Kristin McIver 

Deep State is a two channel video installation, projected in the corner windows of the 4th floor of The Clemente, on the Lower East Side. Visible from the street, the video presents abstract footage of crashing, swirling water, appearing to fill the entire corner studio in a violent, fluid, watery cube. In a turbulent year where many have found themselves overwhelmed; drowning under the uncertainty of a pandemic, financial instability, political unrest, and conspiracy theories, Deep State presents an illusion of being underwater. The entire room behind the windows appears immersed by the crashing, swirling waves, a moment of beautiful chaos in an otherwise eerily quiet New York City streetscape.

Best viewed from the corner of Suffolk and Rivington streets, the installation will be on view nightly from 6pm - midnight, January 28 through Sunday, January 31.

Get your ears ready, your hips moving, and join artist and educator Mark Araujo for a two-part deep dive into the vast musical richness of South America. We will be exploring Brazilian Samba, Ecuadorian San Juanito, Colombian Cumbia, and Argentinian Tango, just to name a few! We will leave knowing about the cultural histories of these musical genres, their influences, and evolution throughout the last 100 years. 

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Presented by Teatro SEA 

Pura Belpré (1901-1982) was a talented author, collector of folktales, puppeteer and storyteller who wrote and reinterpreted Puerto Rican folk tales. As the first Puerto Rican librarian in the New York Public Library system, she pioneered many programs for the Latino community. The show is a re-enactment of her legendary “Bilingual Story Hour.” Her famous tales: Pérez & Martina, Juan Bobo, and The Three Magi come to life in a creative and interactive experience that combines storytelling with puppets!

RECOMMENDED FOR PRE-K TO 3RD GRADE. PERFORMED IN SPANISH OR BILINGUAL

Pura Belpré (1901-1982) fue una talentosa escritora, coleccionista de cuentos tradicionales, titiritera y cuenta cuentos que escribió y re-interpretó las historias populares puertorriqueñas. Fue la primera bibliotecaria puertorriqueña en las bibliotecas de Nueva York y fue pionera en involucrar a la comunidad Latina en las mismas. Nuestro espectáculo es una recreación de su tradición de contar cuentos bilingües. Sus famosos cuentos: Pérez & Martina, Juan Bobo, y Los Tres Magos, cobran vida en una experiencia creativa e interactiva que combina el arte de contar cuentos con títeres.

RECOMENDADA PARA ESTUDIANTES DE PRE-K AL 3ER GRADO. VERSIÓN EN ESPAÑOL O BILINGÜE

Clemente resident artists, Melanie Vote, Rafael Perez, Lisa Lebofsky, casually discuss their inspirations, motivations, art making secrets, philosophies, and why they enjoy working at The Clemente.

In this film, we dive into the studio of artist and sailor Brian Buckley. Somewhere between his cyanotypes and cephalopods is the portrait of an artist exploring love, relationships, and uncertainty.

Directed, filmed, and edited by Sam Vladimirsky; Produced by ClampArt ahead of Brian Buckley's exhibition, Uncertainty on view January 7 - February 20, 2021.

Tour Allen Hansen's studio at The Clemente, its tall ceilings and beautiful windows with north light, then view his new work including paintings in conversation with Goya's Dunce hats, symbols of superstition and ignorance in response to current events, along with his current investigations of abstraction, fictitious light sources, no recognizable image, and dense voids, a dynamic that triggers memory where both past and present merge.

Kristin McIver 

Deep State is a two channel video installation, projected in the corner windows of the 4th floor of The Clemente, on the Lower East Side. Visible from the street, the video presents abstract footage of crashing, swirling water, appearing to fill the entire corner studio in a violent, fluid, watery cube. In a turbulent year where many have found themselves overwhelmed; drowning under the uncertainty of a pandemic, financial instability, political unrest, and conspiracy theories, Deep State presents an illusion of being underwater. The entire room behind the windows appears immersed by the crashing, swirling waves, a moment of beautiful chaos in an otherwise eerily quiet New York City streetscape.

Best viewed from the corner of Suffolk and Rivington streets, the installation will be on view nightly from 6pm - midnight, January 28 through Sunday, January 31.

Get your ears ready, your hips moving, and join artist and educator Mark Araujo for a two-part deep dive into the vast musical richness of South America. We will be exploring Brazilian Samba, Ecuadorian San Juanito, Colombian Cumbia, and Argentinian Tango, just to name a few! We will leave knowing about the cultural histories of these musical genres, their influences, and evolution throughout the last 100 years. 

How to Connect: 

Call in via Zoom 

Meeting ID: 858 6335 8898

Passcode: 035540

Dial by your location

        +1 646 558 8656 US (New York)

        +1 301 715 8592 US (Washington D.C)

        +1 312 626 6799 US (Chicago)

        +1 346 248 7799 US (Houston)

        +1 669 900 9128 US (San Jose)

        +1 253 215 8782 US (Tacoma)

Meeting ID: 858 6335 8898

Passcode: 035540

Find your local number: https://us02web.zoom.us/u/kcOtmoaUy9

"In my new work, Bluebeard (LES Time Traveler), I have created a multiple image timeline of the landscape historic to the Lower East Side, from Houston St. to the Bowery to the East River. Like pages torn from the history books, this story is told through images of the building facades, landmarks, signage of famous establishments and people from this rich area of immigration. The cropped signage challenges the most savvy local to guess the establishment it pertains to, while it's new cryptic wording creates a love poem to the neighborhood.  The sun and moon arc across the sky and pigeons fly a figure eight to all corners of the canvas. As it depicts the ever evolving area from an apple tree to a futuristic hover taxi and much in between, we are reminded of our past, present and a forward look to the future.”  -Steve Ellis

Steve Ellis (b. 1970)  has worked closely in his Lower East Side art community for over two decades. Ellis is an adjunct professor at School of Visual Arts and teaches drawing to inmates at Rikers Island. He has exhibited extensively in the US, internationally and beyond the gallery walls with commissions for film titles, album covers, skateboards and most recently the Coney Island Cyclone front car panel. 

www.stevellis.com / @stevellisart

Tour resident artist Linda Griggs' studio at The Clemente and explore the original 1897 classroom fittings followed by an overview of her series, Bad Toys and Ass Whippings, 'family portraits' of objects Americans have used from the colonial era to the present to spank their children.

In 2018, Clemente resident Laura Nova collaborated with choreographer Naomi Goldberg Haas to produce The LES Citizens Parade. It is an activist processional and series of performances connecting community members of NYC's Lower East Side. Performed by neighborhood senior citizens and legendary senior dancers, the work created a celebratory, visual journey along East Broadway. The public art project honored the experience of long-term residents as part of the River to River Festival on June 22 and 24, 2018. The parade plays with the “migration” trope transforming residents and dancers alike into a “moving company” - one which carries boxes bearing double-edged slogans like “fragile” and “priority.” The procession culminated in a stage performance in Seward Park, the oldest municipal park in the United States and the living room of the Lower East Side.

Via Instagram Live @TheClemente

Concept: Flavia Souza

Design: Brian Buckley & Laura Nova

Join Clemente residents Melanie Vote, Flavia Souza and Laura Nova for a live tour of PSOS21, an installation of banners featuring residents’ work wrapping the fence that surrounds the Clemente building. A  former public school designed by Charles B. J. Snyder, The Clemente is now home to more than 60 artists and 10 arts organizations. With this public work, resident artists and organizations are pleased to bring their studios outside to our community.

Kristin McIver 

Deep State is a two channel video installation, projected in the corner windows of the 4th floor of The Clemente, on the Lower East Side. Visible from the street, the video presents abstract footage of crashing, swirling water, appearing to fill the entire corner studio in a violent, fluid, watery cube. In a turbulent year where many have found themselves overwhelmed; drowning under the uncertainty of a pandemic, financial instability, political unrest, and conspiracy theories, Deep State presents an illusion of being underwater. The entire room behind the windows appears immersed by the crashing, swirling waves, a moment of beautiful chaos in an otherwise eerily quiet New York City streetscape.

Best viewed from the corner of Suffolk and Rivington streets, the installation will be on view nightly from 6pm - midnight, January 28 through Sunday, January 31.

Production of the Fantastic Experimental Latino Theater Inc

Premiere at the SEA Micro Theater Festival

14:10

The unexpected encounter of a stranded German tourist in a subway platform and a New York City human rights lawyer reveals that they have more in common than they ever imagined. 

Cast: Monica Delgado and Vincent Bagnall

Written by Gloria Zelaya

Directed by Luis Galli 

Set Designer: Hector Marin-Arias

Composer: Jacob Garces

Videographer: Pablo Monsalve

Jen Mazza's virtual studio visit tries to bring a little of the material of actuality into play. It offers a view into some of the daily aspects of her studio practice including works in process.

Itziar Barrio in collaboration with Seth Cluett

Particle Matter is an audiovisual work by visual artist Itziar Barrio, created in collaboration with composer and sound designer Seth Cluett. A materialist investigation into matter and multitudinous manifestations of the micro, Particle Matter approaches its subject in a rhizomatic fashion, utilizing the language of the montage -the dialectical technique of producing a new composite whole from fragments of moving images and sounds- to explore the forces catalyzing and created by the movements of the fragmented and microscopic; the pieces left over. 

Particulate matter is the sum of all solid and liquid particles suspended in air. This complex mixture includes both organic and inorganic particles, such as dust, pollen, soot, smoke, and liquid droplets. Many of them are by-products. A by-product is a secondary product derived from a production process, manufacturing process or chemical reaction; it is not the primary product or service being produced. In chemistry, “by-product" is used to refer to a product that is not desired but inevitably results from molecular fragments of the original materials and/or reagents that are not incorporated into the desired product, as a consequence of conservation of mass.
Many of the sound recordings included in Particle Matter were carried out at the historic anechoic chamber at Nokia Bell Labs (NJ), which absorbs over 99.995% of the incident acoustic energy above 200 Hz, and is considered one of the quietest places on Earth. Particle Matter is a work approached from the horizontality of all the agents involved: images of geological phenomena, steam, gas and particles; audio recordings of protests, dusts of different origins converge creating this video. 

Particle Matter is best experienced with the use of headphones. 

This work was produced by AECID and supported in part by Nokia Bell Labs Experiments in Art and Technology program

Livestream presented by Arts for Art 

Luke Stewart - bass, voice, percussion

Jaimie Branch - trumpet, voice, percussion

Devin Brahja Waldman - alto sax, voice, percussion

​Presenting renditions of sweet soul music in the style of New York R&B. The 50-minute performance will be followed by a conversation with the performers. Dedicated to the spirit of Cecil Taylor.

To join the livestream, visit https://www.artsforart.org/onlinesalon.html

Kristin McIver 

Deep State is a two channel video installation, projected in the corner windows of the 4th floor of The Clemente, on the Lower East Side. Visible from the street, the video presents abstract footage of crashing, swirling water, appearing to fill the entire corner studio in a violent, fluid, watery cube. In a turbulent year where many have found themselves overwhelmed; drowning under the uncertainty of a pandemic, financial instability, political unrest, and conspiracy theories, Deep State presents an illusion of being underwater. The entire room behind the windows appears immersed by the crashing, swirling waves, a moment of beautiful chaos in an otherwise eerily quiet New York City streetscape.

Best viewed from the corner of Suffolk and Rivington streets, the installation will be on view nightly from 6pm - midnight, January 28 through Sunday, January 31.

Kylie Heidenheimer, Nicole Parcher, and Elisabeth Condon, painters and residents in the Clemente's long term studio program, discuss the roles of abstraction, ephemera, and layering in their work. Visit The Clemente's Instagram and YouTube for live recordings, and the website for written interviews.

NICOLE PARCHER and KYLIE HEIDENHEIMER interview ELISABETH CONDON 

ELISABETH CONDON and KYLIE HEIDENHEIMER interview NICOLE PARCHER 

NICOLE PARCHER and ELISABETH CONDON interview KYLIE HEIDENHEIMER

Explore the former PS160, the exceptional Charles B.J. Snyder public school that is now home to The Clemente, its beautiful architectural detail, emphasis on natural light, fresh air ventilation, and ingenious pre-code fire safety measures. Archival photos, references by Jacob Riis, and newspaper articles bring to life the excitement felt by an overcrowded and impoverished Lower East Side immigrant neighborhood on the building of their new school, which inspired generations of children who remember it as a castle.

Special thanks to the following individuals and institutions for the use of their documentation and voice in the making of this project: NYC Municipal Archives, Mark La Rosa Photography, The New York Public Library Library of Congress, Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, The Museum of the City of New York, Superstructures, Nelligan White.