Collaboration on Sebastien Sanz de Santamaria

Luv til it hurts

Thu, 01 Oct 2020 00:00:00 -0600

Luv ’til it Hurts is an artist-led project on HIV and stigma initiated by Todd Lanier Lester. From 2018 to 2020 it brought together HIV-positive artists and allies around the world to understand their local HIV-related stigmas and challenges, and developed Exquisite Corpse: an evolving group show, interactive game, and soapbox that anyone can stage wherever it is needed.

Its activities included the São Paulo AIDS Walk, gatherings in Grenoble, Berlin, and Bogotá, a World AIDS Day event in Mauritius, and Kairon Liu’s first US solo show, Luv ’til it Hurts (El Museo de Los Sures, Brooklyn, October 2018).

Rivet

Mon, 01 Jun 2020 00:00:00 -0600

Rivet is a unified search platform designed to help you find and activate opportunities to advance your creative practice.

Rivet was founded in 2016 by Katrina Neumann, Sebastien Sanz de Santamaria & Kira Simon-Kennedy; with support from NEW INC, New Museum’s cultural incubator, and Made in NY Media Center by IFP.

Key Responsibilities:

Creation of a digital marketplace/billboard of creative and cultural opportunities worldwide.
Product design and creation of the MVP.
Product management and collaboration with engineering in development of a full-stack app in Flask.

Artist Safe Haven

Sat, 01 Dec 2018 00:00:00 -0500

Program Manager for a New York City prototype developing safe haven residency infrastructure for artists at risk.

The idea was first developed in 2012 during freeDimensional’s COL:LAB residency on Wasan Island, Ontario, and was designed at the intersection of artist residencies and shelter. In 2017 it became the NYC Artist Safe Haven Residency Program, a yearlong residency for NYC-based international artists facing censorship, persecution, or other threats to their freedom of expression. It was founded by Artistic Freedom Initiative, Todd Lanier Lester, Residency Unlimited, and Westbeth Artists Housing. Its first residents were Hadi Nasiri (Iran, 2017) and Rashwan Abdelbaki (Syria, 2018).

UnLocal

Sun, 01 Apr 2018 00:00:00 -0500

French translator for UnLocal, a non-profit providing immigration legal services and community education to undocumented immigrant communities in New York City.

SHIFT Residency

Tue, 01 Dec 2015 00:00:00 -0500

Advisory committee member for SHIFT, a residency at EFA Project Space supporting arts administrators who sustain their own creative practice alongside their institutional work.

Founded in 2010, SHIFT gives artists who work inside arts organizations (curators, educators, administrators) a year of studio space at the Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts, peer support and mentoring, and a closing group exhibition at EFA Project Space. The advisory committee juries the residency and the Project Space’s open calls.

Secret Spaces

Sat, 14 Aug 2004 00:00:00 -0500

Counter Culture paired six contemporary New York artists with small businesses and organizations around the Bowery, the future home of the New Museum, to explore the commerce and cultural diversity of the surrounding neighborhoods.

The Flux Factory collective presented Secret Spaces, an installation in an area of Bowery Martial Arts (246 Bowery) not usually accessible to customers.

The piece ran as a spy game. Visitors who knew the password became “infiltrators”: at a command center hidden inside the martial arts school they chose a mission level (easy, intermediate, difficult, or impossible), received a briefing by telescreen, and set out with a mission pack. Missions ranged from neighborhood errands to gathering intelligence from payphones and composing photographs; the impossible level was never disclosed. Flux Factory’s own archive lists the piece as Secret Places.

Scape 2

Sat, 22 May 2004 00:00:00 -0500

A walk-through song made of sound installations, all working from the same beat and drone. Each artist developed sound pieces that interact with one another by following a rhythm of 60 beats per minute over a drone on the note D.

With Pierre Bastien, Guillermo Brown, free103point9, Marco & Miwa, Stefany Anne Golberg with Morgan Meis, and Bruno Persat & Sebastien Sanz de Santamaria.

Impossible Tea Party

Wed, 01 Oct 2003 00:00:00 -0500

Performed in October 2003 at the DUMBO Arts Festival as part of its Water Art section: an experiment in sophisticated not-drowning.

Four floating platforms, designed by Fluxer Brian Matthews, were set out on the East River along with a floating tea table, everyone dressed for a Victorian tea party. From the shore, the audience ordered cups of tea using semaphore flags; the performers then had to reach the table with ropes and small paddles to make them.

Miracle on 43rd Street

Sat, 26 Apr 2003 00:00:00 -0500

Miracle on 43rd Street: the tour & the mischief took participants by bus to the BQE end of 43rd Street in Queens and left them to walk back to Flux Factory with a map they were given. Flux Factory described the street as “the Yellow Brick Road without the colors or the bricks and straighter” — the catch being the map itself.

Recorded on an earlier CV as Miracle Mischief, a film.

When Everybody Agrees It Means Nobody Understood

Sun, 03 Nov 2002 00:00:00 -0500

Co-participation in Flux Factory’s installation and performance piece for the Queens Museum of Art’s exhibition Queens International.

For nearly three months the collective worked inside the gallery in orange jumpsuits, building and maintaining a structure that grew, developed, and then devolved. It was updated daily and documented continuously, until the documentation outweighed the living structure and was all that remained.

Scape

Mon, 01 Apr 2002 00:00:00 -0500

A collaborative sound installation in Flux Factory’s gallery space and experimental studio. Members of the collective and outside artists developed a number of pieces that interacted with one another while also standing as independent works.

With Jean Barberis, Simon Boudvin, Stefany Anne Golberg, Geraldine Longueville, Morgan Meis, Jason Nunez, Bruno Persat, Marco Scoffier & Miwa, and Sebastien Sanz de Santamaria.

The project returned as Scape 2 in 2004.

My Life as a Hamster

Tue, 01 Jan 2002 00:00:00 -0500

Co-participated in the group art show Surfer Nazis Must Die.

What's So Funny?

Wed, 01 Aug 2001 00:00:00 +0100

Co-produced videos and accompanied them with live music for the annual arts festival at C.E.S.T.A., the Cultural Exchange Station in Tábor.

C.E.S.T.A. is an international non-profit arts center founded in 1993 by Chris Rankin and Hilary Binder of the duo Sabot, running festivals, residencies, and artist exchanges.

Multi-Prises

Mon, 01 May 2000 00:00:00 +0100

Live music and sound production for Multi-Prises, an evening of short films at the Iseion theater, performed alongside the Project association’s video jockey.

Three performances: December 1998, June 1999, and May 2000.