March 7, 2025

Curators

KYLA GORDON

Artists

LAURA ATWELL

Laurel Atwell has been performing and making work since graduating from Sarah Lawrence College in 2008. Her work and collaborations have been presented at MoMA PS1, Baryshnikov Arts Center, Danspace Project, Movement Research at Judson Memorial Church, Center for Performance Research, Gibney Dance, Abrons Arts Center, Dixon Place, as part of Sundays on Broadway, Performa ’11, as well as in Los Angeles, CA, Marfa, TX, and Minneapolis, MN. She has worked with luciana achugar, Phoebe Berglund, Kim Brandt, Milka Djordjevich (for which Atwell received a 2018 Bessie nomination for her performance in ANTHEM), Beth Gill, Ursula Eagly, Nikima Jagudajev, Melanie Maar, and Melinda Ring, among others. Atwell participated in the 2022 Maumaus Independent Study Program in Lisbon, Portugal, beginning a project that attempts to decipher the new perceptions of reality, desire, and mortality thanks to the internet.

NIC Kay

NIC Kay is an undisciplined artist, performer, and conceptual choreographer from The Bronx, NY, with 25 years of experience in art-making. They work site-responsively in spaces such as theaters, classrooms, galleries, nightclubs, sidewalks, and the internet.

They are the creator of the archive #blackpeopledancingontheinternet. Their choreography generates moments of glitch, interruption, or pause, offering audiences opportunities to explore how spaces, bodies, and objects interact to shift meaning and perception.

LaJuné McMillian

LaJuné McMillan is a Multidisciplinary Artist, and Educator creating art that integrates performance, extended reality, and physical computing to question our contemporary forms of communication. They are passionate about discovering, learning, manifesting, and stewarding spaces for liberated Black Realities and the Black Imagination. LaJuné has had the opportunity to show and speak about their work at National Sawdust, Tribeca Film Festival, Times Square, and The Brooklyn Public Library. LaJuné was previously the Director of Skating at Figure Skating in Harlem, where they integrated STEAM and Figure Skating to teach girls of color about movement and technology. They have continued their research on Blackness, movement, and technology during residencies and fellowships at Onassis ONX, The Jerome Hill Artist Fellowship, Eyebeam, Pioneer Works, NYU ITP,  Barbarian Group, and Barnard College. They are represented by bitforms gallery.