Aquí y Allá -Nov 25th Programming (Philadelphia)

Skip the shopping this Black Friday and instead meet us in our gallery for some decolonized snacks, tequila, and conversation.

MOURNING MOMENTS - Friday Nov. 25th 12:30-3:30pm

Vox Populi - 319 N 11th Street, 3rd Floor Philadelphia, PA 19107

Artists Stephanie Acosta and J Soto open their informal ongoing conversation around Latinx/American identity while sitting in their current installation at Vox. Visit the work, the convo, the drink station. Let's spend the day shopping for thoughts and sharing in our rage, fear, joy, and questions. 

Aquí y Allá at Vox Populi (Philadelphia)

A new collaboration opens this week FRIDAY NOV 4th at Philadelphia's Vox Populi! 

J. Soto and Stephanie Acosta present Aquí y Allá, the result of a year-long dialogue focused on the overwhelming complexity of identifying as Latinx while representations in popular culture and the art world reify tired visions of otherness rather than expressing our contemporary presence. Both New York based artists working extensively in collaboration, Acosta and Soto chart out territory for a more dynamic dialogue. Aquí y Allá manifests as a collection of new artworks developed into two archives in the forms of video and sculpture; an object theatre.  Acosta resists the finality of anthropology and captures its fleeting nature through discursive translation engaging the photographic imprint and creating present futures. Soto complicates categorization by honoring contradiction and unintelligibility suggesting the mutable and evolving nature of the personal subject in tension with the national subject and sexuality.

WRITING GROUP at ROMAN SUSAN

an evening of performances and installations by members of Writing Group a biweekly meeting of women artists who write, presented at ROMAN SUSAN, on June 8, 2014, performances + readings begin at 8pm.

Writing Group began meeting in Chicago in February of 2014, as an intentional group of women artists focused on creating space for words and critique within our individual practices.  Our showing, 'an evening...' came at the request from Joshua Kent and served as the closing event of his project, 'On the impossibility of a singular hand'  where Joshua lived in the gallery and attempted (successfully!) to grow a seed in the palm of his hand. Roman Susan was open 24-hrs a day for the week, and each evening featured a response from fellow artists.

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