Elemental Awareness: A Warm Up for Growing a Green Heart / As part of The 8th Art Prospect International Public Art Festival

Saturday, October 23, 2021
10:00 AM 11:00 AM 10:00 11:00

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AN IMPROVISATION BY NICOLÁS DUMIT ESTÉVEZ RAFUL ESPEJO (NDERE) AND PRISCILLA MARRERO

To join the broadcast on IG LIVE click HERE / To watch live meet us at Van Cortlandt Park right by Tibbetts Brook. For map click HERE

Presented with The 8th Art Prospect International Public Art Festival from CEC ArtsLink, City as Living Laboratory (CALL), Van Cortlandt Park Alliance and supported by grants from the Bronx Council on the Arts

Join Nicolas and Priscilla for a performative online experience via instagram live in Van Cortlandt Park, near the Tibbetts Brook inflow. This program will be livestreamed between 10am-11am on CALL’s instagram account. There is no need to register- simply pop into our instagram stories between 10-11am on Saturday the 23rd! Join us on IG by clicking HERE

This performance is a ‘warm up’ for our in-person workshop, the following weekend, October 30th. click HERE

To learn more about The 8th Art Prospect International Public Art Festival organized by CEC ArtsLink click HERE / To learn more about CEC ArtsLink click HERE / To learn more about Van Cortlandt Park Alliance click HERE / to learn more about City as Living Laboratory click HERE / To learn more about Bronx Council on the Arts click HERE

The 8th Art Prospect International Public Art Festival transforms familiar urban landscapes filling streets, courtyards, parks, and other public spaces with works of contemporary art.

Visit the CALL page for Nicolás’s participation in The 8th Art Prospect International Public Art Festival HERE

Nicolás Dumit Estévez Raful Espejo treads an elusive path that manifests itself performatively through creative experiences that he unfolds within the quotidian. He has exhibited or performed at Madrid Abierto/ARCO, The IX Havana Biennial, PERFORMA 05/07, IDENSITAT, Prague Quadrennial, Pontevedra Biennial, CALL, Queens Museum, MoMA, Printed Matter, P.S. 122, Hemispheric Institute of Performance Art and Politics, Princeton University, Anthology Film Archives, El Museo del Barrio, Center for Book Arts, Longwood Art Gallery/BCA, The Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian, Franklin Furnace, and Lower Manhattan Cultural Council. Nicolás has received mentorship in art in everyday life from Linda Mary Montano, a historic figure in the performance art field. Residencies attended include P.S. 1/MoMA, Yaddo and MacDowell. Nicolás holds an MFA from Tyler School of Art, Temple University, Philadelphia, PA, where he studied with Coco Fusco; and an MA from Union Theological Seminary in the City of New York. Born in Santiago de los Treinta Caballeros, Dominican Republic, in 2011 he was baptized as a Bronxite; a citizen of the Bronx. Nicolás is the founding director of The Interior Beauty Salon, a space working at the intersection of creativity and healing:www.interiorbeautysalon.com @interiorbeautysalon

Priscilla Marrero(ella/she) is an experimental performing + teaching artista from sunny Seminole, Taino and Tequesta land, also known as Miami, Florida. She is a passionate storyteller and loves to discover new ways to collaborate with interdisciplinary artistas through live performance or filmmaking. She has performed and presented her collaborations in the Musée Dapper (Paris, FR), The Empty Circle (Brooklyn, NY), Miami Light Project (Miami, FL), Inkub8 (Miami, FL), Movement Research at Judson Memorial Church (New York, NY) y más. Priscilla has received support from grants such as Artist Access Grant, Miami-Dade Community Grants, Here and Now Grant, and Gluck Fellowship Grant, MFA Graduate Fellowship, and currently the Chancellor's Distinguished Fellowship Award. She graduated from Florida International University with a BA in Performance and Choreography (09’) and is currently an MFA Candidate for Experimental Choreography from the University of California Riverside (22’) for her research practice on La Pelvis. Priscilla lives and works on/with Munsee Lenape land, known as Harlem, NY and often travels to Miami Beach for el mar and some familia time. https://www.priscillamarrero.com

Growing a Green Heart and all of its components are an experience conceived by Nicolás Dumit Estévez Raful Espejo, combining choreography, pedagogy, and performance art, resulting in a multidisciplinary engagement to be presented with CALL, Van Cortlandt Park Alliance and the Bronx Council on the Arts . This project is supported by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council and the Bronx Council on the Arts. This project is made possible with funds from the Decentralization Program, a regrant program of the New York State Council on the Arts, with the support of the office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature, and administered by the Bronx Council on the Arts. Nicolás will be working with Geoffrey Jones to document this experience in video.