Cura (Epistemic Two Step)

ROOMSERVICE is hosting 'Cura (Epistemic Two Step)', conceived by Sessa Englund and the second rendition a recurring semi-annual exhibition that examines the position of artists who curate.

This edition features all new work by Millie Kapp, Georgia Wall and Julian Armand Jimarez Howard. All three are creators whose involvement in the artistic community has had a generative impact on their local art scenes. Born out of conversations between the three participating artists, the exhibition and the artworks focus on their shared interest in epistemic and linguistic modes. Indeed, representing an extension of their practices as artists and curators, this exhibition becomes an inquiry into the structures of reading, and of miss-readin. With respect to their on going areas of focus, the results of this collaboration becomes a presentation of their individual practices in a collective light.

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Cura, as an exhibition emerges from the reality that artists today use curation not only as a form of organization within their communities, but also as an inseparable part of their artistic practice. Is the traditional role of the academic curator necessary, or is a new role emerging from the shifting landscape of artists as organizers of their community? At Cura we will explore these questions by making visible new networks that exist between artists, curators and their collaborators.

For each exhibition three invited artists who have a strong curatorial practice work together to create a collaborative show born, both out of conversation between the participating artists, and their on going research. There is no traditional curator in the show, instead the work is developed through discussion: generatively forming and developing the exhibition and resulting essay.

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Millie Kapp

Millie Kapp is a New York-based performance artist. In 2013, she graduated with an MA in Performance Studies from NYU and completed her undergraduate degree in 2010 with a BA in Visual and Critical Studies from School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Kapp has presented her performance work in Oakland, Toronto, Montreal, Minneapolis, Chicago and New York. She has programed performance events in New York at Abrons Arts Center, The Painting Center, Glasshouse Projects and the Woods Cooperative. She’s been an artist in residence at Chez Bushwick, Chicago Cultural Center, Vermont Studio Center as well as Summer Forum. Most recently, she’s presented her work in New York at La MaMa, CPR, Roulette, AUNTS at BRIC, and THROW at The Chocolate Factory Panoply among other places. She has previously performed with Gordon Hall, Alex Romania, and Macklin Kowal. For more information please visit milliekapp.com

Georgia Wall

Georgia Wall (b. 1986, New York, NY) lives and works in Brooklyn and makes video and performance. She received her BA from Oberlin College and her MFA from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 2011. Wall's videos and performances have been shown in galleries, theaters and performance venues nationally in major cities including New York, Chicago and San Francisco. In New York, Wall has recently shown video and film work at Anthology Film Archives, Spectacle Theater, Flux Factory and Petit Versailles. Wall has presented live work at US Blues, Dixon Place and Glasshouse and forthcoming will be performing at NYLA as a Fresh Tracks resident as well as with Movement Research at Judson Church and CATCH. Wall has held solo exhibitions at Skylight Project, Document Space and ACRE. Her work has been written about in publications including, Hemispheric Institute E-Misférica, Time Out Chicago and Dossier Journal. Wall has participated in a number of residencies both nationally and abroad and has been invited to be a resident artist in Summer of 2016 at the Joan Mithcell Center in New Orleans.

Julian Armand Jimarez Howard

Often the wearer of many hats, Julian is a curator, educator, artist, entrepreneur, and art advisor, though not always in that order. He has lectured about curatorial practice and the art market at institutions such as Pratt, Brown University, and Sotheby's Institute of Art and was NURTUREart's 2012/2013 Project Curate Educator at Juan Morel Campos Secondary School in Brooklyn. His exhibitions have been featured in The New York Times, New York Magazine, Hyperallergic, Artnet News, Artinfo, Bushwick Daily and many others. He is the founder of OUTLET Fine Art and co-founder of Associated Gallery. Julian currently splits his time between acting as curator and Co-Director of OUTLET, his numerous outside art and curatorial projects. His work focuses on the interaction between place, space, and representation. Having lived in New Mexico, Texas, Virginia, Rhode Island, Brazil and New York, Julian brings a global sensibility to his work. Julian's expansive curatorial experience finds it’s counter point in his own practice as a writer and artist. For more information please visit jjimarezhoward.com

Sessa Englund

Sessa Englund is a NYC-based a sculptor, textile, and installation artist. Through her choice of materials Englund explores commerce and the personal, while dismantling historical notions of the use of weaving or textile as “feminine work” and thus un-intellectual versus painting as “masculine work” and thus divinely inspired and intellectual. She has been featured in the New York Times, Hyperallergic, Art F City, Ffffffwalls, Gallery Travels, ARTFUSE, The Daily Dot, Paper Jam, Bushwick Daily, The Wrong Biennale, Chashama, Nojesguiden Sweden, Salon Zurcher – FIAC fair, and more. For more information please visits sessa.website