WHILE YOU WERE TEXTING
Exhibition
While You Were Texting confronts the reality that we have been distracted from working towards solutions to the problems that matter the most. It showcases the work of Daria Dorosh, Jose Marinez, and Gayil Nalls, and features a public discussion organized by the artists. Additional programming includes two days of short film screenings, a creative hands-on workshop, and a movie night.
El Barrio’s Artspace PS109
213 East 99th Street, New York City
Friday, April 29 – Sunday, May 1st 1:00 – 5:00 PM
Program Schedule
Friday April 29th
EXCEPTIONAL VOICES | Friday, April 29, 5:00 – 10:00 PM
Gayil Nalls’ video series includes art shorts and interviews, thought-provoking conversations with scientists, artists, activists and thinkers.
Saturday April 30th
CLOTHING DECONSTRUCTION | Saturday, April 30, 4:00 – 6:00 PM
Daria Dorosh - artist and fashion design professor at FIT - leads a hands-on workshop in repurposing no longer wearable clothing. Sign up for a two hour hands on session info@fashionlabinprocess.com
MOVIE NIGHT AND DISCUSSION | Saturday 7:00 - 10:00 PM
Jose Marinez hosts a special film screening and discussion.
Sunday May 1st
EXCEPTIONAL VOICES | 2:00 – 4:00 PM
Gayil Nalls’ video series includes art shorts and interviews, thought-provoking conversations with scientists, artists, activists and thinkers.
RECEPTION | Sunday, May 1st, 4:00 - 5:00 PM
EARTH AND LABOR ROUNDTABLE | Sunday, May 1, 5:00 – 8:00 PM
Situated in the middle of the art installations, a discussion forum will take place on the interlocking topics of planet welfare and the evolution of labor.
Daria Dorosh uses digital print installations to question the impact of the commodification of beauty on the environment and human consciousness.
Jose Marinez’s installations explore the designated role of technology in the 21st century, and which current resources are best suited to the contemporary issues humanity faces.
Gayil Nalls’ work thrusts visitors into the natural world forced to consciousness through technology, merging the senses in pattern, light, color, sound and smell, to hypnotic effect.
Sunday, May 1, 5:00 – 8:00 PM
Situated in the middle of the art installations, a discussion forum will take place on the interlocking topics of planet welfare and the evolution of labor.
Speakers
Daria Dorosh | Artist, educator, researcher, and activist working in the intersection of art, fashion, and technology with a special interest in how these fields converge on the body.
Marie Eisele | Healthcare industry advocate and reformer.
John Kiehl | Mathematician, technologist, and music producer.
Jose Marinez | Hardware and software hacker trying to leave this world better than he found it.
Amelia Marzec | Artist and activist enabling communities through innovative uses of technology to create alternative decentralized networks that help maintain mobile democracy.
Karen Morris | Psychoanalyst in private practice. An authority on social dreaming matrixes as well as contemporary slave labor and society’s selective inattention.
Gayil Nalls | Interdisciplinary artist creating at the forefront of science-art practices and theoretical discourse. Her investigations have led to a focus on the effects of synthetic chemicals on the natural world.
Sandra Oxford | Community activist and union representative working on living wage issues and other problems affecting Latin American immigrants in upstate New York.
Carlos Pérez García-Pando | Associate Research Scientist at Columbia University and NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies in New York. Expert on the relationship between climate and health.
Rain Dove | “Gender Capitalist,” androgynous model, actor working as both male and female roles, and firefighter.
Diana Reiss | Animal behaviorist, professor of psychology at Hunter College and in Animal Behavior and Comparative Psychology at The Graduate Center of the City University of New York. She is the author of The Dolphin in the Mirror: Exploring Dolphin Minds and Saving Dolphin Lives.
Susan Silver | Public Defender attorney with the New Jersey Office of the Public Defender. She is often contacted by her clients who face difficulties in obtaining employment once they leave incarceration.
Rachel Sussman | Artist, photographer, author of The Oldest Living Things in the World, and trained member of Al Gore’s Climate Reality Leadership Corps.
Maria Paola Sutto | Biologist, journalist, and program manager of the Urban Design Lab at the Earth Institute, Columbia University.
Friday, April 29, 5:00 – 10:00 PM | Sunday, May 1, 2:00 – 4:00 PM
Gayil Nalls’ video series includes art shorts and interviews, thought-provoking conversations with scientists, artists, activists and thinkers, including John Bachcall, Mario Livio, Anjan Chatterjee, David Edwards, Richard Loveless, and the Hopi Elders.
Saturday, April 30, 4:00 – 6:00 PM
Daria Dorosh - artist and fashion design professor at FIT - leads a hands-on workshop in repurposing no longer wearable clothing.
If you have clothing that you can't wear anymore, no need to throw it out! Remake it into a unique fashion item to wear and love again
Saturday, April 30, 7:00 PM
Jose Marinez hosts a special film screening and discussion.
I can't think of any other movie that gets one upset, amused and energized all at once.