Past Residents
Past Resident2024: Inlaks Shivdasani Foundation
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.
![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
Past Resident2024: Jane Farver Memorial Fund
Mario D’Souza
Mario D’Souza is a curator and writer based between Goa, Kochi, and New Delhi, India. He is on the curatorial team for the Kochi-Muziris Biennale and is Director of Programmes and Exhibitions at the Kochi Biennale Foundation. He is also co-Artistic Director and Resident Curator at HH Art Spaces, India. His research interests include Indian Ocean and Silk Road imaginaries, non-alignment and the nation-building project, performance cultures and aesthetics of dissent; legal and extra-legal systems, evidence, and truth modalities.
Mario D’Souza has curated exhibitions at Kochi-Muziris Biennale, India; Hyundai Tate Research Centre: Transnational, United Kingdon; and Fondazione Elpis, Italy, among others.
Events & Exhibitions
2024 Spring Open Studios
April 12–April 13, 2024
Group exhibition, HAZE: Contemporary Art From South Asia, exhibition view, 2023, curated by Mario D’Souza and HH Art Spaces . Fondazione Elpis, Milan. Photo by Melania Dalle Grave
'Codex Casanatense', page detail, 16th century, depiction of Portuguese relations with the Indian and Pacific Oceans
Godwin Constantine, Identity, 'No Order Group' group exhibition, 1999, performance. Theertha Artist Collective, Sri Lanka
Min Oh, Where do we stand now, 2022, performance. Dutch Warehouse, Kochi-Muziris Biennale, India
Sahil Naik, Karkadann of Land and the Dark Seas, 2023, still, video essay
![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/sada1-500x350.jpeg)
Past Resident2024: Horace W. Goldsmith Foundation, Alice and Lawrence Weiner, New York City Council District 34, New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, in partnership with the City Council, New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature, Hartfield Foundation, Danna and Ed Ruscha, The Milton and Sally Avery Arts Foundation2023: Horace W. Goldsmith Foundation, Alice and Lawrence Weiner, New York City Council District 34, New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, in partnership with the City Council, New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature, Hartfield Foundation, Danna and Ed Ruscha
Alchemyverse
Alchemyverse was founded in 2020 in New York City by artists Bicheng Liang (b. 1994, China) and Yixuan Shao (b. 1996, China/United States). As a duo, they construct visual and aural assemblages, working across disciplines of installation, print, sound, sculpture, and photography. Focusing on research and experimentation, their hybrid practice resonates with macro-environmental concerns and human dislocation of space, leading them to places such as Oahu and Moa Kea in Hawaii, the American Southwest, the Hudson Highlands, and the Chilean deserts.
Alchemyverse has exhibited work at Bishop Museum, Honolulu; The Catherine Fosnot Art Gallery and Center, New London; and Lenfest Center for the Arts, Columbia University, New York City, among others.
Events & Exhibitions
2024 Spring Open Studios
April 12–April 13, 2024
2023 Fall Open Studios
November 10–November 11, 2023
Messa in Luce Exhibition Talk with Alchemyverse and Jess Wilcox
November 1, 2023, 6–7pm
Alchemyverse: Messa in Luce
June 29–November 17, 2023
2023 Spring Open Studios
April 21–April 22, 2023
Alchemyverse, Stir, Full of, Abounding In, 2021, cyanotypes collage, dead plant, pit-fired wild clay fragment, rocks, 8-channel specialized sound, transducers, and other mixed media, 84 × 120 × 3 in. (213.36 × 304.8 × 7.62 cm)
Alchemyverse, Left Without The Means To Move, 2021, lava rocks, anodized aluminum, bone conductors, pit-fired wild clay and sound recorded within, desert soil, amplified microphones, speakers, subwoofers, and other mixed media, 204 × 204 × 180 in. (518.16 × 518.16 × 457.2 cm)
Alchemyverse, Untitled, 2021-22, rocks, ceramics, bronze, dead plants, living moss, sand, films, cyanotypes, scores, 3D carved photo, turntable, trace light box, digital projectors, lamps, and other mixed media
Alchemyverse, 隙/ At Intervals, 2020-21, earth and fire on aluminum sheets, 96 × 72 × 36 in. (243.84 × 182.88 × 91.44 cm)
Alchemyverse, Bleikr, 2020, mounted cyanotypes, sounds, and transducers, 120 × 108 in. (304.8 × 274.32 cm)
Ground Floor Residents
Sarah Zapata
Horace W. Goldsmith Foundation, Alice and Lawrence Weiner, 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, New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, in partnership with the City Council, Brooklyn Borough President Antonio Reynoso, Danna and Ed Ruscha, The Milton and Sally Avery Arts Foundation, Hartfield Foundation
Sasha Wortzel
Horace W. Goldsmith Foundation, Alice and Lawrence Weiner, 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 the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature, Hartfield Foundation, Danna and Ed Ruscha, The Milton and Sally Avery Arts Foundation, Brooklyn Borough President Antonio Reynoso
Simon Liu
Horace W. Goldsmith Foundation, Alice and Lawrence Weiner, New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature, New York City Council District 34, New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, in partnership with the City Council, Brooklyn Borough President Antonio Reynoso, Hartfield Foundation, Danna and Ed Ruscha, The Milton and Sally Avery Arts Foundation