[RE]DEFINING [SPACE]
CURATED BY ARANTXA ARAUJO & SARA KOSTIC

OCTOBER 24-26, 2024
8PM

OCTOBER 24, 2024

Arantxa Araujo & Sara Kostic

OCTOBER 25, 2024

Yoko Murakami
Martita Abril
Sara Kostic

OCTOBER 26, 2024

Arantxa Araujo & Jonathan Taikina Taylor
Georgia Lale
Tyler Ashley

OCTOBER 24

RUNTIME: 60 MINUTES WITHOUT INTERMISSION.

Arantxa Araujo & Sara Kostic
Borderlines

"Borderlines" is a performance art piece that explores the concept of space and who gets to access it through the lens of immigration, policy, and personal experience. In the context of evolving immigration laws and policies such as Project 2025, this performance delves into the challenges and hardships faced by individuals navigating the complex bureaucracy of visa applications. Araujo and Kostic, who have both grappled with the immigration process over the past 10-15 years, will share their experiences to highlight the immense personal and systemic labor involved.

OCTOBER 25

RUNTIME: APPROXIMATELY 70 MINUTES
This performance contains the use of bright, strobe lighting.

Yoko Murakami
BLINK

Created and Performed by Yoko Murakami
Music by Oowets, Ryuichi Sakamoto & David Toop

BLINK is a new solo work created and performed by Yoko Murakami.
(Or, BLINK is a duet between an old slide projector and Murakami.)

The piece is an exploration of the still image. In a world where our senses are inundated and overstimulated, the work asks the question of how we can discover more, with less?

Through the tactile movement of forwarding and reversing personal images, then layering/dissecting them through the body, the work shifts freely through the boundaries of time and space, like our memories. The work creates a physical connection between confined space and the unexplored space, engaging the audience in active observation and inspire new images and fantasies.

Special Thanks to Orietta Crispino/Theaterlab, Maria Takeuchi, Aiko Masubuchi, Alisa & Sid

BLINK is dedicated to my grandfather Osamu Arao

-PAUSE-

Martita Abril
Interlude a las siete

Created and performed by Martita Abril
Sound by Martita Abril
Prop designed in collaboration with Toby Newman

Martita will share a solo exploring different sitios, momentos, and episodios that bring her back to histories, dark and light. The work addresses duality, separation, inspiration from resilience and the act of bringing people together. Martita explores how this interacts with the real, physical barriers as well as mental or verbal walls that she forms in her mind to find her. The resulting work is marked by shifting and evolving environments, constantly in a state of survival.

Muchas gracias Toby y Josue

-INTERMISSION-

Sara Kostic
SOMATIC

SOMATIC confronts the reflection of our liberties and identities in digital space, which become our physical reality. Both physical and digital spaces are tightening around us, while we remain numbed by reassuring big, bright smiles on our screen.

OCTOBER 26

RUNTIME: APPROXIMATELY 80 MINUTES
This performance contains the use of bright, strobe lighting.

Arantxa Araujo and Jonathan Taylor in collaboration with Mariana Uribe
The Cloud

"The Cloud" invites audiences to transition from digital experience back to the corperal life body. Through moving listening and experiencing, this performance emphasizes the significance of life based existence over screentime, encouraging participants to reconnect with their senses and embrace the richness of life in real life. Just as clouds morph and carry water that nourishes arid landscapes, the desert showcases the adaptability of life in harsh conditions. Similarly, we experience continuous change and embody resilience, finding ways to thrive despite challenges. The artists will create this performance solely through analog ways, avoiding purchase online and without the use of “The Cloud”, forcing them to occupy space, reconnect with other humans and be surprised. This experience will be shared with all. Together, these elements remind us of our shared existence within the intricate web of nature.

Expansive live soundscape by Mariana Uribe

Georgia Lale
Running Out

Georgia Lale will explore the possibilities of combining patriotic ideals and wellbeing through a multitasking performance.

Tyler Ashley
TIDAL

Created and Performed by Tyler Ashley
Fabrics by Kyle Meyer

An intention, a wish, a spell.

Special thanks to Arantxa, Kyle, and the team at Trisk.

ABOUT THE ARTISTS

Arantxa Araujo and Sara Kostic's collaborative work delves into the intricate relationship between humans and resources, shedding light on environmental issues and emphasizing the vital importance of resource preservation for human and ecosystem well-being. Their journey from the confined spaces of a black box to the expansive openness of forests symbolizes their commitment to exploring diverse landscapes and space naratives. Through their artistic endeavors, Araujo and Kostic aim to challenge the ongoing exploitation of the Earth and advocate for a mindful and sustainable connection with our planet. Their collaborations include: "Water Stories" an installation and presentation of performance documentation at BioBAT Art Space, Brooklyn, NY, curated by Elena Soterakis and "Ebb & Flow II" a durational performance & installation in the vast forrest of Rosekill, Rosendale, NY, which followed their first exploration of this series "EBB & FLOW" at Triskelion Arts, Brooklyn, NY. Arantxa Araujo and Sara Kostic's collective work encapsulates a poignant narrative that transcends boundaries, creating a dialogue between art, environment, and humanity. Their projects serve as a testament to the power of artistic collaboration in prompting reflection, awareness, and action towards a more sustainable future for all.

YOKO MURAKAMI

Yoko Murakami (she/her) is a Tokyo-born and New York City-based artist. She 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.

MARTITA ABRIL
Martita Abril (Pichu) is a performer, choreographer, and teaching artist from the border city of Tijuana, México. She has collaborated with dance artists and companies including Lux Boreal, Kim Brandt, Yanira Castro, Yoshiko Chuma, Milka Djordevich, Tess Dworman, Devynn Emory, Daria Fain and Robert Kocik, Kat Galasso, Lily Gold, Allyson Green, Abigail Levine, Mina Nishimura, Cori Olinghouse, Okwui Okpokwasili & Peter Born, Will Rawls, David Thompson, Larissa Velez-Jackson, and Cathy Weis. Martita was a performer in Simone Forti’s Dance Constructions, the Handles exhibition by Haegue Yang and most recently the Mirrors I & II piece by Joan Jonas at the Museum of Modern Art. She was part of the Dance and Process (DAP) artist in residency program at The Kitchen in partnership with Arts and Letters and she is currently in The Movement Research (MR) Artist-in-Residence Program, funded, in part, by Mertz Gilmore Foundation. She also continues to guide workshops in Bushwick gardens to Spanish speaking familias who recently arrived to NYC, through the iLAND program by Jennifer Monson. Martita co-curates In/Between, the annual immigrant artist group exhibition at New York Live Arts in partnership with NYFA’s Immigrant Artist Mentoring Program originally created in 2019 by Yanira Castro, Martita, and Poppy DeltaDawn. She is currently the Director of MR at the Judson Memorial Church Program, the Trisha Brown Dance Company’s Tour Company Manager, and continues to mentor Immigrant artists as part of the NYFA Coaching program.

TYLER ASHLEY
Tyler Ashley is a Dance, Drag and Performance Artist. Ashley has performed for Elizabeth Streb, DANCENOISE, Larissa Velez-Jackson, Sean Donovan, Katy Pyle, and Charles Atlas among others. She is also known as The Dauphine - a nightlife personality, performer, producer, and emcee. Her dance art and/or drag performances have been presented by Performa, The High Line, Times Square Alliance, NADA, BOFFO, and seen at Brooklyn Museum, Bard College, Art Basel, BAM, FIAR, The Kitchen, MANA, New York Live Arts, The Public Theater, Jacob’s Pillow, Knockdown Center, The Chocolate Factory, Movement Research, Danspace Project and more.

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

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

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

CONNOR SALE (LIGHTING DESIGNER)
Connor is a Brooklyn-based Lighting Designer and the Resident Lighting Designer of Triskelion Arts. Recent collaborations include: ENUF; The Suite; The Dybbuk Part Two, or Still Between Two Worlds (Triskelion Arts), Das Ersatz (The Brick), This is How We Remember (Triskelion Arts, Philly Fringe), But, Soft + What Light (PAGEANT), the body || dust (Gibney), Earth Temple (with Nocturnal Medicine at SMUSH Gallery), and Sea Change (Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago). He tours internationally with Akram Khan’s Gigenis and with the production of Pina Bausch’s The Rite of Spring that Sadler's Wells and École des Sables are producing. He’s interested in using the temporary nature of light to make people more active in space. More of his work can be found at connorsale.com and at @connorsalelight.

Anna Wotring (LIGHTING BOARD OPERATOR & DIRECTOR OF PRODUCTIONS)
Anna Wotring, a Pittsburgh native, is a community-minded dance artist, designer, and production stage manager committed to the practice of collaborative leadership. She currently works with Annie Heath, Lauren Horn, Jennifer Nugent, and slowdanger as a technical design consultant, dancer, and production stage manager. Wotring obtained her Bachelor of Fine Arts in Dance at the Five College Dance Department in Western Massachusetts. She has had the privilege of working with a multitude of dance organizations, including Alvin Ailey Studios, Attack Theater, Ballet Des Ameriques, BalletNext, Bill T Jones/Arnie Zane Company, the Dance Conservatory of Pittsburgh, Dance Place, H2O Contemporary Dance, Monica Bill Barnes and Company, New York Live Arts, the Pillow Project, Prayers of the People, RoseAnne Spradlin, Scapegoat Garden, Time Lapse Dance, and many others. Wotring is beyond excited to be working and imagining with the Trisk team.

We respectfully acknowledge that the work of Triskelion Arts is situated on the traditional, ancestral, unceded territory of Lenapehoking, the homeland of the Lenape peoples. We pay our respects to their land, water, and ancestors, past, present, and future. This acknowledgment demonstrates a commitment to the process of working to dismantle the ongoing legacies of settler colonialism and to learning to be better stewards of this land.