Current Residents

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Current Resident: Mar 1, 2023–May 31, 2023

Studio #222

Shanekia McIntosh

Shanekia McIntosh is a multidisciplinary artist with a focus on poetry. Her work explores the intersection of passivity and action, apathy and empathy, as well as capitalism’s dehumanizing capacities, with the goal of cultivating space for afro-futurism, empathetic political actions, and accessibility.

Shanekia has exhibited work at the New Museum, New York; Collar Works, New York; and Pacific Northwest College of Art, Portland, among others.

shanekiamcintosh.com

Events & Exhibitions

2023 Spring Open Studios

April 21–April 22, 2023

text installation installed on decal on storefront

Shanekia McIntosh, a poem, 2021, installation

concrete poem sculpture on repurposed tree stub with paper

Shanekia McIntosh, Hindsight Is Hindsight, 2020, sculpture

poet performing with musicians and video projections

Shanekia McIntosh, Call Me Ishmael - A Story of Exploitation, 2019, performance

Shanekia McIntosh, another line, 2021, installation

Residents from United States

Dana Robinson

United States

Vision Fund

Studio #304

Nathaniel Donnett

United States

Vision Fund

Studio #303

Hellen Ascoli

This interactive sound table is an exploration of the relationship between text and textile, particularly through the oral tradition.

United States, Guatemala

Pollock-Krasner Foundation

Studio #302

Taiwan

Current Resident: Mar 1, 2023–Jul 31, 2023

Ministry of Culture, Taiwan

Studio #302

Curator

Yen-Yi Lee

In her practice, Yen-Yi Lee collaborates with artists, musicians, filmmakers, fashion designers and writers to explore the concepts of failure, risk management and the pursuit of perfectness. She is the founder of the art publication, HAGAI HUAKAI and co-founder of Synergy Festival.

Yen-Yi Lee curated exhibitions at the National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts, Taiwan; Digital Art Festival, Digital Art Center, Taiwan; and Open Space Bae, South Korea, among others.

hagaihuakai.co

Yen-Yi Lee, Tempo, Pace and Sustainability of Relationships, 2022, exhibition

Yen-Yi Lee, You invent the story of how your destinies were made, 2022, exhibition

The emergence of online dating opens up another space for us to meet each other. The virtual space online bestows a reconstitution of expectations on oneself and the other upon us. Here, infinite choices are available to us, to which we refuse to commit, for the next one may be better amidst the plethora of data flow. In light of the popularization of mobile devices, geo-location social apps, and affective computing technology advancements, “Love” is intervened by data and technologies and emotional communication between both parties is mediated and stored by calculating third parties. Our ways of expressing ourselves are framed by dating apps interfaces and every encounter is being made into products. Following the ever-complex, drastic changes of market values, capitals, technologies, and politics— our affective exchanges that facilitated through platform economy are charging towards a safe love with risk-free, no hard feelings, no missing out, and no responsibility. https://festival.dac.taipei/2020/

Yen-Yi Lee, 01_LOVE, Taipei Digital Art Festival, 2020, exhibition

Yen-Yi Lee, a field guide of getting lost, 2016, exhibition

Yen-Yi Lee, HAGAI ART ZINE, 008, Dreamers Issue, 2022, printed publication

Residents from Taiwan

Ying Chiun Lee

This piece of work portrays my experience of living through the pandemic as a foreigner in the US. The video consists of two scenes; The first scene is a view through the bottom of the glass tank. Catching the moment of molten glass dropped into the water and broke within several macro-explosions. The second part of the scene is an uranium glass object with gold leaf scattered on the top. Then two amorphous blobs of hot glass come into the frame. They dance around the object seductively. The audio is composed of a mixture of electronic sounds, news broadcasts regarding Covid, and cicada sounds from rural Taiwan.

Taiwan

Ministry of Culture, Taiwan

2022

Alice Nien-Pu Ko

Taiwan

Ministry of Culture, Taiwan

2022

Yi Kuo

Taiwan

Ministry of Culture, Taiwan

2022

United States

Current Resident: Mar 1, 2023–May 31, 2023

Vision Fund

Studio #303

Artist

Nathaniel Donnett

Nathaniel Donnett’s interdisciplinary practice explores imagination, notions of being, the in/exterior, and race through metaphysical and phenomenological spaces. Through abstraction and vernacular forms as language, his work challenges traditional modes of timeline narratives. Donnett recontextualizes materials and meaning by delving into subjects rooted in sociopolitical-cultural concerns and liminal spaces.

Nathaniel Donnett has exhibited work at Contemporary Arts Museum of Houston, Texas; Virginia Museum of Fine Art; and Project Row Houses, all in the United States, among others.

nathanieldonnett.com

Events & Exhibitions

2023 Spring Open Studios

April 21–April 22, 2023

Nathaniel Donnett, Veil, 2022, backpacks, duct tape, tambourine jingles, fabric, plastic trash bags and sound, 96 × 48 × 90 in. (243.84 × 121.92 × 228.6 cm)

Nathaniel Donnett, To Know a Veil Yearbook , 2022, book, 11 × 8¹/₂ in. (27.94 × 21.59 cm)

Nathaniel Donnett, in the break lies an invisible in-between that allows us to experience a spatial uncertainty, 2023, drums, mixed media, fabric, wood, LED lights and audio, dimensions variable

Nathaniel Donnett, Birth of the Universe, 2021, drum, asphalt, tv/radio antenna and LED lights, 5¹/₂ × 5 × 2 in. (13.97 × 12.7 × 5.08 cm)

Nathaniel Donnett, When You Start to Build a Wall, You First Start With Yourself, 2022, drywall, house paint, earring studs, books, incense, tamabourine jingles and LED light source, 101 × 90 in. (256.54 × 228.6 cm)