Image: Alexandra Neuman, Collage from the series xeno-epistemology, 2020
You are invited to join readings and performances by residents participating in Live or Buy.
alex cruse, Harriet Foyster, Alexandra Neuman, Nina Sarnelle, Shweta Sharma, and Anaclara Talento will use the Zoom online platform to bring short works from their homes to yours. Please click here to join (this link should open in your browser and you do not need to download the Zoom application for it to work).
This event is part of PRAKSIS’s sixteenth residency, Live or Buy, which intends to re-think ecologies of consumption. The residency has been developed with artist Nina Sarnelle, designer and researcher Ida Falck Øien and clothing label HAiKw/.
Who is presenting?
alex cruse
alex cruse is an interdisciplinary artist, writer, and curator based in Oakland, California. She is the author of CONTRAVERSE (Timeless, Infinite Light, 2017) and ZERO ENERGY EXPERIMENTAL PILE (Compline, 2020), as well as several self-published works. Other writing may be found in Social Text, Tripwire, baest: a journal of queer forms and affects, Eldery, ARMED CELL, and elsewhere.
Harriet Foyster
Harriet Foyster (UK) is an artist and writer based in Amsterdam, NL. She gained her BA in Fine Art from Chelsea College of Arts, London, in 2015, where she was also the recipient of the Acme Studio Award. She received her MA in Critical Studies at the Sandberg Instituut, Amsterdam, in 2019. Harriet’s practice is strongly rooted in research revolving broadly around ways that material circumstance and ideology converge to construct, reinforce and perpetuate behavioural patterns that strengthen the neoliberal agenda, and how the logics of private property are central to contemporary subjectivity production. Her works and texts have been shared at PEER, London; fanfare; Amsterdam, Jupiter Woods, London; De Appel, Amsterdam; the 26th Biennial of Design, Ljubljana, and Ambit Magazine, among others.
Alexandra Neuman
Alexandra Neuman is an interdisciplinary reptile currently based in San Diego, California. Drawing on elements from new materialism and multi-species feminism, her work focuses on perforating the identity of "human" by reshuffling naturalized systems of classification. She received a BFA in Visual Arts and Anthropology from Sam Fox School of Art at Washington University in St. Louis and is currently pursuing an MFA in Visual Arts at University of California, San Diego. She is a past participant of the Arteles Residency in Haukijarvi, Finland and the Saas-Fee Summer Institute of Art in Berlin. Her films have shown at Anthology Film Archives, Museum of the Moving Image, and the Eyeslicer. She is a Webby Award Honoree as well as the recent recipient of the Initiative for Digital Exploration of Arts and Sciences (IDEAS) grant at Calit2.
Nina Sarnelle
Nina Sarnelle is an artist and musician living in Los Angeles, with a BA from Oberlin College and an MFA from Carnegie Mellon University. She is a founding member of the Institute for New Feeling and dadpranks. In the last couple years her work has been shown at Whitechapel Gallery (London), Hammer Museum (LA), Getty Center (LA), Ballroom Marfa (TX), MoMA (NY), Istanbul Modern (Turkey), Neuer Berliner Kunstverein (Berlin), NADA (Miami), Museum of Art, Architecture & Technology (Lisbon), Fundacion PROA (Buenos Aires), Black Cube (Denver), Southern Exposure (San Francisco), Recess (NY), Akademie Schloss Solitude (Germany), UNSW Galleries (Sydney), Project 88 (Mumbai), Kevin Space (Vienna), Villa Croce Contemporary Art Museum (Genova), Center for Contemporary Arts (Santa Fe), Mwoods (Beijing), MoCA Cleveland, Human Resources (LA), Borscht Festival (Miami), SPACES (Cleveland), Threewalls (Chicago), Vox Populi (Philadelphia), and featured in Frieze, Art in America, Vogue Italy, Huffington Post, Creators Project, FlashArt, and Hyperallergic.
Shweta Sharma
Shweta Sharma (IND) is a fashion editor and costumier based in Mumbai. She has styled for various television networks including TLC, MTV and Discovery Networks, and designed costumes and characters for movies and ad films. Using styling and costume design as a way of story-telling and cultural gate-keeping, she has worked with publications including; Vogue India, Femina and Harper’s Bazaar on fashion features and editorials. She has been working on a sartorial and spatial documentation series - meeting women through Instagram and travelling to Liguria, Berlin, New York, Oakland, and London. She teaches Advanced Fashion Styling to undergraduate students of Fashion Communication at NIFT (National Institute of Fashion Technology, India).
Anaclara Talento
Visual artist, researcher, teacher. Bachelor and Master of Arts – Plastic and Visual Arts (Uruguayan University of the Republic – UdelaR. National School of Fine Arts Institute – IENBA, 2007 – 2013). Master in Fine Arts (MFA) (Norwegian University of Science and Technology – NTNU. Trondheim Academy of Fine Arts – KiT, 2017 – 2019). Member of Uruguay’s Contemporary Art Foundation (FAC) since 2007, a member of the Artistic Research Society (SAR) since 2017 and a member of the Norske Billedkunstnere since 2018.
