NEWS & AGENDA
Here are some dates of the up coming performances, projections, releases and publications of my work in 2024:
2024
12.19 / New York, USA: Mourning Machine: A Grief-Space in Honor of the NYC Theater Community (live performance) curated and hosted by Jess Applebaum at the Segal Center.
12.05 / Brooklyn, USA: MOTHER TONGUEs poetry reading volume 2, curation and live poetry at Storm bookstore.
11.29 / New York, USA: the score, that was not (score) at LaBase.
11.18 / New York, USA: OUR STUDIES SHOW Collective Philosophy auto-research think tank curated by Esther Neff at the Center for Performance Research (CPR).
11.25 / Brooklyn, USA: ARM WRESTLING FOR TWO, PLEASE (VR performance).
10.18-20 / New York, USA: "Madman" vs. the People (live performance) for Art in Odd Places 2024.
10.13 / New York, USA: BE HAPPY OR DIE (performative sound art) for New Ear :: at Fridman Gallery.
09.21- 10.07 / Prague, Czech Republic : Migrant Market (video performance) for Scaffolding Palace at gallery Mistečko.
09.16 / Worldwide: South Williamsburg (inside no mask land) (sound art) at MIGRATION SOUNDS from Cities and Memory curated by Stuart Fowkes, in partnership with COMPAS, Oxford's Centre on Migration, Policy and Society.
09.16 / New York, USA: BROKEN ELASTIC (live performance) for Movement Research at the Judson Church.
08.31 / Brooklyn, USA: 2nd hand Babel (public installation), Franklin St.
07.24-27 / Venezia, Italy: 1 + you = ? (public research), as part of PERFORMATICA Corpi Estranei Dappertutto, organized and curated by Hector Canonge.
06.13 / New York, USA: MOTHER TONGUEs poetry night, curation and live poetry at Storm bookstore.
06.09 / New York, USA: I could kill for someone to put an end to me lecture and experiment at Open Studios, Target Margin Theater Institute.
05.24 / New York, USA: DEMAPPING, bodily and sonic experience.
05.16-20 / Austin, USA: InnerSpacing, performance lecture for the Performance Philosophy Biennial “After Tragedy”, University of Texas, Austin.
04.16 / New York, USA: Guest lecturer at the “Graduate Composition Seminar" by Jaime E. Oliver La Rosa at GSAS Music Department, NYU.
04.10 / Online: Interviewed by The Chronicle of Philanthropy on guaranteed income.
04.03 / New York, USA: What is left inside?, World Premiere, commissioned by International Contemporary Ensemble, in the Ensemble’s “Call for ____” program. Live show at Chelsea Factory.
03.08-10 / New York, USA: Third Bohemia Retreat by Todd London at Bechdel Project.
03.08-10 / Switzerland: Invisible body (sonic live experience) at Ars Electronica Forum Wallis Selection Concerts, Festival de Musique Contemporaine.
02.27 / New York, USA: Guest lecturer at Drama of New York seminar by Ben Gassman, NYU.
02.21 / New York, USA: Featured in Emergency Index, an annual document of performance practice in pandemic times Vol. 10+, by Yelena Guzman, Ugly Duckling Presse.
02.04 / London, United Kingdom: INVISIBLE BODY (RAW) (sound art) on Resonance FM via 104.4FM and simulcast on DAB+ via Resonance Extra, curated by London sound art collective Gwaith Sŵn.
2023
12.31 / New York, USA: INVISIBLE BODY (RAW NOISE) release of the bodily and sonic experience, recorded during the LEIMAY Incubator.
11.30 / New York, USA: SOLILOQUY IN MOTION (LIVE) release of the recording of the live at Flux Factory's residency on Governor's Island October 2023.
11.05 / Vaulx-en-Velin, France: ablutions and abhumanism (sound art) for Écoutes Périphériques at Grrrnd Zero.
11.01.2023 - 03.01.2024 / worldwide : Migrant Market (documentation of performance) presented at The Outsiders Pavilion curated by Jo Blin for the The Wrong Biennale.
2023-2024 / New York, USA: Selected fellow of the Target Margin Theater (TMT) Institute.
10.21 / New York, USA: SOLILOQUY IN MOTION (LIVE) (live installation) at Ornaphonism an international exhibition curated by Will Owen and presented at Flux Factory’s house on Governors Island.
10.09 - 10.11 / Sydney, Australia: TINKERED THINKING/a stream of none (installation) at the 2023 Australasian Computer Music Association Conference and Concert Series at the University of New England.
09.20 / New York, USA: terrainGLISSANT (performance), for NOMADIC: Performance Art & Territorialism, organized and curated by Hector Canonge at Longwood Art Gallery.
08.25 / worldwide: Escaping inside (sound art) on Not What I Call Bonk Wave Volume One compilation.
07.21 / Brooklyn, USA: Depopulated (score) at LaBase.
06.22 - 06.25 / Brooklyn, USA: Depopulated + Disconnected + Unlimited = (Uprooted) (live art) at Brooklyn Art Haus.
05.29 / UK-France: ce que parler veut dire (broken tongue’s cut) (radio art) on CampFR radio as a special episode of the SUBSTRATUM Radioshow, curated by XOR Space.
03.06 / South Bend, USA: Tinkered Thinking (installation) at the Performing Media Festival, Indiana University South Bend Museum of Art.
02.21 / Brooklyn, USA: Quixotic demeanor (installation) at LaBase.
01.20 - 02.25 / Dallas, USA: DATA SURREALISM (installation) at the Art as a Social Practice exhibition at SP/N Gallery, University of Texas curated by Xtine Burrough.
2022
12.04 / Brighton, UK: automated pain? (installation) screened at The Island gallery during One Hundred Evenings of Loneliness, curated by Ileana Gherghina.
12.04 / Helsinki, Finland: Dark matter, Red lines and Stendhal imprint (installation) & Ambidextrous anathema (YEAR 2) (installation) screened at the Open Home Performance Festival, curated by Kino Club Helsinki art collective.
11.08 / Brooklyn, USA: mundane paradise (installation) at LaBase.
10.03 / New York, USA: Depopulated + Disconnected + Unlimited = Uprooted (live performance) for Movement Research at the Judson Church.
09.30 / Online: I WAS | I AM | I WILL BE (digital installation) at the Declare Decay VR exhibition, curated and hosted by XOR Space.
09.15 / Brooklyn, USA: TINKERED THINKING/a stream of none (installation) at LaBase.
09.14 / Los Angeles, USA: Recipient of the Prospect Art grant with the installation Be Happy or Die, to be released in 2023.
08.31 / Wellington, New Zealand: from the void and until the unknown (sound art) selected at ACMC2022, Massey University.
08.11 / Brooklyn, USA: ARM WRESTLING FOR TWO, PLEASE (performance), for the Ivory Tower and the Open Worlds at Brick Theater.
07.25 / Brooklyn, USA: Impossible obsolescence (installation) at LaBase.
07.15 / New York, USA: Recipient of Creatives Rebuild New York’s Artist Programme.
06.15 / Weimar, Germany: Épilogue, épitaphe, et puis rien... (sound installation) for Futurology Kiosk, mixed-media project founded by visual artist Nadja Kracunovic.
05.19 / Turku, Finland: Black Breathing (installation) at Video Art Festival Turku.
04.30 / Brooklyn, USA: End product (installation) at LaBase.
03.15 / Worldwide: living liveness essay in ‘Art as Social Practice, Technologies for Change’ published by Routledgeart edited by Xtine Burrough and Judy Walgren.
03.11 / Brooklyn, Online: Organised confusion (sound art).
03.05-03.06 / Manchester, UK: MYLITTLECHAOS (sound art) at MANTIS Festival [Sound in Words], Martin Harris Centre, University of Manchester.
03.03-03.20 / Madrid, Spain: Flat noise (sound art) at IN SONORA Festival 12th edition.
February - April / New York, USA: Leimay Incubator Programme.
02.05-03.06 / Nantes, France: Liquid Soul (sound installation) for Audioblast #10 Exhibition, at La Fabrique.
01.23 / Santa Cruz de la Sierra, Bolivia + online: Train of phone (live phygital performance) for Latitudes Hybridas, Festival Internacional de Performance Art de Santa Cruz de la Sierra curated by Hector Canonge.
01.14 / Brooklyn, USA: I WAS | I AM | I WILL BE (digital installation) at LaBase.
01.01 / : 2022 Research Affiliate at Center for Arts, Design, and Social Research (CAD+SR).
2021
12.11 - 12.12 / Bentonville, USA: Depopulated + Disconnected + Unlimited = Uprooted (live performance), -> Loops | Vox populi | Layers | Together and separate <- (collective performance) and Ceci n’est pas un masque (video performance) at Inverse Performance Art Symposium at The Momentary, curated by Emma Saperstein and Cynthia Post Hunt.
11.30 - 12.04 / Miami, USA: UNDERmy-your-ourSKIN (durational performance) and BLACK BREATHING (video performance) at Alive at Satellite Miami 2021, Miami Art Week 2021, curated by Quinn Dukes.
18.11 & 20.11 / New York, USA: UNDERmy-your-ourSKIN (durational performance) at Chashama Gala 2021.
15.11 / Knox, Australia: Golden calf factory (installation) at Please take one, curated Jessica Tanto and Nick Barker.
11.10 / Glasgow, Scotland: DEMAPPING (audio performance) followed by a talk on politics of noise, noise pollution, and field recording ethics at As If Radio, a long-form radio show space created in response to the 26th UN Climate Change Conference of the Parties (COP26) in Glasgow. Produced by Soundcamp with Ella Finer, Lia Mazzari, Ben Parry, and members of the Acoustic Commons network in partnership with Locus Sonus (Aix, FR), Wave Farm WGXC (Acra, NY), and participating stations.
11.01-01.30.2022 / Vancouver, Canada + online: The bridge is over, the noise is not (installation) selected by THIS Gallery for the UNSETTLED exhibition, both online and in-person.
10.15 / Copenhagen, Denmark + online: Train of phone… (live performance) curated by Jambatan Collective - Stateless Mind and the project State Between at Museum Laterna Magica for Copenhagen Culture Night 2021.
10.02 / New York, USA: Data Sampling / Ghost Suffering (performance), for “Title To Be Determined” at Starta Arta.
10.02 / Paris, France: Soliloquy in motion (audio performance and sound art) shortlisted for the 26th Phonurgia Nova Awards (Prix Art Sonore & SACEM ) and aired at the Bibliothèque Nationale de France, site François Mitterrand.
09.26 / Online, New York: Dark matter, Red lines and Stendhal imprint (video performance) at 21st edition of Online Performance Art Festival, curated by Sandra Bozic.
09.24 / Online: Brooklyn Spleen (journal extime) (nano-essay in French).
09.16 / Kent, United Kingdom: Artist talk at Peer-in by Threads.
09.15 / Arkansas, USA: Artist talk at Inverse Performance Art Symposium.
08.28-09.05 / Novi Sad, Serbia: Ceci n’est pas un masque (video performance), at IMAF 2021 and SULUV Gallery‘s “The voice of the locked”, curated by Nenad Bogdanovic.
08.23-08.31 / Los Angeles, USA: Golden Calf Factory (sound installation, participatory performance) presented at Interstice exhibition at Motor Gallery, curated by The Residency Project.
08.16 / New York, USA: Talk and presentation of Less IS less as part of ”Playing TELEPHONE, An Intersemiotic Game of Art Forms” on Artists Talk on Art, hosted by Barry Kostrinsky, organized and moderated by Nathan Langston. Presentation included talks from artists Lora Robertson and Diana Kurz.
08.10 / Leuk, Switzerland: Soliloquy in motion (Flat noise) at Ars Electronica Forum Wallis 2021, Contemporary Music Festival based in Valais/Switzerland.
07.21-08.08 / Gyeonggi-do, Korea: BLACK BREATHING at Czong Institute for Contemporary Art (CICA) for Concept 2021 exhibition.
07.29 / Brooklyn, USA: Dark matter, Red lines, and Stendhal imprint (video performance) at LaBase.
07.18-07.28 / Online, Boston: COMMONPLACES AND ENTANGLEMENTS VII (VR residency), organised by the Center for Arts, Design, and Social Research (CAD+SR).
07.05-07.10 / Brussels, Belgium: UNDERMY-YOUR-OURSKIN (performance) at Ancien Musée de Bruxelles-Nord for FESTIVAL TROUBLE/STUDIO THOR, curated by Antoine Pickels. Preceded by UNDERMY-YOUR-OURSKIN epigenetic memories and intimacy linguistic workshop for FESTIVAL TROUBLE/STUDIO THOR.
06.30 / Online, Brooklyn: Survival guide for online performance (writing).
06.29-07.04 / London, UK: ARM WRESTLING FOR TWO, PLEASE (video performance & installation) for the playful turn at Espacio Gallery, curated by Ahmed Farooqui & Degrees of Freedom.
06.25 / Online, Buenos Aires: BLACK BREATHING (live performance) at Performance Art Festival Buenos Aires, curated by Hector Canonge.
06.22 / Brooklyn, USA: “Call for ____” (Commission Program 2022-2024) suported by International Contemporary Ensemble & the Jerome Foundation.
06.13 / Helsinki, Finland: Liquid soul (live performance) at Helsinki Central Library Oodi during Pixelache Festival 2021.
06.04 / Online: Less IS less (sound art/ poetry) for TELEPHONE & Ball of Wax vol. 64, curated by Levi Fuller & Nathan M. Langston.
06.03 / Brooklyn & Brussels: untitled politics of noise (performance) in collaboration with Parvin Saljoughi and Camilla Borud Strandhagen.
05.28 / Brooklyn, Online: Self Civilisation (action poetry).
05.08-05.15 / Online: RESEARCH RETREAT #2: COMMONPLACES AND ENTANGLEMENTS organised by the Center for Arts, Design, and Social Research (CAD+SR).
05.05 / Online, Aarhus: 365 sedentary days/360 degrees of perdition (Act III) (live performance) curated by OUTPUT.
05.03 / Brooklyn, Online: Human chain/Missing Link (Part 2), audio documentary.
05.01 / Online, Istanbul: 365 sedentary days/360 degrees of perdition (Act II) (live performance) curated by Performistanbul.
04.28-06.20 / Online, Berlin: BLACK BREATHING (performance) at Matigan.
04.24-25 / Moscow, Russia: BLACK BREATHING (performance) at The 9th Days of Contemporary Art (DOCA) International Festival.
04.16 / Online: Less IS less (sound art/ poetry) for TELEPHONE, curated by Nathan M. Langston.
04.16 / Brooklyn, Online: Human chain/Missing Link (Part 1), audio documentary.
04.06 / Online, Vienna: Collective intimacies and epigenetic memories (interview) by Romina Achatz.
04.05 / Online, São Paulo: Designed documentation (lecture performance) for the launch event of Affecting Technologies Machining Intelligences.
04.05 / Online, Tehran: Ceci n’est pas un masque (performance) at Re-Connect online performance festival.
03.28 / Online, New York: SOLILOQUY IN MOTION (FLAT NOISE) (performance) at the 19th Online Performance Art Festival.
03.22 / Online, São Paulo: Affecting Technologies (publication) edited by Center for Arts, Design and Social Research (Dalida María Benfield, Bruno Moreschi, Gabriel Pereira, and Katherine Ye).
03.22-28 / Amsterdam, Netherlands: Automated pain? (video performance) at Plokta TVSE/02, curated by Philip Chemayel.
03.18-19 / Eindhoven, Netherlands: Ambidextrous anathema (video performance) at Art House for Seasoning Spring, curated by UNITED COWBOYS.
03.11 / London, UK & Viljandimaa, Estonia: INNER OUT THERE & Melanin Into Infinite Darkness (sound art) on Resonance FM via 104.4FM and simulcast on DAB+ via Resonance Extra, curated by framework.
03.13 / Leeds, UK: Ambidextrous anathema (video performance) at FriendClub TV.
03.11-13 / Brooklyn, USA: Ceci n’est pas un masque (performance) at nowhere fest.
03.10 / Brooklyn, USA: the one minute silence room (video performance) at LaBase.
03.09 / Brooklyn, USA: Quiet Us / Riot Us with Al Límite Collective (live performance).
02.27 / Brooklyn, USA: A.I charmer (research performance/nano essay), at LaBase.
02.26-28 / Online: RESEARCH RETREAT #1: COMMONPLACES AND ENTANGLEMENTS organised by the Center for Arts, Design, and Social Research (CAD+SR).
02.22-25 / Central America: BLACK BREATHING (performance) at FORMA Y SUSTANCIA – FESTIVAL INTERNACIONAL DE PERFORMANCE.
02.09 / New York, USA: 365 sedentary days/360 degrees of perdition (Act I) (performance) at movement research.
01.31 / Brooklyn, USA: Soliloquy in motion (Flat noise) (audio performance) at LaBase.
01.01 / : 2021 Research Affiliate at Center for Arts, Design, and Social Research (CAD+SR).
2020
12.28 / New York, USA: Data Sampling / Ghost Suffering (documentation) published in EMERGENCY INDEX: AN ANNUAL DOCUMENT OF PERFORMANCE PRACTICE, VOL. 9.
12.21 / Online: Bruitalisme (nano-essay in French).
12.19 / Manú, Ecuador / Antwerpen, Belgium: WALKMIND (video performance) at the Gallery of modern art "Mundana Antwerpen" (Belgium), the museum of contemporary art "MANU" (Ecuador) and the virtual gallery «433 Residencia».
12.18 / Chicago, USA + worldwide: Golden calf factory (audio performance & sound art) on Rummage radios show, curated by Robert Stokowy.
12.18-19 / Eindhoven, Netherlands: Ambidextrous anathema (installation) at Art House for Seasoning Winter, curated by UNITED COWBOYS.
12.01 / Global: Conversations From The Center, Episode #8 Affecting Technologies. Monthly radio art series about the arts, transdisciplinary research, and social justice activism. Produced, curated and co-hosted by Sylvain Souklaye, Dalida María Benfield and Christopher Bratton with curator/artist Sabrina Huth (Imagined Choreographies), Diana Schuemann (to see), Katherine Ye, Gabriel Pereira, Bruno Moreschi (Affecting Technologies) and Yuri Bruscky (to listen).
11.30 / Global, online: Ceci n’est pas un masque, performance.
11.28-12.05 / Zürich, Switzerland, online: RESEARCH ACADEMY Performative Practice 2020 (THE SITUATIONAL SELF - Acting and Identity) overseen by Rick Kemp, Gunter Lösel & Charlotte Müller at Zurich University of the Arts.
11.22 / Brooklyn, Online: Golden calf factory, performance.
11.05-28 / Stuttgart, Germany, online: Gamification, behavior and control (Sound art), selected at the Internationales Digitalkunst Festival.
11.05-08 / Turku, Finland: Automated pain? (installation), selected at the Turku Video Art Performance Festival.
10.31 / Online: Waiting Room, manifesto in French and English.
10.17 / Oslo, virtual: Selling Dreams (video performance) directed by Ila Bêka and Louise Lemoine, commissioned for the Oslo Architecture Triennale 2016 and screened at the Norway National Museum for the Oslo Architecture Triennale 20th anniversary.
10.10 / New York, virtual: Black Breathing (live performance) at the Edge Cut Festival on the theme Captivity, a series of themed, online provocations at the cutting edge of technology and live performance curated by Heidi Boisvert and Kat Mustatea for Edge Cut, in partnership with New York Live Arts and 3D platform Nowhere.
10.05-15 / Athens, Warsaw, remote: Selected artist to participate in the “How imaginations work” Virtual Workspaces moderated by renowned director in Japanese contemporary theater, Toshiki Okada, co-organized by Onassis Stegi and STUDIO teatrgaleria.
09.30 / Chicago, USA + worldwide: functional awakening (Melanin Into Infinite Darkness) (audio performance & sound art) on Rummage radios show, curated by Robert Stokowy.
09.09 / Global: Conversations From The Center, Episode #6 Resistance. Monthly radio art series about the arts, transdisciplinary research, and social justice activism. Produced, curated and co-hosted by Sylvain Souklaye, Dalida María Benfield and Christopher Bratton with artist with Kate Carr and Luca Nasciuti (The Field Recording Show), Intan Rafiza, Lisa Brock - Otis Cunningham and Ogniki.
09.09-30 / Austria + worldwide: Automated pain? (installation) curated by Ars Electronica x .art Domains for the Global Gallery.
09.09 / Chicago, USA + worldwide: THERE (INNER OUT THERE) (audio performance & sound art) on Rummage radios show, curated by Robert Stokowy.
09.01 / The Hague, Netherlands: Data surrealism (video performance) at the ESC Wave #2030 exhibition, curated by VVOVVA Gallery.
08.30 / New York, United States: Ambidextrous anathema (video performance) at LaBase.
08.05 / Global: Conversations From The Center, Episode #5 Utopia (no place). Monthly radio art series about the arts, transdisciplinary research, and social justice activism. Produced, curated and co-hosted by Sylvain Souklaye, Dalida María Benfield and Christopher Bratton with artist with TJB, FRKTL, Ariel Malka, Susana Pilar Delahante Matienzo, Giulietta Darm and Ou Ning.
07.24-08.23 / Berlin, Germany: BLACK BREATHING (video performance) screened at X-RAY video exhibition curated and hosted by Kunsthalle am Hamburger Platz gallery.
07.24 / Scotland + worldwide: MIGRANT MARKETS + #TME (video performance) screened at The Wall Space Gallery for [SHIFT] Biennale curated by Ayshia Taskin and [SHIFT:ibpcpa]
07.11 / Bolivia + worldwide: MY LITTLE CHOAS (audio performance & sound art) at Festival Sur Aural 2020 (Transmisión 10/El Sueño de la Máquina).
07.01 / Global: Conversations From The Center, Episode #4 Free/Space. Monthly radio art series about the arts, transdisciplinary research, and social justice activism. Produced, curated and co-hosted by Sylvain Souklaye, Dalida María Benfield and Christopher Bratton with artist with Syowia Kyambi,
Usha Seejarim, Sibonelo Hlanganani Gumede, Sonia Elizabeth Barrett, Aho Ssan, Anissa Tamene and Louise O'Kelly & Marlies Augustijn from Block Universe.
07.01-15 / Virtual Reality space on Mozilla Hubs: Residency Commonplaces & Entanglements organised by the Center for Arts, Design, and Social Research (CAD+SR), co- led with artists and design researchers Evelyn Eastmond and M Eifler (Microsoft).
06.22 / Online: Mouthpiece Puppet (audio performance) broadcasted on FEMPOEM, curated by Romina Achatz.
06.19-21 / São Paulo, Brazil: meta data etc (video performance premiere) at SerformanceP 4, 4rd Mostra de Performance curated by Ismael Trabuco.
06.13-07.23 / Berlin, Germany: ARM WRESTLING FOR TWO, PLEASE (video performance) screened at LICHTBLICK video exhibition curated and hosted by Kunsthalle am Hamburger Platz gallery.
06.01 / Global: Conversations From The Center, Episode #3 Transforming Materials. Monthly radio art series about the arts, transdisciplinary research, and social justice activism. Produced, curated and co-hosted by Sylvain Souklaye, Dalida María Benfield and Christopher Bratton with artist Hector Canonge (NYC), performer Tamara Al-Mashouk (UK/Bahrain), sound artist Zeno Van Den Broek (Netherland) and Sings In The Timber (Crow Nation), Wambui Kamiru Collymore (Kenya), Laura Porter (France), and Kiberu (Kenya).
05.30 / Copenhagen, Denmark: Black Breathing (live performance and action poetry) at LaBase.
05.13 / Vienna, Austria: … (essay), Blank ISSUE #2 curated by Blank Publication (Ella Felber, Stepan Nest, Lisa Penz, Sebastian Seib, Martin Sturz, Carla Veltman; graphics by David Gallo).
05.10 / Online: MY LITTLE CHOAS (audio performance & sound art) broadcasted on utopia/dystopia (paysage sonore), curated by Marianne Villiere.
05.08 / Online: Sheself (sound art) broadcasted on Marginalized Sound, curated by Jaime Diaz.
05.07 / Online: Infinitésimal et éléphantiasis (short novels in French, ebook).
05.01 / Global: Conversations From The Center, Episode #2 Radical Listening. Monthly radio art series about the arts, transdisciplinary research, and social justice activism. Produced, curated and co-hosted by Sylvain Souklaye, Dalida María Benfield and Christopher Bratton with CAD+SR Research Fellows KMRU (sound artist, Kenya), Pelin Tan (researcher, Turkey), Michelle Angwenyi (writer, Kenya), and artist/researcher and Projects Director at CAD+SR Mary Ellen Strom (US).
04.15 / Scotland + worldwide: DATA SURREALISM (video performance) screened at The Wall Space Gallery for 'In 24-Hours' curated by Ayshia Taskin and [SHIFT:ibpcpa].
04.12 / Online: Homemade exoticism, exorcism, etc. (ritual and sonic performance).
04.01 / Global: Conversations From The Center, Episode #1 Dis/Order. Monthly radio art series about the arts, transdisciplinary research, and social justice activism. Produced, curated and co-hosted by Sylvain Souklaye, Dalida María Benfield and Christopher Bratton with artist Usha Seejarim (South Africa), sociologist of the arts Margarita Kuleva (Russia), artist/researcher Bruno Moreschi (Brazil) and technology researcher/activist Jackline Kemigisa (Uganda).
04.01 / Online: ARM WRESTLING FOR TWO PLEASE (video performance) at the 15th Online Performance Art Festival.
03.29 / Lisbon, Portugal: WALKMIND (form1) (video performance) at Noise Bombing (open on Google Chrome) curated by Lia Scarton Carreira.
03.28 / Kent, United Kingdom: terrainGLISSANT (performance) featured in the Loose Threads: WHEN TWO BECOME ONE digital exhibition.
03.12 / York, United Kingdom: Automated pain? (video performance) long listed by Aesthetica Art Prize Exhibition in the ‘Installation, Performance & Interactive Media’ category, screened at the York Art Gallery and published in the Aesthetica Art Prize Anthology: Future Now.
03.07 / Krakow, Poland: Data surrealism (video performance) at the *SCREEN* exhibition, curated by OpenShare and serotoninærror, at the Hevre Gallery.
03.05-08 / Brussels, Belgium: “les” sans…Pas, (durational performance) at Collectibles 2020, curated by Benjamin Paulin.
02.25 / Worldwide: Melanin Into Infinite Darkness (sonic performance installation).
02.02 / Hong Kong + worldwide: Automated pain? (video performance) at the 02022020.SPACE, curated by a collective of artists creating a 26-hour programme of artworks and performances streamed for viewers in all timezones and presented in 10+ cities around the world.
01.30 / Brussels, Belgium: M the (free?) Man (live performance) at De Markten, curated by none.
01.27-31 / Brussels, Belgium: Member of the collective research and study programme Teaching to Transgress Toolbox, workshop hosted by erg, école de recherche graphique, Brussels. Study programme developed by erg Brussels, HDK/Valand Göteborg and ISBA Besançon and funded by Erasmus+ Strategic Partnership Grant.
01.18-25 / Nairobi, Kenya: Residency DE/ARCHIVE EAST AFRICA organised by the Center for Arts, Design, and Social Research (CAD+SR), co-designed and led with artist and curator Syowia Kyambi.
2019
31.12 / IOS, Worldwide: le déserteur (performative installation).
05.12-08.12 / Miami, United States: Automated pain? (video performance) at Satellite Art Show curated by Quinn Dukes.
20.11 / Liverpool, United Kingdom: Data Sampling / Ghost Suffering (live performance) at Spill Yer Tea Live Art and Performance Art festival curated by GRIP at Constellations.
16.11 / New York, United States: UNDERYOURSKINS [untold.unfold.unprecedend] (live performance) at IGNITION Live Art Explorations curated by Hector Canonge, Grace Exhibition Space.
01.11 - 01.03.20 / Online: A.I reviews something… the domestic cat (digital performance) at the press refresh pavilion, The Wrong Biennale 2019-2020.
01.11 / Flix, Spain: My little chaos (sound art) programmed at “Les raons de la por” Flexus project concert, Cinema La Unió Social de Flix.
11.10 / Copenhagen, Denmark: ARM WRESTLING FOR TWO PLEASE (live performance) & Nouveaux Classiques (video performance in collaboration with Benjamin Paulin), curated by Stateless Mind at Laterna Magica, Museum for Visual Knowledge during Kultur Natten 2019.
07.10 / London, United Kingdom: Stream fighters and open world factory (sound art) on Resonance FM via 104.4FM and simulcast on DAB+ via Resonance Extra, curated by London sound art collective Gwaith Sŵn.
03.10-06.10 / New York, United States: Migrant Market (video performance) at Performance is Alive, Satellite Art Show NYC.
26.09-29.09 / Online: Automated Pain? (video performance) at the 13th Online Performance Art Festival.
06.09-08.09 / São Paulo, Brazil: #TME (TAILOR-MADE, MODULAR AND EXPENDABLE) (video performance) at SerformanceP 3, 3rd Mostra de Performance.
21.08-25.08 / Helsinki, Finland: Archipelago: Map(s) of the Moving World (workshop, lecture, performance) at Center for Arts, Design and Social Research.
08.08-09.08 / Berlin, Germany: Sleeping Beast (sound art) at Night Gardening II: Frequencies and Fragrances.
25.07 / Copenhagen, Denmark: Action poetry, for the launch of Shirley Camia’s newest collection of poetry, Mercy.
03.07-09.07 / Santiago, Cuba: A.I reviews something (video art) at the Muestra de Video Arte Faenza, Fiesta de Fuego as part of XXXIX Festival del Caribe Cuba.
29.06 / Berlin, Germany: The Waiting Room (short novel), First Page literary magazine.
25.06-11.08 / São Paulo, Brazil: Épilogue, épitaphe, et puis rien… (video art, sound installation) at FILE São Paulo 2019, International Electronic Language Festival.
20.06-23.06 / Venice, Italy: Data Sampling / Ghost Suffering (live performance) at the ‘I am my body, I am my memory’ festival organised by Action Hybride, at the Officine Forte Marghera.
07.06-09.06 / Copenhagen, Denmark:
“Digital State of Mind and physical body of work” lecture as part of Jambatan Web Archives for Southeast Asian Arts in the Nordic Countries (June 7th)
Live outdoor performance Migrant Market at the State-less Mind Performance Art Festival (June 8th)
Presentation and talk about my art practice (June 9th)
21.05-25.05 / New York, United States: #TME (TAILOR-MADE, MODULAR AND EXPENDABLE) (video performance) at the ITINERANT Performance Art Festival NYC, at Grace Exhibition Space & Smack Mellon.
17.05 / Bogotá, Colombia: A.I reviews something (video art) at the II Muestra de Video Arte Faenza 2019 curated programme ‘Abstráe-lo’ as part of ARTBO, Fin de Semana, at the Fondation Gilberto Alzate Avendaño.