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Officially celebrating a year at @thebassmoa and all the exhibitions I’ve had the privilege to work on alongside incredible artists and the museum’s amazing team—James, Sofia, and so many others! Excited for what’s ahead! ✨ @jamesvoorhies @sofdotta Installation photos from: - Performing Perspectives: A Collection in Dialogue - Ulla con Brandenburg: In Dialogue - Rachel Feinstein: The Miami Years - (LA)HORDE: Heureux sous son ombre - and the original installation of assume vivid astro focus’s “XI” from the collection of Rosa and Carlos de la Cruz; to go on view at The Bass on November 13

It’s been such a pleasure working with @assumevividastrofocus on the exhibition of “XI” (2004), a full-room installation generously gifted to @thebassmoa by the @delacruzcollection . These photos document its original installation. I’m looking forward to celebrating the exhibition’s opening at The Bass in December, which will mark the 20th anniversary of when it first went on view in the de la Cruz residence. The visionary ideas explored in this work—challenging authorship and copyright through the iterative potentials of digital technologies—still resonate powerfully today. “XI” is, in many ways, a love letter to the democratic ethos of the early internet, the exuberance of queer expression, the power of radical collaboration, and, of course, the artists—Felix Gonzalez-Torres, and others—whose legacies deeply influenced the work of avaf. The installation takes on expanded meaning in this iteration at The Bass, reenvisioned for the museum context. Photos courtesy de la Cruz Collection.

I’m excited to share that I’ve joined the team at @thebassmoa in a newly created role: Associate Curator of New Media Art

muchísimas gracias a @somamexico y a todos los que asistieron a la charla ✨ esta residencia curatorial ha sido una experiencia increíble #Repost @somamexico ・・・ Muchas gracias por habernos acompañado en otro #MiércolesdeSOMA junto a @noor.means.light & @clamatto — Si gustan revivir alguna parte del evento, pueden hacerlo por medio de nuestro canal de YouTube.

Miércoles de SOMA ✨ Este miércoles, 10 de mayo, Noor y yo vamos a dar una charla sobre nuestra práctica curatorial colaborativa

Congratulations to the amazing Ricardo E. Zulueta @re_zulueta for being named one of the winners of #TheEllies 2022 Creator Award by @oolitearts In his practice, Ricardo addresses urgent questions about our evolving relationships with digital technologies. And through his works he envisions futures where present social, political, and economic circumstances are bettered through the power of queering as a resistive strategy. His work speaks pointedly to this moment and I can’t wait to see how his project Speculative Cyberscapes takes form. It has been an absolute pleasure and an honor to work with him across several projects. Congratulations to him and all the other 2022 The Ellies winners! Picture 2: Installation view of Ricardo Zulueta’s GRID no. 2 (untitled, crossing) and GRID no. 3 (untitled, revising) Picture 3: Installation view of Ricardo Zulueta’s Networked Gestures v. 2.

This Friday @mmcakorea will host my research seminar, Cyborg Worlds: Rejoicing in the Imperfect Communication of Imperfect Images There will be a screening of works by artists Sookyun Yang, Suji Han, and Inhwa Yeom, and a presentation of my research during my time as Researcher-in-Residence. Tracing our evolving relationships to digital spaces from the era of Web 1.0 to Web3, this seminar considers our increasing immersion and fluency when navigating the internet across its successive generations. Despite this fluency, however, as the digital environment aims to approximate the contours of reality, there appear errors, glitches, and gaps in the translation of our lived experiences to their networked equivalents that often evade our capacity to reconcile and comprehend them. Following projects by artists Suji Han, Sookyun Yang, and Inhwa Yeom, this research considers the noise that emerges from these acts of translation from the ‘real’ into the virtual, from 3D to 2D and back, and contemplates what might be communicated in images derived from these imperfect translations. Artworks: Sookyun Yang, Data, We Can Meet, 2019 Suji Han, Welcome to Flattened Flat Space, 2018-19 Inhwa Yeom, Chandra X, 2022 “Cyborg politics are the struggle for language and the struggle against perfect communication, against the code that translates all meaning perfectly… cyborg politics insist on noise and advocate pollution, rejoicing in the illegitimate fusions of animal and machine.” Donna Haraway, A Cyborg Manifesto (1985). @sookyun_yang @com.sujihan.www.http @yinhwa.art

I’m so thrilled that The Falling Sky opened at Trinity Square Video. Thank you to the artists Gisela and Leandro for trusting us with their vision! This was a wonderful effort of nearly two years and I’m so grateful to everyone who made this possible. @giselamotta @leandro_n.lima @galeriavermelho @emilyannfitz @trinitysquare @contactphoto And my brilliant collaborator @noor.means.light ✨ Brazilian artists Leandro Lima and Gisela Motta adapt a black-and-white photograph of a burned maloca—a lodging of the Yanomami peoples of the Amazon—into YANO-A, an installation that renders the illusion that this image is itself set ablaze. Originally taken in 1976 by Swiss-Brazilian photographer Claudia Andujar, whose humanitarian practice advocates for the Yanomami’s sovereignty, the photograph captures the ritual burning of the dwelling: a practice that marks periods of change and rebirth. Awash in red light, the burning image in YANO-A contrasts the Yanomami’s use of fire with forest fires that spread in the Amazon as a result of deforestation and land encroachment. The title of this exhibition is borrowed from the same-titled book written by Davi Kopenawa, a shaman and spokesman for the Yanomami of the Brazilian Amazon.

Belkis Ayón: My Vernicle, a presentation of the late artist’s work in the Kabinett sector of this year’s Art Basel Miami Beach. So ecstatic to have worked on this! Over the course of her life, Belkis Ayón (1967-1999) realized a distinct body of printed masterworks that unfold across a symbolic language of richly patterned scenes, spectral entities, and a penumbral magic that overlays the artist’s visual storytelling. At the center of Ayón’s practice are the sacred mythologies, ceremonies, and figures of the Abakuá—a secret, Afro-Cuban society and belief system that welcomes only men into its fold and whose practices are largely known only to its initiates. Sikán, the religion’s central figure and the only woman represented in its pantheon, serves as the artist’s point of identification and departure, whose story forms the basis of Ayón’s work as a woman interested in the forbidden iconographies of this fraternal order. My Vernicle is a presentation of four late-career collographs by Ayón, a series of circular and irregularly-shaped works that the artist created for the last solo exhibition prior to her death. These works, their titles beginning with the phrase My Vernicle…, mark a point of synthesis in Ayón’s practice where the allegorical retellings of Sikán’s mythology become autobiographical in nature, infused with the artist’s own personal experiences; they reflect Ayón as much as they do Sikán.

It was such a pleasure to curate and organize CURRENTS at @davidcastillogallery. It was amazing to work with such a wonderful group of artists and put their works into conversation. CURRENTS runs from July 10 through August 28. The group exhibition features work by Maria de los Angeles Rodríguez Jiménez, GeoVanna Gonzalez, Lyle Ashton Harris, Quisqueya Henriquez, Kalup Linzy, Pepe Mar, Glexis Novoa, Xaviera Simmons, Sasha Wortzel, Yesiyu Zhao, and Ricardo E. Zulueta. ⁠ The exhibition brings together a diverse group of artists whose practices broach social, cultural, and political currents that have crested throughout history and have now found increased relevance in the mainstream discourses of our age.⁠ Installation images by Zach Balber. ⁠ #davidcastillo #contemporaryart #contemporaryartist #miami #gallery #maríadelosangelesrj #geovannagonzalez #lyleashtonharris #quisqueyahenriquez #kaluplinzy #pepemar #glexisnovoa #xavierasimmons #sashawortzel #yesiyuzhao #ricardoezulueta

happening now! link in bio! @visualartscentre ・・・ Pandemic ARMY: Reflecting on BTS’s Parasocial Kinship, the final part of the Be My Guest speaker series, is coming up on Sunday, June 6 and will focus on K-pop idol group BTS and how they’ve garnered followers, fostered collective care and solidarity, and connected with audiences through the pandemic period. Your hosts include Claudia Mattos (@clamatto), Rea McNamara, and Monica Uszerowicz (@monicalaurasimone). Register by clicking the link in bio!⁠ .⁠ .⁠ .⁠ @bts.bighitofficial #ReaMcNamara #BTS #방탄소년단 #BTS #BTSnamjoon #btsTae #PandemicArmy #BTS_BE #LifeGoesOn #BeMyGuest #kpop #BTSarmy #bangtanboys #jungkook

absolutely thrilled to be showing ‘looking for “looking for langston”’ by @adampatterson__ at @davidcastillogallery Ada M. Patterson’s Looking for “Looking for Langston” considers the affinities between truth and the imaginary, envisioning the gaps in knowledge and understanding—and the fantasies that arise to fill these gaps—when faced with the yearning to experience something that is just beyond reach. an AXIS project curated with @noor.means.light ✨