Roundtable Talk | Studio Visit and Q & A with Lilliam Nieves & Daniel Arnaldo-Roman at Ely Center of Contemporary Art

SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 28, 2021
1:00 - 2:00 PM EST

Join this Roundtable discussion as artists across the globe discussing a range of creative strategies in concert with their studio practice and philosophy as they go about making work within the construct of today’s environmental, social and political challenges. With Transart Alumni and Advisors Lilliam Nieves, Daniel Arnaldo-Roman, Angelika Rinnhofer and Nicolás Dumit Estevez.

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Noche Ritual | An Evening of Vegan Healing Actions with Transartists Jean Marie Casbarian, Nicolás Dumit Estévez Raful Espejo, Linda Mary Montano, Luis Lara Malvacías, Jean-Ulrick Désert and More

Feb 26, 2021 07:00 PM Eastern
Online at Franklin Furnace’s Loft

Nicolás with The Interior Beauty Salon holds space online at Franklin Furnace’s Loftfor a group of creatives around the Earth to enact a series of vegan rituals. These micro-actions, carried on from homes from Rio de Janeiro to The Bronx and Puerto Rico, are intended to invoke healing —personal and collective—, serve as catalyst for inner and outer balance, and induce co-regulation as the night blossoms.

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Roundtable Talk | Curation During the Time of Covid at Ely Center of Contemporary Art

Saturday, February 20, 2021
9:00 AM 10:00 AM

Join this Roundtable discussion as six artists across the globe discussing a range of creative strategies in concert with their studio practice and philosophy as they go about making work within the construct of today’s environmental, social and political challenges. With Transart Alumni and Advisors Susie Quillinan, Mary Sherman, Konjit Seyoum, Zoran Poposki, Sean Stoops, and Debbie Hesse.

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Roundtable Talk | The Body and Collaborative Movement in Quarantine with Transartists Freya Björg Olafson, Claire Elizabeth Barratt, and Louis Laberge-Côté at Ely Center of Contemporary Art

Sunday, February 7,
3 – 4 pm est

This Roundtable Talk is the 3rd in a series of live virtual roundtable events taking place during the Transart (notso) Short Fest screening at ECOCA through Feb 21 in the ECOCA Lounge and online. The discussion will include concepts of the body as medium, the body in motion and the body in collaboration—yet also the body as transient and ephemeral.

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The Interior Beauty Salon: In Full Color

The Interior Beauty Salon was launched by Nicolás (A.K.A. Nicolás Dumit Estévez Raful Espejo) in 2017 in The Bronx, NY, to serve as a space where that which is not necessarily seen or manifested in tangible ways, is seeded, nurtured and given room to grow safely.

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Roundtable Talk | Art Over the Border During a Pandemic with Mikkel Niemann and Christian Gerstheimer at Ely Center of Contemporary Art

Sunday, January 31, 2021
1:00-2:00 PM EST

This is the second talk in a series of live virtual roundtable events taking place during theTransart (notso) Short Fest screening at ECOCA through Feb 21 in the ECOCA Lounge and online. Mikkel Niemann (Denmark) and Christian Gerstheimer (Michigan) will present their video works and discuss their personal process of enlisting performance across geographic borders.
Ely Center of Contemporary Art and The (notso) Short Fest

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Virtual Series | LIVE ART! Up Close and Digital with Transart Advisor Lynn Book and Alumni Zeerak Ahmed and Gabrielle Senza 

LIVE ART! is a Zoom series featuring boundary defying artists at the intersections of art/life/change. They will share their creative work and talk about how they are navigating current global, national, community and individual dynamics. LIVE ART! runs (almost) weekly from Feb 9 – Mar 30, and is curated and organized by Lynn Book, transmedia artist and Teaching Professor at Wake Forest University; Faculty Associate, Transart Institute, Liverpool John Moores University.

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The (NotSo) Short Fest at the Ely Center of Contemporary Art

December 7, 2020 – February 21, 2021

The (NotSo) Short Fest is a 5-hour collection of video shorts created by Transart Institute’s MFA students, faculty and advisors from around the globe. Conceived, compiled, and curated by Jean Marie Casbarian (faculty + advisor), the festival celebrates the creative minds of these international artists over the span of 16 years since the inception of this unique, international low-residency MFA and PHD program.

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