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some excerpts from Full Tilt with @thirdlyrelevant and @margueriteangelicamonique 🌟🫂🪡🌪️🌫️ thank you to everyone who came to the performance last month! the exhibition remains up at @ccsbard until May 24th, including Jonathan’s rehearsal notes presented in the space that served as their green room during the performance. & thank you @lucas_ondak for writing so beautifully about the performance for The Brooklyn Rail — 🔗 in bio! 📷: 1-5 — by Michael Valiquette @michael_valiquette 6-9 — by Alon Koppel

𝑳𝒊𝒔𝒕𝒆𝒏𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝑺𝒆𝒔𝒔𝒊𝒐𝒏 𝒇𝒐𝒓 𝑪𝒉𝒓𝒊𝒔𝒕𝒊𝒂𝒏 𝑵𝒚𝒂𝒎𝒑𝒆𝒕𝒂’𝒔 𝑻𝒉𝒆 𝑨𝒇𝒓𝒊𝒄𝒂𝒏𝒔, 𝑨𝒄𝒕 𝟏 briefhistories.mp3 gathers a series of interviews with artists from and in orbit of the Brief Histories network, whose practices consider transmission, translation, and coalition-building across time and space. The episodes air monthly on the Bethlehem-based online radio station Radio Alhara between April and July. Christian Nyampeta’s The Africans, A Radio Play in Three Acts, is what the artist calls a “multiform audio-social structure.” Originally composed in 2021, the radio play is an adaptation of writer Ali A. Mazrui’s 1971 novel The Trial of Christopher Okigbo, in which the late Nigerian poet Christopher Okigbo is put on trial upon his arrival in After-Africa, following his death on the battlefield of the Biafran war. Was the poet entitled to place his individual civic engagement above his universal duty as an artist? In this audio reimaging, Nyampeta builds a sound world for Mazrui’s concept of “After-Africa,” an imagined pan-African realm where people go when they die. The story that unfolds examines the role of the individual artist in collective struggle. Nyampeta’s performance will take the form of an intimate listening session in the artist’s studio. He will perform a remixed version of the radio play’s first act, stitching the original ensemble’s voices together with the live score. A brief conversation with Nyampeta will precede the 40-minute performance. This project is organized in collaboration with Brief Histories and the Center for Curatorial Studies at Bard College, and marks the first event of Brief Histories since the gallery’s move from its location on the Bowery. It culminates a year-long reflection on radio as an alternative space and medium for artistic and cultural experimentation. Space is limited, so please RSVP in advance. The address will be provided upon RSVP (🔗 in bio!) briefhistories.mp3 is organized by Alma Chaouachi, Mike Curran, Devon Ma, and Truth Murray-Cole, in collaboration with Fawz Kabra and Isak Berbic. Graphic design by Nadya Luna. @al_mouta @mike.r.curran @devon__ma @truthcole @christiannyampeta

I’m thrilled to share that my thesis exhibition, Full Tilt, will open on April 4th at @ccsbard ! I’m honored to be presenting new works by @thirdlyrelevant , including a performance with the brilliant @margueriteangelicamonique . Thank you both for your generosity & trust! 🫂💐 Link in bio for more info & to sign up for the free shuttle from NYC for the opening! Full Tilt presents newly commissioned works by Jonathan González that build upon the artist’s commitment to challenging the illusion of the autonomous individual. A durational performance channels the exhausting process of striving toward interdependence. Meanwhile, photographic, sonic, and architectural elements embed residues of this embodied practice throughout the museum’s galleries and grounds. Graphic design by @isobel.chiang @smalleditionsnyc , who also designed a beautiful publication to accompany the exhibition—more on that soon!

On view Now: “Get Around” Curated by Devon Ma & Alex Droesch Coco Klockner figurative sculpture 06 2024 Nylon PA12 8” x 10” x 1 1/2” Coco Klockner (b. 1991, USA) is an artist and writer living and working in New York. She is the author of the speculative novella K-Y (Genderfail Press, 2019) and her essays have appeared in Texte Zur Kunst, Spike Art Magazine, Disclaimer/Liquid Architecture, and The Whitney Review. Klockner has had solo exhibitions at Silke Lindner, New York; Bad Water, Knoxville, TN; stop-gap projects, Columbia, MO; lower_cavity, Holyoke, MA; and her work has been included in group exhibitions at Centre des arts actuels SKOL, Montreal, QC, CA; White Columns, New York; Lubov, New York; Guadalajara 90210, CDMX, MX; Bass & Reiner, San Francisco, CA; MoMA PS1, New York; International Center of Photography, New York; Stove Works, Chattanooga, TN; and Musik Installationen Nürnberg, DE. She is director of the project space hatred 2 in Brooklyn. Her forthcoming exhibition at SculptureCenter in Long Island City opens October 2025. @jeffkoonshater @alexdroesch

Opening Saturday, August 23 from 5–7pm @ 53 Orchard — “Get Around” featuring work by Coco Klockner and Craig Jun Li, curated by Alexander Droesch and Devon Ma. A preview with both artists will be held Thursday, August 21 from 2–6pm. @coco_herewithme_dido.flac @craigjunli @jeffkoonshater @alexdroesch

Below Grand is excited to welcome our newest team member, Devon Ma! Please join us in celebrating Devon, we’re so thrilled to have them on board. Devon Ma is a writer and curator based in New York. They have previously worked on exhibitions at SculptureCenter and the ICA LA, and are currently a graduate student at the Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College.

family trip to the vivarium

a show i worked on, “the inconstant world,” is finally open at @theicala 🤗 feels weird seeing my own writing on the wall lol