Heat Lightning: Secret Mirrors

​Heat Lightning returns for Secret Mirrors, a special performance at our gallery and project space in SoHo.

​Join us for an immersive collaboration between creative technologist and multimedia artist Anna Ren and multidisciplinary poet and performer Catherine Chen. Through live visualizations, textile, and sound, the space will transform into an evolving installation shaped through poetry and performance.

​Proceeds from the evening will support UnLocal, a community-centered nonprofit providing direct immigration legal representation to NYC immigrant communities. Wine generously provided by Chambers Street Wines.

​ENTRANCE NOTE & LAST ENTRY ♥

​Doors open at 7:30pm. Performance will begin at 8:30pm.

​Entrance is through the black gate, not the front door. Please text or call 908-910-3739 upon arrival for entry.

​To minimize disruptions to the performance, last entry will be at 8:15pm.

​ARTIST BIOS

​Anna Ren is a New York–based new media artist. Working across expanded animation, performance, installation, and interactive media, her practice explores hybrid spaces between physical and digital environments, examining cultural displacement, memory, and the body through immersive real-time systems. Her work has been exhibited internationally at Ars Electronica, ISEA, ACM TEI, and more. Most recently, her work was selected as a winner at the SMTH International Contest 5th Edition and as a semifinalist for the Cannes Indie Shorts Award.

​Catherine Chen is a poet and the author of Beautiful Machine Woman Language (Noemi Press, 2023). Encompassing poetry, video, collaboration, and modes of installation, their work explores the relationship between text and archive, material history and speculation. They perform with Cristina Bartley Dominguez as Earthworks, creating site-specific movements inspired by Mexican and Taiwanese cosmology, ecology, and ritual-making. Currently they are writing a book-length poem examining inherited and censored histories of silence told through the narrative perspective of Asian objects owned by the Brooklyn Museum.