COLLIDER February Open Studios @ Onassis ONX
Schedule:
Doors Open: 5:45pm
Open Studios/Exhibitions: 6:00pm-9:30pm
with timed showings beginning at 6:30pm - see full details below
Collider Fellowship at Lincoln Center
Join us at the new Onassis ONX studio for an exclusive event where our six resident artists unveil their latest research and prototypes developed thus far during their Collider residency. Experience firsthand the creative ideations and artistic processes behind their work as they share excerpts and insights into their craft. Guests are welcome to arrive, depart, and return at any time through the evening. There will be a brief check-in at the door.
2025-2026 Collider Artists: Cinthia Chen, Stephanie Dinkins, Kevin Peter He, Rashaad Newsome, Sam Rolfes, and James Allister Sprang
FULL EVENT & PROJECT DETAILS:
The Collider Fellowship at Lincoln Center
Open Studios on Thursday, February 5th from 6:00pm-9:30pm
Hosted by Onassis ONX @ 390 Broadway, 4th Fl. NY, NY 10013
Cinthia Chen: Solar Solace (working title)
A sharing of an early installation prototype for a larger performance work I’m developing, tentatively titled ‘Solar Solace.’ The project is deeply influenced by the Solarpunk ethos, through which I hope to explore and highlight our collective interdependence as we navigate the ongoing ecological and socio-political decay. The installation will feature bioplastics and video projections that respond dynamically via touch sensors. Through participant interaction with the installation, and sharing of my research, I hope to playtest the tech and have conversations that will help further inform the themes and format of this piece.
Drop-in from 6:00pm-9:30pm
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Stephanie Dinkins: Untitled, or Rest Up to Rev Up
Dinkins shares generative residues: conversation, texts, and works-in-progress that examine the invisible systems—computational, social, and institutional—shaping our lives. Key demos include a poetic resuscitation of DNA-encoded oral histories recited by an AI version of the artist’s voice, a prototypical AI agent trained on community data, and recent texts.
Rather than presenting resolved outcomes, this open studio prioritizes curiosity and transparency, making the evolution of technical decisions visible through early interfaces, material tests, and 3D prints. These demos emphasize play and dialogue as essential to how algorithmic relations are structurally imagined and formed. By foregrounding conversation, unfinished systems and experimental remnants, the presentation creates space for discovery, reflection, and feedback. Through this collective questioning, experimentation, and care are positioned as integral to the work, offering a glimpse into future directions while grounding high-tech systems in human relations.
Drop-in from 6:00pm-9:30pm
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Kevin Peter He: Vestige
Vestige is a dance-theatre performance that stages technology as a partner: an intimate, unstable presence. Through ritualized gesture and live mediation, a performer summons and negotiates with a digital body: a figure that feels at once conjured, constrained, and strangely alive. The work moves between tenderness and command, asking how presence changes when embodiment is continuously routed through interfaces, and when control becomes a form of power. As the relationship deepens, agency begins to blur: the performer shapes the system, the system shapes the performer, and what remains is the charged residue of contact.
Performance times
7:00-7:30pm
8:00-8:30pm
Performances of the piece will occur at the times above. At all other times, guests are welcome to drop-in, talk with Kevin and have hands-on/demonstrative time with the tools.
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Rashaad Newsome: Hands Performance
Hands Performance takes its title from the well-known element of vogue fem, highlighting a dancer's ability to tell a story with their hands and showcasing their musicality. Hands Performance continues my exploration of mapping Black cultural production as a form of movement research, data storage, and collective wayfinding. Working with a team of Black Queer ASL interpreters, various vogue fem performers, flex dancers, and motion capture technologists, I translated my original poetry into a movement dataset exhibiting the uniquely Black and Queer aspects of sign language. I then added this movement dataset into Being the Digital Griot, a non-binary artificial intelligence I premiered in my interdisciplinary exhibition Assembly at the Park Avenue Armory in February 2022. The film combines stunning visuals from a speculative future with a highly energetic score filled with booming bass, synthetic snares, snaps, claps, and glitchy computer sounds, resulting in a futuristic sonic experience. As Being performs, they move seamlessly between signing and dancing, exhibiting uniquely Black and Queer kinesics that signal the immaterial expressivity inherent to Black American life.
Drop-in from 6:00pm-9:30pm: Looping video with sound, duration 5 minutes 17 seconds
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Sam Rolfes: Mustang Speedrun: Pilot Onboarding 1A
Congratulations on your auto-acceptance into the Mustang Speedrun test-pilot program, darling! This installation will test your compatibility with our new Modular-Narcissus class performance apparatus (MoNa), currently in-development for use at-home or on-stage at your local Megaclub. Complete three (3) fun challenges, or be labeled an enemy of the state :D
The story-prototype for Mustang Speedrun, a live-motion-captured, VR-Puppetted road trip tale about two brothers piloting their rusting performance mech across a future Southwest frontier in search of glory and meaning, was debuted by Team Rolfes at ACMI in Melbourne and Soft Centre in Sydney, Australia in the Fall of 2025.
As part of the Collider program, the show is being developed into an expanded version with an additional theatrical cast, live musical performance, and a downloadable story-game compatible with the simulation chair installed here.
Drop-in from 6:00pm-9:30pm
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James Allister Sprang: Sprang Studio & 4DSound
James Allister Sprang invites you into the studio: Working with 4DSound, a rare immersive audio system that sculpts “sonic holograms” in three dimensions, Sprang fuses spatial music, photography, and woven painting into vivid audiovisual worlds. Only six 4DSound systems exist worldwide; Sprang is the only artist of color to own and regularly create with one.
Tonight’s sharing spotlights a completed work and a work-in-progress that demonstrate how Sprang composes for space:
Rest Within the Wake (2023): a 10-minute excerpt from a 17-instrument orchestral score (commissioned by Baryshnikov Arts; presented at the Concertgebouw and ICA Maine).
LIME (working title): a 14-minute sketch tracing the work’s arc—centering steelpan—which is currently developing towards a 60-minute piece with narration and photographs created during Caribbean carnivals.
This sharing opens the evening at 6:30pm, repeating at intervals throughout the night.
We expect intervals will be about every half-hour.