J ALEX RAY [NYC]
APRIL 19
Doors 7:00 PM
Performances 7:30 PM
$10
Featuring: Lina Azalea [NY] , J ALEX RAY [NYC]; Celestina Minichova with Viktor Fucek [Slovakia] , Gim Gwang Cheol [South Korea], Kyueng Hwa [South Korea], Arianne Foks [France]
LINA AZALEA DAHBOUR [NY]
@lina_azalea
Lina Azalea Dahbour is an interdisciplinary artist and event producer based in New York City and the Hudson Valley. She specializes in multimedia movement performance and dance event creation. She uses movement, garments, sound, lighting, sculpture, and video art to alchemize a visualization of invisible forces, magnify locational essences, and manifest subconscious visions. Her work has been presented at New York Live Arts, ROSEKILL, Glasshouse Project, Rockaway Art Week/The Locker Room, The Living Gallery, Green Kill, Trans-Pecos, Groundswell Series, Terrain Exhibitions, North Node Kingston, The Lace Mill, and DIY venues across the Northeast. She is a 2023 Franklin Furnace FUND Recipient for her work Light Meditations, a series of multimedia dance pieces that seek to develop a novel visual language. She is the 2024 Suzanne Fiol Curatorial Fellow at ISSUE Project Room. She produces BADDANCE, a dance event series she founded in 2017 that upholds the merit of confounding, obscene, strange, and very bad dance works. In 2022, she co-founded Momenta, a monthly dance and performance art event series in residence at Trans-Pecos.
J ALEX RAY [NYC]
@sp00kyp0ledancere
J Alex Ray is a Brooklyn-based performance artist and pole dancer. Their primary mode of performance is in movement and stillness as a representation of our internal environments. Originally a painter, Ray discovered pole dance and contemporary movement in 2017 by investigating concepts around contorting identities. Since then, they've competed, performed, and studied a variety of different forms of dance and artistic expression.
XENORHIZOMATIC GEOLOGIES
Celestína Minichová and Viktor Fuček:
We will be hosting a three-day outdoor/plein-air workshop at various venues in NYC. The city is our LAB – Manhattan as the solid rock with a long history of geological stories. Our research methodology is based on the sedimentation - relocation, storage, reinforcement, and metamorphoses - pressure, stress, and temperature. These workshops will culminate in a collective performative action.
CELESTÍNA MINICHOVÁ [SLOVAKIA] @_minichova
Celestína Minichová is a Slovak intermedia art student studying for a bachelor's degree at the Academy of Fine Arts and Design in Bratislava. She works mainly within the media of site-specific performance art, language, and sound, as well as installation. Focusing on creating SF, imagining possible futures projecting them to the present times. She works with nature - roots, soil, and stones. The audience can follow her being in these created landscapes, where time dissolves, and a kind of contemplative state comes to the fore.
In August 2022 she had her first solo exhibition in Florence, Gallery Chiasso Perduto. Performances include - Chthuleographies in Belgrade at G12HUB with Marta Jovanović, Earthly Talks in Prague at Petrohradská Collective, YES/NO in Bratislava at A4 with Klára Kusá, Preliatia in Bratislava at RARE with Katarína Poliačiková, collaborative project We (Shall) See at Kunsthalle Bratislava.
VIKTOR FUČEK [SLOVAKIA]
@viktorfucek
Viktor Fuček is an urban shaman, healer, and fortuneteller who uses rituals to explore the consciousness of space. For this purpose, he creates performances, paintings, and installations that push the boundaries of what is usually perceived as architecture and show how experimental practices can help to find new strategies to solve the problems of contemporary society. He studied fine arts at the Academy of Fine Arts in Prague, the Australian National University in Canberra, the University of Applied Arts in Vienna, the Academy of Fine Arts in Bratislava, and architecture at the Slovak University of Technology in Bratislava. In 2022 he completed his doctorate at the Academy of Arts, Slovakia, with the dissertation research "Architecture of Internal Relations" focusing on the interconnections between performance and architecture. He has participated in several solo and collective exhibitions, such as The Door Through Whose Slit the Moonlight Peeks (2024) at the Slovak National Gallery, Perceiving (Com)position (Taiwan, 2022), Prague Biennale (CZ, 2021). He has also been a finalist for several awards such as Oskar Čepan Award for Slovak emerging artists (2015). Currently, he is an assistant professor at the Faculty of Fine Arts, Academy of Arts, Slovakia, and a lecturer at the University of Applied Arts in Vienna.
Gim Gwang Cheol
Park Kyeong Hwa
GIM GWANG CHEOL & PARK KYEONG HWA [GWANGJU, SOUTH KOREA]
IG @gimgwangcheol | @kyeonghwap
Gim Gwang Cheol combines performance art, painting, and art planning, was born in 1967 when Korea's military dictatorship was in full swing. He suffered severe chaos while spending his school days in violence and absurdity disguised as rationality. On the other hand, there was a solidarity of social communities, not the extreme individualism that exists today. He was fascinated by philosophy and religion, world history, and art to find his identity while looking at himself and social contradictions. He majored in pure painting at university and worked with performance art to reveal himself through body and objects. In 2006, Gim created his own style and he called it 'multilayer performance art' by himself.
Park Kyeong Hwa wrote their first novel in middle school. Park is interested in 'Beings' who struggle to find happiness. Park wants to believe every 'Beings' has goodness, compassion, love, and tenderness even though the world is sometimes not gentle, not kind, not peaceful, and not justice.
Park understands the weakness and sorrow of existence and wants to express works that appeal to peace and love toward compassion and humanity. Park loves to share “tensioned Metaphor’ with the audience when they face the audience holding their breath without wildness and howling.
ARIANNE FOKS [FRANCE]
@arienne.foks
Arianne Foks (lives and works in Paris, FR) artistic work puts forward the ideas of transformation and oscillates from one field to another, moving across performance, drawing, writing, and curating. The works question the notions of feminism, language, and memory.
The systems of meaning that she uses in her performance to emphasize the lived or fantasized everyday experience question our relationship to fiction and the narration of our lives.
In 2022, she established the publishing house D.A.Books and launched the project DRAGONNES, a 180-page publication, presenting artists from various backgrounds around the question of feminism and its multiple voices. Two issues were released and the third one is programmed at the end of 2024.