Miriam Parker

Miriam Parker (born in New York City) is an interdisciplinary artist who uses movement, paint, video art and sculpture/installation. Her work has been influenced by her experience as a dancer, her study of Buddhism phenomenology, and her connection to the free jazz tradition. Parker is a Monira Foundation artist  resident  at Mana contemporary. In 2021 she received the Toulmin Fellowship through CBA and National Sawdust in collaboration with Marisa Michelson. She has performed in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; PS1 MoMA, New York; The Fridman Gallery, New York; a residency at École Normale Supérieure, Paris; at the Every Women Biennial, New York; Survey Dover Plains, NY; at Vision Festival through consecutive years; the Satellite Art Fair, in Miami, FL; Clement Soto Velez Cultural and Education Center, New York; Whitebox ArtCenter, New York; a month residency at Governors Island in the House of Poetics curated by Cooper Union; among others. 

She is co-founder and collaborator of Lost Voyage, a multimedia collaborative work led by seven women artists, Lost Voyage is an on-going collaborative project that explores human relationships with displacement, haven and metaphysical constructs through a communal experience. They have performed in WhiteBox New York, NY; Five Myles, in Brooklyn, NY; and Roulette Intermedium, Brooklyn, NY.

www.miriamsparker.com

Geraldine Cardiel

Mexican dancer and choreographer.

She is a certified teacher at the Feldenkrais Institute in New York, and a graduate from the Professional Studies Program of the Limón Institute of New York. 

The choreography of Geraldine Cardiel, has been produced in New York city by the Limón Institute, DanceNow, The Local Produce, Joyce Soho Presents, and Mexico Now.In México by Fonca and Premio internacional de Danza Contemporánea as well as Masdanza at the Canaries Island, Spain.

She taught at the Limón Institute of New York for many years and has been a guest teacher in countries like Finland, Spain, Colombia, England and Mexico, teaching Technique and setting her own repertoire.

In Mexico City, she worked as a teacher at the National School of Theater Arts and at the Contemporary Dance School of Ollin Yolliztli Cultural Center as a headteacher in the dance department.

Since 2015, she has collaborated with Tumàka't danza contemporánea, as a dancer, assistant director and teacher.

She lives in Mérida, Yucatán.

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 bio-behavioral 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, Canada. 

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. 
//@ArantxaAraujo //arantxaaraujo.com

Sara Kostić

Sara Kostić is an interdisciplinary artist who creates in the field of performance, visual arts, and architecture. She received an M.A. in Architecture Design from BelgradeUniversity. 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 in Mardin (Turkey), Grace Exhibition Space (New York), and others. She is 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  //sarakostic.com

Photo by Neda Mojsilovic

Erick Montes, Guest Curator

(He/his/el) 

I am a dancer, choreographer, and interdisciplinary artist who believes in the technology of movement as the threshold towards ancestral wisdom. 

My research gravitates between memory and representation in the intersection with dance aesthetics. I am passionate about liberation and very much about messing with the status quo whenever I can. My dances, practice, and training are highly influenced by American choreographer Bill T.Jones and the late Luis Fandiño (Mexico City, 1931-2022), among the array of dear friends and mentors across my transnational cultural community between the US and Mexico who have been supporting my dancing to date. 

Currently, I am interested in authenticity versus the manufacture of dance making and the body as a confluence of biology, biology as in culture. 

When I am not producing dances, I am guiding vinyasa practice or co-teaching a class as an Adjunct Professor at UArts in Philadelphia where I am also a fellow MFA candidate for the School of Dance. 

“What is not here, is somewhere else” - Thomas D.Frantz