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Adriana and Moacir had a long chat with Alex Mirutziu a few months ago and are releasing that chat now to coincide with the opening of the un/mute exhibition. Mirutziu’s collaboration with Sydney Shavers will appear at Austrian Cultural Forum NY.

Additionally, this Friday, September 24, Undercurrent invites you to meet some of the un/mute artists at a special un/mute talk and reception. It begins aat 6pm, and please bring appropriate masking and proof of vaccination.

Podcast by Adriana Furlong and Moacir P. de Sá Pereira.

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Additionally, Adriana co-curated (with Jonah Schwimmer and Reny Adolphus Marte) the current show at Undercurrent, Break Room. It closes on September fifth and is a group show featuring work by young artists with ties to Undercurrent:

Amber Cruz

Daniela García Granados

Hedy Zhang

JJ Barrett

Katana Thompson

Patricia Geyerhahn

Ray Steele

Podcast by Adriana Furlong and Moacir P. de Sá Pereira.

Ⓒ 2021 CC BY-SA-NC, Undercurrent and 1984 PRODUKTS.

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Adriana and Moacir had a long chat with H. Lan Thao Lam a few months ago and are releasing that chat now to coincide with the announcement of the un/mute exhibition. Stay tuned to this podcast as more information about the exhibition gets released. Lam’s collaboration with Sanne De Wilde will appear both at Undercurrent and the Austrian Cultural Forum NY.

Additionally, Adriana co-curated (with Jonah Schwimmer and Reny Adolphus Marte) the current show at Undercurrent, Break Room. It closes on September fifth and is a group show featuring work by young artists with ties to Undercurrent:

Amber Cruz

Daniela García Granados

Hedy Zhang

JJ Barrett

Katana Thompson

Patricia Geyerhahn

Ray Steele

Podcast by Adriana Furlong and Moacir P. de Sá Pereira.

Ⓒ 2021 CC BY-SA-NC, Undercurrent and 1984 PRODUKTS.

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Adriana talks to Meghan Cox about her show, Hours and Hours, teaching (and learning) art, what you are and aren’t supposed to do in art, and emo-formalism. Hours and Hours will close on June 6. Undercurrent also invites you to a poetry reading on May 22 to support Meghan’s show.

Starting at 3pm, the following poets will give short readings outside of Undercurrent:

Sheila Maldonado, who also organized the reading

David Pemberton

Stella Padnos

Bakar Wilson

Meghan made reference at one point to Tomma Abts.

Podcast by Adriana Furlong and Moacir P. de Sá Pereira.

Ⓒ 2021 CC BY-SA-NC, Undercurrent and 1984 PRODUKTS.

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Adriana and Moacir facilitate a discussion with representatives of Team Arrow, the ten consultants who each collaborated with one team in UN/MUTE 10002. Adriana Blidaru, Sozita Goudouna, Elena Siyanko, Petra Valentova, and Raúl Zamudio opined on opportunities and challenges for solidarity in art during the pandemic and afterward.

Adriana and Moacir talk to Barbara Maria Neu of Team Profile for the first UN/MUTE-10002 podcast interview. Barbara talks about her expanding on her artistic sensibility as a clarinetist to become the performance artist she is today. And they talk about rules. A lot.

Ryan Cosbert joins Adriana and Moacir to discuss her practice and research on the African Diaspora as well as her current show at Undercurrent, I Am What I Am. The show opened on March 12 and runs through April 18.More about Ryan: http://ryancosbert.com and https://www.instagram.com/bcosryan/.Podcast by Adriana Furlong and Moacir P. de Sá Pereira.Ⓒ 2021 CC BY-SA-NC, Undercurrent and 1984 PRODUKTS.Subscribe, rate, and review Undercurrent, our podcast, on iTunes, Spotify, or PocketCasts.

The twenty artists from the EU and New York City participating in UN/MUTE-10002 introduced themselves during the lottery that aired on Friday, February 12, 2021. Moacir replays the audio of those introductions here.

The teams are:

Team /web: Olesja Katšanovskaja–Münd (Estonia) and Mo Kong (NYC)

Team /ram: Gabrielė Gervickaitė (Lithuania) and Yi Hsuan Lai (NYC)

Team /profile: Barbara Maria Neu (Austria) and Kris Grey (NYC)

Team /mouse: Aaron Bezzina (Malta) and Kyle Hittmeier (NYC)

Team /branch: Alex Mirutziu (Romania) and Sydney Shavers (NYC)

Team /key: Sophie Guisset (Wallonia-Brussels, Belgium) and Will Calhoun (NYC)

Team /thumbnail: Eren Aksu (Germany) and Sheila Maldonado (NYC)

Team /bug: Sanne De Wilde (Flanders, Belgium) and H. Lan Thao Lam (NYC)

Team /stream: Marie Lukáčová (Czech Republic) and Emily Shanahan (NYC)

Team /cloud: FOQL (Poland) and Emmanuel Massillon (NYC)

UN/MUTE-10002 is a project by EUNIC NY and Undercurrent, realized with financial support from EUNIC — European Union National Institutes for Culture — Europe’s network of national cultural institutes and organizations, with 36 members from all EU member states. This project was initiated by the Lithuanian Culture Institute and the Consulate General of Estonia in New York and is co-organized by Austrian Cultural Forum New York, Wallonia-Brussels International in New York, Czech Center New York, Delegation of Flanders to the USA, Goethe-Institut New York, Arts Council Malta in New York, Polish Cultural Institute New York, Romanian Cultural Institute, the Hope Recycling Station, the Jindřich Chalupecký Society, and supported by the European Union Delegation to the United Nations.

Podcast by Adriana Furlong and Moacir P. de Sá Pereira.

Ⓒ 2021 CC BY-SA-NC, Undercurrent and 1984 PRODUKTS.

Habby Osk joins Adriana and Moacir to discuss balance, Iceland, and her upcoming show at Undercurrent, Connectivity.

Adriana and Moacir are back on the mics to discuss Loy Luo (羅一)’s show at Undercurrent, Homeless. They also encourage you and your friends to apply to Undercurrent’s first Open Call. Finally, Moacir describes to Adriana Patricija Gilytė’s show Solo Circuit, which ran for most of November. There’s also an extended digression on Lite-Brites. Luo’s show will open on December 4 at Undercurrent, with a reception from 5–9pm. Submit to the Open Call: https://undercurrent.nyc/open-call-submission

Moacir quickly reminds everyone to tune in to the “10001” Unveiling announcement on Friday, September 11, at 1pm Eastern Daylight Time. Find out more at http://10001.undercurrent.nyc/unveiling