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ABOUT:
Beginning in April, A-Lab introduces the Forum, a series of monthly discussions designed as an opportunity for artists, working in various media, to present their previous works or works in progress, share their visions and ideas in relation to selected topics and concepts in the field of art production, collaboration, and critical thinking. Each forum consists of presentations by five artists, followed by a discussion period with the curator and attending audiences. Participating artists are identified and selected by the curator / facilitator from a pull of entries for that month. The forums are open to the general public, and presenting artists are selected by invitation and through an open call.

May 15th, 2010, 2:00 - 4:00 PM
Repetition
A-Lab Forum’s second talk focused on the idea of “REPETITION”. Repeating oneself has been used as a concept in many forms of intellectual and humorous endeavors, from the start of mass production circa 1920 to South Park circa now. The arts have been no less fascinated with repetition as seen in Sol Lewitt’s drawings and Tara Donavan’s sculptures. The reasons behind repeating an object, shape, material, or yourself is what we are looking to discover in this series of works. All artists who submit works should consider why they are repeating themselves in art, how they are reinforcing traditional formulations of art practice, and/or if art itself tends to be cyclical and repetitive. Facilitated by Juan Hinojosa.

Desireena Almoradie is a new media artist and videomaker whose works have been exhibited in NYC and around the globe. She co-directed, produced, and edited the short film “Green Stalk” which has screened at film festivals worldwide. A graduate of NYU's undergraduate film and video program, she received her masters at NYU's Interactive Telecommunications Program in 2006. Her interactive video installation, A Sense of Place or Apres moi, le deluge, exhibited in NYC at the Mushroom Gallery in June and July, 2006. She also created the interactive video installation, Orifi, as part of the art collective 3MIH. Orifi was exhibited at the MIX Experimental Festival in NYC in 2008. She has also produced for PBS and broadcast television and in 2009 won a GLAAD Media Award for her segment "Funding the Marriage War" which aired on the PBS show In the Life.

More information: www.artling.net/deluge

Paul Behnke was born in Memphis, TN and received his BFA from the Memphis College of Art. Behnke has exhibited nationally and internationally and his work can be found in private collections in Chicago, IL, Perth, Australia, and Dublin Ireland. He is the recipient of numerous awards, including the Bowld European Traveling Fellowship, and the Arts Build Community Grant from the Tennessee Arts Commission. In addition, he recently completed a month long residency at the Vermont Studio Center courtesy of a full fellowship. The artist lives and works in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

More information: www.paulbehnkepaintings.com

Megan Bisbee-Durlam, born 1983, grew up in Vermont and in 2005 received her BFA from Alfred University. Represented by Lohin Geduld Gallery (NYC) she has also shown at Hallwalls Contemporary Art Center (Buffalo), Tampa Museum of Art, Firehouse Gallery (Burlington, VT) and Flinn Gallery (Greenwich, CT). Megan's work was published in edition #56 of New American Paintings. Reviews of her shows have appeared in Buffalo News and The Gay City News. Megan was visiting lecturer at the University of South Florida and Alfred University. She attended Vermont Studio Center on full fellowship in 2009 and will attend The Barn, the Seven Below Arts Initiative Artist-In-Residence Program in Vermont this summer. Megan lives and works in Brooklyn.

More information: www.meganbisbeedurlam.com

Melissa A. Calderon incorporates installation, photography, sculpture and video in her work. She received her B.A. in Art History from CUNY Lehman College and lives and works in the Bronx, New York. Calderon has exhibited at El Museo del Barrio (New York), The Portland Museum of Art, Affirmation Arts (New York), BBBP / Bronx Blue Bedroom Project (New York), Jersey City Museum, Haven Arts Space (Bronx), Arte Americas (Fresno), Longwood Arts Project and The Bronx Museum of the Arts. Recently, she was awarded a 2010 NALAC Fund for the Arts grant and the 2009/2010 Urban Artist Initiative Fellowship.

More information: www.melissacalderon.com

Bivas Chaudhuri's current work is involved with space, which is full of energy. He uses repetitive visual elements and meditative process to energize the whole space. The highly structured slowly changing imagery is a close resemblance of my deep state of mind. It is emblematic of modern times mixed with his personal feelings and impression of nature.

Christen Clifford is a performance artist in New York. Most recently she has shown work at Grace Exhibition Space and been an interpreter in Tino Seghal’s This Progress at The Guggenheim. Her solo trilogy (17 Guys I Fucked, BabyLove, and (What I Know About) My Parents' Sex Life aka Fuck Me Like It’s 1945) has been shown at P.S. 122, Galapagos, 45 Bleecker and Joe’s Pub. BabyLove premiered in Ljubljana, Slovenia at the Mesto Zensk Festival of Art and toured the US and Canada, and later ran for three months Off Broadway at 45 Bleecker and was a Critic’s Pick in Time Out New York (5 stars) and New York Magazine. She has collaborated with video artist Alix Pearlstein (The Kitchen, Salon 94, On Stellar Rays) and Fluxus artist Douglas Davis (This American Century II at the Whitney). Her writing has appeared in Nerve, Salon, Identity Theory, Smith Magazine, Time Out New York Kids and the Huffington Post. She co-curates (with Tom Cole) the literary series Experiments and Disorders at Dixon Place. Clifford is the recipient of a NYFA Fellowship and many residencies as well as the Nonfiction Award at The New School's MFA Writing Program.

More information: www.christenclifford.com

Helen Dennis was born in the UK and now resides in Brooklyn, NY. She studied her BA (Honors) at the University of the Creative Arts in Canterbury and achieved her MFA at Hunter College in 2005. Dennis has been awarded a fellowship from Aljira Center for Contemporary Art as well as a photographic fellowship from The International House, NYC. Dennis has attended art residencies in Beijing, Cyprus and will be heading to Iceland for an art residency during August this year. She has participated in various exhibitions worldwide and in the US with the support of Queens Council of the Arts, Kent County Council, New Jersey State Council on the Arts, South East Arts UK and the National Lottery Arts Fund for the UK. Dennis has recently completed a public art commission located in TriBeCa for the Downtown Alliance of New York.

More information: www.helendennis.com

Oasa Du Verney lives and works in Brooklyn NYShe believes that the feelings of desperation and defeat evolved from the hopes and aspirations instilled in her by her parents, who immigrated from Trinidad. She makes last ditch efforts of communication with a world consumed by its fears and desires. These desperate attempts use mediums fit for mass consumption such as self help books and fake "ghetto gold" to confront some of the frustrating un-winnable issues that plague our society. Resigned to ultimate failure; these communications do not intend to persuade or convince you to agree with her but rather to make use of her power as an artist...the ability to make you feel something. She has exhibited at various art institutions, such as MoCADA, Brooklyn NY; Aljira Art Center, Newark NJ and Root Division, San Francisco CA. Oasa is a founding member of The Nomadic Center for Institutionless Learning as well as The League of Desperate Individuals and the Unfree.

More information: www.oasaduverney.com

Katarina Jerinic participated in the Bronx Museum’s AIM program and has completed residencies at MacDowell Colony and the Experimental Television Center. She is currently an artist-in residence at the Center for Book Arts, New York. She has an MFA from School of Visual Arts. Her work has been recently included in exhibitions at NurtureArt, Rotunda Gallery, the Brooklyn Arts Council Gallery, DUMBO Art Under the Bridge Festival, all in Brooklyn, NY; the Bronx Museum of the Arts, Bronx, NY; Queens Museum of Art, Queens, NY; the Fox Art Gallery, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA; Gallery Aferro, Newark, NJ; the Center for Book Arts, New York, NY; and Mills Gallery at Boston Center for the Arts, Boston, MA. Her collaborative project with Naomi Miller, The Work Office (TWO), has been awarded grants from the Black Rock Arts Foundation, the Brooklyn Arts Council, chashama, and LMCC Swing Space.

More information: www.katarinajerinic.com

The artistic journey of Antonio Ortuño began in Zaragoza in the Contemporary Art Festival "Conmutaciones-02", with the video installation "Por Amor/Deshechos" ("For Love/ejection"). Later came Valencia, where he presented the video "Él, antoñito" ("He, little antonio") in the space "El almacén del adecuado comportamiento" ("The store of appropriate conduct"), part of the Second Valencia Biennial. Later works include "Despegar" ("Detach"), a video he screened at the "Nabi Center" in Seoul, South Korea; the video "¿Te parece que esto son sólo palabras?" ("Does this seem like just words to you?") in the International Festival of Video Art in Valencia in the Sala Parpalló; the video-installation "Individualities" in Local Project gallery in New York; his participation in "The Most Curatiorial Biennial of the Universe" at ApexArt gallery in New York and in Animal Gallery in Santiago de Chile with the video "Love=pleasure", and at "Framing AIDS" in the Queens Museum of Art in New York.

More information: www.antonioortuno.com

Kathleen Mallaney was born in Chicago, IL. She has completed residencies at the Contemporary Artist Center and the Vermont Studio Center. Her work has been included in exhibitions at the Visual Arts Gallery, School of Visual Arts, New York, NY; Vermont Studio Center, Johnson, VT; Thirdstone Gallery, Saugatuck, MI; Lloyd Dobler Gallery, Chicago, IL; MCLA Gallery 51, North Adams, MA; Ice Factory, Chicago, IL; Ox-Bow, Saugatuck, MI; Galerie Doubner, Prague, Czech Republic; Clough-Hanson Gallery, Rhodes College, Memphis, TN; and the Leo Marchutz School, Aix-en-Provence, France. She received her BFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and her MFA from the School of Visual Arts. She currently lives and works in New York.

Ryan Roa was born of Irish-Colombian decent in 1974. He grew up in northern NJ. Roa has worked as a stockbroker, a carpenter, a teacher, and served as Staff Sergeant in the U.S. Army, overseas in the Iraq war. He received a BFA in Sculpture and a BS in Art Education from SUNY New Paltz, and MFA in Combined Media from Hunter College. Roa has exhibited at the Jersey City Museum, Bronx Museum, School of Visual Arts, Jamaica Center for the Arts and Learning. He has participated in residency programs at the Bronx Museum, Gallery Aferro and Pace University. He will be Participating in the 2010 Moscow Biennial. Roa is currently based in New York City.

More information: www.ryanroa.com

Alison Ward’s performances, videos and sculptures create a world populated by a masked and costumed cast that re-interpret her own image in the form of popular cultural icons. Her characters struggle with each other and the audience through activities that combine violence and overt sexuality with slapstick physical humor. With the help of these characters, She creates scenarios that simultaneously exist in the realms of physical comedy and the unknown. Exhibitions include Haven Arts, The Dumbo Arts Center, and the Bronx Museum as well as the CCCB Museum in Spain, RAW Space Gallery in Australia and Castlefield Gallery in England. She has done residencies at Raw Space in Australia, The Artist in the Marketplace Program, and the LMCC studio program, The Waterpod Project in New York City, and LMCC’s Swing Space Program. She has received grants from the Brooklyn Arts Council and the Lewisham Arts council in London to perform her work.

More information: www.texandtrixie.com

Genevieve White uses her body to test her limits and expose her vulnerability. She is interested in the states of repression and freedom. She paints her skin with six layers of colors and paint a canoe, which disappears. She wraps her head with yarn, which becomes a heavy head and cut it away. The rope that binds us also makes us free. Navigating from the inside out, she tries to unravel truths and myths about others and myself. Genevieve is interested in using the body as a map, a vessel, a container, a follower, an interdependent and independent being that impacts its environment. She has been performing at Deitch, the Neuberger Museum, the Whitney Museum and other venues. She is interested in using her body to test its limits and go beyond what she thinks she can do. She considers her body the vessel, the canvas, a carrier of independence and co-dependence in her work.

More information: www.genwhite.blogspot.com



ABOUT: Beginning in April, A-Lab introduces the Forum, a series of monthly discussions designed as an opportunity for artists, working in various media, to present their previous works or works in progress, share their visions and ideas in relation to selected topics and concepts in the field of art production, collaboration, and critical thinking. Each forum consists of presentations by five artists, followed by a discussion period with the curator and attending audiences. Participating artists are identified and selected by the curator / facilitator from a pull of entries for that month. The forums are open to the general public, and presenting artists are selected by invitation and through an open call.
THE SUMMER FORUM:	Participating Artists: Desireena Almoradie Bivas Chaudhuri Ryan Frank Jason Mitcham Morgan Schwartz
Hosted at The Wassaic Project Weekend of July 30th, 2010 (Camping and Presentations) Pastoral A-Lab’s Summer Forum will focus on the theme “Pastoral”. Pastoral revolves around visual (re)presentation of rural landscapes, life in the country, and/or comparisons between natural and man-made habitats. We are looking for submissions of works that treat the natural landscape as inspiration, catalyst and/or main element of the artistic process. We encourage artists to creatively approach the topic in a variety of ways, to think about possible connections between natural and artificial environments, and last but not least, to challenge ideas about landscapes, their (re)presentation, creation, virtualization, and (re)(de)construction in contemporary art. Organized by Hector Canonge.
SPRING FORUMS: Hosted at Crossing Art Gallery April 17th, 2010, 2:00 – 4:00 PM Fracture The first A-Lab Forum focuses on the idea of "FRACTURE" in terms of breaking artistic boundaries, splitting from traditional practices of presenting art work, and how artists have been able to address changes in their practice, brake from the norms of their medium, change their methods of experimentation, disrupt form and content, and last, but not least, how their works have undergone a transformation from established rules or order. Participating artists approached this month’s topic creatively as they reflected on how their practice and works question issues related to contemporary art market trends and norms that perhaps need to be fractures or ruptured. Facilitated by Hector Canonge.
	Participating Artists: Melissa Calderon Katarina Jerinic Antonio Ortuño Risa Puno Ryan Roa

May 15th, 2010, 2:00 - 4:00 PM Repetition A-Lab Forum’s second talk focused on the idea of “REPETITION”. Repeating oneself has been used as a concept in many forms of intellectual and humorous endeavors, from the start of mass production circa 1920 to South Park circa now. The arts have been no less fascinated with repetition as seen in Sol Lewitt’s drawings and Tara Donavan’s sculptures. The reasons behind repeating an object, shape, material, or yourself is what we are looking to discover in this series of works. All artists who submit works should consider why they are repeating themselves in art, how they are reinforcing traditional formulations of art practice, and/or if art itself tends to be cyclical and repetitive. Facilitated by Juan Hinojosa.
	Participating Artists: Paul Behnke Megan Bisbee-Durlam Helen Dennis Oasa Du Verney Kathleen Mallaney

June 19th, 2010, 2:00 - 4:00 PM Queering Bodies A-Lab’s third forum focused on the theme “QUEERING BODIES,” and it revolved around issues and concerns about the body as a tableaux, interface, canvas, and/or agent for artistic creation. Participating artists explored notions of identity, gender construction, and social representation in relation to the physical or virtual representation of the body image. This month's forum presents artists who use the body as canvas, as user interface (UI) or as a metaphor for the exploration of territory(ies) within their work(s) and general practice in contemporary art. Organized by Hector Canonge.
	Participating Artists: Matthew de Leon Christen Clifford Panoply Performance Laboratory (PPL) Alison Ward Genevieve White
Directions: *Crossing Art Gallery*, 136-17 39th Avenue at Main Street, Flushing, NY. 7 train to Main Street Flushing. Walk one block on Main Street to 39th Ave (Opposite direction of the LIRR Overpass). Turn Right on 39th Ave & enter Queens Crossing (Large Glass Façade with Blue & Pink Flowers). Take the stairs or elevator to the Ground Floor. Phone: 212-359-4333

ARTISTS' BIOGRAPHIES:

	Desireena Almoradie is a new media artist and videomaker whose works have been exhibited in NYC and around the globe. She co-directed, produced, and edited the short film “Green Stalk” which has screened at film festivals worldwide. A graduate of NYU's undergraduate film and video program, she received her masters at NYU's Interactive Telecommunications Program in 2006. Her interactive video installation, A Sense of Place or Apres moi, le deluge, exhibited in NYC at the Mushroom Gallery in June and July, 2006. She also created the interactive video installation, Orifi, as part of the art collective 3MIH. Orifi was exhibited at the MIX Experimental Festival in NYC in 2008. She has also produced for PBS and broadcast television and in 2009 won a GLAAD Media Award for her segment "Funding the Marriage War" which aired on the PBS show In the Life. More information: www.artling.net/deluge
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	Paul Behnke was born in Memphis, TN and received his BFA from the Memphis College of Art. Behnke has exhibited nationally and internationally and his work can be found in private collections in Chicago, IL, Perth, Australia, and Dublin Ireland. He is the recipient of numerous awards, including the Bowld European Traveling Fellowship, and the Arts Build Community Grant from the Tennessee Arts Commission. In addition, he recently completed a month long residency at the Vermont Studio Center courtesy of a full fellowship. The artist lives and works in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. More information: www.paulbehnkepaintings.com
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	Megan Bisbee-Durlam, born 1983, grew up in Vermont and in 2005 received her BFA from Alfred University. Represented by Lohin Geduld Gallery (NYC) she has also shown at Hallwalls Contemporary Art Center (Buffalo), Tampa Museum of Art, Firehouse Gallery (Burlington, VT) and Flinn Gallery (Greenwich, CT). Megan's work was published in edition #56 of New American Paintings. Reviews of her shows have appeared in Buffalo News and The Gay City News. Megan was visiting lecturer at the University of South Florida and Alfred University. She attended Vermont Studio Center on full fellowship in 2009 and will attend The Barn, the Seven Below Arts Initiative Artist-In-Residence Program in Vermont this summer. Megan lives and works in Brooklyn. More information: www.meganbisbeedurlam.com
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Llorada #4, 2008, C-Print.	Melissa A. Calderon incorporates installation, photography, sculpture and video in her work. She received her B.A. in Art History from CUNY Lehman College and lives and works in the Bronx, New York. Calderon has exhibited at El Museo del Barrio (New York), The Portland Museum of Art, Affirmation Arts (New York), BBBP / Bronx Blue Bedroom Project (New York), Jersey City Museum, Haven Arts Space (Bronx), Arte Americas (Fresno), Longwood Arts Project and The Bronx Museum of the Arts. Recently, she was awarded a 2010 NALAC Fund for the Arts grant and the 2009/2010 Urban Artist Initiative Fellowship. More information: www.melissacalderon.com

	Bivas Chaudhuri's current work is involved with space, which is full of energy. He uses repetitive visual elements and meditative process to energize the whole space. The highly structured slowly changing imagery is a close resemblance of my deep state of mind. It is emblematic of modern times mixed with his personal feelings and impression of nature.
	Up
	Christen Clifford is a performance artist in New York. Most recently she has shown work at Grace Exhibition Space and been an interpreter in Tino Seghal’s This Progress at The Guggenheim. Her solo trilogy (17 Guys I Fucked, BabyLove, and (What I Know About) My Parents' Sex Life aka Fuck Me Like It’s 1945) has been shown at P.S. 122, Galapagos, 45 Bleecker and Joe’s Pub. BabyLove premiered in Ljubljana, Slovenia at the Mesto Zensk Festival of Art and toured the US and Canada, and later ran for three months Off Broadway at 45 Bleecker and was a Critic’s Pick in Time Out New York (5 stars) and New York Magazine. She has collaborated with video artist Alix Pearlstein (The Kitchen, Salon 94, On Stellar Rays) and Fluxus artist Douglas Davis (This American Century II at the Whitney). Her writing has appeared in Nerve, Salon, Identity Theory, Smith Magazine, Time Out New York Kids and the Huffington Post. She co-curates (with Tom Cole) the literary series Experiments and Disorders at Dixon Place. Clifford is the recipient of a NYFA Fellowship and many residencies as well as the Nonfiction Award at The New School's MFA Writing Program. More information: www.christenclifford.com
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	Matthew de Leon performs characters that are manifestations of his own psychology, imagination, failures, and triumphs. They often deal with issues of sexuality, gender, misfits, and imagination. Matthew was born in NY in 1984. In 3rd grade he won a blue ribbon for a bike safety drawing. In 2006 he earned a BFA in Communication Design from the University of Connecticut. In 2009 he earned his MFA in Fine Arts at Parsons. His work has been shown in group shows at The Pulse Art Fair, Gallery 151, CINEMAROSA, and The Kitchen. He now works at HERE in Soho and is a member of the Gowanus Studio Space, Brooklyn. More information:www.matthewdeleon.com
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	Helen Dennis was born in the UK and now resides in Brooklyn, NY. She studied her BA (Honors) at the University of the Creative Arts in Canterbury and achieved her MFA at Hunter College in 2005. Dennis has been awarded a fellowship from Aljira Center for Contemporary Art as well as a photographic fellowship from The International House, NYC. Dennis has attended art residencies in Beijing, Cyprus and will be heading to Iceland for an art residency during August this year. She has participated in various exhibitions worldwide and in the US with the support of Queens Council of the Arts, Kent County Council, New Jersey State Council on the Arts, South East Arts UK and the National Lottery Arts Fund for the UK. Dennis has recently completed a public art commission located in TriBeCa for the Downtown Alliance of New York. More information: www.helendennis.com
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	Oasa Du Verney lives and works in Brooklyn NYShe believes that the feelings of desperation and defeat evolved from the hopes and aspirations instilled in her by her parents, who immigrated from Trinidad. She makes last ditch efforts of communication with a world consumed by its fears and desires. These desperate attempts use mediums fit for mass consumption such as self help books and fake "ghetto gold" to confront some of the frustrating un-winnable issues that plague our society. Resigned to ultimate failure; these communications do not intend to persuade or convince you to agree with her but rather to make use of her power as an artist...the ability to make you feel something. She has exhibited at various art institutions, such as MoCADA, Brooklyn NY; Aljira Art Center, Newark NJ and Root Division, San Francisco CA. Oasa is a founding member of The Nomadic Center for Institutionless Learning as well as The League of Desperate Individuals and the Unfree. More information: www.oasaduverney.com
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	Ryan Frank is currently an artist-in-residence at The Wassaic Project, where his work was shown in the exhibition Bestiary at Maxon Mills this past summer. He was previously an artist-in-residence at Chashama and has exhibited at the D.U.M.B.O. Art Under the Bridge Festival, the Fashion Center Arts Festival, and the Crest Art Show. He is the co-founder of Ad Nauseam Lyceum, a curatorial collective that organized a series of pop-up exhibitions in galleries and storefronts throughout New York City from 2006 to 2009. For the past year he has worked as the Collection Manager and Director of Education at The Granary, a private exhibition space located in Litchfield County, CT. This fall a group exhibition he organized will be presented at the Winkleman Gallery Curatorial Research Lab. More information: www.ryanmfrank.com
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The Work Office (TWO), 2009, with Naomi Miller.	Katarina Jerinic participated in the Bronx Museum’s AIM program and has completed residencies at MacDowell Colony and the Experimental Television Center. She is currently an artist-in residence at the Center for Book Arts, New York. She has an MFA from School of Visual Arts. Her work has been recently included in exhibitions at NurtureArt, Rotunda Gallery, the Brooklyn Arts Council Gallery, DUMBO Art Under the Bridge Festival, all in Brooklyn, NY; the Bronx Museum of the Arts, Bronx, NY; Queens Museum of Art, Queens, NY; the Fox Art Gallery, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA; Gallery Aferro, Newark, NJ; the Center for Book Arts, New York, NY; and Mills Gallery at Boston Center for the Arts, Boston, MA. Her collaborative project with Naomi Miller, The Work Office (TWO), has been awarded grants from the Black Rock Arts Foundation, the Brooklyn Arts Council, chashama, and LMCC Swing Space. More information: www.katarinajerinic.com
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Individualities, 2006, video installation.	The artistic journey of Antonio Ortuño began in Zaragoza in the Contemporary Art Festival "Conmutaciones-02", with the video installation "Por Amor/Deshechos" ("For Love/ejection"). Later came Valencia, where he presented the video "Él, antoñito" ("He, little antonio") in the space "El almacén del adecuado comportamiento" ("The store of appropriate conduct"), part of the Second Valencia Biennial. Later works include "Despegar" ("Detach"), a video he screened at the "Nabi Center" in Seoul, South Korea; the video "¿Te parece que esto son sólo palabras?" ("Does this seem like just words to you?") in the International Festival of Video Art in Valencia in the Sala Parpalló; the video-installation "Individualities" in Local Project gallery in New York; his participation in "The Most Curatiorial Biennial of the Universe" at ApexArt gallery in New York and in Animal Gallery in Santiago de Chile with the video "Love=pleasure", and at "Framing AIDS" in the Queens Museum of Art in New York. More information: www.antonioortuno.com
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	Kathleen Mallaney was born in Chicago, IL. She has completed residencies at the Contemporary Artist Center and the Vermont Studio Center. Her work has been included in exhibitions at the Visual Arts Gallery, School of Visual Arts, New York, NY; Vermont Studio Center, Johnson, VT; Thirdstone Gallery, Saugatuck, MI; Lloyd Dobler Gallery, Chicago, IL; MCLA Gallery 51, North Adams, MA; Ice Factory, Chicago, IL; Ox-Bow, Saugatuck, MI; Galerie Doubner, Prague, Czech Republic; Clough-Hanson Gallery, Rhodes College, Memphis, TN; and the Leo Marchutz School, Aix-en-Provence, France. She received her BFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and her MFA from the School of Visual Arts. She currently lives and works in New York.
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	Jason Mitcham with his landscape paintings and animations deals with the temporary nature of the world around us. Rather than make a bunch of different paintings for the animation, Mitcham gradually altered a single painting 26-hundred times. Ten alterations to the painting equaled one second of film.
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	The Panoply Performance Laboratory (PPL) is a performance co-operative formed by director/librettist/designer Esther Neff and co-directed by composer/sound artist/musician Brian McCorkle. Since 2004, PPL has been experimenting with ways of combining documentary-based performance art, music, theater, and the mediums of many collaborators including Herbie Go, Meredith Kitz, and Andrea Suarez. PPL pieces often begin with the gathering of interviews and are built to show how closely the emotional and expressive currents that inform individuals on a subconscious level and the formal systems of politics, social sciences, and philosophy work together. Sound objects, live music, installation, video, sculpture, and large-scale paintings comprise efforts to describe and express complex ideas through a medium that can speak directly to impulse and emotion. PPL's newest performance art "opera" will be performed in the city in July of this year. More information: www.panoplylab.org
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after the party, 2010, interactive installation.	Risa Puno was born in 1981 in Louisville, Kentucky. She has exhibited at venues including: Socrates Sculpture Park; The Bronx Museum of the Arts; apexart; Galerie Stefan Röpke in Cologne, Germany; Bronx River Art Center; and Scope NY: Curator’s Choice. Her awards/honors include: project grants from Socrates Sculpture Park and Jersey City Museum; acceptance into the AIM program at The Bronx Museum; and serving as a visiting artist at Dumbo Arts Center, Satellite Academy, and Monmouth University. She studied art and medicine at Brown University and earned her MFA from New York University. She currently lives and works in NYC. Moreinformation:www.risapuno.com
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Hummer Ryan Roa Edition, 2007, sculptural object.	Ryan Roa was born of Irish-Colombian decent in 1974. He grew up in northern NJ. Roa has worked as a stockbroker, a carpenter, a teacher, and served as Staff Sergeant in the U.S. Army, overseas in the Iraq war. He received a BFA in Sculpture and a BS in Art Education from SUNY New Paltz, and MFA in Combined Media from Hunter College. Roa has exhibited at the Jersey City Museum, Bronx Museum, School of Visual Arts, Jamaica Center for the Arts and Learning. He has participated in residency programs at the Bronx Museum, Gallery Aferro and Pace University. He will be Participating in the 2010 Moscow Biennial. Roa is currently based in New York City. More information: www.ryanroa.com
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	Morgan Schwartz creates video installations, single-channel videos, urban actions and interactive media projects. He works collaboratively on projects in response to specific sites or cultural systems. He earned a BSE in Chemical Engineering from Princeton University in 1996 and his MFA from the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston in 2002. Morgan is currently Associate Professor of Digital Media at Marymount Manhattan College. More information: www.sodacity.net
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	Alison Ward’s performances, videos and sculptures create a world populated by a masked and costumed cast that re-interpret her own image in the form of popular cultural icons. Her characters struggle with each other and the audience through activities that combine violence and overt sexuality with slapstick physical humor. With the help of these characters, She creates scenarios that simultaneously exist in the realms of physical comedy and the unknown. Exhibitions include Haven Arts, The Dumbo Arts Center, and the Bronx Museum as well as the CCCB Museum in Spain, RAW Space Gallery in Australia and Castlefield Gallery in England. She has done residencies at Raw Space in Australia, The Artist in the Marketplace Program, and the LMCC studio program, The Waterpod Project in New York City, and LMCC’s Swing Space Program. She has received grants from the Brooklyn Arts Council and the Lewisham Arts council in London to perform her work. More information: www.texandtrixie.com
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	Genevieve White uses her body to test her limits and expose her vulnerability. She is interested in the states of repression and freedom. She paints her skin with six layers of colors and paint a canoe, which disappears. She wraps her head with yarn, which becomes a heavy head and cut it away. The rope that binds us also makes us free. Navigating from the inside out, she tries to unravel truths and myths about others and myself. Genevieve is interested in using the body as a map, a vessel, a container, a follower, an interdependent and independent being that impacts its environment. She has been performing at Deitch, the Neuberger Museum, the Whitney Museum and other venues. She is interested in using her body to test its limits and go beyond what she thinks she can do. She considers her body the vessel, the canvas, a carrier of independence and co-dependence in her work. More information: www.genwhite.blogspot.com
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ABOUT A-Lab: A-Lab is an artists’ collective initiated by New-media artist, Hector Canonge. From its inception in 2009, A-Lab mission has been to promote and forge stronger collaborative projects for artists working and/or living in NYC. A-Lab is an independent initiative whose mission is to inform and assist artists in various aspects of their development. A-Lab's monthly meetings have been designed as a collaborative effort among artists to share resources, know-how, and experience to compete in the market place. In addition, the A-Lab highly encourages and supports social activities to take place in local businesses and institutions in New York City. The convergence of the Arts and Community Building is another important component of the A-Lab as members can propose performances, shows, music gatherings, poetry readings, projections, public interventions, and more, in and around the various boroughs.

A-Lab is an independent initiative supported by QMAD, Queens Media Arts Development. A-Lab Forum presentations are made possible by QMAD in collaboration with our hosting venue Crossing Art Gallery.