Co-hosted with Council on the Arts and Humanities for Staten Island & SICoLab
Our panel of four innovative artists discussed the work they’re doing across NYC and beyond. The panel was followed by an informal dialogue on making art in our communities and creating partnerships and collaborations.
Christoph Mayer
Christoph composes songs with his wife Trish about the North Shore of Staten Island, where the couple resides. Their efforts, part of a larger project which is now called the “North Show”, a regular performance piece with varying episodes involving music, film, photo, dance and comedy. In their show Trish and Christoph reflect stories and anecdotes about life on Staten Island’s North Shore. They sing about nail salons and thrift stores, cats and raccoons, the ferry and the harbor.
Emcee C.M., Master of None
Emcee C.M.’s work combines large-scale public, social and collaborative event-based projects with a more internal process of self-reflection through fiction, storytelling, and filmmaking. His art practice involves active, public works utilizing books, music, film, events, play and conversation.
Chen Tamir, Flux Factory
Tamir is a curator with Flux Factory, and a critic with a passion for public, non-profit and artist-run institutions. Her curatorial practice is artist-based, inspired by dialogue with artists.
Tattfoo Tan
Trained as a graphic designer, Tattfoo Tan’s art practice seeks to find an immediate, direct, and effective way of exploring issues related to the individual in society through which to collapse the categories of ‘art’ and ‘life’ into one. Through the employment of multiple forms of media and various platforms of presentation, Tattfoo promotes group participation between himself and an ‘audience’. Within this collaborative practice both minds and bodies are engaged in actions that transform the making of art into a ritualized and shared experience. In keeping with the spirit of this transformative act, Tattfoo prefers to develop projects that are ephemeral and conceptual in nature.
Moderated by Ginger Shulick, Director of Grants and Community Development for the Council on the Arts and Humanities for Staten Island
Tuesday, January 27th, 8pm-10pm
Cargo Café, 120 Bay Street, Staten Island
