Satellite Art Show
November 30 - December 4, 2021
1655 Meridian Avenue, Miami (South Beach), FL 33139
Press Contact: [email protected]
Satellite Art Show and Performance Is Alive continue their five-year collaboration by exclusively spotlighting contemporary performance art and time-based media at Miami Art Week 2021. Quinn Dukes and Brian Andrew Whiteley return to the curatorial team, creating an experience unlike any other. The fair is a platform for an international roster of live performers – an interactive space where guests can engage directly with the artists. Performance artists return to live actions, some choosing to engage virtually and others performing at an interactive distance. As the week progresses, the fair installation will evolve through the performances and the performance artifacts that remain in the space. Dukes and Whiteley have curated a multisensory experience with musical performances, drag shows, and revitalizing classic underground performative parties alongside a robust daytime program.
“In the wake of the pandemic, this program represents the re-emergence and reclamation of the body. The selected artists recognize the revolutionary power of the body through actions that often serve as a release from the trauma inflicted through centuries of heteronormative and colonial conditioning. In addition, this year’s program seeks work that actively rejects the systems perpetuating injustice and serves as a safe space for historically marginalized communities. This is the liberation of the body.” -Quinn Dukes
November 30 - December 4, 2021
1655 Meridian Avenue, Miami (South Beach), FL 33139
Press Contact: [email protected]
Satellite Art Show and Performance Is Alive continue their five-year collaboration by exclusively spotlighting contemporary performance art and time-based media at Miami Art Week 2021. Quinn Dukes and Brian Andrew Whiteley return to the curatorial team, creating an experience unlike any other. The fair is a platform for an international roster of live performers – an interactive space where guests can engage directly with the artists. Performance artists return to live actions, some choosing to engage virtually and others performing at an interactive distance. As the week progresses, the fair installation will evolve through the performances and the performance artifacts that remain in the space. Dukes and Whiteley have curated a multisensory experience with musical performances, drag shows, and revitalizing classic underground performative parties alongside a robust daytime program.
“In the wake of the pandemic, this program represents the re-emergence and reclamation of the body. The selected artists recognize the revolutionary power of the body through actions that often serve as a release from the trauma inflicted through centuries of heteronormative and colonial conditioning. In addition, this year’s program seeks work that actively rejects the systems perpetuating injustice and serves as a safe space for historically marginalized communities. This is the liberation of the body.” -Quinn Dukes
PERFORMANCE IS ALIVE AT SATELLITE ART SHOW MIAMI
Curated by Quinn Dukes
December 5-8, 2019
2210 NW Miami Court, Miami, FL (Wynwood District)
We are thrilled to announce our durational performance art and video performance selections for this year's Alive at Satellite Miami during Miami Art Basel Week 2019. All live performances will feature performance artists exploring durational performance actions. Durational performance allows artists the ability to employ repetition and endurance. Within an extended timeframe, conceptual actions can be more deeply explored allowing for discovery both within the artist and viewer. Durational performances will be presented by Coorain (Atlanta, GA, USA), Rae Goodwin (Lexington, KY, USA), Kiyo Gutiérrez (Guadalajara, Mexico), Amanda Kleinhans (Tallahassee, FL, USA) and Ginger Wagg + Mike Dimpfl (Carrboro, NC, USA).
Our Alive at Satellite Miami programming will also feature video performance projects from Sylvain Souklaye (Copenhagen/Denmark), El Putnam (Galway, Ireland), Katina Bitsicas (Columbia, MO, USA), Lariel Joy (Chicago, IL, USA) and L'Idylle | arts vivants (Montreal, Canada). This diverse selection of performative video works investigate a wide-range of social and political topics. Sylvain Souklaye's vulnerable video highlights the negative influence of digital stimulus. El Putnam explores the future of Irish borders post Brexit. Katina Bitsicas offers an opportunity for a heart transplant survivor to reclaim and transform traumatic hospital experiences. Lariel Joy draws on their traditional Korean heritage in the age of diaspora. And the Montreal-based collaborative, L'Idylle | arts vivants proudly celebrate LGBTQ+ diversity.
More info here.
Curated by Quinn Dukes
December 5-8, 2019
2210 NW Miami Court, Miami, FL (Wynwood District)
We are thrilled to announce our durational performance art and video performance selections for this year's Alive at Satellite Miami during Miami Art Basel Week 2019. All live performances will feature performance artists exploring durational performance actions. Durational performance allows artists the ability to employ repetition and endurance. Within an extended timeframe, conceptual actions can be more deeply explored allowing for discovery both within the artist and viewer. Durational performances will be presented by Coorain (Atlanta, GA, USA), Rae Goodwin (Lexington, KY, USA), Kiyo Gutiérrez (Guadalajara, Mexico), Amanda Kleinhans (Tallahassee, FL, USA) and Ginger Wagg + Mike Dimpfl (Carrboro, NC, USA).
Our Alive at Satellite Miami programming will also feature video performance projects from Sylvain Souklaye (Copenhagen/Denmark), El Putnam (Galway, Ireland), Katina Bitsicas (Columbia, MO, USA), Lariel Joy (Chicago, IL, USA) and L'Idylle | arts vivants (Montreal, Canada). This diverse selection of performative video works investigate a wide-range of social and political topics. Sylvain Souklaye's vulnerable video highlights the negative influence of digital stimulus. El Putnam explores the future of Irish borders post Brexit. Katina Bitsicas offers an opportunity for a heart transplant survivor to reclaim and transform traumatic hospital experiences. Lariel Joy draws on their traditional Korean heritage in the age of diaspora. And the Montreal-based collaborative, L'Idylle | arts vivants proudly celebrate LGBTQ+ diversity.
More info here.
ALIVE AT SATELLITE | SATELLITE ART SHOW NYC 2019
October 3-6, 2019
Pfizer Building, 630 Flushing Avenue, 1st Floor, Brooklyn, NY 11206
Curated by Quinn Dukes
FEATURING PERFORMANCE ART from
Thomas Albrecht (New York, NY), Christie Blizard (San Antonio, TX), Mairead Delaney (VT), Vyczie Dorado (New York, NY), Rebecca Fitton (NY/England), Kathie Halfin (NY/Ukraine) Markus Holtby (Larchmont, NY), Amanda Hunt and IV Castellanos (Brooklyn, NY), Amanda Kleinhans (Tallahassee, FL), SUNGJAE LEE(Chicago/Korea), Stephanie McGovern (Brooklyn, NY), Butch Merigoni (Brooklyn, NY), Matthias Neumann (NY/Germany), Christopher Unpezverde Núñez (NY/Costa Rica), Alison Pirie (Brooklyn, NY), Sandrine Schaefer (Boston, MA), Wild Actions (Chapel Hill, NC)
FEATURING VIDEO ART from
Carolina Alamilla (Miami, FL), Alex Apostolidis (Montreal), Katina Bitsicas (Columbia, MO), Jeffery Byrd (IO), Victor de La Rocque (Sao Paulo, Brazil), Christina M Dietz (New York, NY), Julha Franz (Argentina), Tales Frey (Portugal/Brazil), Edgar Fabián Frías (Tulsa, OK), Igor Furtado (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil), Rodrigo Gomes (Lisbon, Portugal), Jiang Feng (New York, NY), Maria Del Pilar (PILI) Lopez-Saavedra (New York, NY), Tone Haldrup Lorenzen (Berlin), Nadja Verena Marcin (New York, NY), Rachel L Rampleman (New York, NY), Barbara Rosenthal (New York, NY), Monstera Deliciosa (NY/London), Sylvain Souklaye (Copenhagen/France), Alison Starr (Dallas, Texas), Natacha Voliakovsky (Buenos Aires, Argentina), Christopher Willauer, Cherrie Yu (Chicago, IL)
Pfizer Building, 630 Flushing Avenue, 1st Floor, Brooklyn, NY 11206
Curated by Quinn Dukes
FEATURING PERFORMANCE ART from
Thomas Albrecht (New York, NY), Christie Blizard (San Antonio, TX), Mairead Delaney (VT), Vyczie Dorado (New York, NY), Rebecca Fitton (NY/England), Kathie Halfin (NY/Ukraine) Markus Holtby (Larchmont, NY), Amanda Hunt and IV Castellanos (Brooklyn, NY), Amanda Kleinhans (Tallahassee, FL), SUNGJAE LEE(Chicago/Korea), Stephanie McGovern (Brooklyn, NY), Butch Merigoni (Brooklyn, NY), Matthias Neumann (NY/Germany), Christopher Unpezverde Núñez (NY/Costa Rica), Alison Pirie (Brooklyn, NY), Sandrine Schaefer (Boston, MA), Wild Actions (Chapel Hill, NC)
FEATURING VIDEO ART from
Carolina Alamilla (Miami, FL), Alex Apostolidis (Montreal), Katina Bitsicas (Columbia, MO), Jeffery Byrd (IO), Victor de La Rocque (Sao Paulo, Brazil), Christina M Dietz (New York, NY), Julha Franz (Argentina), Tales Frey (Portugal/Brazil), Edgar Fabián Frías (Tulsa, OK), Igor Furtado (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil), Rodrigo Gomes (Lisbon, Portugal), Jiang Feng (New York, NY), Maria Del Pilar (PILI) Lopez-Saavedra (New York, NY), Tone Haldrup Lorenzen (Berlin), Nadja Verena Marcin (New York, NY), Rachel L Rampleman (New York, NY), Barbara Rosenthal (New York, NY), Monstera Deliciosa (NY/London), Sylvain Souklaye (Copenhagen/France), Alison Starr (Dallas, Texas), Natacha Voliakovsky (Buenos Aires, Argentina), Christopher Willauer, Cherrie Yu (Chicago, IL)
ALIVE AT SATELLITE | SATELLITE ART SHOW SXSW 2019
March 13-17, 2019
Satellite Art Show Austin
Museum of Human Achievement, 3600 Lyons Road, Austin, TX 78702
Performance Is Alive performance space
Curated by Quinn Dukes | Contact: [email protected]
Performance Is Alive continues to offer viewers a rare opportunity to experience bold, unapologetic and socially conscious projects through the boundless manifestations of performance art. In collaboration with Houston-based artist and organizer, Julia Claire Wallace (Creative Director of Experimental Action Festival), our live programming celebrates the work of emerging and established Texas-based artists while integrating the performance video works of a global performance community.
Artists will activate our live programming with interactive performances, durational gestures, audio scoring and projection mapping. Performance highlights include Houston's seminal performance artist, Jim Pirtle’s exploration of PTSD treatments through ice, projection and multi-media. Michael Anthony García's work investigates the alienness of being a person of color while creating tulle clad sculptures to a live a cappella soundtrack. Durational performances include Christian Cruz, who will be brown and unbothered during a piece entitled They tried to bury us proverb. Sarah Sudhoff confronts the politics of breastfeeding while confronting loss and failure. Hailing from New York, Nicole Goodwin immerses her nude body in flour to examine racial identity. Also from New York, Prism House + Matt O'Hare will debut "Separator", a 40-minute multichannel video and audio composition.
We are also proud to present films, experimental video and performance for camera documentation at Satellite’s official screening program. Selected artists are both locally and internationally based, maintaining our efforts to merge performance communities. Among the 16 projects, our screening program features the work of award winning filmmakers, Tif Robinette + Ian Deleón (aka PULSAR) for their film, Velvet Cry, a story inspired by the 18th century hoax of Mary Toft. An unexpected character is positioned to execute karaoke in Ryan Hawk’s video, Sweet Surrender. Jessica Yatrofsky and NY FEM FACTORY’s video stars Lil’ Touches performing the story of a scorned woman “calling out” a former lover in Cunt Keeper. Award winning artist, Chun Hua Catherine Dong’s, The Sign explores the visual culture of shame in relation to the body.
LIVE PERFORMANCES BY
Christian Cruz (Dallas, TX), Serap Erincin (New Orleans, LA), Michael Anthony García (Austin, TX), Nicole Goodwin (New York, NY), Prism House + Matt O'Hare (New York, NY), Henry G. Sanchez (Houston, TX), Jim Pirtle (Houston, TX), Sick Din (Brooklyn, NY), Sarah Sudhoff (Houston, TX), Antonius-Tin Trung Bui (Houston, TX), Julia Claire Wallace (Houston, TX)
SCREENINGS
Christie Blizard (San Antonio, TX), Charles Chace and Ginger Wagg (Carrboro, NC), Chun Hua Catherine Dong (Montreal, Canada), Tif Robinette + Ian Deleón (Gainesville, FL), Kiyo Gutiérrez (Guadalajara, Mexico), Ryan Hawk (Houston, TX), Pei-Ling Ho (New York, NY), Manuel López (Daimús, Spain), Jenna Maurice (Denver, CO), Maryam Nazari (London), Alison Pirie (Brooklyn, NY), Rocha & Polse (Barcelona, Spain), Natacha Voliakovsky (Buenos Aires, Argentina), Jessica Yatrofsky and NY FEM FACTORY (New York, NY).
More info here.
Satellite Art Show Austin
Museum of Human Achievement, 3600 Lyons Road, Austin, TX 78702
Performance Is Alive performance space
Curated by Quinn Dukes | Contact: [email protected]
Performance Is Alive continues to offer viewers a rare opportunity to experience bold, unapologetic and socially conscious projects through the boundless manifestations of performance art. In collaboration with Houston-based artist and organizer, Julia Claire Wallace (Creative Director of Experimental Action Festival), our live programming celebrates the work of emerging and established Texas-based artists while integrating the performance video works of a global performance community.
Artists will activate our live programming with interactive performances, durational gestures, audio scoring and projection mapping. Performance highlights include Houston's seminal performance artist, Jim Pirtle’s exploration of PTSD treatments through ice, projection and multi-media. Michael Anthony García's work investigates the alienness of being a person of color while creating tulle clad sculptures to a live a cappella soundtrack. Durational performances include Christian Cruz, who will be brown and unbothered during a piece entitled They tried to bury us proverb. Sarah Sudhoff confronts the politics of breastfeeding while confronting loss and failure. Hailing from New York, Nicole Goodwin immerses her nude body in flour to examine racial identity. Also from New York, Prism House + Matt O'Hare will debut "Separator", a 40-minute multichannel video and audio composition.
We are also proud to present films, experimental video and performance for camera documentation at Satellite’s official screening program. Selected artists are both locally and internationally based, maintaining our efforts to merge performance communities. Among the 16 projects, our screening program features the work of award winning filmmakers, Tif Robinette + Ian Deleón (aka PULSAR) for their film, Velvet Cry, a story inspired by the 18th century hoax of Mary Toft. An unexpected character is positioned to execute karaoke in Ryan Hawk’s video, Sweet Surrender. Jessica Yatrofsky and NY FEM FACTORY’s video stars Lil’ Touches performing the story of a scorned woman “calling out” a former lover in Cunt Keeper. Award winning artist, Chun Hua Catherine Dong’s, The Sign explores the visual culture of shame in relation to the body.
LIVE PERFORMANCES BY
Christian Cruz (Dallas, TX), Serap Erincin (New Orleans, LA), Michael Anthony García (Austin, TX), Nicole Goodwin (New York, NY), Prism House + Matt O'Hare (New York, NY), Henry G. Sanchez (Houston, TX), Jim Pirtle (Houston, TX), Sick Din (Brooklyn, NY), Sarah Sudhoff (Houston, TX), Antonius-Tin Trung Bui (Houston, TX), Julia Claire Wallace (Houston, TX)
SCREENINGS
Christie Blizard (San Antonio, TX), Charles Chace and Ginger Wagg (Carrboro, NC), Chun Hua Catherine Dong (Montreal, Canada), Tif Robinette + Ian Deleón (Gainesville, FL), Kiyo Gutiérrez (Guadalajara, Mexico), Ryan Hawk (Houston, TX), Pei-Ling Ho (New York, NY), Manuel López (Daimús, Spain), Jenna Maurice (Denver, CO), Maryam Nazari (London), Alison Pirie (Brooklyn, NY), Rocha & Polse (Barcelona, Spain), Natacha Voliakovsky (Buenos Aires, Argentina), Jessica Yatrofsky and NY FEM FACTORY (New York, NY).
More info here.
Alive At Satellite | sATELLITE ART SHOW MIAMI 2018
December 6-9, 2018
Satellite Art Show | 18 NW 14th Street, Miami, FL 33136 | Performance Is Alive performance space
Curated by Quinn Dukes | Contact: [email protected]
Performance Is Alive has partnered once again with Satellite Art Show to present 20 works from a diverse selection of performance artists. Alive At Satellite exclusively features live and video based performance art projects. The 4-day performance program celebrates SATELLITE’s mission to honor the significant impact of performance art - an often underrepresented and underprivileged medium .
This year performance artists will embrace the location shift from Miami Beach to a vast 33,000 sq ft parking lot in downtown Miami by exploring beyond the boundaries of a centralized performance zone. Our performances are often interactive and durational, allowing the viewer to not just witness but to become fully immersed within the experience of performance. Political protest paired with an earnest quest to harness identity thru social conflict are recurring points of motivation for Alive at Satellite artists. We invite you to join us in protest, drink tea with us on the back of an artist and to witness your first (and perhaps your only) face ballet. In the true spirit of SATELLITE - no two moments will be the same.
CONFIRMED ARTISTS: ALIVE AT SATELLITE
APOTROPIA (Italy), Jana Astanov (NYC/Poland), Alberto Checa (FL/Cuba), Rex (Alexandra) Delafkaran (Washington, DC), ReFemme (Cat Del Buono) (NYC), Dominique Duroseau (NJ/Haiti), Drum & Lace (CA/Italy), Rah Eleh (Canada/Iran), Bianca Falco (NYC/Italy), Bahareh Khoshooee (NYC/Iran), Carolina Larrosa (CAN/Miami,USA), Anya Liftig (CT), Irene Mohedano (NYC/Spain), Christopher Unpezverde Núñez (NYC/Costa Rica), Sierra Ortega (NYC), Cynthia Post Hunt(AR), Heather Sincavage (PA), Kledia Spiro (MA/Albania), Alex Sullivan (NYC), Angeliki Tsoli (Chicago, IL/Greece).
More info here.
Satellite Art Show | 18 NW 14th Street, Miami, FL 33136 | Performance Is Alive performance space
Curated by Quinn Dukes | Contact: [email protected]
Performance Is Alive has partnered once again with Satellite Art Show to present 20 works from a diverse selection of performance artists. Alive At Satellite exclusively features live and video based performance art projects. The 4-day performance program celebrates SATELLITE’s mission to honor the significant impact of performance art - an often underrepresented and underprivileged medium .
This year performance artists will embrace the location shift from Miami Beach to a vast 33,000 sq ft parking lot in downtown Miami by exploring beyond the boundaries of a centralized performance zone. Our performances are often interactive and durational, allowing the viewer to not just witness but to become fully immersed within the experience of performance. Political protest paired with an earnest quest to harness identity thru social conflict are recurring points of motivation for Alive at Satellite artists. We invite you to join us in protest, drink tea with us on the back of an artist and to witness your first (and perhaps your only) face ballet. In the true spirit of SATELLITE - no two moments will be the same.
CONFIRMED ARTISTS: ALIVE AT SATELLITE
APOTROPIA (Italy), Jana Astanov (NYC/Poland), Alberto Checa (FL/Cuba), Rex (Alexandra) Delafkaran (Washington, DC), ReFemme (Cat Del Buono) (NYC), Dominique Duroseau (NJ/Haiti), Drum & Lace (CA/Italy), Rah Eleh (Canada/Iran), Bianca Falco (NYC/Italy), Bahareh Khoshooee (NYC/Iran), Carolina Larrosa (CAN/Miami,USA), Anya Liftig (CT), Irene Mohedano (NYC/Spain), Christopher Unpezverde Núñez (NYC/Costa Rica), Sierra Ortega (NYC), Cynthia Post Hunt(AR), Heather Sincavage (PA), Kledia Spiro (MA/Albania), Alex Sullivan (NYC), Angeliki Tsoli (Chicago, IL/Greece).
More info here.
#ALIVEATSATELLITE2017 | SATELLITE ART SHOW MIAMI 2017
December 7-10, 2017
Satellite Art Show | The Ocean Terrace Hotel | 7410 Ocean Terrace Miami, FL 33141
Performance Is Alive performance lounge, Room 102
Curated by Quinn Dukes, Founder of Performance Is Alive
Performance is Alive brings yet another ambitious, 4-day performance art program to Miami Beach for Satellite Art Show. This year's program features interactive performances in tents, durational works on the beach, a panel discussion slumber party, performance video screenings, lectures and because performance is never entirely predictable, the unknown! #AliveAtSatellite artists are encountering the complexity of migration, oppressive patriarchal constructs, trans identity, mental health care, silencing, race relations and many other human rights issues threatened by the Trump administration. So join us for the only non-stop performance art uprising during Miami Art Basel.
ARTISTS Riccardo Matlakas (UK), Caitlin Baucom (NYC), Hovey Brock (NYC), Mara Catalan (NYC), Máiréad Delaney (IL), Diane Dwyer (NYC), Shawn Escarciga (NYC), Ayana Evans* (NYC), Katya Grokhovsky (NYC), Alexandra Hammond (NYC), PEI-LING HO (Taipei/NYC), Hu Renyi (China/NYC), Cynthia Post Hunt (AR), Tsedaye Makonnen (DC), Luis Mejico (IL), Helina Metaferia (DC), Butch Merigoni (NYC), Miriam Parker & Christina Smiros (NYC), Verónica Peña (Spain/IN), Keijaun Thomas (NYC), Rah (Iran, CAN), Jessica Yatrofsky (NYC), Alice Vogler (NC).
*“Slick and Gritty” by Ayana Evans features a mimosa panel discussion, on-site fundraiser and pajama party SCREENING featuring work by: Alicia Grullon, Autumn Knight, Carlos Salazar-Lermont, David Ian Bellows/Griess and Elizabeth Lamb, Dominque Duroseau*, Geraldo Mercado, Hector Canonge*, Hee Ran Lee, K. Yoland, Lisette Morel, Nyugen Smith*, Olivia McGilchrist with Ayana Evans, Sean Wang, Tsedaye Makonnen*, Viva Ruiz, Vivian Chinasa Ezugha and Zavé Martohardjo.
Satellite Art Show | The Ocean Terrace Hotel | 7410 Ocean Terrace Miami, FL 33141
Performance Is Alive performance lounge, Room 102
Curated by Quinn Dukes, Founder of Performance Is Alive
Performance is Alive brings yet another ambitious, 4-day performance art program to Miami Beach for Satellite Art Show. This year's program features interactive performances in tents, durational works on the beach, a panel discussion slumber party, performance video screenings, lectures and because performance is never entirely predictable, the unknown! #AliveAtSatellite artists are encountering the complexity of migration, oppressive patriarchal constructs, trans identity, mental health care, silencing, race relations and many other human rights issues threatened by the Trump administration. So join us for the only non-stop performance art uprising during Miami Art Basel.
ARTISTS Riccardo Matlakas (UK), Caitlin Baucom (NYC), Hovey Brock (NYC), Mara Catalan (NYC), Máiréad Delaney (IL), Diane Dwyer (NYC), Shawn Escarciga (NYC), Ayana Evans* (NYC), Katya Grokhovsky (NYC), Alexandra Hammond (NYC), PEI-LING HO (Taipei/NYC), Hu Renyi (China/NYC), Cynthia Post Hunt (AR), Tsedaye Makonnen (DC), Luis Mejico (IL), Helina Metaferia (DC), Butch Merigoni (NYC), Miriam Parker & Christina Smiros (NYC), Verónica Peña (Spain/IN), Keijaun Thomas (NYC), Rah (Iran, CAN), Jessica Yatrofsky (NYC), Alice Vogler (NC).
*“Slick and Gritty” by Ayana Evans features a mimosa panel discussion, on-site fundraiser and pajama party SCREENING featuring work by: Alicia Grullon, Autumn Knight, Carlos Salazar-Lermont, David Ian Bellows/Griess and Elizabeth Lamb, Dominque Duroseau*, Geraldo Mercado, Hector Canonge*, Hee Ran Lee, K. Yoland, Lisette Morel, Nyugen Smith*, Olivia McGilchrist with Ayana Evans, Sean Wang, Tsedaye Makonnen*, Viva Ruiz, Vivian Chinasa Ezugha and Zavé Martohardjo.
#ALIVEATSATELLITE | Satellite Art Show MIAMI 2016
December 1-4, 2016
SATELLITE ART SHOW // The Parisian Hotel, 1510 Collins Avenue, Miami Beach, FL
Curated by Quinn Dukes, Founder of Performance Is Alive
CURATOR'S STATEMENT
#AliveAtSatellite curatorial selections were in direct response to the heightened political rhetoric and fear mongering tactics suspended over our heads and across media streams throughout the 2016 presidential election. Threats of erecting walls, cutting funding and rights for women's healthcare, indifference towards racial inequality and the blatant denial of global warming all fueled this series. The nature of Satellite Art Show is rebellious and uncensored thus offering a platform for unapologetic discourse- which is precisely what emanated from each performer. Performance art has admittedly grown in popularity over the past five years but it is commonly situated within events as a spectacle or sideshow. It is often not given the same level of respect as the commodified or sellable object. Having an exhibition space entirely devoted to performance was and is a statement within itself. This form of art practice is vulnerable, confrontational and clearly, alive.
In addition to a dynamic range of conceptual foundations nearly every type of performance art/live art/action art possible was presented. Interactive durational works, short form presentations, video projection with dancers and singers, kayakers, saxophone players, Livestream pop shows, sparring matches… this list can continue for quite sometime but in summary, a full range of performative complexity was present, raising questions and initiating discussion during a time that demands it.
ARTISTS: Agrofemme and Ian DeLeon (NYC), Thomas Albrecht (NY), Trevor Amery (CA), Joseph Bigley (NC), Monica Jahan Bose (DC), Alberto Checa (FL), Dominique Duroseau (NYC), Ayana Evans with Nyugen Smith (NYC), Sean Fader (NYC), Whit Forrester (Chicago), Vanessa Dion Fletcher (Chicago), Philip Fryer (Boston), Elan Jurado (NYC), Olga Kozmanidze (Moscow, RUS), Jenna Maurice (TN/CO), Sergio Mora (FL), Violet Overn and Emma Sulkowicz, Miriam Parker in collaboration with Christina Smiros (NYC), Sarah H. Paulson with Samantha Brewer and Travis Laplante (NY), Miles Pflanz (NYC), Selma Selman (Bosnia/Herzegovina), Alexandra Sullivan (NYC), Marcela Torres (Chicago), J.R. Uretsky (RI)
SATELLITE ART SHOW // The Parisian Hotel, 1510 Collins Avenue, Miami Beach, FL
Curated by Quinn Dukes, Founder of Performance Is Alive
CURATOR'S STATEMENT
#AliveAtSatellite curatorial selections were in direct response to the heightened political rhetoric and fear mongering tactics suspended over our heads and across media streams throughout the 2016 presidential election. Threats of erecting walls, cutting funding and rights for women's healthcare, indifference towards racial inequality and the blatant denial of global warming all fueled this series. The nature of Satellite Art Show is rebellious and uncensored thus offering a platform for unapologetic discourse- which is precisely what emanated from each performer. Performance art has admittedly grown in popularity over the past five years but it is commonly situated within events as a spectacle or sideshow. It is often not given the same level of respect as the commodified or sellable object. Having an exhibition space entirely devoted to performance was and is a statement within itself. This form of art practice is vulnerable, confrontational and clearly, alive.
In addition to a dynamic range of conceptual foundations nearly every type of performance art/live art/action art possible was presented. Interactive durational works, short form presentations, video projection with dancers and singers, kayakers, saxophone players, Livestream pop shows, sparring matches… this list can continue for quite sometime but in summary, a full range of performative complexity was present, raising questions and initiating discussion during a time that demands it.
ARTISTS: Agrofemme and Ian DeLeon (NYC), Thomas Albrecht (NY), Trevor Amery (CA), Joseph Bigley (NC), Monica Jahan Bose (DC), Alberto Checa (FL), Dominique Duroseau (NYC), Ayana Evans with Nyugen Smith (NYC), Sean Fader (NYC), Whit Forrester (Chicago), Vanessa Dion Fletcher (Chicago), Philip Fryer (Boston), Elan Jurado (NYC), Olga Kozmanidze (Moscow, RUS), Jenna Maurice (TN/CO), Sergio Mora (FL), Violet Overn and Emma Sulkowicz, Miriam Parker in collaboration with Christina Smiros (NYC), Sarah H. Paulson with Samantha Brewer and Travis Laplante (NY), Miles Pflanz (NYC), Selma Selman (Bosnia/Herzegovina), Alexandra Sullivan (NYC), Marcela Torres (Chicago), J.R. Uretsky (RI)
Foundation Fighting Blindness | Taste for Sight
Performance Programming | March 15, 2016
Curated by Quinn Dukes, Founder of Performance Is Alive
CURATOR’S STATEMENT
The artist selection for Taste of Sight was determined following a deeply candid conversation with a small group of Stargardt’s survivors. The group shared stories about their initial diagnosis, the challenges of living within a visually-centric generation and above all,identifying beyond their disease - not as their disease. As an extension of this conversation, the performance artists presenting work at Taste for Sight explore elements of meditation,strength and emergence within their artistic practice.
ARTISTS: Thomas Albrecht (New Paltz, NY), Butch Merigoni (Brooklyn, NY), Alice Vogler (Boston, MA)
Curated by Quinn Dukes, Founder of Performance Is Alive
CURATOR’S STATEMENT
The artist selection for Taste of Sight was determined following a deeply candid conversation with a small group of Stargardt’s survivors. The group shared stories about their initial diagnosis, the challenges of living within a visually-centric generation and above all,identifying beyond their disease - not as their disease. As an extension of this conversation, the performance artists presenting work at Taste for Sight explore elements of meditation,strength and emergence within their artistic practice.
ARTISTS: Thomas Albrecht (New Paltz, NY), Butch Merigoni (Brooklyn, NY), Alice Vogler (Boston, MA)