Residency Unlimited (RU) is pleased to present Storying at the Andrew Freedman Home in the Bronx. The culminating exhibition of the 2021 NYC-Based Artist Residency Program, Storying features works by Damali Abrams the Glitter Priestess, Elvira Clayton, Zachary Fabri and Helina Metaferia. During their three-month residencies, the artists focused on research and the development of multidisciplinary projects around the history of artists in Southeast Queens, prison abolition, Black liberation activist archives and the largest slave auction in the history of the United States. The exhibition is curated by RU Guest Curator Rachel Raphaela Gugelberger.
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Performances will begin on the front grounds of the Andrew Freedman Home with Rice and Cotton Hands, an audience engagement work by Elvira Clayton. Expanding on the research of his temporal installation Jimmy’s Hands, Zachary Fabri invites visitors to experience a new sound score performed in the interiors of the Andrew Freedman Home. On the lawn, Helina Metaferia will facilitate a participatory performance, which considers embodiment, intimacy, and vitality in our current screen-dependent, tech-obsessed era. The evening will close inside the exhibition where Damali Abrams the Glitter Priestess, embodying Afro-Caribbean expressions of the Divine Femme, will collage alternate realities live to The Glitter Priestess 90s Girl Reparations Playlist.
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Storying is organized as part of the 2021 NYC-Based Artist Residency Program. Through oral histories, the epistolary form, ritual vessels and a performative time capsule of our current moment, the works in the exhibition recall lesser-known events and accounts that have yet to be written through processes that yield solidarity while honoring the past. Storying is curated by RU Guest Curator Rachel Raphaela Gugelberger.