Asia Stewart. the money is in the blades, 2025, Performance, Photography by Elyse Mertz
SEASON FINALE - STARDUST CLUSTERS: MEETINGS WITH MEANING
FALL 2025
Live: PREACH R. SUN - ASIA STEWART - ARTEMIS BEASTS
Livestream: KATARINA SKÅR LISA [Norway-Sámi] - KALISOLAITE 'UHILA [New Zealand/Aotearoa - Māori]
7:30 - 10:00 PM $10
*Preach R. Sun will begin performing outdoors at 6:00 pm *
Asia Stewart, cat got your tongue, 2025, Performance, Photography by Maria Baranova
ASIA STEWART is a performance artist whose conceptual work centers her body as a living archive. Many of her performances unfold as social experiments that negotiate terms of agency and power with audiences. Stewart’s performances have been supported by organizations that include The Bronx Museum, The Shed, Franklin Furnace, A.I.R. Gallery, Silver Art Projects, Marc Straus Gallery, Marble House Project, GALLIM, The Watermill Center, and the Brooklyn Arts Council.
Stewart routinely questions how live art can be documented and represented across multiple mediums. Her photographs and videos have been exhibited at venues across the United States, including the Mercury Store, Untitled Space, NARS Foundation, Goodyear Arts, A.I.R. Gallery, Kellen Gallery, and Anthology Film Archives. Her first series of prints is also held in the permanent collection of the Mint Museum in Charlotte, NC.
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ARTEMIS BEASTS
Artemis Beasts - Vilma Duplantier and Shelly Voorhees - NYC-based multimedia artists and activists exploring and creating anthropomorphic hybrids to bring awareness to speciesism.
By placing our self-made animal masks on our human heads and industrial sculptures on our female bodies, we become anthropomorphic beings - half humans, half animals. With altered vision, lack of air, and restricted movement, we imagine how it is to be in the place of another.
Our art is driven by the idea of interconnectedness. By invisible strings, humans are entangled with nature, animals, and the universe in one single noetic field. We are all one, affecting one another. That is why performance art for animal rights often mirrors human rights too.
Artemis Beasts was created in 2017, when our daily discussed topics on the importance of veganism for health, ethics, and a sustainable future wasn't enough anymore. We needed to dig deeper, recycle our thoughts through body expressions, sounds, sculpture, poetry, share them with others and seek for a change
KATARINA SKÅR LISA [Norway/Sápmi - Sámi]
Katarina Skår Lisa is an educated choreographer, dancer and teacher who through artworks conveys the relationship between poetry, art, and nature.
She lives in Nesodden, a half-island outside Oslo, but frequently she is finding her “home” in the very north of Norway, in Varjjat / Varanger in the Sami area of Finnmark. Here she makes relational inquiries towards the land and to her Sea Sami family heritage that she carries through her father’s roots.
In her recent project ‘Gift of Stone’, she explored what ‘ good relations ‘ means to and with landscapes and intangible cultural heritages, seen from an indigenous worldview. She aims to broaden perspectives and knowledge about Sea Sami culture by investigating what a Sea Sami artistic language could be today.
KALISOLAITE 'UHILA [New Zealand/Aotearoa - Māori]
Kalisolaite ‘Uhila was born in Tonga and lives and works in Auckland, Aotearoa New Zealand. Amongst his awards, exhibitions, national and international residencies, most notable is being nominated as a finalist for New Zealand’s highest art award, the Walters Prize. This recognition, affirms Kalisolaite is one of New Zealand’s most renowned performance artists.
Bio Link: https://michaellett.com/artist/kalisolaite-uhila/
Image from Jaguar Mary X
Fall 2025 Season: Stardust Clusters - Meetings With Meaning
Curated by Marita Isobel Solberg [Norway] and Jill McDermid [NYC]
We have revolved around the loss of the third wall, an imaginary boundary, allowing the artists and the audience-participants to create a direct dialogue between one another. We have questioned the boundaries that separate us, how the natural world has no walls, while many of the societies that man has created are limiting. Building societies that are collaborative, but include destruction and violence, while emulating a cohesive order and balance. We are encouraging sharing communities that help one another through music, listening, healing, feeding and giving.
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Grace Exhibition Space opened in 2006 as a home for International Performance Art. GES has hosted hundreds of performance artists, participating in multiple international festivals and art fairs. Our hope is to create the appropriate environment and means for collaborative research between the multicultural neighborhoods of metropolitan New York. We work to establish an environment that promotes our mission, as we seek to bring together local and international artists who will be interested in open exploration and collaboration with the members of our community.