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VAULT | Gowanus
SUBJECT/AUTONOMY

Join us this Saturday, November 8th at 165 2nd St Brooklyn, NY 11215, for SUBJECT/AUTONOMY, the first of two outdoor performances conceived by Arien Wilkerson (@ariaztro) as part of VAULT at KAJE. The performance will begin promptly at 5PM.

VAULT draws inspiration from the shuttered John C. Clark Elementary School in Hartford, CT, closed in 2015 after dangerous levels of carcinogenic PCBs were discovered in its construction materials—products of Monsanto’s (now Bayer) mid-century building supply sales to American municipalities. The abandoned school stands as a stark monument to systemic neglect, racism, classism, and the enduring impact of toxic infrastructure on Black and Brown communities. The Gowanus Canal, once one of the most polluted waterways on earth and a site of historic industrial dumping, serves as a parallel landscape for VAULT; the canal’s transformation from a natural creek to an industrial artery left behind a legacy of contamination, including PCBs and the infamous “black mayonnaise” sediment, more than 20 feet deep in certain places.

Performance by
Arien Wilkerson
Soleil Collyear
Chloe Marie
Nikolai McKenzie

Sounds by
Kwami Winfield
Marisa Williamson

An additional performance, LANDSCAPE/VALUE, will take place on November 22nd. The gallery will remain open from 12-6PM

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Early summer #fujifilmxt3

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Late night post however! THIS WEDNESDAY BLACK AESTHETICS IS BACK!! With the legendary and super dope and poppin KRIS LEE.!! Ya”ll know New York City loves her.! Pull up

CHILE I GUESS
BY KRIS LEE @mellowbastard

a movement on refusal, bed rot, comfort & swag.

Curated by @malcolmxbetts @ariaztro as part of the Black Aesthetics series⁠ at Judson Arts Wednesdays⁠ @judsonchurchnyc @judsoncommons
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WEDNESDAY, APRIL 30 2025
food + doors open 6:30pm ⁠
performance 7:30pm⁠

📍Judson Memorial Church @judsonchurchnyc

55 Washington Square S, New York, NY 10012

ENTER AT: 243 Thompson street, New York, NY 10012.

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We are excited to announce the lineup for the Fall 2024 season of Sundays on Broadway, co-curated by Malcolm-x Betts @malcolmxbetts and Cathy Weis.   October 27: film and discussion led by Yvonne Rainer  November 10: Daniel Lepkoff & Sakura Shimada + Julie Mayo @juliehmayo + Wonderful Cringe @wonderful_cringe  November 17: Deborah Hay + Tess Dworman @tessdworman + Arien Wilkerson @ariaztro  December 1: Emily Coates & Iréne Hultman @irenehultmanmonti + Wendy Perron @wendy72perron + Kris Lee @mellowbastard + video by CW  December 8: Lisa Kraus @lisakrausa + Yoshiko Chuma @yoshikochuma + Nile Harris @nileharris
  All events begin at 6:00 pm — doors open at 5:45 pm
 Cover image: Arien Wilkerson, photo by Joe Condern
 Thank you to IndieSpace @indiespacenyc and their Little Venue That Could Program for helping to make this season possible. The Little Venue That Could Program is supported by the Howard Gilman Foundation.

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I am honored to present “Security Theater” by Nazareth Hassan 06 MAR 2024 | 7:30pm | Judson Memorial Church Free - enter at 243 Thompson street NY.

Created in collaboration with filmmaker Alexander Mejía featuring Nicholas Sanchez a.k.a. Wonderful Cringe + Nazareth Hassan Performing with @wonderful_cringe in collaboration with @xandermejia

Curated by @malcolmxbetts and @ariaztro .
Presented by Judson Memorial Church + Paratheater: @paratheat.er + @judsonchurchnyc
Produced by @paratheat.er
Poster & Video designed by @xandermejia

Using text from visa application and interview questions, live sound, movement with objects, found footage, and personal recountings, Nazareth Hassan interrogates their self in the back room of an airport.”

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LOVE8: the pain of love without breaking
Wednesday January 24 2024
Doors + Free Food: 6:30pm | Art: 7:30pm
Judson Memorial Church
55 Washington Square south New York, NY 10012
Enter at 243 W Thompson street

LOVE 8 is a black queer experimental docu/mock-umentary rom-com film set in Philly, New York and CT and directed by Arien Wilkerson along with Domenic Pellegrini - With animation from film tech director Jacob Weinberg and monologues by Hilton Palmer, Tafari Robertson, CC Hamilton and domsentfrommars. @domsentfrommars @wacob_jeinberg @hiltonpalmer @cchamiltonlife @tafaridiop

Writing by @kevinhernandezrosa music by @nicholas.serrambana and @pearlsugar.muse

Come thru u don’t wanna miss this film !!

Photo by @malcolmxbetts

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ARIEN

ID: A detail of a portrait of Arien by Lendl.

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Based in Philly, Arien Wilkerson (@ariaztro) is an award-winning queer, black, choreographer, dancer, filmmaker, director, producer, installation artist. TNMOT AZTRO is a collaborative multidisciplinary company featuring six to ten artists at any given time.
TNMOT AZTRO joins our BODY Spring Season as a performer for our Performance Series.

Showcasing vibrant and unapologetic work by six Asian and Asian American artists, THE BODY YOU WANT explores various positions of Asian queer bodies through the lens of geopolitical gender norms. Come check out the exhibition before it closes on August 5! Our gallery is open Tue/Thu/Sat 2-6PM.

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CROSSROADS **ARTIST SPOTLIGHT**: Arien Wilkerson/Tnmot Aztro! @ariaztro
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👇🏽 BIO below👇🏽
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GET YOUR TICKETS…!

CROSSROADS series / DEC 9 - Curated by Hilary Brown-Istrefi @hbsquared_projects

Presenting
Arien Wilkerson/Tnmot Aztro
@ariaztro
(They/she)

Performing
EQUATORS (Excerpt)

Credits:
EQUATORS made in collaboration with Installation Artist David Borawski and Lighting designer Jon-Paul LaRocco and artist Domenic Pellegrini.

Location:
Judson Memorial Church
55 Washington Square S
New York, NY 10012

BIO
Arien Wilkerson (They/she) is a queer black choreographer, dancer, filmmaker, director, producer, and installation artist. The Hartford, CT native began their dance training under the tutelage of Jolet Creary, and has been a student at the Greater Hartford Academy of the Arts, The Artists Collective, Earl Mosley Institute of the Arts, and the Batsheva Dance Company’s "Gaga Intensive" in New York, NY, along with visiting the company in Tel Aviv, Israel. In 2008, they were a scholarship recipient for travel to Cape Verde, Africa to participate in CulturArte, a youth arts residency program. There, they studied with life and performance mentor Deborah Goffe (Artistic Director of Scapegoat Garden) and Mano Preto (Artistic Director of Raiz di Polon). As a high school senior in 2009, Wilkerson traveled throughout parts of Eastern Europe on scholarship. Additionally, David Dorfman and Nicole Stanton selected Arien's work for inclusion in Wesleyan University’s Dance Masters programming, recognizing their potential as a groundbreaking choreographer in New England.
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DEC 9 / CROSSROADS series featured artists: ALEXA GRÆ, Yuan Liu, gorno (Glenn Potter-Takata) and Arien Wilkerson/Tnmot Aztro

FREE/SLIDING-SCALE TICKETS
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RESERVE your tickets NOW! You can also DONATE to further support the artists.
**All ticket sales and donations go directly to the artists.

EVENTBRITE and PAYPAL LINKS IN BIO

Video description can be found in Instagram alt text feature.

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email / xas0418@hotmail.com 4 styling - creative direction or MUA inquiries

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“The lights should be the weather” - @ariaztro in a talk back after EQUATORS. Join us Sat & Sun for this awesome performance work 3&7:30pm each day.

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