MARA | Bruno Rodriguez for Gangere at Insomnia
Friday, May 3
Doors 7:00 / Performances 7:30-10:30
$10
Join us to view four newly commissioned performance art pieces featuring:
MARA [Norway] Supported by the OCA: Office for Contemporary Art Norway.
Brendan Bunny Elephante [NYC]
Fanny [NYC]
Carolina Muñoz Awad [NYC]
MARA [NORWAY]
MARA is a visual artist, chanter and musician who works with numerous artistic directions that includes performance art, sculpture, ceramics, soundart and installation art. A common denominator especially, for her performance art projects, is the profound intention to challenge the audience - and herself, by reaching into the innermost being of the spectator, creating deep vibrations through sound, materials and the human connection, that which can transform our senses. Her artistic themes circle around a central core containing the intuitive presence, togetherness, spiritual technologies, connections and reflections around wholeness.
SUPPORTED BY THE OCA: OFFICE FOR CONTEMPORARY ART NORWAY
CAROLINA MUÑOZ AWAD [NYC]
@carolinamunoza
Carolina Muñoz Awad is a multidisciplinary artist based in Brooklyn, NY, and Santiago, Chile. She has a background in architecture and received her MFA from Parsons School of Design in 2022. Her practice is a constant experimentation of her own body in space, trying to respond to questions regarding presence in healing, absurdity, and intuition. Carolina works through performance, installation, and the interaction of both in endurance pieces. She has exhibited her work in Santiago, Albany, and New York. She has attended the Arts Letters & Numbers Residency in upstate NY, and the Belgrade Art Studio online. Her most recent work, Monas Cigotas (2023), was included in the South American Performance Art cycle in New York at Grace Exhibition Space.
commune-cater is a performance involving bodies. Bodies wearing handcrafted pieces that may influence movement and interaction. What if we could only touch through protuberances and sensorless extrusions on ourselves? Would we hold tight to others, or just to ourselves? To soothe, dance, and care. Curiosity and scale, obsession and repetition, are some of the topics the artist is interested in with this work. Collaborators: AJ Johnson, Sal Chen and Michael Jay 108.
BRENDAN BUNNY ELEFANTE [NYC]
Brendan Bunny Elefante is a Brooklyn-based new media and performance artist who has presented work in the US, Russia, and Indonesia. In his work he explores the escape from identity through transcendental states and alter egos.
FANNY [NYC]
@fannnsystem
Fanny is a visual and movement creator and facilitator. She is an instructor of practices to reach altered states and connect to the divine such as Ritual Body Postures and Sacred Whirling. She has been invited to perform and work with local and international artists and organizations such as West Chelsea Festival of Art, International LitFest, NOoSPHERE Arts, Center for Remembering and Sharing, Brooklyn Arts Exchange, The Brooklyn Nomads, Stanley Love Performance Group, Culture Push, Dance to the People, Harlem Dance Club, Gaia NoMaya, Nancy Azara, Katie Cercone, Universidad Iberoamericana (MEX), Colectivo Tarantula (MEX), El Otro Mono (MEX), Sinestesia (MEX), Laura Ríos (MEX), among others.
Collaborators:
AJ Johnson is an experimental video artist and professional Video Jockey
Sal Chen is a writer, educator, and multidisciplinary artist
Michael Jay 108 is a facilitator of Sage Academy of Sound Energy retreats and trainings