Q&A with the artists at 8:30pm ET via chat Microscope presents an online screening of works in single-channel and multi-channel film and video by New York-based artist Joiri Minaya and by Tiffany Smith. The approximately 60-minute program features works by both artists completed between 2012 and 2019 that grapple with issues including displacement, identity and representation, and at times incorporating performance.
Among the connections between Minaya and Smith’s works, are the revisitations — both physically and figuratively — to the places once familiar that now populate their memories. By looking at these environments with different eyes, the artists also reinvent or renew their relationships with theses regions. At play in these works is a more external or distanced look — somehow aligned with the camera’s point of view — that the artists gained through the passing of time and that introduces the viewer to their complex ties to these islands. In Minaya’s video “Labadee,” a document of a cruise trip to Haiti, the artist finds that the travel industry has supplanted real life with what is in fact a resort leased to Royal Caribbean Cruises Ltd. through 2050, with theatrical scenes of tourist entertainment. Smith’s “Bahama Blues” presents through time-lapse video the artist’s first-person attempt at experiencing the areas of downtown Nassau (Bahamas) as a tourist by having her hair braided for the first time, while brass bands loudly pay tribute to a Bahamian historical figure. A Q&A via live chat with Minaya and Smith will follow the program at 8:30pm ET on Monday March 22nd. TO WATCH: A “Watch Now” link will appear on Monday March 22 at 7pm ET here: https://microscopegallery.com/joiri-minaya-tiffany-smith/ Passes for viewing can be purchased then, giving full access to video introduction, film program, and live Q&A. *General admission $8 (Valid through Thursday March 25, 10:30pm PT) Member admission $6 (Valid through Thursday March 25, 10:30pm PT)* _ *Joiri Minaya* (1990) is a Dominican-United Statesian multi-disciplinary artist whose recent works focus on destabilizing historic and contemporary representations of an imagined tropical identity. Minaya attended the Escuela Nacional de Artes Visuales in Santo Domingo (2009), Altos de Chavón School of Design (2011) and Parsons the New School for Design (2013). She has participated in residencies at Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Guttenberg Arts, Smack Mellon, the Bronx Museum’s AIM Program and the NYFA Mentoring Program for Immigrant Artists, Red Bull House of Art, the Lower East Side Printshop, ISCP, and Art Omi. She has been awarded a Socrates Sculpture Park Emerging Artist Fellowship as well as grants by Artadia, the Joan Mitchell Foundation, the Rema Hort Mann Foundation and the Nancy Graves Foundation. Minaya’s work is in the collection of the Museo de Arte Moderno and the Centro León Jiménes in the Dominican Republic. *Tiffany Smith* is an interdisciplinary artist from the Caribbean diaspora working in photography, video, installation, and design. Using plant matter, design elements, patterning and costuming as cultural signifiers, Smith creates photographic portraits, site responsive installations, user engaged experiences, and assemblages focused on identity, representation, cultural ambiguity, and displacement. Smith’s practice centers on what forms and defines communities of people of color, in particular; how they are identified and represented, and how they persist. Smith received her BFA from S.C.A.D., Savannah, GA and her MFA from SVA, NY. Her work has been exhibited internationally including shows at National Art Gallery of the Bahamas, The Bronx Museum, MassArt, The National Gallery of Jamaica; during Photoville, Photo NOLA, and Spring Break Art Show; and in solo exhibitions at The Wassaic Project, Recess Assembly, Brooklyn, NY, and Montserrat College of Art, Beverly, MA. Her work has been published in Womanly, Nueva Luz, Field Magazine, Bitch, Culture, and Posture Magazine. Tiffany Smith is a 2018 NYSCA/NYFA Artist Fellow in Interdisciplinary Work from The New York Foundation for the Arts, an EnFoco Photography Fellowship Awardee, a Cameron Visiting Artist at Middlebury College, VT, a United Photo Industries We Women Grantee, and a current Artist in Residence with The Bronx Museum Block Gallery. Smith is currently based in Brooklyn, NY where she serves as Co-Director of Ortega y Gasset Projects and teaches at Pratt, Parsons, and ICP. Full program and more info: www.microsocpegallery.com
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