Event Info
The Immigrant Artist Biennial: Identity Card brings a two-hour performance evening to BRIC. Five emergent new media and performance artists transform BRIC into a site of disturbance and rupture. Centering sonic, visual, and geopolitical disruptions—the aftershocks of contemporary life’s collision with colonial and imperial intervention—Memories of Disruption allows audience members to feel how these histories continue to reverberate sonically and visually through bodies, landscapes, and collective cultural memory.
Memories of Disruption traces how histories of violence not only persist but can be transformed by opening space for reconfiguration, refusal, and autonomy. Ivana Dama’s sound performance is shaped by her experience of growing up in Belgrade during wartime, engaging the siren as a sculptural sonic form that recalls systems of warning and collective anxiety. Andrew Yong Hoon Lee stages a sonic performance that examines migration, language, and phenomenology through the interplay of sound, light, and spatial experience. Maya Jeffereis screens Land of Eternal Summer, a phytogram-based 16mm film that reanimates archival histories of Japanese migration to Brazil through plant-developed imagery, poetry, and reflections on labor, identity, and colonial erasure. Simon Liu and Charlie Perez-Tlatenchi present Ocean Terminal, an audiovisual lecture-performance combining live noise, collage, and abstraction to trace the psychic architectures of respective homes and travels, through fragmented memory and diaspora. Lita Vinueza’s series Sonic Liberation Devices uses synthesis and electronic sound to explore the intersections of sonic experimentation, political resistance, and Palestinian cultural expression.
Against the impulse to rebuild what was lost, audiences will hold on to longing—where history and memory remains incomplete, shifting, and unresolved—as they move through the rhythmic and multisensory program.
Program
5:00PM Doors
6:00PM Curators remarks
6:10PM Ivana Dama
6:30PM Andrew Yong Hoon Lee
6:50PM Maya Jeffereis, Land of Eternal Summer
7:05PM Intermission
7:20PM Simon Liu and Charlie Perez-Tlatenchi, Ocean Terminal
7:40PM Lita Vinueza, Sonic Liberation Devices
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ABOUT THE ARTISTS
Ivana Dama is an artist and researcher whose work explores the nonverbal expression of experiences shaped by social and political conflict through sound studies and sonic memory. She earned her MFA in Sculpture from Yale University after graduating from UCLA’s School of Arts and Architecture. Her work—including audio-video installations, robotics, web projects, and music performances—explores the themes of sound and space at various scales, including the microscopic, architectural, and satellite. Ivana has participated in over 30 group exhibitions and has held solo shows in Portland and Los Angeles.
@ivana.dama l ivanadama.com
Lita Vinueza is an Ecuadorian-American artist, performer, and instrument designer building cultural infrastructure through sound, public programming, and collaborative research. She is the founder of Sonic Liberation Devices (SLD), a collective and research platform developing experimental instruments and open-source technologies rooted in decolonial design, oral history, community stewardship, and the belief that technology can be a practice of care. Through live performance, instrument design, and collaborative research, Lita explores how sound shapes memory, embodiment, and politics. Performing primarily with instruments she designs and builds herself, her work draws from sonic warfare, liberation pedagogy, anti-extractive technology, and collective memory to create performances that blur the boundaries between concert, workshop, and sonic experimentation. Her practice extends across exhibitions, workshops, lectures, radio, and public programs, bringing together artists, musicians, engineers, educators, researchers, and cultural organizers to reimagine music technology as a site of creative resistance toward a more liberated technological future. @sonicliberationdevices l sonicliberationdevices.com l @lita.systems
Andrew Yong Hoon Lee is a multidisciplinary artist, musician, and composer. He approaches collaboration as methodology, using collective processes to create work that explores the poetic, political, and philosophical possibilities of light, space, and sound. Through installations, performances, moving-image works, and compositions, he examines how relationships between media generate affective and sensory experience. His work has been presented at the 13th edition of the Gothenburg International Biennial for Contemporary Art; Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts at Harvard University, Cambridge; The Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Zurich; Musée d’art et d’histoire, Geneva; Center for Performance Research, New York; Staatliche Kunsthalle, Baden-Baden; The Stone, New York; The Poetry Project, New York; Achtung Cinema, Paris; Kinoskop International Analog Film Festival, Belgrade; Vancouver Art Gallery; The International Symposium on Electronic Arts, Vancouver; Ann Arbor Film Festival; Fridman Gallery, New York, Radio Alhara, Bethlehem; among others. As a composer working between contemporary art and cinema, he has released recordings, scored feature films and documentaries, and performed internationally. Lee holds a BA from Simon Fraser University and an MFA from Milton Avery Graduate School of the Arts at Bard College, and teaches at Parsons School of Design, The New School in New York. ayhl.cargo.site
Simon Liu is an artist filmmaker whose practice centers on the rapidly evolving psychological and sociopolitical climate of his homeland of Hong Kong through material abstraction, speculative history, and subversion of documentary cinema practices via short films, multi-channel video installations, mixed media prints, and 16mm projection performances. His work has been exhibited at institutions including the Whitney Museum of American Art; The Museum of Modern Art; The Shed; and Museum of the Moving Image, all in New York; Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles; Portland Institute for Contemporary Art, Oregon; Tai Kwun Contemporary, Hong Kong; Moderna Museet, Stockholm; and the M+ Museum, Hong Kong. His films have screened at festivals globally including the Toronto, New York, Berlin, Rotterdam, BFI London, Edinburgh, Jeonju, and Hong Kong International Film Festivals alongside the Sundance Film Festival, New Directors/New Films, CPH:DOX, Cinéma du Réel, Punto de Vista, Viennale, and the Media City Film Festival. @cyi_liu l https://www.liufilmsliu.com/
Charlie Perez-Tlatenchi is an interdisciplinary artist who reflects on the narratives hidden under the shadows of globalization and the traces of former empires that shape everyday life. He works across an array of media, including photography, painting, installation, and video. Perez-Tlatenchi’s practice is grounded in the intercultural sensibility he developed in his home neighborhood of Sunset Park in New York City, which informs his focus on immigrant vernaculars, colonial archives, and fragmented histories. Through ongoing field research on the history of globalization, he maintains an archive of colonial remnants across photography, video, and iconographic ephemera, which are then materialized through commercial printing techniques and street visual culture. His layered approach combines these elements into compositions and public installations that transform with light and perspective, evoking communities caught in the currents of globalization and their ties to colonial legacies.
Perez-Tlatenchi is born, raised, and working in Brooklyn, NY. He received his MFA from the Milton Avery Graduate School of the Arts at Bard College and his BA from Reed College. @mxtrxpxl l cperez.art
Maya Jeffereis is an artist and filmmaker whose work in video, performance, and installation seeks to expand upon overlooked histories and fill in archival gaps with counter narratives, personal histories, and speculative fictions. Jeffereis’ work has been presented in the United States and internationally, including the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, oʻBrooklyn Museum, The Noguchi Museum, and Queens Museum, among other institutions. Jeffereis has been an artist-in-residence at Lower Manhattan Cultural Center (LMCC), Banff Centre for Arts & Creativity, and Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts. She is a recipient of the A.I.R. Gallery Fellowship and Cisneros Initiative for Latin American Art. She is currently a 2023 The Bronx Museum of the Arts AIM Fellow and an artist-in-residence at The Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts SHIFT Program. She teaches art, art history, and Asian American Studies at Parsons School of Design at The New School and Hunter College (CUNY). She earned an MFA from Hunter College and BA and BFA from the University of Washington. As a museum accessibility educator and consultant, Maya has worked with the following organizations: The Museum of Modern Art, the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, The Shed, The National Academy of Design, Arkansas Museum of Fine Arts, The 8th Floor, Arts & Minds. @mayajeffereis l mayajeffereis.com
About the Curators
Sanna Almajedi, the Iana Safina Co-curator, is a curator and writer based in New York, currently serving as Performance Curator at e-flux. She recently served as Performance Curator for the 13th Seoul Mediacity Biennale, Séance: Technology of the Spirit, held between August and November 2025. Almajedi co-curated Publishing Against the Grain–which was produced by Independent Curators International and toured institutions including Zeitz MOCAA and CCA, Lagos–and more recently curated Babel at SARA’S / Dunkunsthalle, Summer Dinner at Slip House, and Bricks of Memory, Fragments of Home, an online exhibition for White Columns. | @sanna.nyc
THE BIENNIAL
The Immigrant Artist Biennial is a nomadic platform that presents the work of immigrant artists across diverse formats, including exhibitions, public programs, and publishing. It engages broad national and international audiences while maintaining a strong presence in New York. Through its multi-venue and interdisciplinary approach, the biennial creates space for dialogue, visibility, and exchange, amplifying immigrant voices and fostering connections
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