Current Resident: Sep 1, 2023–Aug 31, 2024
OCA - Office for Contemporary Art Norway
Studio #220
Artist
Sandra Mujinga
Sandra Mujinga uses speculative fiction in the Afrofuturist tradition to investigate economies of visibility and disappearance. Her works examine questions of self-representation, preservation, appearance, and opacity through an interdisciplinary approach in which she typically reverses established identity politics of presence. Mujinga’s works deviate from a completely anthropocentric approach to understanding the ephemeral world we now occupy; as a result, the artist draws inspiration in how animals create survival tactics and adapt to hostile surroundings.
Sandra Mujinga has exhibited work at Museum of Modern Art, New York; Venice Biennale, Venice; and Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin, among others.
Sandra Mujinga, I Build My Skin With Rocks, 2022, video, 1:00:28 min. Courtesy the artist, Croy Nielsen and The Approach
Sandra Mujinga, Pervasive Lights, 2021, video, 16:15 min. Courtesy the artist, Croy Nielsen, The Approach, and MoMA
Sandra Mujinga, Closed Space, Open World, 2022, three-channel video installation with sound, animation drawn by Nancy Saphira, 10 min
Sandra Mujinga, Worldview, 2021, video, 3D animation by Justin Swinburne, 8 hours
Sandra Mujinga, Sentinels of Change & Reworlding Remains, 2021, installation, dimensions variable
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
