Sun July 14, 4-7pm! KimSu Theiler: FRIGID NONSENSE: Dress a Part Video installation with live sound performance by KimSu Theiler at 6pm Vorderzimmer 280 Van Buren Street Bed-Stuy/Brooklyn Enter under the stoop

  I use all the components of filmmaking: time-based-image recording, sound, performance to interrogate the epistemic foundations of how a person is defined as a member of a community and the choices we should make within that community. As a transnational, transracial adoptee I cannot take basic knowledge construction of the self for granted. This makes the telescoping between  -  the minutia of a single entity, myself, and the larger societal justifications for how each of us fits within - my major thematic concern. The sculptural potential of - placing in space - literally and metaphorically anchors my practice. FRIGID NONSENSE: Dress a Part Frigid Nonsense started as a slip of the ear in conversation between myself and artist and friend, Eline Mugaas (@mugaasen). Fridtjof Nansen evidently was as hard for her to hear me say, a Norwegian name - expecting only English to come out of my mouth, as it is for me to remember how to spell (can there really be that many dissimi...

KimSu Theiler is a visual artist based in New York City. She has exhibited film, video and media installation work internationally including the Rotterdam Film Festival (Netherlands), Gwangju Biennial (Korea), Museum of Modern Art (United States), and the Toronto Film Festival (Canada). She has received grants from New York Foundation for the Arts, Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, New York State Council on the Arts Electronic Media and Film Presentation Funds, the John Cage Foundation for Contemporary Performance Art, the Jack Smith Artist Award and the F/VA Artist Mentor Project Grant. Her artist residencies include the National Museum of Contemporary Art (Korea) and The Art Studios at Rådhuset-Oslo (Norway).   Pictured: KimSu Theiler, Summer Greenlander and Dog

 

   

Sun April 14, 4-7pm! Rylan Morrison: 99% Clowns With Music Performance by Sad Music for Old People (David S. McClelland & John S. Wyeth) at 6pm Vorderzimmer 280 Van Buren Street Bed-Stuy/Brooklyn Enter under the stoop

My body of work is predominantly paintings of clowns, hence the show title "99% Clowns." Clowns are fun to paint because of the endless range of color palettes and emotions captured in their expressions. Sometimes the clowns are in poetic scenarios depicting a vision of surreal scale and a moment where someone might say "OMG look at that huge clown head flopped over on the landscape!" Perhaps this is happening in a "clown world" and these are simply portraits. "OMG look at that huge head flopped over on the landscape!", a clown might say. The clown world sometimes feels like a "big joke." This sentiment captures something about the human experience for me. Either on the micro-scale of juggling being a woman, and a mother, while in a capitalist system stacked against us; or being a romantic fool while at any minute a meteor, a layoff, animal extinction, a pandemic, or heartbreak could happen. Joy is a radical act.  - Rylan Morriso...