Our old AA website is gone. Someone we don’t know in Chile was using our same server to spam so someone else in L.A. cancelled NyK’s account. We stopped posting for over a year, but now we’re back.

So welcome to our new site.

CIGE (Contemporary International Gallery Exhibition) invited Sala SAM to participate at Subliminals (the curated-non for profit section of CIGE). Only two Latin American galleries were shown at CIGE, SAM and the Mexican gallery of our friend and sound artist Roberto Arcaute.

We shared the space with Luis Guerra, Patricia Dominguez and Cristobal Cea, Sebastian Errazuruz and Mauricio Garrido.

exhibition photos here

SEWN is an exhibition articulated by Chilean and Chinese as well as foreign artists living in China. It was curated by NyK and exhibited in Beijing, at Art Base One and Shanghai, at East Asia Contemporary Gallery. It is probably the biggest exhibition of Chilean emerging artists ever done outside of Chile and definitely the most relevant of its kind in China.

参加此次展览的艺术家有着不同的文化背景：智利和中国的艺术家，以及在中国的外国艺术家。 把这么多不同的艺术作品放在同一个空间展出在中国还是头一次。鉴于此原因，此次展览是促进中智双方年青新兴艺术家互相交流的一个里程碑，也是一次独特的机会观察处在地球两端的中国和智利的一次艺术互动。
SEWN于2007年11月在北京展出。在中国观众和当地媒体中产生了巨大的反响。

As part of the exhibition we published a catalog (pdf version here) and organized 4 artists’ residencies for Chilean artists, Nicolas Grum, Elisita Punto, Mauricio Garrido and Maria Luisa Murillo. We also had the honor of showing a performance by Valentina Serrati and live music by Barraco Parra at SEWN Shanghai. A booklet was also printed for the SEWN Shanghai (pdf version here).

SEWN had the honor of showing the work of: Diego Hernandez, Chen Xinpeng, Maria Luisa Murillo, Xing Danwen, Basco, Yeni Mao, Manuela Viera Gallo, Zhang Hao, Alfredo Martinez, Guo Hongwei, Juan Pablo Sallato, Jia Youguang, Giancarlo Pazzanese, Tan Tian, Mauricio Garrido, Liu Ren, Victor Castillo, Liu Fei, Nicolas Grum, Judas Arrieta, Sui Jianguo, Stephan Koperl and Sylvia Winkler, Valentina Serrati, Liu Jin, Carolina Sanchez, nicoykatiushka (NyK), Long2 from Pulpo, Elisita Punto, Wei Weng, Yang2 and Aajiao from Eventstructure, Wolfgang Stiller, Guan Xiao and Yu Honglei.

Selected press

Arte Al Limite Magazine

That’s beijing Magazine

China Morning Post

Another magazine from Shanghai

STV station (movie clip)

ICP TV station (movie clip)

and some photos at flickr:

Sewn Beijing

Sewn Shanghai

IN/OUT 是由 nicoykatiushka (NyK)于2006在纽约创办的视频节。IN/OUT是将不同的艺术家的想法融合到一起。在同一个时段里，前一个艺术家片子的结尾成为后一个的开始。是由声，颜色，灯光或技术的相似之处把不同的片子联系在一起。每个相连的两个片子之间都没有停顿的字幕。

IN/OUT is a video festival created by nicoykatiushka (NyK) in New York, 2006. On a single timeline the out point of one artist’s video becomes the in point of the following video, fading between similarities in sound, color, light and technique. The videos are presented with no credits or pauses between one video and the next.

Opening reception: April 16, 2008. East Asia Contemporary 110 Dianchi Road by The Bund. Shanghai, 200002, China

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www.eastasiacontemporary.com

Opening reception photos

IN/OUT China photos

PDF version of the exhibition booklet.

Esto no es una esposición de Género (This is not a Gender Exhibition) is the title of an exhibition curated by Soledad Novoa at The Spanish Cultural Center in Chile

We showed a video filmed in the Atlas Studios, in Moroco.

From April 9th to May 23 at Providencia 927 (M. Salvador)

The:Artist:Network invited us to participate in a group show called Critical Mass at HYCAC. Exhibition dates: March 8th - April 27th

We showed a new piece called “Death Boxes” which is part of a series of work called “Till Death Do Us Part”. For the show we built 100 cardboard boxes, each one with an interior and an exterior image. A firecracker was embedded in each box. The audience was invited to light the firecracker, which would allow you to see the interior time lapse image. It’s much more understandable if you see our photos.

Huang Yan Contemporary Art Center, located at No.8 Changdian, Jinzhan Village, Chaoyang District (near Crab Island) Beijing, China.

Constanza Guell, curator of Sala SAM, invited us to show Fuck is in the Air at Circuito. An exhibition shared with Nicolas Grum, Mauricio Garrido and Valentina Serrati.

Fuck is in the Air was shown at BAC 07 Babylon (Contemporary Art Festival in Barcelon

Amigos del Arte, a non for profit organization invited several artists to create a piece that refered to the idea of the 6 degrees of separation. According to Milgram and Columbia’s Small World Project, this theory is applicable. We proved it wrong. We took a trip to the outskirts of Beijing and through 6 different Chinese farmers, tried to create a connection between Katiushka and Nico. To our surprise none of them had ever met a foreigner nor someone who could make the connection between Nico and Katiushka (NyK). Using chroma key paint, K removes her identity with swiping movements slowly becoming a chinese farmer. This happens with three other chinese farmers, the last one becoming N, giving a finale to the experiment.
Bitshift is compressed six times with six different video compressions, creating a pixelation that evokes the loss of identity of these Chinese farmers and their incapacity to be part of a global and unifying theory, such as Milgram’s six degrees of separation, questioning the core of the theory

Our work was selected and it will be shown at The gallery space of Sala Amigos del Arte, in Santiago, Chile.

link to a video excerpt

Last weekend at Santiago’s Video Bienniale on the Contemporary Art Museum of Santiago.