INTIMATE CONSUMER ZONES
Open Call: lele dai, Glenn Potter-Takata / International: Arai Shin-Ichi [Japan], Jessica Fairfax-Hirst [Dominican Republic]
MARCH 22 // Doors 7:00 PM / Performances 8:00 PM | $10
ABOUT THE ARTISTS
lele dai was born in Hangzhou, China, and moved to Sydney, Australia, at age 18. In 2013, lele visited New York City by accident and has stayed there ever since. lele lives in Brooklyn with their best friend and two lovely but strange cats. lele is currently studying in the MFA program at Hunter College.
Their visual work and performances have been exhibited or shown at The Glove, Greene-Naftali Gallery, Children’s Museum of the Arts, Downtown Music Gallery, David Zwirner Gallery, Shift 411 Kent, Hauser & Wirth Gallery, Secret Project Robot, NYU, Sunview Luncheonette, Columbus Theater (Providence), Microscope Gallery, Knitting Factory, Essex flowers Gallery, Tufts University, SUNY at Purchase, Here Theater, Knockdown Center, Elsewhere, TransPecos, the Abasement series at Max Fish, The Synesthesia, and various other venues.
Glenn Potter-Takata is a Japanese-American media designer and artist working in performance. His work has been presented in dance and gallery contexts around NYC as part of programs with Center for Performance Research, Abrons Art Center, Movement Research at Judson Church, Mabou Mines, New Dance Alliance’s Performance Mix, Pioneers Go East’s Crossroads Series, Amanda + James’ Summer Happenings Series, Triskelion Arts, Mizuma & Kips Wada Art, and Trotter&Sholer. His first solo gallery exhibition opened at Rogers Studio Gallery in Las Vegas in January of 2023. Glenn is a recipient of the 2023 Bronx Cultural Visions Award, 2022 MAP Fund Award, 2022 Bronx Dance Fund Award, and has been awarded residencies through Movement Research, Rogers Art Loft, Gibney Dance Center, and CUNY Dance Initiative/Lehman College. Glenn received his MFA from Sarah Lawrence College, where he is currently a teacher of media design for live performance.
Arai Shin-Ichi [Japan]
ARAI lives and works in Tokyo. He studied his B.A. in Chinese modern literature at Tokyo Metropolitan University under Mr.llKURA Shohei. Later he majored in printmaking (Intaglio/Copper printing) from 1981 to 1987 under ex Mr.YOSHIDA Katsuro (Mono-ha group.) He also began experimenting with sound, voice, and language performance actions since 1982. As a Japan Overseas Cooperative Volunteer, he taught at Nyumba ya Sanaa Art School in Zanzibar, Tanzania 1992-94 where he experienced various insights into the relationship between culture and politics in contemporary society. This led to his radical social-political performances today. In his raw and direct style, ARAI's body appears as a site of social tension presented with humor yet biting criticism. Often exposing the conservative and xenophobic cultural tendencies and contradictions in global and local situations. Besides performing regularly in Japan, ARAI has also presented his works internationally, especially in China such as Hong Kong, Guangzhou, Xian, Chengdu, Changchun, and Beijing.
Jessica Fairfax-Hirst [Dominican Republic]
Jessica makes performances, videos, installations, and texts, sometimes all in the same project. Jessica creates metaphoric crumple zones, the parts of a car’s body designed to absorb the massive energy caused by the impact of a crash. Like the engineering of a crumple zone, Jessica’s works seek to create a space to observe controlled deformation, rather than merely succumb to chaotic destruction. They explore ways to redirect and absorb the forces that threaten to crush us.