Elaine Angelopoulos

Dance Memoir

Project: Elaine Angelopoulos' Dance Memoir invites people to dance with music from the 1980s-90s and share how dancing changed their life and body image.
Bio: Elaine Angelopoulos lives and works in New York City. She is an artist with an interdisciplinary approach that bridges her studio practice with audience participation, with select installations and performances. Her work has been exhibited in New York, the United States, and in Europe. Angelopoulos received a Franklin Furnace Fund/Jerome Fellowship in 2014/15. Recently, her work was included in Aegean, a group exhibition, curated by Georgia Lale, at AAA3a Gallery in the Bronx, New York.
Date & Time: October 11th: 3:00-5:30pm; October 12th: 3:00-5:30pm; October 13th: 3:00-5:30pm; October 14th: 4:00-7:30 pm
Location: UNION SQUARE at 14th st
Image Credit: Dance Memoir, 2018, Photo Credit: Vince Ruvolo, Graphic Design: Elaine Angelopoulos

Kasie Campbell

We are Revealed

Project: Kasie Campbell’s “We are Revealed” deals with the vulnerabilities and anxieties the artist experiences when they become the object of someone else's gaze.
Bio: Kasie Campbell is a visual artist working in Edmonton AB. Through her work, Campbell aims to address the anxieties and vulnerabilities felt when she becomes the object of someone else’s gaze, pushing and pulling the simultaneous attraction/repulsion paradox. Campbell has exhibited at Grounds for Sculpture in Hamilton NJ, Mana Contemporary in Chicago IL, Mana Contemporary in Jersey City, NJ and across Alberta, Canada in traditional and alternative gallery spaces.
Date & Time: October 11th: 3:00 - 5:00pm. October 12th: 10:00am-12:00 pm, 3:00-5:00 pm. October 13th:10:00 am -12:00 pm, 3:00-5:00 pm. October 14 th:10:00am-12:00 pm, 3:00-5:00 pm.
Location: 399 W 14 St. and 158 W 14 St. (alternating days)
Image Credit: Kasie Campbell, Crash My Room 2017, Photo Credit: Abigail Nyman

Deborah Castillo

Alien Stamped

Project: “Alien Stamped” is a body of work that addresses the stereotypes attached to immigrants and those without power.
Bio: Deborah Castillo is a Venezuela-born, New York based multidisciplinary artist. Her work has been exhibited at Museum of Arts and Design, NYC, Cornell University, NY, New Museum, NYC, Rufino Tamayo Museum, Mexico city, Escuela de Bellas Artes, Bolivian Biennial SIART, Bolivia, Caja Sol, Sevilla, UCLA, Los Angeles, ICA, London, UK, Smack Mellon, The Broad Museum and many others.
Date & Time: October 14th: 4:45-6:00 pm
Location: Close to Union Sq
Image Credit: Alien Stamped, 2017, video still credit: Jose Dao

DON’T MOVE: Kat Cope, Kelly Savage, Kate Frazer Rego

Don't Move

Project: Don't Move: explores themes of sexism, body standards, oppression and the anxiety that comes from these stressors.
Bio: Don’t Move is a feminist artist collective formed in 2018. Kat Cope is a mixed media artist who lives and works in Brooklyn, NY. She received her BA from Mount Holyoke College and her MFA from UMass Dartmouth. Kelly Savage is a community based artist and social worker. She holds a BFA from Brooklyn College and a MSW from Hunter College. Kate Frazer Rego is a fiber artist living on the east coast. She received her BFA from UMass Dartmouth, and her MFA from Boston University.
Date & Time: October 13th, 14th: 12pm - Performers will start at locations mentioned, perform for 30 minutes and slowly move to the next location. Performance each day to last max 4 hours.
Location: Union Square across from whole foods, Scaffolding on Corner of 14th and 3rd ave. 14th, south between 1st and A
Image Credit: Kat Cope "I love you. You love me: helmet" 2016. Photo Credit: David Chosid

Catherine Feliz

Say It With Flowers

Project: Catherine Feliz's Say It With Flowers examines the boundless commodification of flowers and feminized labor under late capitalism.
Bio: Catherine Feliz is an interdisciplinary artist, full spectrum doula, and community medicine-maker born and raised in NYC (occupied Lenape territory) . Her multimedia projects are personal reflections on the social-political constructions of power and knowledge. Through applying the languages of visual desire and the practices of care, they’re interested in imagining new narratives of place that center the experiences of politicized bodies.
Date & Time: October 12th: 12 - 2pm. October 14th: 1 - 3pm
Location: Grace Chapel: 406 east 14th st
Image Credit: Catherine Feliz, Say It With Flowers, 2018

Maryam Monalisa Gharavi

Mutual Recognition System (Concerning Max Factor) and Kiss Mark

Project: Maryam Monalisa Gharavi reimagines Max Factor, Jr.'s female workers automating kissing to test the indelibility of his red lipstick.
Bio: Maryam Monalisa Gharavi is an artist, poet, and theorist whose work explores the interplay between aesthetic and political valences in the public domain. Exhibitions and performance venues include Nottingham Contemporary, Pioneer Works, Serpentine Cinema, Framer Framed, Townhouse Gallery of Contemporary Art, Experimental Media and Performing Arts Center, Women and Performance, among others. Bio (Inventory Press, 2018) is her latest book publication.
Date & Time: Friday, 12 October: 3:00 PM, approx. 3 hours (until 5:00 PM)
Location: 408-412 West 14th Street
Image Credit: Maryam Monalisa Gharavi, Mutual Recognition System (Concerning Max Factor), 2018. Photo Credit: Sam Kirby.

Claus Hedman

Documentations of Intimacy: Purchased and Contaminated

Project: Claus Hedman's Documentations of Intimacy: Purchased/Contaminated: The series is an ongoing project which preserves and conceptualise interactions of intimacy
Bio: Claus’s work accentuates viscerality and materialises interactions, emotions, and the subjective experience. She is born and raised in Sweden and is currently based in Amsterdam, where she continues her research and provocation of physical and conceptual discomfort.
Date & Time: October 12th, 13th: 11am - 3pm
Location: Square at 14th and 9th
Image Credit: Claus Hedman, Documentation of Intimacy: Purchase/Contamination, 2018. Photo Credit: Claus Hedman

PEI-LING Ho

Absence of Three

Project: Pei-Ling Ho’s Absence of Three creates a scene and construction which give the audience an imagination to experience the absence of family.
Bio: PEI-LING HO (Taiwan) is an interdisciplinary artist. Through performance, video and mixed media, PEI-LING explores questions of gender identity, conflict between exotic and local culture and the legitimacy of parents under social system. She has had group exhibitions include ITINERANT: the annual Performance Art Festival in NY, SATELLITE ART SHOW in Miami, 29th Festival Les Instants Vidéo in France and more.
Date & Time: October 11th, 13th, 14th: 2-2.30 pm
Location: 109 W 14th Street
Image Credit: Pei-Ling Ho, Absence of Three, 2017

Daniela Kostova

Monuments of Incomplete Transition (MIT)

Project: Daniela Kostova's project Monuments of Incomplete Transition (MIT), conceived in 2010 with Miryana Todorova, explores the themes of mobile citizenship, hybridity, temporary occupation, and (re)construction.
Bio: Daniela Kostova is an interdisciplinary artist who holds M.F.A. from Rensselear Polytechnic Institute, NY and the National Art Academy, Sofia. Her work is exhibited at venues such as Queens Museum of Art (NY), Kunsthalle Wien (Austria), Institute for Contemporary Art (Sofia), Centre d’art Contemporain (Geneva), Antakya Biennale (Turkey), Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, (Torino), Kunsthalle Fridericianum (Kassel) and others. Kostova is Director of Curatorial Projects at Radiator Gallery.
Date & Time: October 12th: 4-6pm. Ocotber 13th: 3-6pm
Location: Roaming along 14th Street, Union Square
Image Credit: Daniela Kostova (in collaboration with Miryana Todorova), Monuments of Incomplete Transition, 2010. Photo Credit Steve deSeve

Joanne Leah

Shock Corridor

Project: Joanne Leah’s ‘Shock Corridor’ is an outdoor mural and video installation, acting as a mirror showing the public response to images of the human body.
Bio: Joanne Leah is an artist whose works explore themes of sexuality, isolation and identity. Her recent exhibitions include a solo booth at Scope Art Show in NYC, 'ACID MASS' at Not For Them Gallery in Long Island City, 'NSFW: Female Gaze' at the Museum of Sex, and a public mural project with Save Art Space in Hell’s Kitchen. She founded the organization ArtistsAgainstCensorship.com, which is currently collecting resources and the stories of artists who have experienced social media censorship.
Date & Time: Installation October 11th-14th
Location: South West 14th Street under The High Line
Image Credit: Joanne Leah, Reproduction of the Mouth, 2016. Photo Credit: Joanne Leah

LuLu LoLo

A Seat For The Elderly: The Invisible Generation

Project: LuLu LoLo focuses on the fragility of the aging body walking with a chair strapped to her body offering a seat to the elderly invisible generation.
Bio: LuLu LoLo is an international performance artist/playwright/actor, a veteran of AIOP performing as “Mother Cabrini, Saint of the Immigrants” AIOP 2017: SENSE;“Joan of Arc of 14th Street: Where are the Women?”: AIOP 2015: RECALL; “Loretta, the Telephone Operator,” AIOP 2013:Number; “The Gentleman of 14th Street”: AIOP 2011:RITUAL; and “14th Street NewsBoy”: AIOP 2009:SIGN. LuLu was a 2013 Blade of Grass Fellow and a Lower Manhattan Cultural Council Writer in Residence (2008).
Date & Time: October 12th: 3-5pm. October 13th, 14th: 2-4pm
Location: Northside of 14th Street from Seventh Avenue to University Place
Image Credit: LuLu LoLo, A Seat For the Elderly, 2018. Photo Credit: Paul Takeuchi. www.paultakeuchi.com. Costume and Prop Design: Ramona Ponce. www.ramonaponce.com.

Jodie Lyn-Kee-Chow

The Picnic: Harvest of the Zephyr

Project: The Picnic: Harvest of the Zephyr is a durational performance which will take place along 14th Street culminating in a picnic with the public at 14th Street Park. This work was made possible, in part, by the Franklin Furnace Fund supported by Jerome Foundation, The SHS Foundation, and the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council.
Bio: Jodie Lyn-Kee-Chow (b. Manchester, Jamaica) is an interdisciplinary artist showing internationally with a BFA w/ honors from NWSA University of Florida, and a MFA from Hunter College, CUNY. Awards include Culture Push, Franklin Furnace, Rema Hort Mann (A.C.E), and N.Y.F.A. Lyn-Kee-Chow often explores performance and installation art, which draws from the nostalgia of her homeland, folklore, fantasy, consumerism, spirituality, and nature’s ephemerality.
Date & Time: October 14th: 2pm - 3 -5 hours
Location: Along 14th Street sidewalks beginning near Ave C by Campos Plaza 1, break at Union Square Park, performance concludes at 14th Street Park (10th Avenue).
Image Credit: Jodie Lyn-Kee-Chow, Picnic Parade, 2017. Photo Credit: M. Charlene Stevens

Giulia Mattera

Testimony from a raped girl

Project: 'Testimony from a raped girl' engages the audience directly by guiding them- through a sound recording- in a walking journey while listening to testimonies of women who have been raped in the areas they are passing by. Please download the audio-track and the map (icons above), take a walk from Westbeth Gallery to Union Square while listening to the track.
Bio: Giulia Mattera is an Italian performance artist, whose research-based practice questions gender, daily life and social structures as ritualised behaviours. With a strong visual focus she explores natural elements via the body, By using repetition as a tool to erase pre-constructed meanings, she sets herself tasks that deal with failure and challenge the preconceptions of body-mind limitations.
Date & Time: Ongoing
Location: Starting from Union Square, walking to Westbeth Gallery.
Image Credit: Giulia Mattera, Testimony from a raped girl, 2018

Esther Neff

Public Grant TBA Body of Institution

Project: Neff's 'Public Grant TBA Body of Institution' performs institution as a verb performed by an emergent public bodily.
Bio: Esther Neff is the founder of PPL (Panoply Performance Laboratory). Working through organizational, discursive, relational and social processes, Neff’s performance work has been materialized through forms of opera, thinktank, installation, and public gathering. She lives and works at the PPL lab site in Brooklyn.
Date & Time: October 11th, 12th, 13th, 14th - durational
Location: Walking a loop around 14th Street
Image Credit: Esther Neff, The Scraping Shape of the Socially Cyclomythic Womb, 2016. Photo Credit: Julia Bauer, Courtesy of Tempting Failure

Laura Nova

Silver Sirens

Project: Silver Sirens is a squad of senior citizens that champions age justice and healthcare issues.
Bio: Laura Nova is an artist, athlete and educator who makes work that is action-oriented and site-specific, encouraging both activist and active audience participation. Her work takes the form of websites, workshops, photos, videos, installations and performances that often involve cardio, comedy and cooking to connect audiences and invite people into these experiences.
Date & Time: October 12th, 13th, 14th: 3-4pm
Location: 14th Street Y : 344 East 14th Street NY, NY
Image Credit: Laura Nova, Silver Sirens, 2017. Photo Credit: Laura Nova

NO WAVE PERFORMANCE TASK FORCE : Amy Finkbeiner and Christen Clifford

Flower Kart

Project: Flower Kart: A Matriliny Access Station for Un-Patriation & Re-Distribution of Information, Knowledge, & Supplies Toward Re-Possession of Our Bodies.
Bio: Christen Clifford is a performance artist, writer, professor, mother, and core member of No Wave Performance Task Force. Recent work includes Interiors: We Are All Pink Inside. Clifford curates Experiments and Disorders at Dixon Place. Amy Finkbeiner's multidisciplinary works explore sexuality, religion, and identity. She recently performed in ITINERANT Performance Art Festival. Finkbeiner received a MFA from the School of Visual Arts and attended Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture.
Date & Time: October 11th: 6-9pm during opening reception, October 12th, 23th,14th:12-6 pm
Location: Roaming along 14th Street
Image Credit: This Is Flower Kart #1: A Matriliny Access Station for Un-Patriation and Re-Distribution of Information, Knowledge, and Supplies, toward Re-Possession of Our Bodies, 2018 Photo Credit: Christen Clifford and Amy Finkbeiner

Jody Oberfelder

Madame Ovary

Project: Jody Oberfelder Projects' Madame Ovary explores the body as site for agency, intuition, and birth. Audiences will interact wtih Madame Ovary.
Bio: Jody Oberfelder Projects create art that connects to and illuminates everyday life. Whether on a proscenium stage, in a film, or installation, the work transforms an audience’s experience from passive voyeurism into intimate engagement. Since 2013, her immersive work has focused on the body: 4Chambers (2013-14) toured the heart, followed by The Brain Piece (2015-2018). Madame Ovary is the third in this trilogy. Research from AIOP will culminate in performances May 15-19 at the Flea Theater.
Date & Time: October 13th, 14th, 12-3pm, each performance 2-10 minutes
Location: In front of the Immaculate Conception School 14th St. Just east of 1st Ave
Image Credit: Jody Oberfelder, Madame Ovary, 2018, photo Jody Oberfelder. Pictured: Maya Orchin

Maya Pindyck

re/touch

Project: Maya Pindyck’s “re/touch” will reactivate Bruce Nauman’s “Body Pressure” (1974) on a bus stop wall in an attempt to repair the isolating impacts of capitalism on NYC’s body.
Bio: Maya Pindyck works in multiple disciplines and examines intimate intersections of memory, movement, and language. She is the author of the poetry collections Emoticoncert (Four Way Books, 2016), Friend Among Stones (New Rivers Press, 2009), and a chapbook, Locket, Master (Poetry Society of America, 2006). Her work has been exhibited in various public places, galleries, and pop-up spaces. Raised in Massachusetts and Tel Aviv, she lives in Brooklyn, NY.
Date & Time: October 12th: 12 - 1pm. October 13th: 2pm - 3pm. October 14th: 2pm - 3pm
Location: Bus stop at 14th St. and 8th avenue (in front of CVS / old NY Savings Bank building)
Image Credit: Maya Pindyck, re/touch (hand), 2018. Photo Credit: Maya Pindyck

Yali Romagoza

Meditating my way out of Capitalism and Communism. 12410 days of Isolation

Project: Yali Romagoza presents “Meditating my way out of Capitalism and Communism. 12410 days of Isolation” to approach trauma and displacement.
Bio: Yali Romagoza is a Cuban-born artist based in NYC. She holds an MFA in Fashion from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and a BA in Art History from the University of Havana. Her works have been included at Gothenburg Biennial, Havana Biennial, Liverpool Biennial, Links Hall Theater, White Box, Teatro LATEA, The Border. Romagoza has been granted awards and residencies such as Cátedra Arte de Conducta, Bétonsalon Centred'art et de recherché, NYFA Immigrant Artist Mentoring Program.
Date & Time: October 13th, 14th: 12 (noon) - 7:15 pm. Performance duration 30 minutes in each subway station across 14th Street (North and Southside) with a total of 10 performances per day. 15 min break between performances.
Location: Near subways stations across 14th Street starting at- North side of subway station 14th Street and 8th Avenue. North side of subway station 14th Street and 7th Avenue. North side of subway station 14th Street and 6th Avenue. North side of subway station 14th Street and Broadway (Union Square). North side of subway station 14th Street and 3rd Avenue. North side of subway station 14th Street and 1st Ave-. I will then reverse my order with stops on the south side of the subways stations across 14th Street.
Image Credit: Yali Romagoza, 90 miles, 2018. Photo Credit: Lindsey Whittle

Jody Servon

My Time is Valuable

Project: My Time is Valuable is a participatory project for women, girls, non-binary and female identifying people to make visible the value of our time.
Bio: Jody Servon creates collaborative and socially engaged projects that encourage public interaction and personal exploration. She invites people to reveal who they are and how they’ve lived, and, for others who witness these stories to discern our similarities and what makes us unique. Her projects have been included in publications, exhibitions, and as public works in the US, Canada, and China. Servon is a professor at Appalachian State University in North Carolina.
Date & Time: October 12th: 3-6 pm. October 13th: 1-4 pm
Location: 14th Street by big clock at 255 West 14th Street
Image Credit: Jody Servon, My Time is Valuable: Tara and Jeanine, Los Angeles, CA, 2017. Photo Credit: Jody Servon

Meg Stein

Dirty White Matter

Project: Meg Stein's project Dirty White Matter explores & mutates cultural ideas of whiteness & femininity using sculpture, performance & group discussion.
Bio: Based in Durham, NC, Meg Stein has exhibited at Victori + Mo, A.I.R. Gallery, Vox Populi, GIAF, Greenhill Gallery, the Neon Heater, and the Spartanburg Museum of Art. She’s been in residence at Yaddo, Hambidge, Haystack, PLAYA, the Atlantic Center for the Arts, and the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts. She was awarded the Garland Fellowship, the Ella Pratt Emerging Artist Grant, and most recently, was selected as the NC Fellow for South Arts and the NC nominee for the Southern Prize.
Date & Time: October 12th: 5-6:30pm, October 13th: 12-3pm. October 14th: 1-4pm
Location: October 12th: Immaculate Conception (414 E 14th St.) October 13th, 14th: Garden of Eden store (7 E 14th St.)
Image Credit: Meg Stein, Dirty White Matter, 2018. Photo Credit: Derrick Beasley

TANGA!: Rachel Chick, Andrew Prieto, Alfredo Travieso

HERness

Project: TANGA! will take all ephemera from the performance/public styling sessions to the gallery to be arranged in a contained installation.
Bio: TANGA! is a collective of three artists whose work overlaps at themes such as the politics of domesticity, 21st century identity, and the current ubiquity of performance in everyday life. The group began working together as graduate students in the School of Visual Arts, Art Practice program.
Date & Time: October 12th, 13th, 14th: 12-5:30pm
Location: 14th Street between Washington St and 9th Ave
Image Credit: HERness, 2018, Tanga!

Grace Whiteside

Stacy’s Lemonade aka Dyke Water

Project: Stacy’s Lemonade aka Dyke Water is a body and mind rehydration station and absurd bake sale put on by queers for queers in attempt to defer from 14th street’s hyper-consumerist, heteronormative status quo.
Bio: Grace Whiteside is a performer, glassblower and visual artist based in Brooklyn, NY. She received two BFA’s in 2017 from Virginia Commonwealth University in sculpture and glassblowing. Her work has been showcased in multiple cities including, Richmond, VA, Brooklyn, NY and Florence, Italy. Recently, she performed her play “Stacy Makes a Cake” at Recess in which she wrote, directed and starred in. Grace often performs under an alter ego that goes by the name Stacy Wallman who has become a surrogate for her own body and experiences. Together, Gracie and Stacy question their orientation to self-love, queerness and otherness.
Date & Time: October: 12th 4-7pm, October 13th: 12-3pm, October 14th: 3-5pm
Location: 10/12/2018: In front of Apple Store (on the corner of 14th St and 9th Ave). 10/13/2018: Union Square Park (triangle on 14th St between Union Sq East). 10/14/2018: LuluLemon
Image Credit: Grace Whiteside, Stacy Makes A Cake, 2018.Video Credit: Jonah King

Jessica Elaine Blinkhorn

Gaze and Graze

Project: Jessica Elaine Blinkhorn's Gaze and Graze is a two part performance that plays with the idea of being a 'spectacle' as it pertains to social settings.
Bio: Jessica Elaine Blinkhorn is a visual artist and performance artist based out of Atlanta, GA. She is a full-time instructor in the Fine Arts for Georgia State University and Perimeter Colleges. She has performed throughout Atlanta, in Chicago's Rapid Pulse Performance Festival, and, most recently, the Inverse Performance Festival in Fayetteville, AR. Her work has been hailed "abrasively insightful," "an educational exploration," and "satirical sadism."
Date & Time: Graze: Friday, October 12th beginning at dusk on into the early evening (approximately 5 PM - 7 PM). Gaze: Saturday, October 13th from 2-5 PM.
Location: Graze: West 14th Street between 8th and 9th Avenue. Gaze: 317 W 14th Street outside of the “Perfect Brow” spa at 316 West 14th Street.
Image Credit: Jessica Blinkhorn, Dare Me

Stacey Cann

Shield

Project: 'Shield' by Stacey Cann is a reaction to the suggestion that we can protect ourselves through clothes that make us disappear.
Bio: Stacey Cann is an artist living in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. She uses performance and installation as a way of exposing elements of her daily existence, and pushing these daily activities to the brink of absurdity.
Date & Time: October 11th - 1:30-2pm, 5:30- 6pm. October 12th,13th,14th: 1-1.30 pm, 2-2:30pm
Location: 399 W 14 St. (Oct 11 and 13) and 158 W 14 St. (October 12 and 14)
Image Credit: Stacey Cann, Shield, 2018. Photo Credit Jeremy Pavka

Donna Cleary and Kathy Halfin

Hell Hath No Fury

Project: Donna Cleary and Kathy Halfin embody angry, powerful Female Goddesseses Kali and Cailleach during an era of pussy grabbing and #metoo confessionals.
Bio: Donna and Kathy have both received MFA's in Fine Arts from the School of Visual Arts, have exhibited extensively in New York City including Freight and Volume, Petzel Gallery, A.I.R, Gallery, Bronx Museum, NARS Foundation. They have been reviewed in the New York Times, Medium, ArtFile, have attended residencies at MASS MoCA, Vermont Studios, Mildred's Lane, etc and won the Paula Rhodes Memorial Award for Master degree candidates, whose work is deemed exceptional by their chair and faculty.
Date & Time: October 13th, 14th: 2pm
Location: Westbeth Gallery-Jane St and 18th Street-Salvation Army (between 6th and 7th)-Coppella Restaurant near the corner of 7th St-The Hudson River Park at the end of 14th st, on 10th Ave
Image Credit: Hell Hath No Fury 2, 2018 Photo Credit: Donna Cleary

Dominique Duroseau

Rap on Race with Rice

Project: Dominique Duroseau’s Rap on Race with Rice includes a small table and chairs for two to three participants to perform the action of splitting rice with her as a conduit for discussing race issues.
Bio: Duroseau is an interdisciplinary artist who’s practice explores themes of racism, socio-cultural issues, and existential dehumanization. Exhibitions, performances, and screenings include SATELLITE ART, PULSE Play in Miami; The Kitchen, Brooklyn Museum, El Museo del Barrio, Rush Arts Gallery, Smack Mellon in NY; Newark Museum, Index Arts, PES, Gallery Aferro in NJ. Recent talks and exhibitions include: panelist at Black Portraiture[s] at Harvard, lecture at Vassar and Solo at A.I.R Gallery.
Date & Time: Dates: Oct 12 & 13. Friday 12, starting at 7pm. Saturday 13th, starting at 6pm. Duration: TBD
Location: Under the High line on 14th Street. Starting Point: 8th ave & 14th street. I'll be standing still at the corner of for a few minutes, then walk to my destination to set up.
Image Credit: Dominique Duroseau, "Rap on Race with Rice," (2015- ). Photo Credit: Dominique Duroseau.

Dakota Gearhart

Untangling Myself From The Mess Culture Has Made

Project: Dakota Gearhart's Untangling Myself From The Mess Culture Has Made is a performance in which the artist wears 100 intestinal-like cords made from electrical wire and confetti.
Bio: Dakota Gearhart uses video, photography, and installation to examine the built environment and how it is perceived through technology and mythology. Her work has been shown at The Bronx Museum of Art, Tacoma Art Museum, Disjecta Contemporary Art Center, Henry Art Gallery, and Taiyuan Normal University. She has completed residencies with Queens Museum Studio Program, Residency Unlimited, NARS Foundation, the Wassiac Project, and The Bronx Museum AIM Program. She lives and works in Brooklyn, NY.
Date & Time: Thursday: October 11th: 5 - 7/8pm. October 12th: 5 - 7/8pm. October 13th: 5 - 7/8pm. October 14th: 2 - 4/5pm
Location: 31 West 14th Street
Image Credit: Dakota Gearhart, Untangling Myself From The Mess Culture Has Made, 2018

Nicole Goodwin

Ain't I a Woman (?/!): Kingston Legacy

Project: Nicole Goodwin's Ain't I a Woman (?/!): Kingston Legacy references the quest for “equality” underlying Sojourner Truth’s 1851 speech “Ain’t I a Woman.”
Bio: Nicole Goodwin is a writer/poet/performer living and working in New York City. Her body performance project "Ain't I a Woman (?/!)" is a three year project discussing Black physical presence and movement in public/live spaces, as well as a radical push for Black body love and acceptance everywhere.
Date & Time: October 11th: 12-4pm, October 12th: 4-6pm, October 13th: 4-6pm, Ocotber 14th: 4-6pm
Location: Ocotber 12th and 13th: Union sqre and 14th st. ocotber 13th and 14th: 14th Street and 8th Ave
Image Credit: Nicole Goodwin, Ain't I a Woman (?/!), 2017 Photo Credit: Victor Bautista

Martha Hipley

ur best selfie

Project: ur best selfie is an iteration in a series of digital tools for reclaiming personal identity with creativity while also raising awareness of the dangers of face and location tracking software. This latest iteration is a web app that allows visitors to 14th street to have fun making fantastical selfies that are designed to defeat the current facial recognition algorithms used by most social media apps. The app also asks users to be wary of allowing websites and apps to track their location.
Bio: Martha Hipley is an artist and programmer working in digital and paint, occasionally under the brand everyoneisugly. Her work explores identity formation through the lens of fandom culture and nascent sexuality. In addition to being awarded a Rhizome microgrant for her project “Untitled Twitter Hack,” she is also the second best web surfer in the world.
Date & Time: October 11th, 12th, 13th, 14h: 3-6pm
Location: 14th Street and 9th Ave
Image Credit: Martha Hipley, ur best selfie, 2018. Image credit: Martha Hipley

KINSFOLK : Holly and Jackie Timpener

Venus Vs. Mars

Project: KINSFOLK's Venus vs. Mars investigates the relationship and connectivity of Venus and Mars and gender through movement and costume.
Bio: Kinsfolk examines themes of identity, agency + memory. As women we are placed in a box + our work is as a way to escape it. We explore issues of gender divides + expectations, + judgments placed on appearance. We explore our connection as sisters + women + investigate how our identity is shaped by each other, our history + DNA. The syntheses, separation + repetition of these themes drive us towards challenging society's views of the female experience + create new structures that exist fully within.
Date & Time: October 11th, 12th, Location #1: 1-2pm. Location #2: 4-5pm. October 13th, 14th: Location #3: 1-3pm. Location #4: 4-6pm
Location: Location #1 301 W 14th Street, Location #2 The New School Building 12 E 14th Street, Location #3 126 E 14th Street, Location #4 322 E 14th Street
Image Credit: KINSFOLK, Beard Wood, 2013. Photo Credit: Chris Blanchenot

Luiza Kurzyna

You Are What You Eat

Project: You are what you eat, but what happens when the weight of everything you consume- food, ideas, news, ads...reaches the bursting point?
Bio: Luiza Kurzyna’s solo projects include BRIC Garage Door Video Series and +/- Project Space at Soho Gallery. Her work has been exhibited at Kunstraum Gallery, Governor's Island Art Fair, Outlet and the New Britain Museum of American Art, among others. She has completed residencies at Ox-Bow, I-Park Foundation, Santa Fe Art Institute, ChaNorth and the Contemporary Arts Center. She is a recipient of the 2015 BRIC Media Fellowship and currently teaches at Parsons the New School for Design.
Date & Time: October 13th: 4-6 pm. October 14th: 3-5 pm
Location: Roaming: starting at Westbeth Gallery, traveling up High Line to 14th street, then east bound to Union Square, around the park, temporarily stationed at south east corner of park, then back to the gallery.
Image Credit: Luiza Kurzyna, Kiss My Face, 2018. Photo credit: Alex Buly

LEGACY FATALE

Tug of War at Beauty Bar

Project: In spirit of the Suffragettes movement, Legact Fatale presents Tug of War at Beauty Bar. Beauty Bar is one of the last remaining staples of East Village culture resisting gentrification. Legacy Fatale invites the audience to a choreographed protest/war game happening outside the Beauty Bar, that will move indoors to an abstract performance, followed by a musical act: What Would Tilda Swinton Do.
Bio: Legacy Fatale is a performance art project exploring concepts of territorialities, female empowerment and the politics of resistance. Directed by artist Coco Dolle since 2008, the group garners an international roster of dancers, artists, healers and creatives, integrating social practices with modern dance vocabulary. Legacy Fatale has performed at international venues including at The Queens Museum (NYC), Grace Exhibition Space (Brooklyn), Radical Wonder Women Festival (Manchester, UK).
Date & Time: October 13th: 3-8pm.
Location: THE BEAUTY BAR - BEAUTY Bar 231 E 14th Street between 2nd and 3rd avenue. The performance march will be happening on 14 Street from Beauty Bar location to Union Square.
Image Credit: Legacy Fatale, Unbound Feminisms and Territorialities, 2016. Photo credit: Ivy Blackshire

Nadja Verena Marcin

Cover Girls

Project: Nadja Verena Marcin's “Cover Girls”, 2017 is a poster series which plays upon the animosity of said photographic avatars and the viewer’s human experience.
Bio: German-born artist Nadja Verena Marcin, lives and works in New York, USA and NRW, Germany. She graduated from the Visual Art Department of New Genre, School of the Arts at Columbia University, New York in 2010, after obtaining a Diploma of Fine Arts from the Department of New Media at Academy of Fine Arts Münster.Marcin’s work has been presented extensively nationally and internationally.
Date & Time: October 14th: 12-4pm
Location: Walking from Union Square to the West Side
Image Credit: Nadja Verena Marcin, Cover Girls, 2017; courtesy of the artist, AKArt, San Francisco and 532 Thomas Jaeckel Gallery, New York.

Daniela Mekler

My Body Is Not In Question

Project: Daniela Mekler’s My Body is Not in Question invites people to explore their connection to reproductive rights and wellbeing through different prompts.
Bio: Daniela Mekler is a Colombian/Costa Rican visual artist and educator. She recently completed her graduate studies at the Steinhardt School of Education, Culture and Human Development at New York University. She is committed to exploring the connection between contemporary art, critical education, and community based collaboration and the role that they play in social reform.
Date & Time: October 12th: 3-6pm Between Ave B and Avenue C, October 13th: 1-5pm - Union Sqre, north side, Ocotber 14th:1-5pm near the Y between 1st and 2nd Ave on 14th st
Location: Between Avenue C and Avenue B, behind the University Settlement Campos Plaza Community Center.
Image Credit: Daniela Mekler, Body Map, 2017

Rose Nestler

Gymnasia Hysteria

Project: Rose Nestler's Gymnasia Hysteria explores the cult of masculinity through spotlighting society's age old obsession with sports and physical fitness.
Bio: Rose Nestler is an interdisciplinary artist focusing in sculpture and video. She received her MFA degree from Brooklyn College in 2017. Her work has been exhibited at galleries including, Underdonk, Smack Mellon, CRUSH Curatorial, CUCHIFRITOS, L.O.G. in Chapel Hill, NC and Beverly’s Pop-Up at Good Weather Gallery in Little Rock, AK. In January 2018 she had her first solo show at Ortega y Gasset Projects in Brooklyn, NY. This summer she was a Fellow at Lighthouse Works on Fishers Island, NY.
Date & Time: October 12th: 2-4pm, October 14th: 3-5pm
Location: 645 East 14th Street (near ConEd plant and Stuytown)
Image Credit: Rose Nestler, Gymnasia Hysteria Details of Amphora, 2018, Photo Credit: Kim Hoeckele

Sierra Ortega

[you]phoria

Project: Sierra Ortega's [you]phoria invites an affective investigation of body and gender dysphoria by transforming perceived monstrosity into surreal beauty.
Bio: Sierra Ortega is a multidisciplinary performance artist based in Queens, NY. They received an MA in performance studies from NYU in 2016 and an MA in rhetoric from Hofstra U. in 2015. Using materially disruptive practices generated from their own affective life as an anxious bipolar, their work investigates notions of queerness, alienation, and alterity in the search for meta-utopian post-capitalist futures. They are currently a TMT Institute Fellow and the Target Margin Theatre in Brooklyn, NY.
Date & Time: October 11th, 12th, 13th: 5:00pm, 1.5hr
Location: Beginning at 14th St. Park (corner of 10th Ave. and 14th St.) and concluding on the corner of Ave. C. and 14th Street
Image Credit: Sierra Ortega, [you]phoria, 2018. Photo Credit: Sierra Ortega

Verónica Peña

A Matter Of...

Project: Verónica Peña’s “A Matter Of...” proposes the use of a malleable “matter” to de-categorize the self, practice liberation in the public space, and promote empathy.
Bio: VERONICA PEÑA is an interdisciplinary artist from Spain based in the United States. Her work explores the themes of absence, separation, and the search for harmony through Performance Art. Peña is interested in migration policies, cross-cultural dialogue, and women’s empowerment. Her work has been featured at Times Square, Armory Show, Hemispheric Institute, Queens Museum, Smack Mellon, and Triskelion Arts, amongst others. She is a recipient of the FRANKLIN FURNACE FUND 2017-18.
Date & Time: October 13th, 2018 Time: 2:30-5:30pm
Location: Start: Westbeth Gallery, continues along 14th Street , ends at Westbeth gallery
Image Credit: Verónica Peña, Retos (Challenges), 2017. Photo Credit: Verónica Peña

QUESTIONS COLLECTIVE

Foundation

Project: Questions Collective's Foundation will explore the cosmetic role of the artist in gentrification by performing cosmetic enhancements on the street.
Bio: Questions Collective is an all female collective based in Amsterdam with complementary skills. Creating epic dream realities with theater, dance, music and design. They zoom in on an existing structures in order to distill and enlarge them. All their work is site specific, colourful, surreal and playful. They deconstruct reality in order to create something new and experience the world around us differently. Questions Collective recreates reality brick by brick.
Date & Time: October 12th, 13th, 14th: 2-3pm
Location: 450 W 14th St. underneath the High Line
Image Credit: Questions Collective, Foundation, 2018

The Museum On Site

Washington’s Next!

Project: This project replies to the President’s post-Charlottesville tweet, “Robert E Lee, Stonewall Jackson - who's next, Washington, Jefferson? So foolish!”
Bio: The Museum On Site (TMOS) is a project directed by Dr. Lyra Monteiro, who teaches History and American Studies at Rutgers University-Newark. TMOS creates site-specific, free public experiences that combine arts and humanities research in work that is accessible, engaging, and offers a new angle for understanding contemporary social issues.
Date & Time: October 13th: 12:30pm -3:30pm
Location: George Washington Monument - Union Square Park (SE side), with performers arriving from all directions to gather there.
Image Credit: The Museum On Site, “Washington’s Next!” 2018

Clarivel Ruiz

Synophrys and Other Hairy Things

Project: Clarivel Ruiz, Synophrys and Other Hairy Things, allows for the affirmation of a woman’s body as hers and hers alone to say what is beautiful.
Bio: I am the daughter from the land called Kiskeya Ayiti Bohio (aka Hispaniola aka Dominican Republic and Haiti), a land colonized but never conquered , raised in New York City on the ancestral bones and covered shrines of the Lenape people. My artist practice delves into understanding the historical myths that have been created to subvert and oppress people of color and to heal wounds created by racial divides. Merging various arts forms to unravel the destruction created by colonialism.
Date & Time: October 14th: 1-4pm
Location: 14th Street durational walking from Union Square to Hudson River, culminating in dance and giving to river.
Image Credit: Clarivel Ruiz, Synophrys: And Other Hairy Little Things, 2018. Photo credit: Clarivel Ruiz

Jaime Sunwoo

Ear to Ear

Project: Jaime Sunwoo's Ear to Ear invites people to touch ear to ear while eating to experience textures aurally and orally.
Bio: Jaime Sunwoo is a Korean-American multidisciplinary artist from Brooklyn, New York. She combines video, audio, sculpture, and storytelling to create sensory performances in galleries, theaters, and public spaces. Her works are part playful, part tragic, and often examine food as a way to discuss identity, history, and death. Her projects have been featured at The Laundromat Project, STooPS, DUMBO Arts Festival, and FailSafe.
Date & Time: October 11th, 12th, 13th, 14th: 4-6pm
Location: 14th Street between 6th and 7th avenue
Image Credit: Jaime Sunwoo, Ear to Ear, 2018. Photo courtesy of the artist

THE Do-Mystics: Monique Blom and Arantxa Araujo

(Un)folding

Project: (Un)folding. The Do-Mystics. A collaborative performance reflecting the notions of femininity, (in)visibility, labor and the multiplicity of selves.
Bio: The Do-Mystics is a feminist collective created by Arantxa Araujo and Monique Blom based in NYC, Mexico City and Saskatoon. Their work incorporates the use of new media, performance and socially engaged art. The collective explores themes through ritual processes of identity, gender, immigration and domesticity.
Date & Time: October 12th: 12-6pm
Location: Santuario de Ntra. Señora de Guadalupe En San Bernardo (328 W 14th St.) Moving a block between 8th and 9th Ave
Image Credit: The DoMystics, Blood and Soil: The Art of Survival, 2018. Photo Credit: Selene Castilla

Denise Treizman and Adam Brazil

Off the Grid-iron

Project: Denise Treizman and Adam Brazil's project challenges the segregated practice of sport in America through ceramics, vibrancy, ritual and playful engagement with the public.
Bio: Denise Treizman is an artist from Chile based in New York City with an MFA from the School of Visual Arts. Her work has been exhibited in several cities including Santiago, Buenos Aires, Shanghai, San Francisco, Chicago, Miami and New York. ADAM BRAZIL is an interdisciplinary artist and professor at Syracuse University. He is currently preparing works for his first solo exhibition in NYC at MEN gallery in the Lower East Side.
Date & Time: October 14th: 1 - 5 PM, 4 hours
Location: Walking route from Westbeth Gallery to Union Square, continuous
Image Credit: Treizman/Brazil, Off the Grid-iron (Prototypes) 2018. Photo Credit: Adam Brazil