{"id":12949,"date":"2023-01-13T09:02:25","date_gmt":"2023-01-13T14:02:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chra.bard.edu\/?p=12949"},"modified":"2023-01-27T14:53:42","modified_gmt":"2023-01-27T19:53:42","slug":"michelle-song-opens-two-shows-in-new-york","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bard.edu\/chra\/news\/michelle-song-opens-two-shows-in-new-york\/","title":{"rendered":"CHRA\u2019s Michelle Song Opens Two Shows in New York City to Kick Off 2023"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">On view at the Clemente Center, <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theclementecenter.org\/exhibitions-1\/dearaliendeardoppelganger\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Dear Alien, Dear Doppelganger<\/span><\/i><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> features artists Jaguar Mary X, Taro Masushio, Luna Luis Ortiz, and Lisa Ross. The exhibition presents photographs and videos that explore queerness as performances of doubling. The four featured artists approach archives, representations of popular culture, family photos, and dominant constructs of race and sexuality by reworking and restaging them through drag performances. The works play with the notion of \u201cthe gaze\u201d through doubling, deflecting, blurring, and redirecting in an attempt to bypass subjugation and objectification, offering something that is at once enigmatic and familiar, stranger and kin.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Hosted by the Longwood Art Gallery at Hostos College in the Bronx, <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bronxarts.org\/programs\/connector\/longwood-art-project\/longwood-art-gallery\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">A Seductive Echo<\/span><\/i><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> features artists Roni Aviv, Lau Wai, Sara Rahmanian, Nooshin Rostami, Nic Villarosa, Ari Wolff, and Tin Wai Wong. The exhibition probes the connection between language and self-perception. The artists contend with the limits and potentials of language manifested in misinterpretation, abstraction, and slippages. Their works render distorted and fragmented expressions of the self as mediated by popular culture, new technologies, experiences of isolation, and displacement.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Michelle Song is the Program Manager at CHRA and an independent curator, writer, and researcher. She is a recent graduate of the Center for Curatorial Studies at Bard College.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Dear Alien, Dear Doppelganger <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">is on view January 15 through February 26, 2023 at The Clemente Soto Ve\u0301lez Cultural Center at 107 Suffolk St, New York.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">A Seductive Echo <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">is on view January 18 through February 23, 2023 at Longwood Art Gallery at 450 Grand Concourse, the Bronx, New York.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-12953\" src=\"https:\/\/chra.bard.edu\/files\/2023\/01\/Ross_Pinocchio.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"982\" height=\"1476\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.bard.edu\/chra\/files\/2023\/01\/Ross_Pinocchio.jpg 982w, https:\/\/blogs.bard.edu\/chra\/files\/2023\/01\/Ross_Pinocchio-768x1154.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.bard.edu\/chra\/files\/2023\/01\/Ross_Pinocchio-500x752.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 982px) 100vw, 982px\" \/><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">From <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Dear Alien, Dear Doppelganger:\u00a0<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Lisa Ross, <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Pinnochio<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">, courtesy of the artist<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-12957\" src=\"https:\/\/chra.bard.edu\/files\/2023\/01\/Lau_MeltingArmour-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1707\" height=\"2560\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.bard.edu\/chra\/files\/2023\/01\/Lau_MeltingArmour-scaled.jpg 1707w, https:\/\/blogs.bard.edu\/chra\/files\/2023\/01\/Lau_MeltingArmour-768x1152.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.bard.edu\/chra\/files\/2023\/01\/Lau_MeltingArmour-1024x1536.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.bard.edu\/chra\/files\/2023\/01\/Lau_MeltingArmour-1365x2048.jpg 1365w, https:\/\/blogs.bard.edu\/chra\/files\/2023\/01\/Lau_MeltingArmour-500x750.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1707px) 100vw, 1707px\" \/><\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">From <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">A Seductive Echo: <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Lau Wai, <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The Melting Armour, <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">courtesy of the artist<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On view at the Clemente Center, Dear Alien, Dear Doppelganger features artists Jaguar Mary X, Taro Masushio, Luna Luis Ortiz, and Lisa Ross. 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