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SUMMARY:Din Din: Quick Slice by Lily Baldwin
DESCRIPTION:Nightly Screenings Beginning at DuskLocation: 39-31 29th St\, Long Island CityLily Baldwin’s film installation “Quick Slice” will screen every night in Flux Factory’s front window with free slices every Friday in June (limited pizza! First come\, first serve). \nThis event is part of the exhibition Din Din\, a series of free\, socially-distanced outdoor events which use food and art to build community. \nFilm Description\n“Quick Slice”\, 23 minutes on loop\, 2019 \nTHINGS AREN’T WHERE THEY’RE SUPPOSED TO BE. \nNine lonely strangers converge over a quick slice inside a casual\, no bullshit\, non-committal community hub— the pizza shop. When a “contaigent” enters\, dance turns inconsequential moments into idiosyncratic gestures\, toggling between task and choreography. A subtle\, disorientating use of editing techniques and photographic devices manipulating time craft a visceral and sonically rich dreamscape. \n“Quick Slice” scales to respective environments\, utilizing available architecture and unsuspecting surfaces. Caught between the character’s gaze\, the viewer catches shards of the story projected onto their body. These seemingly accidental screenings encourage an unadulterated and kinesthetic reception of the project. \nInspired by Netta Yerushalmy’s Paramodernities Directed by Lily BaldwinProduced by Brighid GreeneEdited by Lily Baldwin\, Sara SowellVideo installation design consulting by Joseph SeamansSound Mix by Mark degli AntoniCinematography by Ben WolfAssistant Camera Sanjay SinghStills by Courtney DenkHair by Takeo Suzuki|Makeup by Hiro YonemotoMakeup Assistant Ken SuzukiFeaturing designs by PavonProduction Assistants Rishauna Zumberg\, Jaanelle Yee \nStarring Lily Baldwin\, Henry Chesley\, Geneva Frazier\, Dean Melaas\, Toni Melaas\, Katharine Padulo\, Wally Padulo\, Angie Pittman\, Peggy Schneider\, Gus Solomons Jr.\, Amy Meisner Threet \nThanks to New York Live ArtsFiscally sponsored by Los Angeles Performance Project \nArtist Bio\nBased in NYC\, Berlin and LA\, Lily Baldwin is known for her compelling\, intricate narrative forms. Her works have screened at festivals including Sundance\, SXSW\, Berlin\, and Venice\, as well as at Lincoln Center\, the V&A Museum\, and Carnegie Hall to Anthology Film Archives\, Judson Church\, and Blue Stockings Bookstore. They are featured on The Criterion Channel and NOWNESS. As a dancer\, Baldwin performed on a world tour with David Byrne and Brian Eno and with the Metropolitan Opera\, Trisha Brown Dance Company\, and other NYC choreographers. The New York Times says her “work has a visceral power similar to Cronenberg’s.”
URL:https://www.fluxfactory.org/event/din-din-quick-slice/
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SUMMARY:I Love You\, I'm Sorry\, Come Here: Solo Exhibition by Natalie Tsui
DESCRIPTION:Gallery Dates: June 4 – 6\nGallery Hours*\n\n\n\n\n\nFriday\, June 4\, 6 – 10pmSat & Sunday\, June 5 & 6\, 1 – 6pm\n\n\n\n\n\n\nOpening Night\n\n\nFriday\, June 4\, 6pm – 10pm \nArtist Talk and Screening\n\nSunday\, June 6\, 6pm ETRSVP for link here \n\n*Please note: Masks are required inside the gallery. \n\nExhibition Description\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nUsing an accidental two-hour voice memo of emotional processing with a former partner as a script\, Natalie Tsui has gathered together friends\, a couple\, and actors to dissect and reenact the conversation for the camera. As Natalie films and directs\, a secondary camera films an uninterrupted wide shot of the entire shoot day\, documenting discussions around script analysis\, character motivation\, and Natalie’s highly subjective recollection of lived events while the participants work to condense the two-hour conversation into a narrative story. \n\n\nAn examination of the complexities of personal memory\, I Love You\, I’m Sorry\, Come Here is a multichannel video installation combining footage from the filmed recreations\, personal video archives and documentary footage to explore the limits of documentary film production and the latent ideological drives of the moving image. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nArtist Bio\n\n\n\n\n\nNatalie Tsui (they/them) is a non-binary artist primarily working in film\, video\, and performance to investigate and problematize the colonial and capitalist drives latent in visual culture\, western pedagogy and collective memory. Tsui holds a B.A. in Film Studies and English from UC Berkeley and an M.F.A. in Cinema from San Francisco State University. \nTheir work has screened at the Contemporary Jewish Museum\, Frameline\, Museu de Arts Moderna of Rio de Janiero\, Shapeshifters Cinema\, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art\, and the New York LGBT Community Center. They were a Flaherty Seminar Fellow\, NYFF Artist Academy Fellow\, Queer Art Mentorship Fellow\, and a Princess Grace Film Awardee.
URL:https://www.fluxfactory.org/event/you-or-me-or-perhaps-someone-else/
LOCATION:Flux Factory\, 39-31 29th St\, Long Island City\, NY
CATEGORIES:Residency Shows
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SUMMARY:Din Din: A Stitch in Time: Trans Family Archives with Eli Brown
DESCRIPTION:This event is part of the exhibition Din Din\, a series of free\, socially-distanced outdoor events which use food and art to build community. \n\n\n\nRSVPs are now closedEmail transfamilyarchives@gmail.com to attend future events \n\n\n\nProgram Description\n\n\n\nA Stitch in Time: Trans Family Archives is a free dinner and conversation series for trans and non-binary people to co-create intentionally multigenerational space and relationship. During Trans Family Archives dinners\, participants work through generational biases\, share critical histories\, and witness each other in physical space. These facilitated discussions serve to build a foundation for mutual support amongst oft segregated community members.  Participants self-select to join the archives\, a growing\, freely accessible auditory resource which explores cross-generational dynamics. \n\n\n\nArtist Bio\n\n\n\nEli Brown is an interdisciplinary artist working living media\, drawing\, sculpture\, performance\, video\, and participatory projects.  Their work explores the histories and futurities of queer and trans subjectivities\, communities and intimacies\, and deals with anthropocentrism as it relates to conceptions of evolution and species.  Recent work has been featured at the Museum of Fine Arts Boston\, deCordova Sculpture Park and Museum\, and Creative Time Summit X. Upcoming work will be flown with Tailgate Projects in Tampa\, FL.
URL:https://www.fluxfactory.org/event/din-din-trans-family-archive/
LOCATION:Windmill Community Garden\, 39-22 29th St\, Long Island City\, NY\, 11101\, United States
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SUMMARY:Din Din: Fungal Symbiote Dinner & Musings with Gil Lopez
DESCRIPTION:This event is part of the exhibition Din Din\, a series of free\, socially-distanced outdoor public events which use food and art to build community. \nLocation: 39-22 29th St\, Long Island CityPlease RSVP Here \nProgram Description\nParticipants will join the hosts for an evening discussing the fungal world at the intersection of human health and ingenuity. Discussion will include culinary mushroom cultivation\, mycelium as a metaphor for radical social organizing and the stones ape theory. Dinner will include mushrooms grown by the artist. \nFlux Thursday is a monthly community potluck and artist salon the second Thursday every month. It is Flux Factory’s longest running public program and we’re looking forward to hosting our first in-person Flux Thursday since the onset of the pandemic. \nFacilitator Bio\nGil Lopez is a community organizer who creates socially engaged performance art which connects human participants with the natural world which we are a part of. His work invites participants\, particularly urban dwellers\, to re-engage with our biophilic history\, to continue the work of our ancestors in understanding and making meaning of our human potential to become allies with plants\, animals\, fungal entities and the mineral world. Gil is the cofounder of the urban farm collective Smiling Hogshead Ranch\, serves on the Queens Solid Waste Advisory Board and works as an environmental educator and compost professional.
URL:https://www.fluxfactory.org/event/din-din-symbiote-dinner/
LOCATION:Windmill Community Garden\, 39-22 29th St\, Long Island City\, NY\, 11101\, United States
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SUMMARY:Haa Guumoben Waaliga (May You Never Be Disgraced): Dual Exhibition by Hana Mire and Samia Osman
DESCRIPTION:Gallery dates*\n\n\n\nFriday\, June 11\, 5 – 8pmSaturday & Sunday\, June 12 & 13\, 1 –  6pm\n\n\n\nThursday & Friday\, June 17 & 18\, 3 – 8pm\n\n\n\n\nSaturday & Sunday\, June 19 & 20\, 1 – 6pm \n*Masks are required inside the gallery. \n\n\n\n\nOpening Reception\n\n\n\nFriday\, June 11\, 5 – 8pm\n\n\n\nIn the Windmill Community GardenRSVP Here Join Hana and Samia in the garden and enjoy some tastes of Somalia by Safari Restaurant. They will be serving Shaax\, Sambusa\, Bur Mandazi\, Buskud. With traditional music by Somali-American harpist Iliana Hagenah.\n\n\n\n\nArtist Talk with Hana & Samia\nThursday\, June 17\, 6pm ETRSVP HereHana and Samia will show their work and discuss their collaborative practice.\n\n\n\n\n\n\nHaa Guumoben Waaliga (May You Never Be Disgraced)\nHana Mire in collaboration with Samia Osman will premiere an experimental short film and showcase selected documentary photography work made in Mogadishu\, Somalia ( locally known as Xamar). Some of these images were previously displayed in Mogadishu during the Somali Arts Foundation (SAF) contemporary photography exhibit titled Still Life ( Oct. 2020). \nCentered on video and photography\, Haa Guumoben Waaliga is an exhibition that explores the passage of time through the everyday contemporary life of  Mogadishu residents before and after the civil war. \nAs artists of the Somali diaspora raised in the United Arab Emirates\, we’ve understood our culture through oral stories from our parents\, theater\, literature\, music\, poetry and folktales. Longing to experience the motherland ourselves\, we traveled to witness firsthand the magical memories and complicated history our parents kept stored in their hearts. Included in our showcase are still and moving images captured by us throughout the years woven with archival sourced from friends and family. \nHaa Guumoben Waaliga aims to offer a time portal to familiar landscapes and sounds in hopes to contribute towards intergenerational conversations about Somali identity at home and in the diaspora today. The sequence of images is a love letter to the people of Mogadishu that are so often stripped of their humanity in Western images. Our exhibition honors their resilience\, dignity\, and beauty. \nWe are not less human— despite the instability\, we remain steadfast in faith and joy. \n– Hana and Samia \n\nArtist Bios\nSomali independent filmmaker Hana Mire studied at the New York Film Academy in Abu Dhabi. Her short documentary SILENT ART was awarded a prize at the Abu Dhabi Film Festival\, and she has worked with Abu Dhabi National TV and twofour54 Abu Dhabi Free zone Media. She is a fellow of the Chicken and Egg Diversity Initiative & Accelerator Lab and has been selected to attend the Greenhouse Development Lab. Hana was an Artist in residency at Flux Factory she is currently directing and producing her first feature-length documentary\, which has already received support from Chicken & Egg Pictures\, Bertha Foundation\, Sundance Documentary Institute\, HotDocs Pitching form\, Durban FilmMart\, and The Harnisch Foundation. She’s currently an artist resident in Jacob Burns film center. \n\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nSamia Osman is a Somali Filmmaker who studied Filmmaking at the New York Film Academy in Abu Dhabi\, UAE. Her short film JUST ANOTHER ACCENT premiered in Cannes Film Festival short film corner\, and Internationally screened across Europe and the Middle East. She was mentored by the Hungarian filmmaker Béla Tarr at the International Filmmaking Academy in Bologna\, Italy. Samia is currently developing her feature documentary film in Dhagaxbuur in the Somali Region of Ethiopia. And In the production phase directing a documentary Series about The Afro Arab Experience in the Middle East. \n\n\n\nOpening Reception Musician\n\n\n\nIliana Hagenah is a Somali-American harpist based in New York City. For over 20 years\, she has played recitals and events. She was a member of The George Washington University orchestra\, where she played concert halls. She attended the Longy School of Music where she was trained with principal harpist of the Boston Symphony Orchestra\, Elizabeth Morse. Off season\, she experiments with scales and cultural sounds to bring a richer and varied understanding of the harp to her audiences.
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LOCATION:Flux Factory\, 39-31 29th St\, Long Island City\, NY
CATEGORIES:Residency Shows
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SUMMARY:Din Din: Missing Luncheon
DESCRIPTION:Missing Luncheon is facilitated by Karen Krolak with food by Bianca Boragi\, featuring “Breakaway” by Heather Kapplow. \nThis event is part of the exhibition Din Din\, a series of free\, socially-distanced outdoor public events which use food and art to build community. \nReservations\nServed in Two SeatingsFor the 1pm Seating\, Please Make a Reservation hereFor the 4pm Seating\, Please Make a Reservation hereRSVP Mandatory \nLocation: 39-22 29th St\, Long Island City \nProgram Description\nWho or what did you lose in this last year? Normally\, we gather together with loved ones over food after funerals\, break ups\, and job endings but the pandemic halted that system of support. If you have been longing for one of these meals\, Karen Krolak\, creator of the Dictionary of Negative Space\, invites you to gather in the garden where laughter\, tears\, and awkward pauses are welcome to flow. We will dine on a French feast designed by Bianca Boragi and experience a poetic pop up by Heather Kapplow. Feel free to bring memories of what you’ve lost as we share stories\, moments of silence\, and moving metaphors to help us digest our grief. \nArtist Bios\nKaren Krolak is a free range collaborator based in Boston\, MA  She is the co-founder/co-Artistic Director of Monkeyhouse\, an award winning nonprofit that connects communities with choreography. Her ongoing project\, the Dictionary of Negative Space (DoNS)\, is an interdisciplinary lament for the words that the English language lacks for grief\, trauma\, and repair. Much like grief itself\, this unusual dictionary manifests in a variety of unexpected iterations. DoNS offers refuge for mourners grappling with complicated grief and was inspired by her experiences after a car crash killed her mother\, father & brother. \nHeather Kapplow creates participatory experiences that elicit unexpected intimacies using objects\, alternative interpretations of existing environments\, installation\, performance\, writing\, audio and video. “Breakaway” consists of a varied series of audience-enacted gestures woven into multiple Din Din events. It is ritual activity that conflates the notion of theatrical breakaway props — things designed to be destroyed without hurting anyone — with the idea of freedom obtained by breaking away from dysfunctional patterns rooted in traumas from the past. \nBianca Abdi-Boragi works across media using sculpture\, video\, installation\, and painting to enact representations of self and others\, often using found materials and landscapes as receptacles to address different states of being\, with a specific focus on alienation and territory. Tending towards the absurd though with care and respect\, her works respond to the contemporary political and social environment in the United States\, France\, and Algeria\, engaging with themes of gender\, subsistence\, and migration while linking this moment to the historical repercussions of post-colonialism. Abdi-Boragi is a French-Algerian/ American interdisciplinary artist who received her MFA from Yale School of Art\, Sculpture\, in 2017\, and obtained her BFA from ENSAPC. Her shows have been featured on Artnet\, Artspiel\, Taggverk Magazine amidst others. Solo shows include the Border Project Space Gallery and CADAF Art Fair\, she has exhibited with the Immigrant Artist Biennial\, NARS Foundation\, The Border Project Space\, VCU Arts\, NURTUREart Gallery\, Chashama Gallery\, Field Project Gallery\, Galerie Protégé\, The Clemente Soto Velez Center NY\, throughout the United States and internationally and has screened art films at Anthology Film Archive\, UnionDocs\, Video Revival\, NY\, the Whitney Humanity Center\, and Loria Center\, New Haven\, CT. Abdi-Boragi was the recipient of the JUNCTURE Fellowship in Art and International Human Rights from the Yale Law School and was recently in residency at NARS Foundation and previously at MASS MoCA’s studios\, the Centquatre\, Paris\, France\, Pact Zullverein\, Essen\, Germany\, Cal’Arts\, Los Angeles. Abdi-Boragi is also an independent writer/ curator and founder of Gallery Perchée.
URL:https://www.fluxfactory.org/event/din-din-missing-luncheon/
LOCATION:Windmill Community Garden\, 39-22 29th St\, Long Island City\, NY\, 11101\, United States
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SUMMARY:¡Bienvenidxs! A Week-long Open Embroidery Workshop
DESCRIPTION:Workshop dates\nJune 23rd – June 30th\,\nfrom 1 – 5pm\nIn the Flux Factory Gallery* \n\nDrop-in attendance!\n\n*Masks are required to be worn inside the gallery.\n\n\n\nBackstrap Weaving Workshop\nFriday\, June 25\n5 – 6:30pm\nLocated at the Windmill Community Garden\nJoin for a special backstrap weaving workshop with Cynthia Alberto\, a special guest artist from the Weaving Hand. Backstrap weaving is an Indigenous weaving technique using a simple loom that relies on tension from the weaver’s body. All materials will be provided.\nRSVP Here\n\n\n\nProgram Description\n\n\n\n¡Bienvenidxs!\, will be an installation of an embroidery workshop open to the public hosted by Maria Lulu Varona. Learning how to embroider while collaborating on a table cloth. Materials will be provided\, no need to have previous experience. Come to learn\, relax\, chat and have fun. This project is possible thanks to the Queens Council for the Arts. \n\n\nArtist Bio\n\n\nMaria Lulu Varona (b. 1993\, San Juan\, Puerto Rico) lives and works between Puerto Rico and New York City. Varona learned her embroidery techniques from her grandmother growing up applying it to make works addressing contemporary conditions. She has exhibited at Bronx Art Space\, New York (2017) Roberto Paradise\, San Juan\, Puerto Rico (2017)\, Flux Factory\, Brooklyn\, NY (2019)\, MACO Feria de arte\, Mexico City (2020)\, Embajada\, San Juan Puerto Rico (2020)\, amongst other group shows at independent galleries spaces. Also have participated in art-residencies such as International Studio and Curatorial Program in Brooklyn\, NYC (2018)\, Flux Factory in Queens\, NYC (2019)\, Program for Independent studies at the Contemporary Arts Museum of Puerto Rico (2020)\, and at Artist Cooperative Residency and Exhibitions in rural southwest Wisconsin (2021).
URL:https://www.fluxfactory.org/event/bienvenidxs-a-week-long-open-embroidery-workshop/
LOCATION:Flux Factory\, 39-31 29th St\, Long Island City\, NY
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SUMMARY:Din Din: Recalling Bitterness Tasting Menu and Film Screening
DESCRIPTION:This program is the closing event for Din Din\, a series of free\, socially-distanced outdoor public events which use food and art to build community. \nLocation: 39-22 29th St\, Long Island City \nProgram Schedule\n7 – 9pm\nThe “Recalling Bitterness Tasting Menu” by Siri Lee and “Breakaway” by Heather Kapplow \n9 – 10pm – Short film and video art program featuring: \nJulia Hechtman “ONLY US”\nPhyllis Ma “Trip the Fruit Fantastic”\nRobbie Samuels “Hip Hop Cafe”\nZina Saro-Wiwa “Table Manners (Season 2): Dorcas Eats Roasted Snails and Drinks Maltina”\nRebecca Shapass “Eggless”\nDana Sherwood “Feral Cakes”\nTobias Rud “Sweetie O’s”\nForest Juziuk “Briars: I’m not good looking but my mother gave me something” \nRecalling Bitterness Tasting Menu\nSiri Lee’s “Recalling Bitterness Tasting Menu” satirizes the Cultural Revolution ritual of “Recalling Bitterness and Savoring Sweetness.” Emerging shortly after a period of unprecedented famine\, this hypocritical ritual was designed to contrast the “bitterness” of life before the Communist Party took power with the “sweetness” of life under its rule. In Siri Lee’s reinterpretation of this ritual\, she instead designed a contemporary “Recalling Bitterness Tasting Menu\,” with each “dish” serving a story of famine and food shortages under the Maoist regime.\n\nBreakaway\n \nHeather Kapplow creates participatory experiences that elicit unexpected intimacies using objects\, alternative interpretations of existing environments\, installation\, performance\, writing\, audio and video. \n“Breakaway” consists of a varied series of audience-enacted gestures woven into multiple Din Din events. It is ritual activity that conflates the notion of theatrical breakaway props — things designed to be destroyed without hurting anyone — with the idea of freedom obtained by breaking away from dysfunctional patterns rooted in traumas from the past. \nFilm Program \nJulia Hechtman\, “ONLY US”\, 5:40 \nIn this multi-channel video installation\, the artist ritualistically covers her hands with\, and consumes fragments of\, her mother’s ashes. \nForest Juziuk “Briars: I’m not good looking but my mother gave me something”\, 12:00 \n\n“Briars” is an experimental soap opera based on the true story of a small group of men living in community apartments in 1980s Southeast Michigan. This episode\, entitled “I’m Not Good Looking But My Mother Gave Me Something\,” consists of a single breakfast-for-dinner scene\, approximately two minutes in length\, in which two newly acquainted friends discuss the meal. There is Otis\, who recently moved to town from parts unknown\, and Junior\, the host and chef. \n\nPhyllis Ma “Trip the Fruit Fantastic”\, 3:09 \nDragonfruits\, watermelon and other fruits come to life in this musical stop motion video. (music by Landen Griffith). \nRobbie Samuels “Hip Hop Cafe”\, 4:20 \nHip Hop Cafe is a film entirely made from golden age rap lyrics.\n \nZina Saro-Wiwa “Table Manners (Season 2): Dorcas Eats Roasted Snails and Drinks Maltina”\, 6:47 \nTable Manners (2019) is a continuation of the ongoing video series that sees individuals in the Niger Delta giving an eating performance for Zina’s camera. The viewer is encouraged to sit down and enjoy the meal with the eaters. All the performers in the series use their hands to eat. At the end of each film the place of the filming is stated. This documentation simply serves to highlight that “an important ritual has taken place”. Saro-Wiwa states: “A powerful exchange takes place when one not only eats a meal but watches a meal being consumed. One is filled up with an unexplainable and potent metaphysical energy that we normally pay no attention to.”  This work places a spotlight on and radicalizes this invisible force. The documentation of the meal and the place it was consumed forces the viewer to also ingest the names and cultural realities surrounding the oil production in the Niger Delta. Realities that are usually ignored or erased. \nRebecca Shapass “Eggless”\, 10:19 \nInspired by Betty Crocker’s marketing strategy (developed by Freud-devotee Edward Bernays) to have housewives “add an egg” to their cakes\, “Eggless” is a meditation on fertility & worship through the lens of eggs as a commercialized symbol of rebirth\, an erotic object\, and an American diet staple. \nDana Sherwood “Feral Cakes”\, 6:28 \nWhile residing deep within the suburban sprawl of South Florida Sherwood began setting out fruits\, vegetables\, meats\, cakes and other confectionery concoctions for the local animal inhabitants.  The menus grew from a knowledge of the natural diet of animals such as raccoons\, foxes\, possums and other creatures she expected to find living along the borders of human habitation. Filming over the days\, weeks and months Sherwood began to get to know the preferences and predilections of their régimes\, and a conversation started to emerge as she watched the videos each morning from the previous nights banquet and adjusted\, tweaked and tested them.  \nTobias Rud “Sweetie O’s”\, 4:00 \nA lonely middle-aged man becomes obsessed with a brand of children’s cereal\, that takes him back to his carefree childhood in his mother’s warm embrace.Animated traditionally with pencil and paper. \nArtist/Filmmaker Bios\nJulia Hechtman is a multi-disciplinary artist\, who makes works about place\, absence\, identification/identity and mortality. \nForest Juziuk is an American artist and writer. Taking inspiration from soap operas\, YA novels\, and TV sketch comedy\, he works with devices familiar and suggestive to explore memory sensation. His work has appeared in the magazine The Minus Times (Drag City)\, and the books The Minus Times Collected (Featherproof) and J&L Illustrated #2 (J&L). He also co-authored the chapter “The ‘Why’ of Arts Organizations in the DIY Era” in the book 20under40: Re-inventing the Arts and Arts Education for the 21st Century. \n \nSiri Lee is an NYC-based interdisciplinary visual storyteller. A potluck of research\, mixed media\, and speculative fiction\, Lee’s work deploys image and wordplay to visualize analogies between material culture and ideology. A recent graduate from the University of Chicago\, Lee has been selected for inclusion in Project Anywhere’s Global Exhibition Program\, 2020; been an artist-in-residence at Residency Unlimited in New York\, 2020; and received the Scholastic Art & Writing Awards Alumni Microgrant\, 2019. Her work has been exhibited in Chicago\, Los Angeles\, and New York. \nPhyllis Ma is a New York-based artist working in photography and animation. She studied visual arts at Columbia College\, Columbia University\, as well as printmaking at The Glasgow School of Art and fashion design at FIT. Her recent works include Special Nothing\, a book of travel still lifes\, and Mushrooms & Friends\, a photography series featuring foraged and cultivated mushrooms. Phyllis’s work has been profiled in The New York Times\, It’s Nice That and Sight Unseen. Select commercial clients include Netflix\, Vice\, Lazy Oaf\, SSENSE and A24. \nRobbie Samuels is a Black-British multi-award-winning advertising-creative\, writer and director. Hip Hop Cafe was a passion project\, and his love letter to the golden age of Hip Hop. \nZina Saro-Wiwa is an artist working primarily with video but also photography\, sculpture\, sound and food. She lives and works in Brooklyn\, New York as well as running a practice in the Niger Delta region of Nigeria where she founded the contemporary art gallery Boys’ Quarters Project Space for which she regularly curates. Saro-Wiwa is one of Foreign Policy Magazine’s Global Thinkers of 2016recognized for her work in the Niger Delta. She was Artist-in-Residence at Pratt Institute\, Brooklyn 2016-2017 and in April 2017 was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship for Fine Arts. \nRebecca Shapass is a filmmaker and interdisciplinary artist from New York City. She works to create bio-mythographic\, audio-visual worlds where the fissures between personal and collective memory are mined to reveal fragile systems of perception and remembering. Her work has been screened and exhibited with institutions and festivals including Microscope Gallery (Brooklyn\, NY)\, Knockdown Center (Queens\, NY)\, Open Signal (Portland\, OR)\, amongst others. She has participated in residencies including Smack Mellon (Brooklyn\, NY)\, Signal Culture (Owego\, NY)\, and Crosstown Arts (Memphis\, TN). Currently\, she is pursuing her MFA at Carnegie Mellon University. \nDana Sherwood has exhibited throughout The Americas\, Europe and Australia including solo exhibitions at the Florence Griswold Museum\, Nagle-Draxler Reiseburogalerie (Cologne)\, Denny Dimin Gallery (New York) and Kepler Art-Conseil (Paris).  Her work has also been shown at Storm King (New York)\, The Jack Shainman School\, The Fellbach Sculpture Triennial (Germany)\, Pink Summer Gallery (Italy)\, Kunsthal Aarhus\, The Palais des Beaux Arts Paris\, Marian Boesky Gallery\, Socrates Sculpture Park\, Flux Factory\, The Biennial of Western New York\, Prospect 2: New Orleans\, Scotia Bank Nuit Blanche (Toronto)\,  dOCUMENTA 13\, and many other venues worldwide. \nTobias Rud is director and animator born 1991 in Copenhagen\, Denmark. Has a background in cinematography\, but has moved away from cameras and their limitations to start drawing his own films instead.
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