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Artists Take the Street!

Date:
April 19, 2018
Time:
6:30 pm - 7:30 pm
Venue:
SubCulture

Word on the Street artists unite to discuss power and identity in their work, and the relationship amongst public art, activism, and social and political change. Moderated by Carmen Hermo, Assistant Curator, Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art at the Brooklyn Museum

In partnership with the Times Square Arts, House of Trees, and Artists at Risk Connection as part of the PEN World Voices Festival.

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ABOUT TIMES SQUARE ARTS
Times Square Arts, the public art program of the Times Square Alliance, is the largest public platform for innovative contemporary performance and visual arts. With 312,000 daily visitors to New York City’s Times Square, it is one of the highest profile public arts programs and since its inception, Times Square Arts has featured works by a diverse group of more than five dozen prominent and emerging artists.

ABOUT HOUSE OF TREES
House of Trees is an arts collective working to expand the public appreciation and understanding of contemporary art through the production of murals, performances, installations, and other high-visibility publicly engaged artworks. House of Trees’ projects are interventions in unpredictable sites, curated for both specific audiences and the larger public. House of Trees has mounted projects nationally and internationally with venues including the Kimmel Center in New York City; the Hotel Tropicana in San Antonio, Texas; and The Watermill Center in Water Mill, New York, among others.

Tania Bruguera

In Residence:
March 23, 2018 - March 25, 2018
Discipline:
Visual Art, Performance
Country:
Cuba
For over twenty-five years 2018 Inga Maren Otto Fellow, Tania Bruguera has created socially-engaged performances and installations that examine the nature of political power structures and their effect on the lives of society’s most vulnerable individuals and groups. Her research focuses on ways in which art can be applied to the... Read More

A.M. Homes

In Residence:
Discipline:
Literature
Country:
United States
A.M. Homes is the author 12 books among them, the novels, This Book Will Save Your Life, Music For Torching, and The End of Alice, as well as the short-story collections, Things You Should Know and The Safety of Objects, and the best selling memoir, The Mistress’s Daughter. DAYS OF AWE, a... Read More

Amy Khoshbin

In Residence:
October 4, 2015 - October 23, 2015
Discipline:
Performance Art, Theatre, Video Art
Country:
United States
Amy Khoshbin is a Brooklyn-based artist. She creates hybrid works using performance, video, and interactive media to explore the production and transmission of narratives both personal and cultural. Using a collage-style approach to creating works across mediums, she uses imagery from different sources to assemble mythologies that evade a unified understanding.... During their residency, Amy Khoshbin and Liz McAuliffe will develop and perform the final scene of The Myth of Layla, which will ultimately be a solo performance lasting 60 minutes. Written and performed by Khoshbin and co-directed by Khoshbin and McAuliffe, The Myth of Layla is set in a near... Read More

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