BRIC Blog
BRIClab Essays: A Garden to Take Care of
Friday, May 7, 2021 - 1:00AM“Looking at these films and the oeuvre they attest to, we find time and again the same desire to uncover powerful contemporary strategies, writes curator Caroline Ferreira on Elizabeth Orr’s work, “...shot in 2021 in the middle of a global pandemic, (Mind Gamed) immediately evokes that other invisible monster which has taken over the planet since the beginning of 2020 — that other foreign body which has come to contaminate healthy bodies.”
BRIClab Essays: In Defense of Domesticity, Monotony, and Interiority
Friday, May 7, 2021 - 12:45AMReflecting on Center is not a particular point on earth independent curator Banyi Huang writes, "As ‘aliens’ whose survival is dependent on the endless demonstration of their distinction, immigrant artists and art workers are often propelled by linear vision,attachment to authorship, and even obsessive-compulsive control over one’s narrative. Therefore, these long, patient shots that fully reveal space and its inhabitants push back against hyperactivity, our limited understanding of productivity, and social constraints--they force me, the viewer, to detect small details, and be confronted with the relationship between space and place, the body and identity."
BRIClab Essays: Her Departure, The Gap, Testimony
Friday, May 7, 2021 - 12:30AMActivist and writer Andrea Nikté Juarez Mendoza responds to Tanika Williams’ Sanctuary: “I have your eyes / So in the mirror I stand / And I see you looking back at me / Your love is in the schoolbooks / And the good cooked food / I felt your embrace in the warmth of new blankets / And heard your footsteps as I walked in shoes you sent to me / I have seen you in all the ways / one sees without eyes / Knowing you have loved me in all the ways one loves without touch/ Together / we filled the gaps.”
BRIClab Essays: to be unmade, to be unfinished, to only ever be-with
Thursday, May 6, 2021 - 7:30PMWriter, artist, and farmer, Jah Elyse Sayers responds to Jonathan González's video The Smallest Unit Is Each Other reflecting on how the work "holds open a space for feeling out, thinking through, and beginning or renewing a commitment to experiencing ourselves, that is being, differently, by only ever being-with."
#StopAsianHate
Friday, March 19, 2021 - 5:30PMThe recent surge in hate crimes against Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders is rooted in the systemic normalization of nationalism and xenophobia that seeks to destroy our vision of a better world. At BRIC, we celebrate our beloved community of artists, creators, teachers, neighbors and friends. We believe we are enriched by the diversity of this community and will raise our voice against those that believe otherwise.
Artist Opportunities: January 2021
Monday, January 4, 2021 - 12:00PMA curated selection of open calls, residencies, and exhibition opportunities for visual artists.
Artist Interview: Caitlin Cherry
Monday, January 4, 2021 - 11:00AMCommon thematic concerns of Caitlin Cherry's work orbit around female subjectivity and the Black woman’s experience. “Not everyday women,” Cherry views her subjects through the lens of technology where they become beautifully superhuman, glossy, misunderstood, and disfigured.
Artist Interview: Zachary Fabri
Monday, January 4, 2021 - 11:00AMZachary Fabri works across the mediums of sculpture, video, and performance. Inspired by both the visceral and material world, his video and performance work captures his body engaging with a site’s built environment, Black identities, and his Brooklyn neighborhood.
Artist Interview: Christophe Roberts
Monday, January 4, 2021 - 11:00AMChristophe Roberts is a Brooklyn-based multidisciplinary artist working in sculpture, painting, design, and installation work. His practice explores complex masculinities, rebel origin myths, and the commodification of identity through meditations on mass culture iconography.
Artist Interview: Joiri Minaya
Monday, January 4, 2021 - 11:00AMWorking across the mediums of painting, sculpture, performance, and photography, Joiri Minaya navigates landscapes between the global north and south, to engage with themes around the body, domesticity, and gender roles into a site of unlearning and decolonizing larger institutional systems.
