Ranking of NYC 2021
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NYC Open Call 2021-22 Winning Proposals
The four highest ranking proposals were submitted by: La Revuelta (Maya Juracán, Renata Alvarez, Jimena Galán Day, Christa Krings and Andrea López) (Recontarnos (Rewriting Us)), Mae A. Miller (A Thousand Secrets), After Party Collective (Vidisha-Fadescha and Shaunak Mahbubani) (Trans Dance Revolution), and Luiza Testa (Oh, I Love Brazilian Women). The NYC Open Call accepts ideas for group exhibitions to be presented at apexart, 291 Church Street, in New York City. The organizers of the four highest-ranked proposals will receive curatorial honorariums, funding for their exhibitions, and funding for exhibition-related public programming.
Recontarnos (Rewriting Us)
Submitted by: La Revuelta (Maya Juracán, Renata Alvarez, Jimena Galán Day, Christa Krings and Andrea López)
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Reclaims historical and social narratives that traditionally reflect the viewpoints of men, prioritizing the voices of Central American women as a means to resist patriarchy within the art world.
A Thousand Secrets
Submitted by: Mae A. Miller
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Explores the myriad connections between the world’s oceans and human life by unsettling conventional modes of listening and unearthing entangled histories of extraction.
Trans Dance Revolution
Submitted by: After Party Collective (Vidisha-Fadescha and Shaunak Mahbubani)
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Locates the site of the party as a political space where trans* folx from the Global South have agency to embody the rhythms, adornments, and choreographies of our collective futures.
Oh, I Love Brazilian Women
Submitted by: Luiza Testa
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Challenging the sexualized stereotypes of Brazilian women that trace back to colonial times and extend through misreadings of the Carnival and its imagery.