The Immigrant Artist Biennial [TIAB]

PROGRAMMING
March 7-December 18

TIAB 2020: Here, Together! Kick Off
March 7th, 2020 4pm, 7pm
Featuring performances by:  
Christopher Unpezverde Núñez
Great Hall
Hanae Utamura
Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art Forum
Curated by Katya Grokhovsky
As part of First Saturday: Geographies of Gender
Brooklyn Museum
200 Eastern Pkwy,
Brooklyn, NY 11238

EFA Project Space Presents: Apart, Together – The Immigrant Artist Biennial Exhibition Online Roundtable Series
March 25th, 2020 7pm EST

The Emergency Exposes Your Status... and Our Shared Vulnerability
Co-moderated by Katya Grokhovsky and Dylan Gauthier
With exhibiting Artists: Blanka Amezkua, Esperanza Cortés, Bahareh Khoshooee, Daniela Kostova, Cole Lu, Ana Mendieta, Levan Mindiashvili, Qinza Najm, Anna Parisi, daàPò réo, Yali Romagoza.
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In lieu of our scheduled opening for The Immigrant Artist Biennial's central exhibition "Here, Together!" which had been anticipated for March 18, EFA Project Space has instead invited participating artists, curator Katya Grokhovsky and TIAB team members to present a Zoom-based roundtable discussion with the public.

EFA Project Space Presents: Apart, Together – The Immigrant Artist Biennial Exhibition Online Roundtable Series
Virtual Dinner Party
April 8th, 2020 7-9pm EST
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In the time of pandemic and social distancing this is a space to share a meal, maintain a sense of community together, online.

In lieu of our scheduled opening for The Immigrant Artist Biennial's central exhibition "Here, Together!" which had been anticipated for March 18, EFA Project Space has instead invited participating artists, curator Katya Grokhovsky and TIAB team members to have a virtual dinner party with the public.

EFA Project Presents: Apart, Together – The Immigrant Artist Biennial Exhibition Online Roundtable Series
Artists Respond To Anti-Asian Racism, Xenophobia, And Immigrant-Bashing In The Time Of COVID-19, Roundtable.
April 22nd, 2020 7pm EST
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In a time of global pandemic and social distancing, Join The Immigrant Artist Biennial and EFA Project Space invite you to take part in a roundtable discussion online. The format of the roundtable will include introductory remarks by participating artists in the Biennial sharing their experiences with anti-Asian racism, xenophobia, and immigrant-bashing, to be followed by an open format discussion in which all are invited to share their experiences, fears, and hopes. Breakout rooms will be enabled for more intimate conversations in small groups. The evening will be co-moderated by The Immigrant Artist Biennial Founding Director and Curator, Katya Grokhovsky and by artist and EFA Operations Coordinator HC Huynh.

In lieu of a physical presentation of The Immigrant Artist Biennial's central exhibition "Here, Together!" at EFA Project Space, we have invited the curator and participating artists to present a series of Zoom-based roundtable discussions with the public.

Visual Artists’ Immigration Clinic
Co-hosted by the Center for Art Law, EFA Project Space, and The Immigrant Artist Biennial.
April 23rd 6-8pm EST
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The Visual Artists' Immigration Clinic is designed to guide emerging visual artists through the process of obtaining a visa to the United States. Please be sure to read the information below to ensure that you come fully prepared for the Clinic. Center for Art Law is a Brooklyn-based research and education nonprofit that provides resources, programs, and training in visual arts and cultural heritage law.

The Immigrant Artist Biennial (TIAB) 2020: Here, Together!
Central Exhibition
Curator: Katya Grokhovsky
September 9th 2020 - October 24th 2020
Virtual Opening: September 9th, 2020 6-8pm EST
Performance: Yali Romagoza, September 18th, 2020 4-5pm EST
Performance: Kalaktive, October 4th, 2020 4-5pm EST
Virtual Closing: October 24th, 2020 6-8pm EST

Artists: Blanka Amezkua, Esperanza Cortés, Bahareh Khoshooee, Daniela Kostova, Cole Lu, Ana Mendieta, Levan Mindiashvili, Qinza Najm, Anna Parisi, daàPò réo, Yali Romagoza
PRESS RELEASE
EFA Project Space
Elizabeth Foundation for The Arts
323 W 39th St, New York, NY 10018

The Immigrant Artist Biennial (TIAB) 2020: Here, Together!
Curator: Katya Grokhovsky
Virtual Opening Reception & Walkthrough at EFA Project Space
September 9th, 2020 6-8pm EST
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Walkthrough recording

A streamed curatorial walkthrough of The Immigrant Artist Biennial: Here, Together! with Katya Grokhovsky, and an online reception featuring a livestream of video and music by Arthur Kozlov.

About the Opening DJ Set

Arthur Kozlov is a native NYC DJ, event producer and curator. Arthur began his journey into the underground music scene through Brooklyn’s lawless DIY spaces nearly a decade ago. Focusing on creating collaborative platforms for queer artists, he recently founded Community Bread. His DJ sets blend soulful house, funky grooves and rhythmic techno, all of which have influenced his sound over the years.

The Immigrant Artist Biennial (TIAB) 2020: Here, Together!
EFA Project Space Performance
Curator: Katya Grokhovsky
September 18th, 2020 4pm EST

Yali Romagoza: No me pongan en lo oscuro (Do not bury me in Darkness)
Action #2, 30 min
Outside the Whitney Museum of American Art
Streamed on Instagram Live (@efaprojectspace)
Performers: Paola Martinez Fiterre, Yali Romagoza.
IG Live Recording

Two performers acting as Cuquita The Cuban Doll (Romagoza's alter-ego) stand still bearing simulated penises. The public action is part of an ongoing series of performances that raise critical questions about the exclusion and erasure of the Latina artist in the diaspora. As the artist writes, “The art system does not represent the Latina artist in all its diversity of cultures, identities, origins, and stories. Each new performance and public action will add a new Cuquita The Cuban Doll, creating the multiplication and expansion of the Cuquitas confronting various art institutions.”

The Immigrant Artist Biennial (TIAB) 2020: Here, Together!
September 26th 2020 1pm EST
Co-curated: Katya Grokhovsky of TIAB and Harry Weil, Green-Wood’s Director of Public Programs
Gyun Hur: To hold gently

Atop the Hill of Graves, Hur quietly performs mournful gestures of labor while cradling new life within her body. She will sit alone for three hours pulling apart yellow silk flowers in a meditation of the loss of lives caused by COVID-19, among whom were her doorman and neighbors in her residential building in Brooklyn. Hur invites the audience to sit twenty feet from her during the performance in quietude as the Harlem Chamber Players perform George Walker’s String Quartet No. 1 and Florence Price’s String Quartet in G major as part of Green-Wood’s A Lament for Troubled Times concert series.The performance will take place near the intersection of Meadow and Garland Avenues.
The Green-Wood Cemetery
500 25th St, Brooklyn, NY 11232

The Immigrant Artist Biennial (TIAB) 2020: Here, Together!
EFA Project Space Performance
October 4th 2020 4-5pm EST
Curator: Katya Grokhovsky
Kalaktive (Bahareh Khoshooee & Sareh Imani): All Standpoints Are Partial
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All standpoints are partial is a live Zoom performance accompanied by pre recorded media that will be broadcasted online. Utilizing the cyberspace, this collaborative piece explores the immigration process during quarantine as it relates to technology, physical and digital screens, screenings, personal data collection, biased data profiling, machinic decision making and the subsequent lack of empathy.

The Immigrant Artist Biennial (TIAB) 2020: Here, Together!
Virtual Exhibitions: Home Land
Curator: Katya Grokhovsky
Curatorial Advisors: Mary Annunziata, Allison Cannella, Anna Mikaela Ekstrand 
October 16th, 2020 - December 18th, 2020
Virtual Opening: October 16th, 2020 6-8pm EST
Virtual Panel: November 10th, 2020 6.30 - 8pm EST
Virtual Performances: Nov 15th, 2020, 6-8pm EST, Dec 6th 2020, 4-6 pm EST
Virtual Closing: December 18th, 2020 6-8pm EST

Artists: Cinthya Santos-Briones, WANG Chen, Alicja Gaskon, Anh Thuy Nguyen, Nazanin Noroozi, Ming-Jer Kuo, Victoria-Idongesit Udondian, Luisa Valderrama
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The Immigrant Artist Biennial (TIAB) 2020: Here, Together!
Virtual Exhibitions: The Imminent Arrival
Curator: Katya Grokhovsky
Curatorial Advisors: Mary Annunziata, Allison Cannella, Anna Mikaela Ekstrand 
October 16th, 2020 - December 18th, 2020
Virtual Opening: October 16th, 2020 6-8pm EST
Virtual Panel: November 10th, 2020 6.30 - 8pm EST
Virtual Performances: Nov 15th, 2020, 6-8pm EST, Dec 6th 2020, 4-6 pm EST
Virtual Closing: December 18th, 2020 6-8pm EST

Artists: Bianca Abdi-Boragi, Shay Arick, Irja Bodén, Federico Cuatlacuatl, Firoz Mahmud, Abena Motaboli, Rehab El Sadek, Buket SAVCI, Joo Yeon Woo, Minoosh Zomorodinia 
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The Immigrant Artist Biennial (TIAB) 2020: Here, Together!
Virtual Exhibitions: Mother Tongue
Co-Curators: Katya Grokhovsky, Mary Annunziata, Allison Cannella, Anna Mikaela Ekstrand 
October 16th 2020 - December 18th 2020
Artists: Ferguson Amo, Mahsa Biglow, Sera Boeno, Carolina Casusol, Cecile Chong, Furen Dai, Priyanka Dasgupta & Chad Marshall, Priscilla Dobler Dzul, Matilda Forsberg, Nina Ghanbarzadeh (Afkhamian), Yikui (Coy) Gu, Luma Jasim, Tiri Kananuruk, Marina Kassianidou, Cecilia Kim, Marina Leybishkis, Stefana McClure, Rodrigo Moreira, Renana Neuman, Sari Nordman, Kasia Ozga, Dafna Rehavia, Katreen Sorokina, Tereza Swanda, Johanna Strobel, Hui-Ying Tsai, Tansy Xiao, Haksul Lee & Natsuki Takauji, Tao Wei Performance projects: Kevin Quiles Bonilla, Marcela Casals, Salomé Egas, Bianca Falco, Georgia Lale, Silkworm Pupas (Jiaoyang Li & JinJin Xu), Jorge Rojas, María Verónica San Martín
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The Immigrant Artist Biennial 2020: Here, Together!
Virtual Exhibitions Opening Reception
October 16th 2020 6-8pm EST
Performance: Kevin Quiles Bonilla: Presidential Alert (America, Lip-Sync for your Life),
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In this performance, the artist lip-syncs to America, the iconic song from the musical West Side Story, detailing life in America as a Puerto Rican. Unearthing the asymmetrical power relations that plague the island, this 1961 recording is interrupted by voices from past and present: the current president of the United States giving a speech following Hurricane María in Puerto Rico in 2017; Pedro Pietri, a member of the latino youth group Young Lords, reciting his poem Puerto Rican Obituary (1969); and a recording of Hawaiian activist Haunani-Kay Trask speaking about stolen lands from 1990.
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The Immigrant Artist Biennial (TIAB) 2020: Here, Together!
EFA Project Space Performance
October 24th, 2020 6-8pm EST
Curator: Katya Grokhovsky
Closing Reception and Catalogue Release with Performances by Levan Mindiashvili and Anna Parisi
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Anna Parisi, Caught in the act, 2020, 30 mins, Director: Gabriel Torres, Collaborators: Alexandria Deters, Camera: Natalia Almonte & Gabriel Torres
Editing: Anna Parisi

Levan Mindiashvili, A reading by Lucas de Lima in response to Levan Mindiashvili's work Levani's Room: AMERICA at TIAB: Here, Together! 20 mins,
Camera: Levan Mindiashvili

The Immigrant Artist Biennial (TIAB) 2020: Here, Together!
November 1st 2020 12-4pm EST
Co-curated: Katya Grokhovsky of TIAB and Harry Weil, Green-Wood’s Director of Public Programs
Iván Sikic: Conscious Oblivion 

Conscious Oblivion is a durational performance by Iván Sikic, co curated by Katya Grokhovsky and Harry Weil, presented as part of Green-Wood‘s annual Día de los Muertos celebrations‪ in conjunction with The Immigrant Artist Biennial 2020: Here, Together! For four hours, Sikic will clean and tend to the graves of immigrants from the Global South who are buried in Public Lot 14964 (next to the Prospect Park West entrance) during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Afterward, he will say aloud the names of the deceased as Tariq Allen, a Brooklyn based trumpet player, performs a jazz funeral tune. Sikic’s work pays tribute to life, labor, and the sacrifices of generations of immigrant communities who now rest at Green-Wood.
The Green-Wood Cemetery
500 25th St, Brooklyn, NY 11232

The Immigrant Artist Biennial 2020: Here, Together!
Virtual Panel Discussion: The Future of Cultural production
November 10th 2020, 6.30-8pm EST
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A post-election virtual panel discussion, addressing the future of cultural production in a time of political upheaval and global health crisis. The discussion will feature guests Carmen Hermo, Associate Curator at the Brooklyn Museum, and Eva Mayhabal Davis, Curator, Arts Advocate, and Co-director of Transmitter. Hermo and Mayhabal will be joined by the TIAB curators and team including Mary Annunziata, Allison Cannella, Anna Mikaela Ekstrand and exhibition manager Katherine Adams. Moderated by Katya Grokhovsky, Founding Director and Chief Curator of The Immigrant Artist Biennial.
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The Immigrant Artist Biennial (TIAB) 2020: Here, Together!
Virtual Exhibitions
Co-Curators: Katya Grokhovsky, Mary Annunziata, Allison Cannella, Anna Mikaela Ekstrand 

Mother Tongue: Virtual Performances Part 1
November 15th 2020, 6-8pm EST
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Artists: Georgia Lale, Marcela Casals and Silkworm Pupas (Jiaoyang Li & JinJin Xu)
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The Immigrant Artist Biennial (TIAB) 2020: Here, Together!
Virtual Exhibitions
Co-Curators: Katya Grokhovsky, Mary Annunziata, Allison Cannella, Anna Mikaela Ekstrand 

Mother Tongue: Virtual Performances Part 2
December 6th 2020, 4-6 pm EST
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Artists: Bianca Falco, Jorge Rojas and María Verónica San Martín
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The Immigrant Artist Biennial (TIAB) 2020: Here, Together!
Virtual TIAB 2020 Closing Reception and Catalog Launch
December 18th 2020, 6-8pm EST

Co-Curators: Katya Grokhovsky, Mary Annunziata, Allison Cannella, Anna Mikaela Ekstrand 

Performance by Salomé Egas
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