Please join us this Wednesday November 16th at 7pm at BRIC Rotunda Gallery for an artist talk.
BRIC Rotunda Gallery
33 Clinton St
Brooklyn, NY
For more info:
http://www.bricartsmedia.org/contemporary-art/exhibitions#!prettyPhoto/2/
NyK will be showing a new installation part of We Will Survive series.
Museo del Barrio presents:
Times of crisis are also times in which life extends into the streets. The artists in this exhibition have created gestures that address social interaction, economic reaction, and the street as stage or object worthy of aesthetic intervention.
November 10, 2011 - January 7, 2012
Opening: Wednesday, November 9 · 7:00pm - 9:00pm
BRIC Rotunda Gallery
33 Clinton Street, Brooklyn, NY 11201
FEATURING:
COCO 144, Alexis Duque, Felipe Galindo, Alicia Grullon, Las Hermanas Iglesias, nicoyKatiushka (NyK), Armando Mariño, Jessica Mein, Leonor Mendoza, Felix Morelo, Carlos "MARE 139" Rodriguez, Rafael Sánchez and Kathleen White, Rafael Sánchez, VJ Demencia.
More Info at:
http://www.bricartsmedia.org/contemporary-art/exhibitions#!prettyPhoto/2/
Please join us on September 14th from 5- 8pm as we perform part two of, We Will Survive at the Willis Avenue Community Garden located at 401 E. 143rd St, Bronx, NY .
This performance series, Art in Community Gardens is a collaboration between El Museo del Barrio and New York Restoration Project.
We Will Survive, is a performance that follows certain patterns of survival that can include sharing, creating small communities, using found materials, finding access routes in and out of the city. Relying on nomadism, nicoykatiushka (NyK) reuse and appropriate salvaged material in order to prepare for a future escape from a disaster. Survival is a dynamic and pure state of creativity.
The performance, We Will Survive is separated into three parts. It initiated in June 2011 on the streets surrounding Socrates Sculpture Park, where nicoykatiushka (NyK) collected salvaged material on a 4 foot long bicycle trailer then pulled it on sight where they organized, presented and observed the retrieved material in silence while imagining a future shelter, inviting the audience to do so as well.
On September 14th, 2011, NyK will bring this material to the Willis Avenue Community Garden in order to build a makeshift shelter, giving it a home within the community that surrounds this garden for a determined amount of time. With help from their community of friends the small shelter will be transported in a minga fashion. A minga is a tradition common in Chiloe, an island in the south of Chile, where homes are transported by a community of people without dismantling the house. The homes are placed on top of tree trunks which serve as rollers and are then pulled by oxen on land or by boats when carried over sea. NyK and friends will rope the shelter to their bicycles and pull it away from the garden.
The shelter will be transported to the Catskills where NyK will spend one night and then abandon their home. They will revisit within a month's time to see what is left.
photo courtesy of Macarena Molina
Melt in the press:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/
http://gamma.dnainfo.com/
http://www.examiner.com/
http://fineart.about.com/
Some audience uploaded video of the performance on youtube
more images of Melt here:
photos by Patricia Dominguez
photos by Wire Image
photos by NY Press
The Times Square Alliance develops techniques and relationships to bring temporary high-quality, cutting-edge art and performance to Times Square's public spaces, so that it is known globally as a place where ordinary people encounter authentic, ever-changing urban art in multiple forms and media. Recent projects and collaborations include Electronic Arts Intermix and MTV, Urban Remix, Liz Magic Laser's Flight, Counting Sheep, Creative Time's Key to the City, Shen Wei Dance Arts, Hip Hop Theater Festival, Play Me I'm Yours, and Performa '09.
The Times Square Public Art Program is made possible in part by the NYC Cultural Innovation Fund of the Rockefeller Foundation, Rockefeller Brothers Fund and the NYC Department of Cultural Affairs.
http://www.timessquarenyc.org/about_us/art_ts.html
NyK will be showing a small version of Whisper this weekend at Samson Projects Gallery in Boston, MA. "Chain Letter" is a global group show in which 10 artists have been invited to participate. Those 10 then invite 10 artists that they admire. Those 10 invite 10 more and so on. This cycle continues for 30 days. The result is an exponentially massive, artist-curated group show based entirely on admiration.
Opening Reception July 16th, 2011
from 5 to 8
Chain Letter / Samson Projects Gallery
450 Harrison Avenue, Boston, MA
Please join us in a new version of Melt on July 14 from 4-8pm at Duffy Square right in the middle of Times Square.
In conjunction with El Museo's Bienal: The (S) Files 2011, Times Square Arts and El Museo del Barrio present a special program of free outdoor performances in Times Square on July 14, 2011, drawing inspiration from the Bienal's focus on the aesthetics of the street.
July 14, 2011
Free Outdoor Performances: 4 – 8 pm
Broadway and 46th Street
Irvin Morazan:
Performance in the Center of the World. Two Performances at 5:30 and 7:30 pm
nicoykatiushka (NyK):
Melt. Continuous 4 – 8 pm
Ryan Roa:
Beach Truck Times Square in Ford F-150 truck. Continuous 4 – 8 pm
Rafael Sánchez and Kathleen White:
Somewhat Portable Dolmen. Continuous 4 – 8 pm
Reception for Artists: 7:30 – 9:30 pm
.....RSVP Required......RVSP through Eventbrite
Times Square Visitor Center
7th Avenue between 46th and 47th Street
The (S) Files 2011 at Times Square will feature performances by artists Ryan Roa, Irvin Morazan, Rafael Sánchez / Kathleen White and nicoykatiushka (NyK). Roa will install his "Beach Truck Times Square" inviting interested participants to climb in the sand-filled back of a Ford F-150 truck and have their picture taken in a beach chair, accompanied by sounds of the ocean. Irvin Morazan will drive a low-rider into the Broadway Plaza for "Performance in the Center of the World." Wearing his sculpture, Ghettoblaster Headdress, he will preside over a celebratory dance by NYC Hip Hop dancers. Rafael Sánchez and Kathleen White will pop-up their flat 10-foot tall monument in canvas called "Somewhat Portable Dolmen." Standing on a large block ice during the performance of "Melt", the artist collaborative, nicoykatiushka (NyK), will create a series of actions as the ice melts away.
The event will be followed by a VIP cocktail reception at the Times Square Visitor Center from 7:30 to 9:30pm, please RSVP using the link below.
http://elmuseotimessquare.eventbrite.com/
El Museo's Bienal: The (S) Files 2011
Takes to the Streets
6th Latino, Caribbean, and Latin American Biennial will showcase
75 emerging artists at 7 venues throughout New York City
June 14, 2011 - January 8, 2012
Please join us for various events based around the Bienal The (S) Files at Museo del Barrio.
Tuesday, June 14, 11am Press Preview
Tuesday, June 14, 6pm - 9pm Museum Mile
Thursday, June 16, 7pm - 9:30pm Member's Reception
Sunday, June 19, 5pm - 7pm Performance series at Socrates Scuplture Park
(NyK will be performing a new piece)
New York, NY, March 30, 2011—El Museo del Barrio announced today that El Museo's Bienal: The (S) Files 2011, its sixth biennial of the most innovative, cutting-edge art created by Latino, Caribbean, and Latin American artists currently working in the greater New York area, will take place June 14, 2011 - January 8, 2012. This year's edition focuses on the aesthetics of the street and spreads all over the city, showcasing a record 75 emerging artists in seven different venues, including El Museo.
Since its first edition in 1999, The (S) Files has become a successful launching platform for a wide variety of talented Latino artists. Most recently, Allora & Calzadilla, featured in The (S) Files in 2000, have been selected to represent the U.S. at this year's Venice Biennial. Additional notable alumni include Margarita Cabrera, Alejandro Cesarco, Pablo Helguera, Tamara Kostianovsky, Carlos Motta, and Iván Navarro.
Curators Rocío Aranda-Alvarado, Trinidad Fombella, Elvis Fuentes, and guest curator Juanita Bermúdez have chosen the street as focal point of this year's biennial deliberately, to call attention to the direct effect of economic and political crises in art production. "Social tensions as well as economic limitations have historically pushed artists to employ their urban environment as creative setting as well as a source for materials," explains Fuentes. "The (S) Files 2011 foregrounds both Latino artists who have been involved in New York street art movements like graffiti since the 1970s and others who due to current circumstances are taking on the street for the first time to produce their art."
It is in this context that this year's biennial aims to expand the definition of contemporary Latino and Latin American art by taking on a broad exploration of the aesthetics, events, and visual energy of the street. The exhibition will feature works in all media, including murals and graffiti as well as non-traditional presentations in fashion and music. "The (S) Files 2011 explores how the boundaries between public/private and personal/universal are blurred by urban culture, and examines the street as catalyst for change in mainstream culture," says Aranda-Alvarado. "We are interested in how these social borders mix and dissolve in urban environments, and how artists use these social alterations as points of creative departure."
Among the themes developed in the exhibition are the influence of early New York street art movements, which were led by Latino artists; popular aesthetics and urban styles of the neo-baroque; and the creation of art works from urban debris. "What stands out is the variety of issues that artists address—from daily life situations, to social behaviors, to economic distress," points out Fombella. "Some focus on poignant narratives to undermine false notions of comfort and security in times of anxiety, while others revisit past events or appropriate materials to recreate them in a way that is conceptual, edgy, and playful."
Museo del Barrio is located at 1230 Fifth Avenue at 104th Street, NY
Socrates Sculpture Park is located at 3205 Vernon Boulevard, Long Island City
For more information, visit El Museo's website: http://www.elmuseo.org/en/event/museum-mile-2011
NyK showing Until Death Do Us Part at Lightworks 2011, Grimsby Minster St. James Square, England.
Video documentation of the festival here :
and
We are pleased to invite you all to join us in a performance for a new installation by Tony Hornecker commissioned by the Royal Opera House of London for the launching of the New Royal Opera House Production Park.
We will be performing a live version of Fruit, a video performance we created in 2003.
Queremos invitarlos a la instalación de Tony Hornecker, comisionada por la "Royal Opera House of London" para el lanzamiento del New Royal Opera House Production Park. Estaremos presentando una versión en vivo de "Fruit", video performance creada en el año 2003.
"Eight metre towering towers, an opera singer, a machine of a hundred wheels, a skyscraper of doors, 4 hooped skirts and a matador flying through the sky, the eternal crying man, a canary, an old couple still in love, a sculpture of windows of the world, a ballerina in a prism, blue baby Blai, Tony's mum in a box, 39 stairs to the stars, 300 costumes and 20 performers dazzling at dizzying heights..."
NyK is participating in
Affordable Art Beijing 2010
with the photo series, Until Death Do Us Part
http://www.affordableartchina.com/introduction.html
NyK is participating in Art Beijing with Antenna, a Chile based nonprofit cultural foundation along side Francisca Benitez, Alfredo
Martinez and Felipe Santander. NyK will be exhibiting new explosive art. A percentage of the proceeds will be donated to the
earthquake victims of Chile.
http://www.artbeijing.net/
http://franciscabenitez.org/
http://www.felipesantander.cl/
Fugue in the key of Understanding
27/3 - 18/4
2010
Pause
an exhibition by nicoykatiushka (NyK)
January 20 - February 28, 2010
Opening reception: Wednesday January 20th, 7pm
at LAN 蘭
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NyK's creative work is based on a collaborative method which they have been developing since their wedding day, on June 20th, 2003. For the past 6 years, nicoykatiushka have developed a system of art and life incorporating factors that are determinant throughout their process based methodology. Influenced by daily life as well as their nomadic lifestyle which fluxes between Beijing, New York and Santiago (Chile), NyK conduce a fresh and active dialog that allow stimulation from outside their close knit nucleus.
NyK explore notions of relationship and experimentation with installations that combine aspects of performance, video and photography. Within the mixing of mediums one will often be confronted with the image of NyK as the protagonist of these experiments. Pause presents a temporary stop, a moment to look into past and recent works created in and out of China. Recent works exhibited will include Eye Shift (revisiting Steve Reich), Whisper and Fuck Beijing.
NyK's work has been shown extensively, showing in galleries and museums such as Exit Art (NYC), The Artist Space (NYC), Kuandu Fine Arts Museum (Taiwan), Museum of Contemporary Art (Chile), Aratoi Museum (New Zealand) and Ex-Teresa Arte Actual (Mexico).
In 2006 NyK formed NYKFFA (nicoykatiushka Foundation for the Arts), a mobile platform for collaborative artistic projects, supporting the idea of artist communities and networks by hosting video festivals and exhibitions run by artists. NyK recently created Antenna, a non for profit organization whose main role is not only to create a framework and a stage but also to bring together different cultural experiments and to collaborate with artists and curators to produce one moment of potentiality.
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http://www.mer.cl/modulos/catalogo/Paginas/2010/01/03/MERSTCT014AA0301.htm
