ISCP - Key Persons
Akshay Sethi's practice takes a mundane approach to exploring the relationship between the personal and the political. He focuses on unnoticed, trivial and repetitive actions of daily life to create works that foster everyday encounters and public spaces.
Akshay Sethi has exhibited work at the 2019 Serendipity Arts Festival; 1Shanthiroad; and India Art Fair, all in India, among others.
Job Titles:
- Artist
- Complex Bodies, 2015, Various Media, Dimensions Variable
Alicia Frankovich is interested in the potential for new modes of imagining bodies and their behaviors for both humans and non-humans. She works with performance, sculpture, video, photography, and temporary exhibition experiences. Frankovich is interested in creating new languages that merge movements, experiences, sensibilities, materials from various fields, often by collaborating with non-professional participants. Her mode of production combines various past histories with the present to form relationships with possible futures. She builds equivalences through the combination of form or temporal experience, that create links between things and beings to allow for a more plural understanding of time.
Alicia Frankovich (born 1980, Tauranga, New Zealand) holds a BVA in sculpture from Auckland University of Technology, and lives and works in Berlin. Her solo and two-person exhibitions include The Female has Undergone Several Manifestations, Starkwhite, Auckland, 2016; Complex Bodies, Kurator, Alte Fabrik, Gebert Stiftung für Kultur, Rapperswil, Switzerland, 2015; Today this technique is the other way around, Kunstverein Hildesheim, 2013; and Gestures, Splits and Annulations, Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin, 2011. Group exhibitions and performances include: Les Limbes, La Galerie, Noisy-le-sec, France 2016; If I Can't Dance I Don't Want To Be A Part Of Your Revolution, Gerrit Rietveld Academie, Amsterdam, 2016; Le Mouvement: Performing the City, Biel/Bienne, Switzerland, 2014; Nouvelles Vagues, Palais de Tokyo, Paris, 2013; and Material Traces, The Leonard & Bina Ellen Art Gallery, Montréal, 2013.
Alicia Frankovich, Soft Water (detail), 2015, Olympic pool stairs and polished shells, 47 3/ 16 × 35 3/ 8 × 51 7/ 8 in. (119.89 × 89.92 × 131.83 cm)
Job Titles:
- Artist
- Vision Fund / Studio 216
Alicia Grullón is a Bronx-based artist and organizer. Grullon's social practice work extends to exploring how people relate to land in order to rally a transformation of our living by using performance and self-portraiture as a critique on the politics of presence, an argument for the inclusion of underinvested communities in political and social spheres. She is a Moore College of Art and Design Walentas Fellow for 2020-2022, and teaches at Queens College.
Alicia Grullón has exhibited work at Wallach Art Gallery, Columbia University; Bronx Museum of the Arts; and BRIC Arts Media House, all in New York, among others.
Anna Schimkat is a visual artist who has expanded her work into sound art through installations and performances. Schimkat creates spaces that sharpen perception and force the perceiver's action. Her sound materials include self-made instruments and field recordings of her main instrument, the world around us.
Anushka Rajendran's curatorial practice realizes ideas that emerge from her research about exhibitions, with a focus on arts from South Asia. As an art writer and editor, she facilitates discursive engagement within the arts in India. Her ongoing interests include socially engaged art practices in India and the ways in which aesthetic practices are seeking out publics that fall outside of traditional contemporary art audiences. This is an extension of her previous research and curatorial interest in trauma narratives in contemporary art.
Anushka Rajendran is a New Delhi based curator, writer and researcher. Her ongoing PhD Where lies the Public? Aesthetics of Social Engagement studies how the arts are surpassing traditional publics in India. She has an Ph.M from the Jawaharlal Nehru University during which she wrote Installation Art in India: Preoccupations with Trauma, and an MA in Arts and Aesthetics. Her recent exhibition, The Lay of the Land, charted an alternative cartography for the South Asian region based on experiences of artists rather than political borders. In her upcoming exhibition Corporeal, Rajendran will look at the absent body as a universal/intimate subject position. Rajendran is the Editorial Coordinator of the Indian art magazine TAKE on art, and recipient of the Art Scribes Award 2015.
Astra Howard's evolving series of interactive Machine-Vehicles (M-Vs) disrupt conventional means of communication to heighten engagement with the public. The M-Vs reduce certain sensory capacities and enhance others. This altered means of communication encourages direct, honest, sometimes unexpected, and often quite intimate responses. The M-Vs are means by which individuals tell their stories of the city; they optimize the fiction to realism ratio to achieve maximum communication in popular, nondescript, and even hostile locations.
Astra Howard is an Action Researcher/Performer working predominantly within public spaces in cities. Since 1998, she has designed and produced site-specific works in cities across Australia and internationally, including Beijing, Paris, New York, Delhi and London. After completing a PhD in 2005 titled Orchestrating the Public: To Reveal and Activate through Design the Experience of the City, Howard has continued to test urban and social theories in the city spaces they critique. Commissioned by cultural institutions and local and state governments, these iterative projects generate dialogue and debate about issues affecting the city. Howard has worked professionally as a designer in commercial agencies, a lecturer in higher education and a community development worker, predominantly in crisis homeless services.
New York City Council District 34, New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature, Hartfield Foundation
Caroline Garcia is an interdisciplinary artist working across live performance and video through a hybridized aesthetic of cross-cultural dance, ritual practice, and new media. Her work performances and video installations traverse a highly personalized aggregation of distinct systems that encompass live-green screening, botany, robotics, poetry, and virtual reality. Her most recent body of work serves to function as a reparative measure to contend with personal loss and the diasporic and post-colonial grief that accompanies it.
Caroline Garcia has exhibited work at the Museum of Contemporary Art Australia, Sydney; Manila Bienniale; and Art Central Hong Kong, among others.
Charisse Pearlina Weston's creative work emerges from deep material investigations of poetics and the autobiographical. She utilizes glass to conceptually embody both the everyday risk of anti-black violence and the precocity and malleability of blackness in the face of this violence. She deploys language and the autobiographical to examine the delicate intimacies and reticent poetics underlying black life. She reuses and re-articulates materials from past installations to formulate the next to represent meaning's capacity to shatter.
Charisse Pearlina Weston has exhibited work at the Contemporary Art Museum, Houston; Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts, New York; and Praz-Delavallade Gallery, Los Angeles, among others.
Job Titles:
- Night Watchman, 2014, Set of 12 Found Images Digitized and Manipulated, 36. Photo by Danushka Marasinghe
Danushka Marasinghe, Night Watchman, 2014, Set of 12 found images digitized and manipulated, 36. Photo by Danushka Marasinghe
Elise Routledge is a curator who approaches her work with sensitivity to artists' ideas and processes, and respect for the intelligence and curiosity of audiences. She is interested in how cultural contexts and environments inform the production and interpretation of contemporary art. Routledge's curatorial projects are characterized by their engagement with social themes, risk, and institutional critique.
Elise Routledge has worked with the Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney; Shepparton Art Museum (SAM), Victoria; Experimenta Media Arts, Melbourne; British Council, Sydney; and Artangel, London. Routledge has curated exhibitions at Gertrude Contemporary, Melbourne, and Firstdraft Gallery, Sydney, and has contributed to numerous publications. She was awarded a scholarship from the College of Fine Arts, University of New South Wales, and received an Australia Council Skills and Arts Development grant in 2014. Recent curatorial projects include Kate Murphy: Probable Portraits, Shepparton Art Museum; Bindi Cole: I Am, Shepparton Art Museum; Delinquent Angel: John Perceval's ceramic angels, Shepparton Art Museum; Experimenta Recharge: 6th International Biennial of Media Art, RMIT Gallery, Melbourne; and A Galaxy of Suns by Michaela Gleave premiering at Dark Mofo, 2016, Hobart, Tasmania, Australia.
Job Titles:
- Artist
- Research - Based Artist
Hanni Kamaly is a research-based artist working with sculpture, video and performance whose practice examines the political construction of identity throughout history using layered research and a material approach. Kamaly investigates who has the authority to write and display history, as well as how these histories are recorded, embodied, and collected. Kamaly's works weave together fragments to expose visual culture, ethnography, and history, exposing patriarchal, colonial, racist, and nationalist structures that still exist today.
Hanni Kamaly has exhibited work at Accelerator, Stockholm; 34th Bienal de São Paulo; and Index - Swedish Contemporary Art Foundation, Stockholm, among others.
Job Titles:
- Director of Development and Communications
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- New Zealand / Wallace Arts Trust
Alice and Lawrence Weiner, New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature, Hartfield Foundation
Job Titles:
- Member of the Board
- Critic
- Library
Katie Lee, Collected Objects, Varied Materials (detail), 2013, Lead, glazed earthenware, rubber, timber, brass, and various objects from the Shepparton Art Museum ceramics collection including Kirsten Coelho's Iron and the Air (2007), Dimensions variable. Image courtesy of Shepparton Art Museum and Katie Lee. Photo by Andrew Curtis
Kyoung eun Kang's work focuses on the small, simple everyday gestures and rituals that we tend to see as mundane, but have great significance. She captures subtle human interactions and behaviors to better understand human nature and the bonds between us-bonds that bridge time and space to connect couples, families, communities, strangers, and even the dead. Using an interdisciplinary approach, she explores geographical and cultural identity as well as universal human themes such as affection and attachment.
Kyoung eun Kang has exhibited at A.I.R. gallery, Brooklyn; The Korean Cultural Center, Washington D.C.; and Collar Works, Troy among others.
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- Slovak Editor at Flash Art Czech & Slovak Edition
Lýdia Pribišová is interested in testing the boundaries of art. In her curatorial projects, she focuses on subversive art practices that go against typical social and cultural patterns. In her work, Pribišová observes how cultural stereotypes are constructed as well as the shifting positions of individual subjects in society. She works with themes of collective memory, sharing, and local Central European history, in part by questioning social rules, conformism, and the changing role of public space in post-communist societies.
Lýdia Pribišová (born 1980, Slovakia) is a curator and art historian. Pribišová has been the Slovak editor at Flash Art Czech & Slovak Edition since 2006, before becoming the managing editor in 2015. For two years (2013-2015), she worked as a project coordinator for the organization and digital platform tranzit. In 2012, Pribišová founded the nonprofit PILOT, and in 2007, she co-founded gallery of immaterial art, Evolution de l'Art. Projects include the 2007 and 2011 Slovak exhibition at the Prague Biennale. In 2013, Pribišová obtained her PhD from the University Sapienza, Rome; her doctoral thesis is titled Quadriennale of Rome. From Public Body to Foundation. Reflection on transformation.
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- New Museum Founder and Director
New Museum founder and director, Marcia Tucker (right), with ISCP resident, 1999
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- Director of Finance and Operations
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- Artist
- Zweet Zenith, 2022, Solar Panels, Motors, Electronics and Steel
Nika Schmitt's kinetic sculptures and installations are distinguished by a unique combination of sound, electronics, and mechanics. Her work examines complex physical processes in a simple and straightforward manner. The compositions, which are mostly site-specific, investigate the principles of energy, material, and time, reflecting on the interrelationships and impacts that each of these elements elicit in cycles of repetition (rhythm), deterioration, and transformation.
Nika Schmitt has exhibited work at Singuhr, Berlin; Ikob, Belgium; and Philharmonie Luxembourg, among others.
Nika Schmitt, LOOP, 2021, steel, solar panels, electronics, motors and plexi, dimensions variable
Job Titles:
- Artist
- Rose Gold, 2017, Video, 8 Min
Sara Cwynar works with photography, video, and book-making. Her work involves a constant archiving and re-presentation of collected visual materials. She is interested in the way that images morph, accumulate, endure and change in meaning and value over time, and the effect this has on a collective worldview.
Sara Cwynar has exhibited work at The Approach, London; Milwaukee Art Museum; MoMA PS1, New York, among others.
Sara Cwynar, Sahara from SSENSE.com (as young as you feel), 2020, archival pigment print, 30 × 38 in. (76.2 × 96.52 cm)
Sara Cwynar, Louis Vuitton Jeff Koons Rubens Bag, 2020, archival pigment print, 30 × 38 in. (76.2 × 96.52 cm)
Sara Cwynar, Ali from SSENSE.com (How to Marry a Millionaire), 2020, archival pigment print, 24 × 30 in. (60.96 × 76.2 cm)
New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, in partnership with the City Council, New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature, Hartfield Foundation, Danna and Ed Ruscha
Job Titles:
- Artist
- Contact Sheet, 2016, Handwoven Stainless Steel
Tarik Kiswanson's genre-defying work is informed by identity, dualism and loss. His work reflects on the influences of one culture upon another as well as the active role the viewers play in the creation of the work's meaning. Through quasi-abstract sculptures, or "reductions" as he calls them, Kiswanson examines notions of nonconformity and subverts the ways in which form is perceived and registered. Almost solely made in polished brass and steel, the viewer's body appears obliterated, disjointed, or doubled. Razor sharp and infra-thin, his paradoxical objects are also highly responsive to their spatial environment and to their observer's proximity as they vibrate with the displacement of air generated by the spectators circulation within the space.
Tarik Kiswanson (born 1986, Halmstad, Sweden) graduated from Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design, University of the Arts London in 2010. In 2011, he moved to Paris where he attended l'École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts and received a MA in 2013. He has exhibited his work internationally in group shows and solo exhibitions at Carlier Gebauer, Berlin; Musée Régional d'Art Contemporain Languedoc Roussillon Midi Pyrénées, Sérignan, France; Musée national de Céramique-Sèvres, Paris; Le Pavillon Vendôme Centre d'art Contemporain, Paris; Les Bains-Douches, Alençon, France; Institut d'Art Contemporain, Villeurbanne, France; Riga Art Space, Latvia; and Metropolitan Art Society, Beirut.
Tarik Kiswanson, 1917 (The weave machines), 2016, Handwoven stainless steel, 53 × 7 in. (134.62 × 17.78 cm)
Tarik Kiswanson, Anti (Inverted flagpole bracket), 2015, Steel, 7 × 9 × 4 in. (17.78 × 22.86 × 10.16 cm)
Tarik Kiswanson, Shifter, 2015, Brass welded with recycled silver, 118 × 9 × 9 in. (299.72 × 22.86 × 22.86 cm)
Job Titles:
- Member of the Board
- Trustee
Job Titles:
- New Zealand / Wallace Arts Trust
- Trust