In Arianna Gil’s practice, a gallery becomes a training facility, a residency becomes a mutual aid hub, and a skateboarding brand becomes a labor union for cultural producers, offering health insurance membership cards and cash for tricks. Most recently, WORLD SHINE was a collaboration with a neighborhood acupuncture clinic to promote wellbeing in a culture that charges urban youth for access to their own value. Their theory of deathstyle explains how sex, death, and grief are sacred material that exceed the feedback loop of lifestyle marketing. In this talk, we’ll discuss past and future projects, engage with Brujas World Syndicate curriculum, and think together about what it could mean to reclaim the outdoors in New York City in the current pandemic.

Arianna Gil is an artist from the Lower East Side. Co-founder of BRUJAS and Brujas World Syndicate, Arianna has shown work at sites including Performance Space NY, Recess Gallery, El Museo del Barrio, and Lucky Cheng’s.

Organized by Isaiah Madison.

This event is part of PRACTICING THE ENVIRONMENT, a virtual, public-facing event series with artists, curators, activists, and scholars across the world who explore and engage in various aspects of environmental concern. This series reconsiders the supposed distinction between humans and nature; it is a distinction that has impacted notions of cultivation and place, as well as our relationships with plants and with each other. Focusing on visual arts and performance-based projects that engage notions of environment, these events consider the ecological implications of the materials that we work with, as well as the environmental frameworks and atmospheres that we work within. Hosted by faculty from the Department of the Arts at Eugene Lang College of Liberal Arts at The New School. All events are free and open to the public, but prior registration is required.

Zoom link will be sent in advance of the event.