Performance Artists
Erica Enriquez - “Tire, Tired, Trick”Erica Enriquez (b. 1997, Newburgh NY) is a multidisciplinary artist based in New York City. Erica received her BFA in Sculpture from the Rhode Island School of Design in 2019 and MFA from Columbia University School of the Arts with a concentration in Sculpture: Expanded Practice in 2024. Erica has shared her work in various traditional and non-traditional spaces across the east coast including: museums, galleries, music venues, theaters, comedy clubs, parks and wrestling rings. Her work considers sculpture, video, photography, painting, and sound as collaborators for performance. She is also the leader of the rock band CHOO CHOO, which is available on all streaming platforms. Erica’s work has been featured in and reviewed by publications such as The MODA Critical Review, Thrasher Magazine, Quartersnacks, Converse, Obscure Sound, HRMNY Presents and Buffablog, and television programs such as CBS News New York, and Bronxnet OPEN Artist Spotlight. Tire, Tired, Trick is a three act play, which incorporates handmade props and costumes, multimedia elements, and an original musical score. This performance centers around the parallel experiences of the circus clown and the automobile tire as metaphors for the human capacity to turn the dreamt into material. Combining semi-autobiographical stories, songs, and video footage with playful sculptural elements, this project ruminates on the idea that everything ever made was once imaginary and made into belief.J Alex Ray
J Alex Ray (b. 1997 in Chicago, IL) is a New York-based visual and performance artist and pole dancer. Their work consists of experimental movement and self-portraiture revolving around themes of personal evolution and growth. Their visual storytelling harmonizes improvised dance and endurance challenges interacting with material and live deconstruction. These performances are presented live in front of an audience before being refined as separate visual projects. As Ray’s performances are revisited across new showcases, the ritual evolves from space to space, showing the impact of the live environment and the live energetic transmutation between the ever-shifting relationship between time, J, and the audience.
Leaveascar + UFO TOFU
Leaveascar is the moniker of Rachel Navarro, a Bronx-born actress/musician. She’s been praised for her lyricism by legendary Producer Timbaland and continues to work on her craft. Her latest collaboration with UFO TOFU has given her the opportunity to manipulate her voice into new shapes. Djs from Germany to Paris have turned these tracks into their own masterpieces. The joy of making art is seeing how others fit it into their own world.
UFO TOFU plays with the vocals of his artists like a potter does with clay. Molding what was once an enticing track into a completely reimagined sonic experience. You’ll find TOFU’s music aiding in the release of inhibitions and feelings you can’t quite put into words. Some have described his music as dark, but he believes it’s just a puzzle waiting to be solved.
Lina Dahbour - Community Hazard
Lina Azalea Dahbour is an interdisciplinary artist and event producer based in the Hudson Valley and New York City. Her work has been presented by New York Live Arts, Grace Exhibition Space, ROSEKILL, Glasshouse Project, The Locker Room, RAWDance, The Living Gallery, The Lace Mill, ArtPort, Trans-Pecos, Greenkill, Groundswell Series, Nonchalant, Domingo World, North Node Space, Baba Yaga Gallery, and DIY venues across the Northeast. She was a 2023 Franklin Furnace FUND Recipient for her work ‘Light Meditations'. She was the 2024 Suzanne Fiol Curatorial Fellow at ISSUE Project Room. She produces BADDANCE, a dance event series she founded in 2017 that upholds the merit of confounding, obscene, strange, and very bad dance works. In 2022, she co-founded Momenta, a monthly dance and performance art event series in residency at Trans-Pecos and Intercomm.
Installation Artists
Cameron Alexander - “Ritual of Obsolescence”In a hyper-technologized world driven by profit at the expense of our planet’s delicate equilibrium, yesterday’s cutting-edge supercomputers are today’s waste. These devices, intentionally designed to be fragile and irreparable, embody the planned obsolescence perpetuated by the tech industry. This piece transforms discarded phones into an act of ritual—both a lament and a call to action. It invites viewers to confront the destructive cycle of consumerism and to envision pathways toward sustainability, where technology serves to restore balance rather than erode it.Cameron Alexander (emptyflash) is an artist, programmer, and scientist based in New York. His work explores the relationship between math and nature (especially in chaos, cybernetics, and fractals), esoteric states of consciousness, and the essence of reality. Cameron primarily operates with experimental media such as interactive installations, live coded audiovisual performances, and alternative-process photography.David Jihwan Lee - “Surveillance Camera”
This conceptualization of a camera attempts to capture our conditioned reactions to being observed and our trained self-selection into it. The act of uploading pictures of oneself to platforms that enable remote and disembodied observation has become an integral part of how we communicate with others. Viewers may elect to take a selfie and become the subject of the piece.
J Dylan - “Not My Teeth”
I make photos with obscured subjects in response to a sense of dissonance that pervades my life. I work hard to present as a healthy, attractive, and confident person, but I walk through every day carrying intense familial trauma and rampant inner conflict about my sexuality. I have always had a different relationship with my anatomy than most males, and after the death of my older sister when I was 17, any sense of linearity or normalcy was eliminated. My life has felt disjointed ever since. This implores me to create imagery from moments where reality is distorted, and in Not My Teeth, complicating my mouth to this unrecognizable effect conveys the sensitivity and self-scrutiny I experience. Manipulating these photos into a mysterious, jarring sculpture captures the discrepancy between my outer appearance and my mangled inner life, while evoking the scary, captivating, and beautiful felt sensation of it.
Lisha Payne - “Gobyworld”An absurd point-and-click adventure, where you help Goby, a piece of swallowed gum, in his quest to find freedom beyond the digestive system. Lisha Payne (they/he) began making Gobyworld as their NYU Interactive Media Arts BFA thesis project but then completed a second iteration at The Rabbit 2023 Games Residency (supported by Medienboard Berlin-Brandenburg). I'm excited to work on more games, hopefully with a team next time!
Magali, A Cult - “Mother’s Salary” Magali, a Cult is a visual and performance artist currently based in New York City. She brings an amalgamation of genres together in her CGI artwork, music, sculpture and writing. Sonically, she integrates electronic rhythms with traditional harmonic melodies. Having performed extensively throughout NYC and Europe, Magali has cultivated a distinct stage presence including projection art and seated choreography. Her current visual practice centers salt as a medium, exploring its ability to transform and permeate materials by pairing salt with steel, terracotta, water, fabric, and other materials. Salt in itself is purifying, healing, abrasive, preserving, toxic, transmutable, transformative.
Manon Wada - “Digestion” Manon Wada is a multimedia artist originally from and currently based in New York City on Canarsie Munsee Lenape land. Her art practice takes form as sculpture, installation, and video, which frequently intersects with poetry. In tandem, she often works collaboratively and on socially engaged, community based art projects. She completed her MFA in Sculpture at Rhode Island School of Design.Her work, digestion (2025) is a two-channel video sculpture that is set inside a dissected suitcase. Channel one was recorded in 2020 for the original version of this piece, which reanimates a number of inherited items from her father in a process that loosely correlates to the stages of digestion. This work was then resurrected with channel two recorded in 2024, which mirrors the original video vignettes and processes additional inherited materials after her father passed away.
Max Abeles - Corpse with Attendants
Corpse with Attendants is a kinetic multimedia work by MAKS (Musically Advanced Kinetic Systems). An eviscerated figure is brought back to life. Flanked by two writhing deities, a death mask looks on from above. Musical composition by 185668232 and Maxwell Abeles. Fabrication assistance by Gabriel Hudson Robinson. About: Maxwell Abeles is an artist, musician and performer living in Brooklyn, NY (no points for originality there!). Registered in 2011, his ongoing project MAKS creates multimedia systems for exhibition, performance, and ritual. In February 2025 MAKS will be touring Japan.Find out more: www.maks.com
"Space Age Polytheism!" Yehwan Song - Phishing Net
Yehwan is a Korean-born, New York-based web artist specializing in creating non-user-centric, unconventional, and diverse independent internet spaces. Yehwan's projects focus on exploring the discomfort and insecurity experienced by marginalized users, often hidden beneath the facade of technological utopianism, which emphasizes excessive comfort, speed, and ease of use.Yehwan satirizes and critiques the overgeneralization of users and the dominance of templated websites by crafting non-generic web interfaces and performing with these websites and devices. This work sparks conversations about the political and social forces shaping today’s uniform and templated web, shedding light on the struggles of users who are denied fair and legitimate rights online due to their cultural, political, or linguistic backgrounds.
Environmental Construction Artists
A. KazalDirector of Environmental Construction
Lead Carpenter
Lead Rigger
Lead “The Feed” Design and Installation
Lead “The Mouth of the Castle” Installation
Textile Support
Lighting Support
Tench C.Lead Projection Designer
Lead Lighting Designer
Lead Baddie
Lead “Enter Here”
Design and Installation
“it’s gone.” Design and Fabrication
Rigging Support
Carpentry Support
Textile SupportTao Liu Lead Painter
Lead Printer
Lead “Enter Here” Design and Installation
Window Design
“The Lady” Design and Projection
Receipt Design
Flaire “The Cathedral” Creative Design
Lead Textiles
Lead Painter
Carpentry Support
Stage Adornment
Tabi CassLead “The Intestine” Installation
Textile Support
Rigging Support