Glasshouse Project is thrilled to host
PRESENT CONTINUOUS
24h Performance Festival
Saturday & Sunday July 22-23, 10a-10p
Durational performances by:
Kite (AKA Dr. Suzanne Kite), Emilio Rojas, Esther Neff, Arantxa Araujo, Lina Azalea Dahbour, Amalya Megerman, Michael Delia and Charles Dennis (with Sal Cataldi)
Organized by Lital Dotan
“The past co-exists along with the present” -Henri Bergson
Present Continuous is a summer festival of durational performance art works, each 3-24h long. This program is part of Upstate Art Weekend 2024.
It is a chorus of singularities embodying stories told and retold. It is a festival of new site specific works, rooted in past othernesses. Viscerally- You will smell the underground, you will see roots and their dissolution, there will be acts of uprooting and rerooting. In this field of movement, there will be shared joy and offerings of music or food. It is a celebration of the Present Continuous. A performance story in the making.
Click here for the printable program
This program is free and open to the public, with suggested donation to support the artists
Present Continuous Festival is part of a year long theme that looks at the metaphysics of performance time. A cross-generational trans cultural attempt to discuss aspects of longevity and survival of a performance practice. It is a collective meditation on what it looks like to carry the weight of immaterial, taking on changing forms and methodologies of connecting past and future through space, as a collective learning of artistic unknowing.
$10 suggested donation at the door (100% to exhibiting artists).
BIOS:
Kite aka Dr. Suzanne Kite is an Oglála Lakȟóta performance artist, visual artist, and composer raised in Southern California, with a BFA from CalArts in music composition, an MFA from Bard College’s Milton Avery Graduate School, and a PhD from Concordia University. Kite’s scholarship and practice investigate contemporary Lakota ontologies through research-creation, computational media, and performance. Kite has also published in books, journals and magazines, including in The Journal of Design and Science (MIT Press), with the award winning article, “Making Kin with Machines,” co-authored with Jason Lewis, Noelani Arista, and Archer Pechawis. Kite was a 2019 Pierre Elliott Trudeau Foundation Scholar. Kite is currently a 2022-2023 Creative Time Open Call artist for the Black and Indigenous Dreaming Workshops with Alisha B. Wormsley, a Research Assistant for the Initiative for Indigenous Futures, and Artist in Residence and Visiting Scholar at Bard College. // kitekitekitekite.com
Emilio Rojas is a multidisciplinary artist working primarily with the body in performance using video, photography, installation, public interventions, and sculpture. As a queer, Latinx immigrant with Indigenous heritage, it is essential to his practice to engage in the postcolonial ethical imperative to uncover, investigate, and make visible and audible undervalued or disparaged sites of knowledge, narratives, and individuals. He utilizes his body in a political and critical way, as an instrument to unearth removed traumas, embodied forms of decolonization, migration, and poetics of space. His research-based practice is heavily influenced by queer and feminist archives, border politics, botanical colonialism, and defaced monuments. Besides his artistic practice, he is also a translator, community activist, yoga teacher, and anti-oppression facilitator with queer, migrant, and refugee youth. He holds an M.F.A. in Performance from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago and a B.F.A. in Film from Emily Carr University in Vancouver, Canada.
Esther Neff is a performance artist, academic, and organizer currently based in NYC. // estherneff.wordpress.com
Arantxa Araujo is a Mexican artist with a background in neuroscience. Her work is essentially multidisciplinary, feminist, meditative and rooted in bio-behavioral research and technology. Her work has been shown in the Brooklyn Museum, at the Radical Women Latin American Art Exhibit, Leslie-Lohman Museum, Grace Exhibition Space, The Queens Museum (NYC); RAW and Satellite Art Fair (Miami); Illuminus Festival (Boston), and SPACE Gallery (Pittsburgh); ExTeresaArte Actual Museum, and La Explanada del MUAC (Mexico); and Nuit Blanche Festival (Canada). Araujo is a Franklin Furnace Fund awardee, Brooklyn Arts Council and Lower Manhattan Cultural Council grantee and has received support through numerous residencies and fellowships including Leslie-Lohman Museum Artist Fellowship, Creative Capital taller, ITP Camp and EMERGENYC. Araujo was awarded a full scholarship from Mexican Government Institution CONACYT. She holds an MA in Motor Learning and Control from Teachers College, Columbia University and a BA in Theater Studies from Emerson College. // @ArantxaAraujo //arantxaaraujo.com
Amalya Megerman is a multidisciplinary visual artist, working primarily between performance, installation, painting, and stained glass. She draws on traditional Jewish ritual, organic materials, and themes around body, anxiety, family history, and femininity. Her work probes the tensions between safety and discomfort, paranoia and cautiousness, and what it means to be complicit. In doing so, she investigates and refigures the way intergenerational trauma manifests in her body. // amalyamegerman.com
Lina Azalea Dahbour is an artist, curator, and event producer based in the Hudson Valley and NYC. Her work focuses on site-specific dance, multi-media installations, and experimental performance events. She is the founder of BADDANCE, an event series founded in 2017 that seeks to uphold the merit of confounding dance works. She co-founded and co-produces MOMENTA, a monthly dance and performance art event series at Trans-Pecos, with Lena Deutsch. Her work has been performed at New York Live Arts, Rosekill, Terrain Exhibitions & mentioned in the New York Times and Fjord Review. Raised in New York City, she graduated cum laude from SUNY Purchase in 2018. // linaazalea.com
Michael Delia is an artist/musician whose work spans a wide range of disciplines and media. His work has encompassed paintings, sculpture, installations, and sound art as well as music performances. He is currently based in New Jersey. Delia received a Bachelor of Arts degree from Moravian College in 1985 and after moving to NYC in 1987 he received an MFA degree in Sculpture from the School of Visual arts.
Charles Dennis is an interdisciplinary artist, choreographer, director/producer and videographer. Charles has participated in downtown New York dance and performance events for over 50 years. In the 1970’s he performed in theater director Robert Wilson’s early works. In 1979 Charles co-founded Performance Space 122 in NYC. He created and performed solo and large group community-oriented performances at P.S. 122 and other venues from 1980-2000, receiving numerous fellowships including, most recently, a 2022 commission from Arts Mid-Hudson to create and perform his latest solo performance work “Recycle Me” which has been presented at the Greenkill Gallery and the Rosekill Art Farm in Kingston, NY.