Yvette ChoyYvette 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 DesaiParijat 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.
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David MramorVisual 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.
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Shanna R. PolleyShanna 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
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Cecilia Dougherty Interlocutor & Co-curator
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David Dasharath Kalal Co-curator
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