CHARAS IS ALIVE ON SPACESHIP EARTH A project by: Matthew Mottel in collaboration with Loisaida Inc., La Plaza Cultural de Armando Perez and DIAP (Digital Intermedia MFA program at City College Overview: The history of dome building on the LES goes back to when CHARAS built domes in collaboration with Buckminster Fuller in 1972/73. Syeus Mottel [...]
Earth Celebrations’ ECOLOGICAL CITY, a climate action, ecological urban pilgrimage and performance art event - features a spectacular 6 hour procession featuring visual art, giant puppets and costumes with 20 site performances of dance, music, theater and poetry celebrating sustainability solutions throughout the community gardens, neighborhood and East River Park waterfront on the Lower East Side of New York City.
Films Charas, an independent cinema program, was an ongoing series during Charas' operation of El Bohio on 9th street between Avenues B and C. Bradley Eros, Lary7, Kit Fitzgerald and many others, known as the Optipus collective, were integral members of the East Village projection/film/video community. This performance in and around the dome in the Loisaida Center courtyard is a homage to the character and experimentation that was nurtured at El Bohio.
Please join us for the closing reception of the exhibition: CHARAS is Alive on Spaceship Earth with special performances from Art Jones, Krisia Ayala and Yuko Otomo. Art Jones will create live audio/video mix featuring the animated sights and sounds of NYC’s utopian future-past, projected onto artist Krisia Ayala’s installation. Both artists will use the [...]
NEW WORK - Hailing from Puerto Rico, US America and beyond, Caborca makes sprawling, adventurous works in theatre and film. Combining epic auteurship with a tuned ensemble of actors and a flux of collaborators, we bridge language, background and media, inviting our audience, guest artists and members alike, to delve into the pleasure of seeing anew.
How do we give contours to an art history that remains unwritten, scattered across archives, and siloed in scholarship? How can we begin to reconnect the struggle for civil rights across all artists of color and their fight for inclusion in our cultural institutions? How can we being to reflect on the complexity of artists of color and their unique experience, political actions, and art production as part of the art history in American? In the exhibition, Documents of Resistance: Our Time, Mexican-American artist, Antonio Serna is hoping to take us down a visual path to consider these and many other questions in regards to the important but often overlook contributions of artist of color.
Since the 1960s, students of color have fought to decolonize campuses across the Americas. One of their goals was to introduce studies related to their own experiences and include their history outside of the dominant Eurocentric lens. We will discuss some of the original demands and achievements, and compare them to the current wave of decolonizing academia.
Last chance to see the exhibition:
Documents of Resistance: Our Time
by: Antonio Serna
Join us on Tuesday, January 29 at 6:00 pm for the first engagement of our 2019 artists in residence; Project LAZO by Alva Mooses & Claudia Cortinez. LAZO's inaugural event will present an exhibition of small works by 15 interdisciplinary artists. The selected works and their artists are align with LAZO's mission to create dialogue among artists working in NYC and Latin America as well as local artists that have been actively working, teaching, or living in the Lower East Side.
ANALEMMA - March 2nd through March 12th
Exhibition curated by LAZO & Javier Bosques
Javier Bosques/ Mauricio Cortes/ Alva Mooses/ Sofía Reeser del Río/ Ana Vaz
