Night of the Full Moon

The Department of Art and Public Policy at Tisch and the Kimmel Center of University Life welcome you to the NIGHT OF THE FULL MOON, an evening of art and performance to take place at the windows outside Kimmel Center.

The event presents works by twelve B.A, M.A amd PhD students from several NYU departments, and was tutored and curated by artist and Professor Karen Finley, along with Kimmel curator Pamela Jean Tinnen and Performance Studies MA canditate Lucas Girino. 

The pieces here are presented as tableaux vivants, living images proposed by each artist, engaging with a wide range of themes, from gender and racial critique to music experimentation and mass media culture. 

Monday, November 14. 7:30pm. Kimmel Center: La Guardia Pl. and West 3rd St.

[This is Africa, by Benumah]

"This is Africa" is a sentence that for many conjures images of wild animals, poverty, jungles, and ancient kingdoms. "This is Africa - The Foundations" by Benumah, displays common commodities that range from the forbidden to the luxurious and the banal to show that Africa is more beautiful and far more foundational and present in the West than we think.

[H(a)unted, by Allison Blakeney]
"H(a)unted" deals with the incorporation of the ghosts that speak to us in our own voice. Queerness, Witchery, and Becoming Wolf; living inside of me and yet not without the violence of disappearance. I was h(a)unted before I realized I was a host. 

[Blackboard, by Tina Canady]
Blackboard by Tina Canady is a visual display of the words that are often projected onto the black body. Inspired by artist Grace jones's work with Keith Harring this call and response piece hopes to spark reflection and challenge how the public views "American Blackness." 

[1 Corinthians 11:24, by Eliah Eason]
1 Corinthians 11:24 is a memorial for the hopes and dreams of women that were sacrificed in their duties to their husbands, children, and homes.

[Bloody Hands // Bloody Books, by Amelia Ellis]
Amelia Ellis deals with the concept of “bloody books,” that is to say the canonical literature valued within the United States and part of the legacy initiated by early exploration and colonization. “Bloody books” plays with the British slang term “bloody.” It is used to reflect a frustration with curricular literature and allude to the British empire and the violent historical and linguistic murder and manipulation of othered bodies using the English language.

[Change, by Offer Egozy]
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[Honey, I'm Home, by Chandra Indigo Jackson]
An afrofuturist living image that illuminates themes of postcolonialism, displacement, and multiracial identity. Where is home? 

[The American Dream, by Anna Kolfinna Kuran]
“The American Dream” is a response to the incredibly chauvinistic speech of the 2016 presidential campaigns. Through slow motion choreography, embodiment and costume the artist is attempting to portray the ultimate American Woman who is silenced, objectified and completely victimized.

[#love, by Rosalia Lerner]
With the body as the site for knowledge, I am exploring the performativity of loss in the context of the American Dream. Can one be considered an adult without a legible marker for adulthood?

[The Bag of Bags, by Prachi Mehrotra]
Prachi Mehrotra's Bag of Bags explores ideas of hoarding and permanence. Through the process of unpacking hundreds of plastic bags, Prachi works to question the weight we carry internally and understand the potentially lasting impact it may have.

[Unspoken, by Mariana Suchodolski]
How does one create intimacy without words or touch?

[vibrations vivantes, by Viola Yip]
vibrations vivantes is a site-specific conceptual window theater which is motivated by musical sounds. By materializing sounds with lights, body movements, water droplets and visual vibrations, this performative work aims to present a visual spectacle that is translated from musical construct.

About the curators:

Karen Finley is an artist an performer and Professor at the department of Art and Public Policy at Tisch School of The Arts. 

Lucas Girino is a Brazilian cyborg sneaking through independent documentaries, expanded cinema and performance art. They are drawn to transmaterial enunciations, virtual bodies, abyssal subjectivities, resisting errors, micropolitical glitches and general delinquency.

Pamela Jean Tinnen is curator for New York University’s Kimmel Windows Gallery. Additionally, she works as an independent curator, photographer, writer and installation artist. Her artistic, academic and curatorial interests engage photography, aesthetics and visual culture.