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 Located in one of downtown's largest office buildings, this basement level office space houses up to three artist projects or arts groups at a time, providing much-needed workspace to filmmakers in post-production, arts festival coordinators, visual artists doing project research, or cultural organizations that just need a short-term home on a project-basis. Space at One Chase Manhattan Plaza is generously donated by JPMorgan Chase.
Katya Aglert January-October 2008Katja Aglert is a Swedish artist based in Stockholm. She works in different media such as video, sound, interventions and text. ”I often collect material for a project as a documentary process, and with the assembled material I strive to re-create and concentrate the essence, with the aim to interpret and decode it, and by that create a shift in ”reality” to make it more ambivalent, playful and dramaturgically interesting”. Aglert exhibited internationally at Overgaden-Instute for Contemporary Art, Copenhagen, Denmark and at Gigantic Art Space, New York, USA. Her work has been shown in Sweden at museums and art centers including Liljevalchs konsthall, Bildmuseet Umeå, and Örebro Konsthall. She screened her work incontexts including KonstBio, Stockholm; Made in Video, Copenhagen; TRUNK/Östersund. Aglert is one of the co-founders of the web based project SQUID, hosted by Tensta konsthall, ak28, Ersta konsthall and IASPIS in Sweden; and Pro Arte Institute in Russia and Manifesta 6 in Cyprus. In 2006 Aglert was awarded with a 2 years working grant from the Swedish Arts Grants Committee, Visual Arts Fund. She attended Umeå Academy of Art in Sweden where she graduated in 2003 with a Master of Fine Arts. Katja is currently working on a project which has light pollution as the point of departure, and produces video-based documentary and staged work related to this topic. As part of this project she hopes to realize a large scale art intervention at Times Square in spring 2008. 
January-October 2008Celebrate Mexico Now is New York City's first, and only, arts festival spotlighting contemporary Mexico. Each September, New Yorkers are immersed in the vanguard of Mexican music, dance, film, literature, theater, visual art, architecture, and cuisine. With performances, screenings, exhibitions, and discussions, this annual festival imports an authentic experience of what is going on in Mexico right now. Since its debut in 2004, Celebrate Mexico Now has brought over 175 groundbreaking artists and projects to 50 of New York's leading cultural venues. More than 35,000 New Yorkers have attended festival events, and thousands more have discovered Celebrate Mexico Now through its bilingual marketing and promotional campaign. The festival has been recognized by Mayor Bloomberg for its contributions to New York's cultural community with a proclamation each year since 2004, and in 2008, the festival was endorsed by the Latin Media and Entertainment Commission (LMEC) as an official NYC Latino event. Celebrate Mexico Now is produced by Claudia Norman and her consulting firm, CN Management, and is a not-for-profit project sponsored by The Field. While in residence at Chase Manhattan Plaza, Celebrate Mexico Now will produce its 5th anniversary festival: September 5 – 15, 2008. More info: www.mexiconowfestival.org |
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