Events will take place at The Chocolate Factory Theater, 38-33 24th Street, Long Island City.
In the spirit of the unfinished, the unformed, and the untamed, the Saturday Salons bring together visual artists, writers, musicians, composers, performers, and others to present selections from works-in-process. The rougher the ideas—the more unexpected and outlandish the projects—the better.
Participants, October 24: Camilla Carper, Trinie Dalton, Sibyl Kempson, Jennae Santos.
Drinks and dinner are provided for all, cooked by Jennifer Krasinski and writer-guest chef Ania Szremski, with tables and vibes designed by Scott Hill
Curated by Jennifer Krasinski.
Trinie Dalton’s books include short story collections, microessays, a novella, and a children’s book. Her new manuscripts are auto-fiction and flash fictions in a botany classification guide format. She has made two curated art-text anthologies and her multimedia, curatorial, and expanded publishing projects populate her visual arts nomenclature, Language Barrier. Dalton has written extensively about art and loves to make monograph essays. She’s an Associate Professor of Creative Writing at Cal State University East Bay, but has lived rurally for the past decade, in the Mojave desert and now, a tiny Victorian Gold Rush town in NorCal’s western Sierras.
Sibyl Kempson writes and makes durational, immersive, and proscenium performance, as well as visual narratives on film and video for the stage, museum, chamber, altar, specific site, and for screens large and small, in the US and internationally. She currently heads the playwriting program at Brown University.
Jennae Santos (gushes) is a Filipinx Brooklyn-based, Bay Area-raised interdisciplinary artist and urban farm student building tactile mythos through lovesong and ceremony. The combined coastlines of the Philippines, NYC, and California feed their work as they transmute the erotic convergence of land-water ecologies and diasporic foodways into music and performance. gushes’ sound spans intimate-to-anthemic sensibilities, touching chamber prog-rock, dance music, and ambient drone. Their compositions pair with sensory ephemera and participatory event scores to engage community around themes of food justice, love, and power.
Camilla Carper is an artist, designer, and educator based in New York. They came of age in Sacramento’s 00s DIY music scene and studied Integrated Fashion at Parsons School of Design. After graduating, they helped start artist-run spaces in Oakland, CA and Seattle, WA. Carper co-founded the clothing brand FEMAIL dressing figures like Lady Gaga and Aariana Rose Philip. Following the death of their father in 2018, Carper’s practice shifted. They began long-duration dressing projects to process grief, which expanded into a broader performance practice. They received an MFA in Sculpture from Yale School of Art in 2023 and now create solo and collective performances across strange and familiar sites in New York, from Freshkills Park to The Whitney Museum. Their work has been featured in Vogue, Harper’s Bazaar, and Artforum. Carper teaches at Parsons School of Design and Pratt Institute.
