Twin Stranger
Curated by Vera Petukhova
Performance Series | February 21 - 23, 2018
Twin Stranger is a two-day performance series that presents new work from six emerging artists and musicians based in New York City. The series offers a space for experimentation through live performances exploring fluid and liminal psychological spaces. Twin Stranger stages performances that become a social arena for constructing & de-constructing varying embodiments including; alienated subjectivities, other-selves, mirrored incarnations and online identities. Subjects explored by each artist range from; the construction of identity, sex on the internet, mental illness, dissociation, ancestral energy, and collective rituals of the everyday. (Image credit: Walter Wlodarczyk)
Vera Petukhova (Belarus, 1987) is an independent curator based in Brooklyn, NY focusing on performance and media. She received her MA in Curatorial Practice from The School of Visual Art and has worked with the curatorial teams at Performa and The Kitchen. Her research interests include: the performative turn, digital culture, experience economy, language + communication, cultural histories, film theory, feminist + gender theory, community / support structures, Soviet Conceptualism, and Russian contemporary art. She has curated video art programs and organized art exhibitions / performance in Seattle and New York. Her writing has been published in Blouin Artinfo, Performa Magazine, and in the upcoming issue of OnCurating.
http://cargocollective.com/verapetukhova
February 21, 2018
7:00 – 9:00PM
February 23, 2018
7:30 – 9:30PM
BIOGRAPHY
ERIDAN is a duo comprised of Eri King and Daniel Greer based in Brooklyn, NY. ERIDAN’s conceptual framework investigates the Everyday as a collective experience of daily rituals. They draw on the vast reservoir of the banal, unnoticed, and repetitive actions as a way to increase visibility and perceived value of these overlooked aspects of lived experience.
LAHAR BAMBAN is a singer and producer who weaves percussive, noisy beats with layered melodies, incantations and found sound. Drawing from a variety of influences including pop, R&B, club, folk and noise, BAMBAN channels the emotional contours of a hybridized future-past wherein ancestral spirit and neo-colonial flesh co-mingle.
Whenever SAMANTHA CC takes the stage, she instantly commands the room, with no announcement or coercion; Samantha presents as the divine, manifesting messages too precious to let back into the ether without offering them your full consideration. CC’s work also quite literally envelops the audience, from her self-produced projections and scoring, to her live vocal narration, to the smells and flavors she incorporates, as exemplified in the peeled citrus she passed to us in her recent performance, aptly titled “Orange Piece.” Her world is one of perpetual stargazing, deep well-digging, and ruthless, reciprocal compassion.
WHITNEY VANGRIN is an artist based in New York, working across mediums with an emphasis on performance. Equal parts physical and psychological, her performances question perceptions of authenticity, while making allusions to film, religion, dance, and structures of the body. In performance, the reality of the performer’s body and emotion is situated in a scene that hinges upon realism and construction. Her work has been shown at the MOMA PS1, American Medium, Issue Project Room, ICA London, ICA Philadelphia, Korner Taipei, among other locations around the United States and abroad.
ROMANTIC THRILLER is that feeling when you admire a doorway as you walk by with its ancient, thick chipping paint and long ago broken keyhole. There is a new, replacement lock and someone surely lives there but you don’t know who and you never will. Romantic Thriller is loquacious, dark synth and strings music by Rebecca Huston of Brooklyn NY.
CANDYSTORE is a gender non-conforming author-artist from San Jose, CA in favor of hyphens. She-he has performed at Club Cumming, LaMama Galleria, Dixon Place, Powrplnt, and every time she-he uses a public restroom. Candystore’s 2015 installation and multifarious book-length project about the deep South, queer sex, and intimacy in the digital age, WE HAVE TO BE SERIOUS, is forthcoming. Candystore’s latest writing project is a series of 152 poems, each titled after a different color name of a popular North American crayon manufacturer.