The Best Internet Art Event Week of Your Life
Start warming up, there are three perfect happenings this week at HEART :*
Allllllll @ 442 Broadway, Floor #3, New York, NY 10013.
Zarina Nares: WORK BITCH RAVE FREQUENCY HEALING MEDITATION FOR STRESS AND BURNOUT AND BECOMING YOUR BEST SELF BY LETTING GO OF YOUR PAST AND FOLLOWING YOUR TRUTH AND PUTTING IN THE HARD WORK BECAUSE YOU DESERVE IT!!!!
Wednesday, December 11, 2024
7:00 PM (Be there absolutely by 7:28 PM)
INSTALLATION (KIND OF) (HARD TO DESCRIBE)
Zarina and I serendipitously ran into each other in person at El Prado in Los Angeles a while back when we both lived there after recently following each other in instagram. I initially found her work through her 2022 book TIK TOK + THE PATRIARCHY + THE 4TH DIMENSION and immediately became a fan. I included her video work Meditation For Releasing The Capitalist Patriarchy Within in “Girl Crush,” a video and software-based artwork screening that I curated this past February at Heavy Manners Library.
She’s one of my favorite artists making work about the internet, images, and girl culture online right now and this installation is going to be excellent. It’s free and full of surprises. See you thereeeeeeeeeee !!! (PLEASE COME ALL ARE WELCOME)
Are.na Annual Book Launch Party
Friday, December 13, 2024
7:00 - 9:00 PM
Celebrating the release of the sixth Are.na Annual, themed “document.”
There will be copies of the book and readings by Gerardo Ismael Madera, Reuben Son, Megumi Tanaka, and Finnegan Shannon.
The mood will be warm and casual.
I would be nothing without Are.na.
Rhizome’s super ultimate internet day
Saturday, December 14, 2024
12:00 PM - 6:00 PM
Rhizome presents their very first day fest/holiday market: rhizome’s super ultimate internet day! featuring talks, workshops, 20+ vendors, snacks, and more at HEART.
More details and tickets here.
For me, this is what I dreamed HEART be all about. All these events together. It’s been honestly soooooo crazy working out how to run a space on the fly… I will write more about it someday I think… but for now, please join this week and let’s enjoy the peace and love of hanging out in “real” time and space.
In my world, Ann Hirsch and my project Ugly Bitches is featured in this season’s issue of Art in America in the piece “As the AI Girlfriend Industry Takes Off, These Feminist Artists are Hacking the System” by Emily Watlington. Read it online here or you can pick it up in print. Little Ugly pictured here, taking a look.
My quilted piece accident, turbulent, succulent, opulent was on view at Untitled Art Fair in Miami this past week with bitforms. I wrote a program to take in a curated selection of found online imagery and “cut out” sections to generate a layout. The back of the quilt features lyrics from Avril Lavigne’s “Anything but Ordinary” off of her 2002 album “Let Go.” The title of the piece is an excerpt of her lyrics.
Chorus:
Is it enough to love?
Is it enough to breathe?
Somebody rip my heart out and leave me here to bleed
Is it enough to die?
Somebody save my life
I'd rather be anything but ordinary, please
See you this week, keep it real ♡,
Maya