The Immigrant Artist Biennial: Parasites and Vessels
2023/10/21 - 2023/11/19
Artists:
Anna-Ting Möller
Young Joo Lee
Juna Skënderi
Alexander Si
Curator:
Katherine Adams
Bianca Abdi-Boragi
Anna Mikaela Ekstrand
Postponed until 2023, the second edition of TIAB: Contact Zone centers U.S. and international immigrant and exiled artists and explores how storytelling, embodied memory, and projections of diasporic futures can be strategies for straddling different cultural and political terrains. TIAB 2023 is co-curated by Katherine Adams, Bianca Abdi-Boragi and Anna Mikaela Ekstrand and will present Contact Zones (exhibitions), Field Work (panels), and Arena (performances and screenings), taking place across seven venues, including Brooklyn Museum, EFA Project Space, NARS Foundation Gallery, Artists Alliance Cuchifritos Gallery + Project Space, Wendy’s Subway, Alchemy gallery, Accent Sisters in addition to a Field Guide (catalog) from September 8 2023 - January 2024, presenting 48 artists from over 35+ countries.
Through slippery, malleable, or fantastical material, the four artists in “Parasites and Vessels” shape new life—some through critique, others through futuristic forms that push visitors to consider how diaspora are created, sustained, and mended. Through digital animation, 1990s home recording clips, and footage depicting handicrafts and a sculpture incorporating live bacteria Young Joo Lee, Juna Skënderi, Alexander Si and Anna Ting Möller latch on to what they find to be otherworldly aspects of their chosen materials: resilience, strength, growth, and interconnectivity. But, also great disappointment.
Anna-Ting Möller
Young Joo Lee
Juna Skënderi
Alexander Si
Curator:
Katherine Adams
Bianca Abdi-Boragi
Anna Mikaela Ekstrand
Postponed until 2023, the second edition of TIAB: Contact Zone centers U.S. and international immigrant and exiled artists and explores how storytelling, embodied memory, and projections of diasporic futures can be strategies for straddling different cultural and political terrains. TIAB 2023 is co-curated by Katherine Adams, Bianca Abdi-Boragi and Anna Mikaela Ekstrand and will present Contact Zones (exhibitions), Field Work (panels), and Arena (performances and screenings), taking place across seven venues, including Brooklyn Museum, EFA Project Space, NARS Foundation Gallery, Artists Alliance Cuchifritos Gallery + Project Space, Wendy’s Subway, Alchemy gallery, Accent Sisters in addition to a Field Guide (catalog) from September 8 2023 - January 2024, presenting 48 artists from over 35+ countries.
Through slippery, malleable, or fantastical material, the four artists in “Parasites and Vessels” shape new life—some through critique, others through futuristic forms that push visitors to consider how diaspora are created, sustained, and mended. Through digital animation, 1990s home recording clips, and footage depicting handicrafts and a sculpture incorporating live bacteria Young Joo Lee, Juna Skënderi, Alexander Si and Anna Ting Möller latch on to what they find to be otherworldly aspects of their chosen materials: resilience, strength, growth, and interconnectivity. But, also great disappointment.
