PRIME Soraya Zaman
PRIME Soraya Zaman
Soraya Zaman
The SoMad artist residency has provided Zaman the opportunity to fix their practice to a single space. Granted with both time and space, Zaman has been able not only to play and explore but also to hone in on the genre of still life photography. Still life photography often represents subjects at their “prime” and most “beautiful": a flower at peak bloom, fruit at its most luscious. However, Zaman’s innate curiosity led them to a study of finding the beauty and vulnerability within the unseen moments, the rot and decay, the distorted and refracted. Zaman introduces a tension between preservation and decay.
Mothertree David Aliperti
David Aliperti
In his art practice, David Aliperti explores how time spent and communal effort in the making of the artwork can serve to slow down the pace of the viewer’s visual experience. His current series titled Mother Tree includes sculptures molded by hand from repurposed paper paste, a foam composite that is very lightweight yet buildable. This material choice enables new, gravity defying, flora to ascend almost weightlessly. These sculptures require many hours of meditative handwork; to sculpt the numerous individual petals, leaves and stems that come together to form the whole of each sculpture. Aliperti loves traces of that handwork via fingerprints and nail marks to remain.
Binibining Iniibig
Keith Lafuente
Keith Lafuente premieres the film Binibining Iniibig: a beauty pageant where Filipino tradition meets American ambition. This film showcases eleven contestants and their captivating capabilities in three compelling categories: runway, talent, and Q&A. Alas, only one can claim the crown! Prepare yourself for an evening of fashion, spectacle and determination in this thrilling competition of beauty and power hosted by Apple Mei. The contestants are Ana Roxanne, Diva Soria, Alika Hall, Keekai, Cal Glorioso, Ben Florencio, Jared Chung, Garrett Traya, Miles Barretto, Eris Argate, and West Dakota.
Winter in Pluto
Mortal Self
Winter in Pluto is an experimental musical film that tells the myth of Stone, a love goddess who lives in the clouds and controls all acts of love on earth through her television set. Stone is the daughter of the goddess Venus and carries on the tradition of reuniting all beings with their “missing half.” Things change in Stone’s world when she begins questioning her inherited myth; the myth of love that has guided us all for centuries! Stone’s rebellion brings on a winter of change and a summer of self-discovery.
Kyle Doesn't Need Any Fucking Music
Serichai Traipoom
Religious Experience
Scottie Norton
Monumental Resistance: Stonewall
Lorenzo Triburgo & Sarah Van Dyck
33THEYROOTED
Michiyaya Dance Company & Retrograde Studios
Perception
Amina Gingold
Watch
Melvin Harper
HHH (Hand, Heart, Head)
Thibaut Eiferman
Sara’s Galapagos
Sara Arno
Raconteur
Rebecca Krasnik
Untitled 97mars
Livia Di Lucia
A Very Scary Time for Young Men in ‘Murica
Carla Maldonado
Cooking Lessons with Eggplants
Sara Arno
Sparkling Drowning
Livia Di Lucia
Who's There?
Amina Gingold
Untitled for Technically Sweet
Laura Parnes
Parabola Q
Jonathan Ellis
חסרת ישועה
Ori Highbloom
Speaks Over Men
Kat Shannon
“Speaks Over Men is one minute and fourteen second video piece in which I’ve superimposed my voice over video footage I took of men speaking in Central Park, intentionally creating a slippage between their words and thoughts, and my own. My work often examines ideas surrounding intimacy and longing, and in this piece particularly I wanted to push against the boundaries of video in order to address gender, desire, and discomfort.”