[RE]defining [SPACE] is an immersive three-day performance series inviting audiences to reflect on the transformative power of space and envision alternative possibilities. Each night of the event serves as a platform for artists to explore the intersection of space, evolving identities, and well-being through various artistic disciplines.

THE LINEUP

OCTOBER 24, 2024

Arantxa Araujo and Sara Kostic

OCTOBER 25, 2024

Martita Abril

Sara Kostic

Yoko Murakami

OCTOBER 26, 2024

Tyler Ashley

Arantxa Araujo and Jonathan Taylor

Georgia Lale

YOKO MURAKAMI
Yoko Murakami (she/her) is a Tokyo-born and New York City-based artist. Yoko creates movement-based work in forms of site-specific installations and experimental film. She enjoys creating works for spaces that are not traditionally designed for performance and is interested in finding new ways to activate and question the way we interact with our environments. She has presented her creations in spaces like Mabou Mines (New York, NY), Ace Hotel (New York, NY), Triskelion Arts (Brooklyn, NY), TheaterLab (New York, NY), Da Da Da Gallery (Seattle, WA), Eshk Salon / Room Salon (Brooklyn, NY), and Aileyan Accessories (Brooklyn, NY). Her new venture into experimental film has led to her works being selected and screened in festivals in Seoul, Moscow, Naples, Belfort, Cyprus, Mexico City, and Lincoln Center in NYC, just in 2022.
www.yokoteki.com | @yokoteki

GEORGIA LALE
Georgia Lale (they/them) is a Greek-born American visual artist and cancer fighter based in Brooklyn. Through their multidisciplinary practice, Lale explores the human body’s blueprint on the social and political realm of modern society and advocates for accessible healthcare and gender equality. They received their MFA from the School of Visual Arts, NYC (2016) as a Basil and Elise Goulandris Foundation scholar and their BFA from the Athens School of Fine Arts, Greece (2013). Their work has been featured in major art festivals, such as the Art in Odd Places, NYC (2022), the Venice International Performance Art Week, Italy (2020) and the Brussels Nuit Blanche Festival, Belgium (2016). Lale’s work has been exhibited at A.I.R. Gallery Biennial, NYC (2023), Border Project Space, NYC (solo show 2022), Collar Works, NY (2021), Smack Mellon, NYC (2018), A.Antonopoulou Gallery, Athens and the General Consulate of Greece, NY, among others. They have participated at academic conferences organized by the Dedalus Foundation, the MoMA Archives, the Yale History of Art Modernist Forum and the Yale School of Management. Their #OrangeVest performance was presented at the Greek Pavilion of the 15th Venice Biennale of Architecture (2016). Their solo show “Neighborhood Guilt” at the Consulate General of Greece in NY (2023), was taken down after the censorship of the work “Flag” by the Greek Minister of Foreign Affairs.
lalegeorgia.net | @georgia_lale_studio

TYLER ASHLEY
Tyler Ashley (she/her/hers) is a Dance, Drag and Performance Artist. Ashley has performed in the work of Elizabeth Streb, DANCENOISE, Walter Dundervill, Larissa Velez-Jackson, Sean Donovan, Yackez, Arantxa Araujo, Katy Pyle, Biba Bell, and Charles Atlas among others. Ashley's own performances have been presented by Performa, Friends of the High Line, Times Square Alliance, NADA Art Fair, BOFFO, and seen at Art Basel Miami, Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM), The Kitchen, Joe’s Pub at The Public Theater, Jacob’s Pillow, The Knockdown Center, The Chocolate Factory, Movement Research, Danspace Project and more. Ashley is also known as The Dauphine - a nightlife personality, performer, producer, and emcee. The Dauphine started a series of events called BABY TEA, which in one format raised nearly $30k for LGBTQIA youth advocacy and queer art programs over the course of seven fundraisers. The Dauphine has performed and/or hosted at The Brooklyn Museum, BAM, Joe’s Pub and NY PopsUp at The Public Theater, NADA Art Fair, BUSHWIG ’14 - ‘23, Club Cumming, Susanne Bartsch’s KUNST and FOLLIES, Bard College Summerscape Spiegeltent, BOFFO, FIAR, The Kitchen, New York Live Arts, Jacob’s Pillow, MANA Contemporary and more.
@tylerjashley

JONATHAN TAIKINA TAYLOR
Jonathan Taikina Taylor is an actor, director, and movement artist working cross-culturally in the Americas, Asia, and Europe. Through his work he skillfully facilitates the joy of cultural collision through the deep investigation of text, theatrical forms, and explosive movement. Jonathan celebrates queerness through each collaboration by offering generosity in abundance, creating ensemble driven work and building equitable relationships between traditionally dominant and pervasively marginalized cultures & bodies.

Jonathan has taught workshops in India, Ireland, Italy and Russia. His international credits include Un Castillo De Cartas (Santiago, Chile), Moving Mouths (Goteborg, Sweden), and a play on the life and work of Frida Kahlo performed by 60 Nepali 9 th Graders (Kathmandu, Nepal). It was really cool.

He most recently performed in the world premiere of Helen. at La MaMa Experimental Theatre Club (NY, NY), Illusions by Ivan Viripaev (NY, NY) and danced for choreographer Wendy Jehlen in Conference of the Birds (NY & Bejing). He has performed with Anikaya Dance, Kairos Dance Theatre, and En Guard Arts.

Jonathan is The Artistic Director of The SuperGeographics and Associate Artist of SITI Company. As Artistic Director of The SuperGeographics, he has directed: Un Castillo de Cartas, Panic Everything’s Fine, Bacchic, Moving Mouths, RePlay: Shelter Island, and Signal. Under his direction The SuperGeographics work has been seen across The US and in Sweden, Chile, and India.

In the US he has directed & movement directed at The Getty Villa, Barysnikov Arts Center, The Brick, ART’s Club Oberon, the Spanish Embassy in DC, and Shelter Island Public Library. Jonathan has served as Movement Director for Spaceman by Leegrid Stevens (Drama Desk Nominated best Solo-Show) and several short films including Britain Ashford’s “I Could Have Danced All Night” music video.

Jonathan holds a BFA in Theater Arts from Boston University and an MA in Political Science; International Relations and Global Justice from Brooklyn College. Jonathan teaches Suzuki & Viewpoints at The Atlantic & NYU.
https://www.jonathanttaylor.com/about

MARTITA ABRIL
Martita Abril (she/her) is from the border city of Tijuana, México. She has collaborated with artists including Lux Boreal, Kim Brandt, Yanira Castro, Yoshiko Chuma, Milka Djordjevich, Tess Dworman, Rebecca Davis, Devynn Emory, Simone Forti, Daria Fain and Robert Kocik, Kat Galasso, Allyson Green, Abigail Levine, Mina Nishimura, Cori Olinghouse, Okwui Okpokwasili, Will Rawls, David Thompson, and Larissa Velez-Jackson. She was a performer in Simone Forti’s Dance Constructions, the Handles exhibition by Haegue Yang, and most recently the Joan Jonas: Mirrors I & II piece at the Museum of Modern Art. Martita was part of the Fresh Tracks Residency at New York Live Arts (NYLA), Dance and Process at The Kitchen and currently an Artist-in-Residence at Movement Research. She is the MR at the Judson Memorial Church Program Manager, the Trisha Brown Dance Company’s Tour Manager, and continues to mentor Immigrant artists as part of the NYFA Coaching program. Martita co-curates In/Between, the yearly exhibition for NYFA Immigrant Artists originally created in 2019 by artists Yanira Castro, Martita, and Poppy DeltaDawn at NYLA.

http://www.martita-abril.org | @picchurris

SARA KOSTIC
Sara Kostic (she/her) is an interdisciplinary artist who creates in the field of performance,visual arts, and architecture. She received an M.A. in Architecture Design from Belgrade University. She was involved in an alternative dance scene in Belgrade (Stanica), performance art program (PerformanceHUB), and is an alumna of EmergeNYC. In her work, she incorporates various phenomenology related to the social, political, and physical body, questioning the transformative relations between borders and possibilities.

She is actively involved in the international performance art scene, she performed at MoCA Belgrade (Serbia), Venice International Performance Art Week (Italy), Biennale Mardin (Turkey), Grace Exhibition Space (New York), and others. Kostic is a Franklin Furnace Fund for performance art awardeeas well as holding guest lectures and workshops with a focus on site-specific performance,and how architecture or space limitation shapes the concept, RUFA (Rome,Italy), Magacin (Belgrade, Serbia), and others.
@arbor_sara

ARANTXA ARAUJO
Arantxa Araujo (she/they) is a Mexican artist with a background in neuroscience. Her work is essentially multidisciplinary, feminist, meditative, and rooted in biobehavioral research and technology. Explorations of gender constructions, performativity and identity, and the politics of migration are seen and experienced in her installations, which include new media, video, sound, photography, mapping, light, and performance. Her work has been shown in the Brooklyn Museum, at the Radical Women LatinAmerican Art Exhibit, Grace Exhibition Space, Glasshouse Gallery, The Queens Museum, Art in Odd Places in NYC; RAW during Miami Art Week; Illuminus Festival in Boston, and SPACE Gallery and Bunker Projects in Pittsburgh; in Mexico, at Monumento a la Revolución and La Explanada del MUAC, during the Hemispheric Institute’s Encuentro; also participated in Nuit Blanche Festival in Saskatoon.

Araujo is a Franklin Furnace Fund for performance art awardee, BAC and LMCC grantee and has received support through numerous residencies and fellowships including Leslie-Lohman Museum Artist Fellowship, Creative Capital taller, ITP Camp and EMERGENYC. Araujo was awarded a full scholarship from Mexican Government Institution CONACYT. She holds an MA in Motor Learning and Control from Teachers College, Columbia University and a BA in Theater Studies from Emerson College.
www.arantxaaraujo.com | @arantxaaraujo