BRIClab Video Art 2023/24 Public Screening

DaeQuan Alexander Collier is a Bronx-born artist and writer whose work aims to document, respond, and reimagine the complexities of the human experience. Collier holds a BFA in Film and Television Arts from New York University (2018) and an MFA in Screenwriting from Emerson College (2021). Through centering storytelling, technology, and community he explores how sound and moving images can cultivate space for interaction and immersion.

Eliza Lu Doyle (b. 1993, based in New York) is an artist working across video, writing, and performance. Her practice examines instances of care and injury, refracted through lenses like queer subjectivity, quantum time, and psychoanalysis. She engages co-performers in encounters of reenactment and rehearsal (embracing, wrestling, line dancing, washing, falling, resting) charging learned movements with an uncanny quality. Doyle holds a BFA from the Rhode Island School of Design (2016) and an MFA from Mason Gross School of the Arts, Rutgers University (2023). She is currently a lecturer at Rutgers University and a teaching artist with Arts in Corrections NYS.

Photographer and filmmaker Emily Barresi draws from her family's theatrical and motion-picture background to perceive the world through the dual lenses of melodrama and monotony. Through collaborations with community members, she delves into magical realism on a local scale, aiming to uncover shared aspects of dreams, fears, and life stories. Her photographic and film work has been exhibited both nationally and internationally, with two recent solo shows at the Museum of Fine Arts and Space Place Gallery, both in Nizhny Tagil, Russia. She has created on-site video installations in several group exhibitions at spaces including UTA Artist Space, Los Angeles, and David Zwirner Gallery, New York. Barresi holds an MFA from Yale University, and currently works as a cinematographer on independent projects throughout the Tri-State area.

Multidisciplinary artist and performer Olivia Rose Barresi uses her body and voice to playfully approach the unanswerable questions of how to be, what to have faith in, and why. An empathic skeptic, her work seeks to understand the motivations behind humanity’s need to believe in the extraordinary. She has performed with established arts organizations throughout the New York City area, and developed multidisciplinary work for independent collectives both at home and further afield. Some of these include The Public Theater, Manhattan Theatre Club, New York Theatre Workshop, the Drama League, OR Books, counterclaim, Penguin Random House Audio, and the New Museum. Barresi holds an MA from the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art.

Rachel Guma is a light and sound artist who works with liquid light projection, Super 8 film, Theremin, turn-table manipulations, live Foley, collage, and stop motion animation. Her work often explores motion studies, deconstruction, the interplay of sound and image, improvisation within constraints, and serendipitous moments, while her fondness for stop motion animation allows her to convey unconventional narratives infused with humor and lightness. Her BRIClab project, Extra Ultra Super Gal, is a stop-motion animation based on the Sesame Street segment Teeny Little Super Guy. This project is part of a series addressing women's health through animation, with Super Gal, a talking tampon, leading efforts to discuss and educate about taboo topics. The pilot episode sees Super Gal team up with her companions to address period overflow issues.

Her work has been shown at AXWFF, Anthology Film Archives, Ambient Church, Brooklyn Children's Museum, Echo Park Film Center, Das Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Index Festival, The Kitchen, Long Island Children's Museum, Museum of the Moving Image (MOMI), Microscope Gallery, Mono No Aware, Morbid Anatomy Museum, Museum of Art and Design (MAD), Northern Flickers, Orphans Symposium, Participant Gallery, Paul Klee Museum, Planet Money Live, RX Gallery, Roulette Intermedium, San Francisco Cinematheque, Transient Visions, UnionDocs, Unseen Cinema, and the Whitney Museum of American Art (in alphabetical order).

Yasi Ghanbari employs an interdisciplinary critique-based practice to explore expressions of privilege, identity, and engagement. Through personal experiences and research, she examines interpassivity, including conscious consumerism and hashtag activism, often involving herself as a character to highlight her interpassive role. Her recent research on ability, health, and productivity, spotlights challenges in securing and maintaining support within institutional and cultural contexts. The Patient Returns combines audio derived from doctor's notes and theories on visibility, diagnosis, and embodiment. Filmed exclusively through a microscope as a metaphor for healthcare's fragmented approach to the body, the project aims to provide a nuanced glimpse into the experience of sick bodies within the healthcare system and ableist culture.

Ghanbari has shown her work at Paradice Palase, the Museum of the Moving Image, Fastnet, Anthology Film Archives, Essex Flowers, The Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts, and NARS Foundation, all NY; the Grace Street Theater at Virginia Commonwealth University; Heaven Gallery, Chicago, IL; and University of Massachusetts, Amherst. She has participated in the Sharpe-Walentas Studio Program and the SHIFT Residency at The Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts. Ghanbari attended the Skowhegan School of Painting & Sculpture and holds an MFA from School of the Art Institute of Chicago.