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SESSION 11.2
MICRo-RESIDENCY
NEW YORK

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OPEN WINDOW EVENT LIVE IN NEW YORK
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ZOOM PRAXIS CLINIC

HYPHENATION (PUBLIC) 6PM EDT
A TALK WITH STEPHEN KWOK
133 29TH STREET, 2 FL, BROOKLYN, NY 11232
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PECHA KUCHA PRESENTATIONS 6:30 PM EDT
TALKS, READINGS, PERFORMANCES, SCREENINGS, OPEN MIKE, KARAOKE...

RECEPTION throughout the evening
133 29TH STREET, 2 FL, BROOKLYN, NY 11232

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UPCOMING TT SESSIONS
2021-22 FULL PROGRAM

THURSDAY, 28 OCTOBER 2021

DESIGN, ARCHITECTURE, SOCIAL SPACES

FRIDAY, 29 OCTOBER 2021

PERFORMANCE, SOUND, GALLERY CRAWL

Saturday, 30 OCTOBER 2021

MOVEMENT, BLOCKING, PECHA KUCHA

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SUNDAY, 31 OCTOBER 2021

DIA BEACON JOURNEY

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EFA STUDIO VISITs

In collaboration with the EFA (Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts), we will offer two studio visits of current artists in residence. The EFA Studio Program maintains 90 artist studios of varying size and configuration in the EFA Center, providing artists the rare opportunity to work in a professional arts community inside Manhattan and in close proximity to the city’s primary gallery districts. EFA facilitates interaction with dealers, collectors and curators to enhance career development for member-artists. Unique among studio programs in New York City, EFA is one of the few remaining arts organizations providing long-term workspace in Manhattan.

AYOUNG YU

My films document performances which distill movements from ancestral rituals and develop new choreographies reflecting collective and personal experiences, specifically of Asian American communities. Performances are meditations on belonging, sexuality, trauma, and migration. I film in spaces ranging from immersive installations to psychologically charged landscapes. I create hyperbolic environments made of silk, oil, flowers and plants, water, and soil; they are incubators birthing new rituals. I also intervene in spaces already laden with meaning— family burial mounds, natural sanctuaries, the demilitarized zone bordering North Korea and South Korea— with sculptures reimagining sacred objects and altars.

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Jason file

As a war crimes prosecutor in The Hague, I tendered a postcard as evidence of the existence of a mosque that had been obliterated during an ethnic cleansing in Bosnia. As an artist, I returned it to its original status as a postcard, bearing the marks of its courtroom use, to be sold in a museum gift shop in London. As a United Nations lawyer, I had to shred classified military and intelligence documents that had been used as evidence once their purpose had been served. As an artist, I converted this real-life document destruction into a performance—and then turned the shreds back into paper again.

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Designed Realities

Permission to Imagine Contradiction, Counterfacts, Quantum Superpositions, Heterotopias, Uchronian Time Zones, Reality and the Unreal

a TABLE TALK With FIONA RABY

Fiona Raby will present a selection of retrospective and recent projects and discuss how New York has changed our practice, and in other ways, nothing has changed at all. So contradiction is something we are interested in and consequently Quantum superposition, ‘reality, the unreal, permission to imagine, the policing of imagination. 

Before the session, Fiona requests participants review some of the work posted on our virtual space www.designedrealities.org and get a feeling about the ’space’ of ideas her student collaborators are gathering and working through.

The Designed Realities Studio is a research and teaching unit led by Anthony Dunne and Fiona Raby at The New School in New York. Through practice-led research and project-based teaching, it aims to integrate theory and practice into concrete responses to the complex fusion of politics and technology shaping today’s social realities. 

The Studio is a place for interdisciplinary imagining that combines design with social thought and the liberal arts to synthesize ideas from political science, anthropology, literature, and philosophy into different ways of seeing the world, made tangible through design.

It draws on historical and contemporary research into utopias, dystopias and heterotopias; what-ifs and as ifs; hypotheses, thought experiments and reductio ad absurdum; counterfactuals and uchronia. As a nexus of exchange, the Studio stimulates new thought and further imaginings about the kind of world(s) people wish to live in rather than prescribing any one vision for how things will or should be. 

This website serves as an ideas sketchbook for work in progress by our students and collaborators, with occasional detours into projects and texts.

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AWAREness
A SOMATIC MOVEMENT EXPLORATION WITH LUIS LARA MALVACIAS

The classes include a slow, warm-up focusing on breathing, internal structure, weight, and the body’s articulations. Directed exercises and suggested improvisations will contribute to expanding the participants’ physical practice and give them a deeper awareness of their own physical uniqueness. The class will offer the opportunity for the participants to deepen their perceptual abilities, advance their sensory awareness, and approach physical challenges with increased movement capability. This class is the result of personal investigations and by my many years of studying different somatic practices, particularly Klein Technique™ and the Feldenkrais Method®

Luis A Lara Malvacías I am a Venezuelan experimental and trans-disciplinary artist and dance teacher whose body of work includes creating multidisciplinary works with a great focus on movement practices. My research and process reflect my experience as part of the larger diaspora of Latinx brown queer immigrant artists. I continue my exploration in the interaction between dance, design, new media, installations, sound, and the visual arts questioning preconceived ideas of choreography and modes of production and presentation. Besides choreographing and performing, I also designed and created the costumes, set, props, and visuals for my works. I have danced in the work of Jeremy Nelson, David Zambrano, Mark Tompkins, John Jasperse, and in my own choreography. I regularly teach and present work in countries in Europe, South America, North America and Asia. My work is presented under Luis Lara Malvacías / 3RD CLASS CITIZEN

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Painting and Performance:
Fusions and Disjunctions
A Table talk with
David Antonio Cruz

David Antonio Cruz is interested in "interjecting the portraiture canon with Brown and Black bodies, as well as gender fluid and queer bodies, to complicate hetero-normative perceptions of racial and queer identity and highlight intersectional identities not often discussed or represented in history and society." Cruz will discuss how and why he fuses painting and performance to explore the visibility and intersectionality of brown, black, and queer bodies in two opera-like arrangements: "The Opera Performance" commissioned by El Museo del Barrio and Green, "howIwantyougreen" performed at the  Conservatory of Music of Puerto Rico in San Juan, The Whim Plantation Estate in St Croix, Snug Harbor Cultural Center and Botanical Garden, and Gateway Project Spaces. Opera-like performances operate as loud psychological manifestations of portraits frozen in the paintings. Cruz's performers are often the model sources for the images themselves. As with his paintings, performances explore the physical, emotional, and metaphorical disjunction between the body, society, and structures.

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blocking
AN EVENT HOSTED BY
STEPHEN KWOK

This event will enact a group choreography of action, exchange, and introspection within the dense urban environment of New York City. Looping between multiple sites tethered to each other by remote technologies, we will be here and there at the same time. How will we navigate the city and its offerings of coincidence, chaos, and poetry? How does our reliance on mediated, screen-based experience layer on to the wildness of the street– to the detritus, noise, and bodies we may encounter at a single intersection? As we move within a network of readymade sites, we will consider how the city can be mediated as both a source of inspiration and a stage for exhibition.

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The Open Window Series

Hyphenation
A Talk with Stephen Kwok
6PM EDT SHARP

133 29TH STREET, 2ND FLoor, BROOKLYN, New York 11232

Is hyphenation a creative force or destructive one? In this talk, I will consider the hyphen in its many usages, from grammar to identity to interdisciplinary practice. In grammar, the hyphen can be placed between words as a way to merge disparate ideas into new ones, or inserted into words as a way to break apart their syllables and colloquial meanings. In people, the hyphen is commonly employed to qualify identities, a gesture that––depending on the time, place, and person––can result in anything from alienation and suspicion to representation and empowerment. I will also explore the hyphen as a tool for creative practice––how intentionally working between forms and disciplines resists the demand for easy categorization and opens new possibilities for making meaning.

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