited work at Goodman Gallery, South Africa; Video Brasil, Brazil; and Bamako Encounters African Biennale of Photography, Mali, among others.
Events & Exhibitions
2024 Spring Open Studios
April 12–April 13, 2024
Keli Safia Maksud, Mitumba, 2014, mixed media installation, vlisco Hollandaise wax fabric, bleach, soap, and water, installation view
Keli Safia Maksud, Provisional Notes on Freedom, 2021, light, sound and sculptural installation, 15 min, loop
Keli Safia Maksud, Untitled Anthem, 2020, 4-channel sound installation on prayer mat
Keli Safia Maksud, They Try Their Tongues, 2022, light, sound and sculptural installation, 8 min, loop
Keli Safia Maksud, old blues new bruises, 2023, embroidery on carbon paper, light and sound installation