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Triple Canopy & Feral File are pleased to present StarQuest, an installation & performance-lecture by the artist Maya Man. Working with generative AI, Man has produced a video-based body of work that takes up the tropes & aesthetics of American competitive dance-a swirl of ambition, discipline, & spectacle-as well as the circulation of performance in the digital age. Drawing on Man's childhood experience as a competitive dancer, StarQuest restages the choreography & interpersonal dramas of the cult reality television series Dance Moms. In an ever-changing order, AI-generated dancers twirl across the screen & speak of their fears & foibles in faux confessionals, establishing an uncanny friction between authenticity & artifice.
StarQuest will be on view from 6 to 9 p.m.; Man will present an accompanying performance-lecture at 7 p.m., introduced by the curator Nora O' Murch. The performance will be followed by a conversation between Man & Rachel Ossip, Triple Canopy's deputy editor.
Free with RSVP.
Participants
Maya Man is an artist focused on contemporary identity culture on the internet. Her work examines dominant narratives around femininity, authenticity, & the performance of self. She organizes a curatorial project called HEART, previously run out of her studio in SoHo. She is online at mayaontheinter.net.
Rachel Ossip is Triple Canopy's deputy editor & a contributing editor at n+1. She also designs books.
Nora O' Murch is an Irish curator & researcher whose work explores how digital infrastructures shape culture & politics. Her practice examines the ontology of computation - how technical systems organise power, extract value, & condition collective life.
Triple Canopy is a magazine that works with artists & writers to address the critical issues that define contemporary life. Triple Canopy is committed to cultivating unconventional, unassimilated forms of thought & expression, & to meaningfully supporting the people who produce them. The magazine collaborates with contributors on artworks, essays, fictions, conversations, performances, & books (among other media) from conception to realization, navigating the digital & physical realms where ideas & audiences take shape. In doing so, Triple Canopy strives to not only analyze but alter the structures that influence whose voices are heard, whose stories are circulated, & whose experiences are valued.
Feral File is a cultural institution & technology company championing computational art-i.e. art that responds & evolves through code, models, & data. Feral File collaborates with artists, curators, & institutions to produce exhibitions & build open tools to make living with this art effortless.
Accessibility
Gibney: Agnes Varis Performing Arts Center is accessible via elevator from the main entrance at 53A Chambers Street.
There are automated, double doors at this entrance. Please utilize the square actuator to the side of the entrances to mobilize the doors. Upon entrance, there will be a wide hallway & a guard stationed at a desk near the bottom of the stairwell.
Bathrooms
There is an ADA compliant, gender-neutral bathroom located in Studio H where the event will take place.
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