Public Program: LoopCurrent | Transformative Impact

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"LoopCurrent" is a performance by Maya Ciarrocchi that envisions humanity's impact on the planet and the irrevocably altered future.

Longwood Art Gallery

Join us at the Longwood Art Gallery on Wednesday, June 18, 2025, at 6:00 PM for LoopCurrent, a powerful performance by Maya Ciarrocchi that explores humanity’s lasting impact on the planet and imagines a world shaped by our future descendants.<a href="https://mayaciarrocchi.com/loopcurrent" title="https://mayaciarrocchi.com/loopcurrent" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">LoopCurrent</a> is a response to a climate catastrophe occurring in real time. This research-based performance installation envisions humanity's environmental impact on the planet and the irrevocably altered future. The project uses video, textiles, movement, sound, and seismology to construct a world dug up by archeologists long after we are dust. This future relic appears now as a transmitted warning, as time-traveled evidence of a disaster, or as a cry for help.This performance is presented as part of the Public Program for the current exhibition, Transformative Impact. A conversation will follow with artist Maya and performer Anna Azrieli, moderated by Clarinda Mac Low.Learn more about Transformative Impact here: <a href="https://www.bronxarts.org/programs/connector/longwood-art-project/longwood-art-gallery" title="https://www.bronxarts.org/programs/connector/longwood-art-project/longwood-art-gallery" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">https://www.bronxarts.org/programs/connector/longwood-art-project/longwood-art-gallery</a>Learn more about LoopCurrent here: <a href="https://mayaciarrocchi.com/loopcurrentba-" title="https://mayaciarrocchi.com/loopcurrentba-" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">https://mayaciarrocchi.com/loopcurrentba-</a> Maya Ciarrocchi is a Canadian American interdisciplinary artist. Her work has been exhibited in New York City, as well as nationally and internationally at galleries, museums and performing arts venues such as Abrons Arts Center, Bronx Museum of the Arts, Collar Works, Center for New Music (CA), Equity Gallery, Field Projects, Gibney, Jack, La Bodega Gallery, Longwood Gallery, Main Window Dumbo, Old Stone House, Smack Mellon, Wave Hill, and ZAZ10TS. She has been awarded residencies from the Baryshnikov Arts, Bronx Museum of the Arts, LABA: A Laboratory for Jewish Culture, Loghaven, Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, MacDowell, Millay Arts, UCross, Visual Studies Workshop, and Wave Hill. She has received grants and awards from the Bronx Council on the Arts, Canada Council for the Arts, Foundation for Contemporary Arts, Franklin Furnace Fund, Jerome Foundation, Map Fund, Mid-Atlantic Arts Foundation, New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, New York State Council on the Arts, Puffin Foundation, and the Trust for Mutual Understanding. In addition to her studio practice, Ciarrocchi has created Bessie, Jeff and TONY-winning projection scenography and design for dance and theater artists such as, Wally Cardona, Ping Chong, David Cromer, Merce Cunningham, Bebe Miller, Donna Uchizono, and Talvin Wilks. Ciarrocchi earned an MFA in Computer Art from the School of Visual Arts, New York, NY, and a BFA in Dance from Purchase College, Purchase, NY. Her work is in the Brookfield Properties collection. She lives and works in the Bronx. Anna Azrieli (movement)Anna Azrieli emigrated from the Soviet Union/Ukraine at age seven and grew up in NYC.Her work has been presented by Chocolate Factory, Gibney Dance, the Kitchen, Danspace Project, Movement Research at the Judson Church, Elastic City, among others. Her choreography uses repetitive movement to explore ritualized thoughts and feelings around transformation of the body during major life processes. She danced for years with Miguel Gutierrez and has freelanced with many artists including Abigail Levine, Vicky Shick, Mariangela Lopez, Heather Kravas, Yanira Castro, robbinschilds, luciana achugar, and Wendy Perron. Anna teaches dance, movement improvisation, yoga, and pilates.She is happy to be working with Maya Ciarrocchi once again. Clarinda Mac Low (moderator)Clarinda Mac Low (they/she) was born and raised in the NYC avant-garde arts scene. They started out working in dance and molecular biology and now works in performance and installation, creating participatory events, including Sunk Shore, a speculative future climate change project, in collaboration with Carolyn Hall. They also create organizations as experiments, including <a href="http://culturepush.org/" title="http://culturepush.org/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Culture Push</a>, and <a href="https://www.worksonwater.org/" title="https://www.worksonwater.org/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Works on Water</a>. In addition, they are a professor in design and technology and a former HIV/AIDS researcher and medical journalist. From 2022-2024 they were embedded with <a href="https://www.genspace.org/" title="https://www.genspace.org/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Genspace</a>, a community biology laboratory, as part of the Creative Rebuilds New York Artists Employment Program. Mac Low is devoted to their home city and has been intensively investigating its shorelines for over 15 years. Image credit: Maya Ciarrocchi (photo), L-R: Katarzyna Pastuszak and Natalia Chylińska

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