Our mediamakers & panelists
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Yvette Choy

Yvette Choy is an artist and storyteller whose works address ideas and realities of in-between-ness and the struggles and joys of inhabiting spaces among different identities including race, class and gender.  Often involved with collaboration and community, their practice invokes questioning, rawness and humanity. Yvette’s works have been exhibited internationally at festivals including Outfest (LA), Frameline (SF), Inside/Out (Toronto), CAAM Fest (SF), Visual Communications (LA), MIX (NY), Bildwechsel (Hamburg), Groupe Intervention Video (Montreal) and the National Queer Arts Festival (San Francisco).  Yvette’s latest works include, Part-Time Lover, commissioned by New Sound Karaoke for their Pornaoke experience (NY) and, I Thought I Found You But, commissioned by Queer Rebels Productions for SPIRIT: A Century of Queer Asian Activism (SF). Yvette is from Brooklyn, NY.  They hold a BFA from New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts Department of Film & Television. 

Parijat Desai

Parijat Desai is an India-born, U.S.-raised choreographer who creates hybrids of contemporary and Indian classical dance, theater, and other movement forms yielding a “seamless blending of the new and old” (NYT). An autodidact in Indian classical music, Parijat has collaborated with various musicians to create new compositions based on the classical tradition, including several leaders of the Brooklyn Raga Massive movement. Parijat also interfaces with architecture and public space to explore human/social issues through the performing body. As a 2016–17 Movement Research Artist-in-Residence, she is developing JustLikeThat, a dance theatre work with movement, banter, live music, and whole lot of newspaper, to poke fun of language in Indian new articles. Also in development: Signs of the Times, a series of short dances to jazz and R&B songs—an upcoming iteration to be performed with Broadway actress/singer Cicily Daniels.
In 2015, Parijat created Passage, a dance theater piece performed live at an iconic Le Corbusier–designed building in Ahmedabad, India, as part of the Fanatika International Theater Laboratory Festival. 

David Mramor

Visual artist David Mramor has an extensive performance practice under the guise of Enid Ellen, a post-gender feminist singer-songwriter. Using his poetry he collaborates with Greg Potter on the piano to create melodic songs. The live performances are infused with his training in Kundalini yoga, visual art and theater. He has performed in NYC at Joe’s Pub, the Kitchen, PS 122, The Whitney Museum of American Art, and Dixon Place. The duo released a debut album entitled Cannibal Disease with a music video for “White Snake” in 2010. They are currently recording a new album, which will be released later this year. The first single and video, "BEYOND REALITY" was self-released in November 2016. 
David is  doing a performance the night of February 4th at Wild Projects. Check back for info!

Shanna R. Polley

Shanna R. Polley is a composer and sound designer currently studying Computer Music and Composition at Columbia University. She is interested in exploring sound's influence on presence and perception of space. Besides writing pieces for acoustic ensembles, she has worked on sound design within virtual reality and video games, and loves to design and make instruments. Her current pieces explore composition from soundless sources; generative music as a byproduct of interactive media. For the past year, Shanna’s art has been largely influenced by one motto: Sound will fuck you up- Sound will make you believe anything. 

Leeroy Kun Young Kang
​Interlocutor

Leeroy Kun Young Kang is an archivist, independent curator, and visual artist whose work lives in the intersections of legacy audiovisual preservation and access, experimental Asian Pacific film and video, and queer and transgender history and visual culture. Kang’s archival work includes collections at the New Museum of Contemporary Art, Brooklyn Academy of Music, MTV Networks, and the New-York Historical Society. He has curated programs for the Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film Festival, Dirty Looks NYC, and CLAGS: The Center for LGBTQ Studies, while his own video work has screened at various festivals and venues including: CAAMFest, Human Resources Los Angeles, MIX NYC, and Studio 2224 in Taipei. Currently he is a Visiting Scholar at the Asian/Pacific/American Institute at NYU and holds an MLS from Queens College and BA in Studio Art from UC Santa Barbara. 

Cecilia Dougherty   Interlocutor & Co-curator
Cecilia Dougherty is a New York based artist working in video and photography. She has been creating experimental videos since 1985, and her themes have been largely about psychology, language, sexuality, outsider interpretations of popular culture, and everyday life. Her videos have screened extensively in the US and abroad, most recently at the Film Society of Lincoln Center, the New Museum, NY, and at the Blaffer Art Museum in Houston. Other venues presenting her work in previous years include the New York Film Festival, the Whitney Museum of American Art, Light Industry, Microscope Gallery, Anthology Film Archives, Irish Film Center, Dublin, the Wexner Center, Columbus, Ohio. Dougherty’s work in moving image extends to animations for iPod and multi-channel video installations. She is a writer as well and holds a PhD in Philosophy.

David Dasharath Kalal      Co-curator
David Kalal’s work trips the light diasporique -from Noor Jehan to Norah Jones, Marxist Economists to Merle Oberon, Electroclash to Gayatri Mantra. He has been exhibited and screened internationally including at the Kiasma Museum of Contemporary Art in Helsinki,  the National Gallery of Canada, the New Museum of Contemporary Art,  in Trikone Magazine, at the Microwave Festival-Hong Kong, Inside/Out inVienna, Allmänna Galleriet; eKsperim[E]nto in Manila, The Frameline Festival, Mix Festival, 3LD Art & Technology Center and Blue Heron Arts Center in New York, the  Siddarth Gautam Festival and Nature Morte Gallery in New Delhi.