Undercurrent

Adriana and Moacir review the second week of videos to the virtual collaboration “10001,” focusing on Team T, featuring Saddie Choua and Anna Bera, and Team I, with Kira Nova and Jonas Tarm. Adriana also talks about what she’s learning from editing team videos. Next, Adriana asks Moacir for more detail about Daniel Jodocy’s show “Soundboxgarden.”

Adriana and Moacir discuss Daniel Jodocy's upcoming show “Soundboxgarden,” which opens on August 29 at Undercurrent, as the first show back onsite at 70 John Street in Brooklyn since quarantine began.

Moacir introduces the six teams making up the collaborative virtual project “10001,” talks about how the various artists have a varying sense of belonging both to New York City and to their sponsor/home countries, and wonders about how they’ll collaborate over the next few weeks to try and imagine a post-pandemic New York City.

Adriana and Moacir preview the collaborative virtual project “10001,” featuring European Union artists Anna Bera, Alex Camilleri, Mariella Cassar-Cordina, Saddie Choua, Nicola Ginzel, Justyna Górowska, Ada Van Hoorebeke, Ieva Mediodia, Luisa Muhr, Kira Nova, Jonas Tarm, and Terttu Uibopuu. “10001” will be growing during August at 10001.undercurrent.nyc.

Artist and Brooklyn Rail Editor-at-Large Tom McGlynn speaks with artist Gelah Penn about her current exhibition, materiality and abstraction, film and fiction, and everything in between.

Jeanne Brasile moderates a conversation with artists Travis LeRoy Southworth, Gianluca Bianchino, Lorrie Fredette, and Shoshanna Weinberger. They discuss artists and their day jobs. Labor, both in and out of the studio, is a seldom discussed topic. The artists delved into how they negotiate the reality of balancing the space/time/work conundrum, and how these concerns inadvertently or intentionally shape their artistic practices.

Gelah Penn discusses intertextuality, film noir, and Samuel Richardson with Moacir. Penn’s show, Uneasy Terms, opens on Thursday, February 13, at 6pm.

Travis LeRoy Southworth discusses how one’s “day job” and artistic practice can be indelibly intertwined, and Moacir and Adriana ask about the underlying order of both the cosmos and cosmetics. Travis’s show, I Am a Portrait, opens on Friday, January 10, at 6pm.

Here’s a stocking stuffer for you all: a sampler mix of five musical acts that performed at Undercurrent in 2019

Undercurrent Co-Director and curator of the group show After Light Daina Mattis joins Moacir and Adriana to talk about curation and its relationship with artistic practice. Additionally, Moacir and artist Ashley Jonas talk about vulnerability and curation.