October 25, 2024
Curators
ALESSANDRA
Alessandra Gómez is an independent curator, writer, and advisor based in New York. She recently served as a curator for Luna Luna, the world’s first art amusement park, originally created in 1987 and now reimagined as a touring exhibition. Gómez was part of the core curatorial team for Luna Luna: Forgotten Fantasy and worked on the development of new artist-designed rides, attractions, and games. From 2018–2022, she was part of The Shed’s founding curatorial team, where she developed over 75 visual arts and performance commissions during her tenure including major shows by Shayne Oliver & Anonymous Club and Maxwell Alexandre. Her independent curatorial projects have been shown at Columbia University’s Wallach Art Gallery, Knockdown Center, Queens Museum x Bulova Center, and the Center for Performance Research. She currently serves as a consultant curator for Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM) and is curating Nike’s "The Style of Sport” exhibition during New York Fashion Week.
Artists
KAT SOTELO
Kat Sotelo is a 1st generation Filipino American performance artist who received her BFA in Interdisciplinary Sculpture with a Concentration in Video/Film from the Maryland Institute College of Art (2009). Her performances manifest as dance, theatrical productions and social experiments - all framing the absurdity of life and desperation for human connection. Highlights of her career include holding hands with strangers, screaming monologues in Italian to an audience of old villagers in Calabria, and implementing people as household fixtures. For over a decade, she has been professionally employed in the film industry where she decorates sets and manufactures realities on a commercial scale. These skills have sharpened her approach to fabrication in performative environments - utilizing choreography with objects and architecture to synthesize maximalist compositions. She currently lives and works in Brooklyn, NY.
SLETH
A gemini with mischievous but kind eyes, Sleth is a prolific playwright, screenwriter and performer in New York’s cabaret and experimental theater scene. He has presented original work at Flux Factory, Bushwig 2024, the Wassaic Project, Brick Theater, 3 Dollar Bill, Suzanne Bartsch parties, Parkside Lounge, Brooklyn Museum, Bonnaroo and House of Yes. He uses the aesthetic languages of camp, shock and TedTalks to parody wealth, tastemaking institutions and the fine art world. Sleth received a 2024 NYSCA Artist Grant to write and produce a new play, ‘horsefacts.gov/’, which premiered in a sold-out run at Brick Theater in July 2024. He is obsessed with the power of queer forgetting, lying and mania in storytelling (which is extremely different from heterosexual forgetting, lying and mania). He is friendly and nice.
HANNAH KALLENBACH
Hannah Kallenbach (she/her) is a Brooklyn-based actor and performance artist whose work takes many forms in various mediums, from durational site-specific installations to multi-media devised works to solo experimental theater shows. She has written and performed numerous original pieces at venues such as Ars Nova, Triskelion, JACK, Collapsable Hole, Silent Barn, 80 WSE Gallery, The Tank, The Brick, Vital Joint, Life World and Dixon Place. She has participated in festivals such as The Exponential Festival, Radical Acts Festival, The Prelude Festival, ?!:New Works, and SalOn!.
Hannah has spent the past year in residencies at Mercury Store developing new work about Disney adults and their natural intersection with evangelical Christians. She spent the end of the summer performing with Peter Mills Weiss and Julia Mounsey’s theater company in two experimental theater shows: Open Mic Night and While You Were Partying touring at the Williamstown Theater Festival and then over to the Netherlands for the Noorderzon festival. BFA NYU.
