MAHARU MAENO / DE-CONSTRUKT STUDIO ASSISTANT SPRING/SUMMER 2019
Maharu Maeno is an artist, art manager and works in the community-based art projects in Tokyo and New York. She studied "Art projects in Japan" which are a co-creative form of artistic activity centered around contemporary art at Tokyo University of the Arts from 2014. Her works are tied to larger concerns in the art world especially as indicated by recent trends toward relational and inter-sectional art.
MAIA RADANOVIC / A.I.R. MARCH 2019
Maia Radanovic is a multimedia artist based in New York. She questions and plays with narratives taken from archetypal stories, fairy-tale ideology, cultural expectations & boundaries, gender stereotypes, and established beliefs.
CHLOE DEVINE / A.I.R. MARCH 2019
Chloe Devine is a multi-disciplinary artist focusing on photography, graphic design and illustration. Her career, education and artistic processes have intersected and evolved as a cross-disciplinary investigation and exploration of science, spirituality, community, health, and ecology.
RUIXUAN LI / A.I.R. FEBRUARY 2019
Attracted by Red Hook’s urban-retreat location and anti-Manhattan lifestyle, Ruixuan Li is going to conduct research and collect oral history from the community during her residence. She would refer or adapt the regional stories and eventually create urban legends that are born from the neighborhood, so as to endow the final work with the locals’ common emotions and belongingness.
ROBERT HAIS / A.I.R. FEBRUARY 2019
Robert Hais' project “exitman” is a series of works that consist of site-specific animations projected in the public spaces in cities. Gathering information about the place, meeting and talking to people about the area, to get an idea about what is going on, at the given time, is the foundation of the works.
BRITTA WAUER / A.I.R. FEBRUARY 2019
Britta Wauer is a Berlin based filmmaker with a number of noteworthy documentaries on her credit. Her work focuses mainly on contemporary history, current affairs and biographies and has been screened at festivals worldwide.
ILARIA BOCHICCHIO / A.I.R. JANUARY 2019
Ilaria Bochicchio experiments with multiple techniques: paintings, video installation, music collaboration and live performance. Her research is on human bodies. She paints the deconstruction of forms. In performance she creates imaginary worlds where audience can feel involved in surreal emotions.
THOMAS MARCUSSON / A.I.R. JANUARY 2019
Thomas Marcusson is an interactive and online artist creating mixed media artworks that talks about culture, science and identity, often inviting visitors to engage in different kinds of way. By including various interactive elements, the artworks expand into participatory experiences.
EDMOND CAPUTO / A.I.R. DECEMBER 2018
Edmond Caputo is a mixed-media artist living and working in Brooklyn, NY. Born and raised on a lake, he spent most of his childhood immersed in the flora and fauna of geological upstate New York: his work reflects the experiences of his upbringing.
TEXAS AND GLORY / A.I.R. DECEMBER 2018
Texas and Glory is a collective of two artists defining themselves as feminist art punks. The main topics they are working on are sexuality, gender identity, and LGBTTIQ* themes from a queer feminist perspective. Amongst others, they are expressing their ideas through videos, photography, and graphic novels. texas and glory are based in Cologne, Germany.
COURTNEY MOONEY // LUNASOLO / A.I.R. DECEMBER 2018
Courtney Mooney’s work is based on the seeking and exploration of Soul. Enlightening and recovering the “Soul” of herself and others through the lens.
DINO GEORGETON / A.I.R. DECEMBER 2018
Dino Georgeton is a Basel, Switzerland based musician concerned with the political and social implications and potential of musical practice, with a focus on aligning conditions and means of production with modern social/political ideals, and engaging in self-criticism as a means of reflecting on society.
MARCIA VAITSMAN / A.I.R. NOVEMBER 2018
Marcia Vaitsman, PhD, has biography and practice rooted in displacement, migration, miscegenation and how the body-mind copes with disorientation and alterity. Marcia is developing games about: longevity, loneliness and resilience.
ELIZABETH MILTON / A.I.R. SEPTEMBER 2018
Elizabeth Milton is a performance and media artist who lives and works on the unceded territories of the Musqueam, Squamish and Tsleil-Waututh First Nations in Vancouver, Canada. Her video and photo-based works utilize absurdist character play to explore hyperbolic expressivity, comedic excess and processes of endurance.
ANDREW FORMAN / A.I.R. SEPTEMBER 2018
Andrew Forman is a multi instrumentalist, composer, and producer not seen in one place for too long. He is the primary songwriter of the phantom jazz pop band Goodfight (Florida Room, Ghoster), guitarist of self deprecating fusion band Solid Goold, and has coproduced music for Sweet Joseph, Amani Fela, ACIDHEAD, and Annique Monet among others.
EVA KELLY / A.I.R. SEPTEMBER 2018
Eva Kelly is a Dublin based freelance illustrator. Her illustration is about visual commentary that reflects observations from everyday life, people’s interactions, interiors and exteriors features
ELNAZ JAVANI / A.I.R. AUGUST 2018
Elnaz Javani is an Iranian artist and educator, born in 1985, in the midst of socially, economically and politically turbulent times; during the Iran-Iraq War. This war she witnessed serves as an important backdrop to her multilayered works, in which personal and collective memory intertwine; fragments of cloth, pins and threads were Javani’s childhood toys in the home where her parents lived and worked as tailors.
THE FANDANGOE KID / A.I.R. AUGUST 2018
The Fandangoe Kid (@fandangoekid) is a London-based graphic artist, whose work during a residency at DE-CONSTRUKT [projekts] this month will be looking at the beauty within trauma, following an enormous tragic loss of family in New York in 2011.
ASIER URBIETA / A.I.R. AUGUST 2018
Asier Urbieta is a filmmaker from Basque. He holds a degree in Audio-Visual Communications specializing in cinematographic direction.
ICA YEREVAN: NEST RESIDENCY
DE-CONSTRUKT [projekts] director, Laura Arena will be joining ICA-Yerevan’s Nest residency as an artist and curator in residence in August and September.
PHOTO WORKSHOP NEW YORK @ DE-CONSTRUKT [PROJEKTS]
DE-CONSTRUKT [projekts] is excited to host the ninth edition of Photo Workshop New York (PWNY), from August 1 to August 19, 2018.
FRAN TIRPAK / STUDIO ASSISTANT
Francesca Tirpak is a photographer, writer, journalist and designer from San Diego, California. She is taking a gap year from studies in Leeds, England, at Leeds Beckett University, where she studies digital journalism, to intern at DE-CONSTRUKT [projekts].
ROBERT C. BECK AND SARAH MAX BECK / A.I.R. JULY 2018
Robert C. Beck and Sarah Max Beck founded studioHydrostatic in 2014 as a multidisciplinary, collaborative art studio merging science and creative practice to build inspiring, new models that challenge the understanding of the biological environment, humanity’s relationship with it, and culture symbiosis between the two.
FLORIN DAN PRODAN A.I.R. JULY 2018
Romanian poet and artist Florin Dan Prodan (1976) is the founder of the literature and art group Zidul de Hartie. As a poet, he has published among other books, On the Road. travel poems (Shambhala Press, Kathmandu, 2012) and The Facebook Poems (Cartea Romaneasca, Bucharest, 2017).
BALEADA QUEEN / ULTRACULTURAL OTHERS A.I.R. 2018
Baleada Queen (BQ) rose to fame at a young age while starring in a telenovela by the same name. Sadly, this star took a fall and was placed under conservatorship in her 20s. She was relegated to a life of loneliness, trapped inside her Central American McMansion. As the months went on, she felt the need to express herself to her fans, who she hoped to reconnect with after such a dismal public meltdown.
MIRANDA BELLAMY / A.I.R. JULY 2018
Miranda Bellamy is an artist and filmmaker. She has a multifaceted artistic practice that consists of sculpture, installation, video, photography, and works on paper. Bellamy’s art is technically proficient, intricately complex and highly refined. It has often investigated social fantasies, specific environments and the technologies that surround us.
LIA KANG / SUMMER INTERN 2018
Lia Kang was born and raised in Southern California and is currently enrolled in Rhode Island School of Design’s BFA program for painting in Providence, RI.
MARIE-PASCALE LAFRENIÈRE / A.I.R. JUNE 2018
Marie-Pascale Lafrenière’s creative research revolves around questions of the female representation in pop culture. From a feminist perspective, she investigates how the way women are depicted in mass media and social media affect the development of identity and mental well-being of female youth.
KATIE LEE MANSFIELD / A.I.R. JUNE 2018
Katie Lee Mansfield’s artwork is influenced by her upbringing. She often turns to her family’s farmstead to explore concepts of rural American identity. Working across several disciplines, she consistently uses her body as a mode of expression and critique of class hierarchy, familial relationships, mental illness, queer identity, and rural American history.
REBECCA SYLVIA POSNER / CURATOR IN RESIDENCE MAY & JUNE 2018
Rebecca Sylvia Posner is a multi-media artist working across disciplines of drawing, writing, experimental music and performance. She creates solo and collaborative works that explore human myth-making and mine the boundary between internal and shared experience.
CHRISTINE MACKEY / A.I.R. MAY 2018
Christine Mackey is the May artist in residency, studio-based at The Leitrim Sculpture Centre, Ireland, she is a current holder of a Fulbright Artist Research Scholarship in the States pursuing independent research on the ecological and often at times antagonistic relationships between plants and the world of humans.
RIK BECK / A.I.R. MARCH 2018
Rik Beck is an artist, curator, and a social worker living and working in Germany. Rik has participated in projects all over the world, including Berlin, Ghana, and Kyrgyzstan. In Stuttgart where she resides, Rick gave lectures on urban planning in the university.
MADISON MANNING / A.I.R. JANUARY 2018
Madison Manning is a multidisciplinary artist who works in painting, sculpture, and performance. Madison’s large-scale work utilizes bright color palettes, luxuriously tacky textures, and queer feminism to critique of the beauty and behavioral ideals she was taught as a young girl.
ESTER GROSSI / A.I.R. DECEMBER 2017
Our December 2017 artist in resident is Ester Grossi, a multidisciplinary artist who works primarily in painting. Her interest lies in investigating the power of images in various contexts and to explore new ways to develop them across collaborations with other artists.
LINDSEY CLARK-RYAN / A.I.R. JULY 2017
Our July artist in resident, Lindsey Clark-Ryan, is a multidisciplinary artist who works primarily in installation and printmaking. She is interested in the precarious boundaries between two-dimensional graphic images and three-dimensional objects, between mobile and stationary, and between function and uselessness. Her work reflects a deadpan and absurdly precise observational attitude toward existing in and archiving the world.
BASIS STUDENTS VISIT DE-CONSTRUKT
On Friday, June 16th, 2017, we were visited by 30 Basis Independent Brooklyn students accompanied by several chaperones and their teacher Mrunali Das.
BENEFIT FOR RDJ SHELTER
On June 3rd, 2017 at 6pm, DE-CONSTRUKT [projekts] hosted an evening Creative Solidarity a Benefit for RDJ Shelter in support and celebration of the RDJ Refugee Shelter, the only shelter in New York City (Harlem) specifically for homeless asylum seekers and refugees. With our fundraising efforts we raised over $1,100.
EDUARDO SOTOMAYOR / SUMMER INTERN 2017
Hello! My name is Eduardo Sotomayor and I am currently a student at NYU studying Art History. I am very excited to begin my internship with DE-CONSTRUKT [projekts] and to work alongside everyone who makes the exhibitions, performances, and events possible.
ADRIAN MANGEL / A.I.R. JUNE 2017
Adrian Mangel a painter, born and raised in Costa Rica, is our artist in residence for June 2017. He has show work in many group shows in New York and abroad, including venues such as the Art Director’s Club, the Society of Illustrators, and Rochester Art Center. Mangel’s work is often concerned with his experimentation in materiality. His style of painting is what drives his subjects, rather than the other way around.
RECIPROCATE
RECIPROCATE || ro͞odərəl (of a plant) growing on waste ground or among refuse | ARCHIVE-PERFORMANCE-INSTALLATION. A summer series of eco-dance LABS culminates with an archive-performance-installation choreographed & facilitated by, Corinne Cappelletti and Eva Perrotta, and accompanied with live sound by, Fa Ventilato.
AIR VELA STRAŽA ARTIST RESIDENCY
DE-CONSTRUKT [projekts] took part in a focus group in preparation for an artist residency program “AIR Vela Straža” located in old Yugoslavian Military barracks high up in the hills of Šolta Island in the Adriatic Sea south of Split.
KEEP FROZEN: ART-PRACTICE-AS-RESEARCH
Across Europe people talk and write about art as research, but too rarely from the perspective of the artist. The artist Hulda Rós Gudnadóttir initiated this book publication project in response to this; to tell a story of an art-practice-as-research project from the artist’s point of view.
INTAKE-OUTAKE WITH PLANTAIN LAB
Experiment with our respiratory system in relationship to plantain, mullein and common mallow growing in Brooklyn through a walking performance ritual.
AROUNDLESS RESIDENCY
DE-CONSTRUKT [projekts] was invited by Stan Coenders for a seminar New AiR for Artists & Coordinators as part of Aroundless Artist Residency at MeetingInZdonov in Czech Republic. The artists featured in this month long program are Carlota Borges Lloret, Marta Silva, Guida Miranda, Andrea Junekova, Palii Anastasia, Bogdan Pavlovic, Janine Leger, and Sandra Franco.
RRR PERFORMANCE IN CZECH REPUBLIC
De-construkt [projekts] hosted RRR, a free-improvising duo, consisting of Berlin based Elizabeth Kosack (USA) and Dan Peter Sundland (Norway) inspired by the woods around St. Trinity in Ostružno at Sklář campground.
LOOSE PRESENTS: A/S/L AN ADAPTATION
LOOSE is an ongoing documentary, improvisational, performance project created by DJ and video artist, D’hana Perry, which is an autobiographical examination of how gender expression, and racial identity intersect when trans* and gender-non-conforming people of color navigate public space.
DETOX WITH DANDELION LAB
Detox with Dandelion LAB, a Ro͞odərəl experimental movement-based LAB facilitated by artists Eva Perrotta and Corinne Cappelletie, co-facilitated with Christopher Kennedy in Red Hook.
ARTIST TALK WITH PAVLÍNA FICHTA ČIERNA
On November 9, at 6pm CLAKULA Productions and DE-CONSTRUKT [projekts] hosted Pavlína Fichta Čierna, an international Slovakia-based artist to present her interactive pieces situated within public and social spaces, focused on a processes of communication containing a tangible sociological dimension in our studio in Brooklyn.
PLACE: SUSPENDED
Place: Suspended, a project by our artist in residence Heidi Reynolds invites the public to modify the floating platform by rearranging objects and creating stories before the project travels back to Boston.
JUST DANCE
On August 21 at 8pm DE-CONSTRUKT [projekts] hosted with our artist in resident Berglind Ágústsdóttir, Just Dance -A Night of Music, Dancing, Video, Drawing and Sculpture hosted by Berglind Ágústsdóttir a concert/dance party and art event. Berglind, an artist from Iceland who also spends her time in Berlin spent the month of August at our studio in Red Hook.
RECYCLED VOL. II – NYC
Recycled Vol.II – NYC is an exercise in reusing, remaking or recycling materials in particular unwanted canvases from donators from our artist in residence, Czech artist, Viktor Valášek in our Red Hook Studio.. These canvases will be the basis of new work in which Valášek incorporates the donors themselves by either painting their portraits on top or using their likeliness in other ways that could only be specified once met in person.
INFILTRATORS
In the spirit of resistance Khaled Jarrar speaks out about his refusal of exit, the current situation in Palestine and his documentary film “Infiltrators.”
BLOC PARTY
Bloc Party was featured at the Celebrating Red Hook festival July 12, 12-8pm. Bloc Party is part experiment and part play, a project conceived over a dinner table brainstorming ideas to engage the public in communication with activities of play by Laura Arena, Stephanie Lowe and Amy Weng.
KEEP FROZEN part 1
On June 8th 2013 @ DE-CONSTRUKT [projekts] space we hosted our first artist event for artist in resident Hulda Ros Gudnadottir at our 41 Seabring Street location in Red Hook. “Keep Frozen part one” an onsite installation with surprise performances by Icelandic artist Hulda Ros Gudnadottir, explores her personal childhood memories of the aesthetics and culture of the docks and the waterfront of a fishing harbor town of Reykjavik.
MSIF AT DIY DAYS 2013
My Sky is Falling (MSiF) an experience design that harnesses technology and story to create empathy for the challenges faced by foster care children was presented at D.I.Y. Days on Saturday, April 27th, 2013 at the New School as an innovative project going beyond the screen.
MSIF DESIGN TEAM
DE-CONSTRUKT [projects] put together a wonderfully talented team of artists, Jennifer Cox, Darryl Montgomery, Mikhail Iliatov, and Tessa Mauclere to work on the visual experience design of My Sky is Falling an immersive installation that harnesses technology and story to create empathy for the challenges faced by foster care children was presented at Envision and DIY Days at the New School, both in NYC.
MSIF AT ENVISION 2013
DE-CONSTRUKT [projekts], Reboot Stories, Orange Duffel Bag Foundation, Columbia University, MIT Media Lab, Harmony Institute and filmmaker Lydia Joyner performed My Sky is Falling at Envision 2013: Stories of the Global Health Challenge on Thursday, April 11 at the United Nations in NYC.
