Triple Canopy and Feral File present: StarQuest by Maya Man
Triple Canopy and Feral File are pleased to present StarQuest, an installation and performance-lecture by the artist Maya Man. Working with generative AI, Man has produced a video-based body of work that takes up the tropes and aesthetics of American competitive dance—a swirl of ambition, discipline, and spectacle—as well as the circulation of performance in the digital age. Drawing on Man’s childhood experience as a competitive dancer, StarQuest restages the choreography and interpersonal dramas of the cult reality television series Dance Moms. In an ever-changing order, AI-generated dancers twirl across the screen and speak of their fears and foibles in faux confessionals, establishing an uncanny friction between authenticity and artifice.
StarQuest will be on view from 6 to 9 p.m.; Man will present an accompanying performance-lecture at 7 p.m., introduced by the curator Nora O’ Murchú. The performance will be followed by a conversation between Man and Rachel Ossip, Triple Canopy’s deputy editor.
Free with RSVP.
RSVPs do not guarantee entry. Attendance is on a first-come, first-served basis (even for those who have RSVP’d) and will be limited to the legal capacity of the venue.
Participants
Maya Man is an artist focused on contemporary identity culture on the internet. Her work examines dominant narratives around femininity, authenticity, and the performance of self. She organizes a curatorial project called HEART, previously run out of her studio in SoHo. She is online at mayaontheinter.net.
Rachel Ossip is Triple Canopy’s deputy editor and a contributing editor at n+1. She also designs books.
Nora O’ Murchú is an Irish curator and researcher whose work explores how digital infrastructures shape culture and politics. Her practice examines the ontology of computation — how technical systems organise power, extract value, and condition collective life.
Triple Canopy is a magazine that works with artists and writers to address the critical issues that define contemporary life. Triple Canopy is committed to cultivating unconventional, unassimilated forms of thought and expression, and to meaningfully supporting the people who produce them. The magazine collaborates with contributors on artworks, essays, fictions, conversations, performances, and books (among other media) from conception to realization, navigating the digital and physical realms where ideas and audiences take shape. In doing so, Triple Canopy strives to not only analyze but alter the structures that influence whose voices are heard, whose stories are circulated, and whose experiences are valued.
Feral File is a cultural institution and technology company championing computational art—i.e. art that responds and evolves through code, models, and data. Feral File collaborates with artists, curators, and institutions to produce exhibitions and build open tools to make living with this art effortless.
Accessibility
Gibney: Agnes Varis Performing Arts Center is accessible via elevator from the main entrance at 53A Chambers Street.
There are automated, double doors at this entrance. Please utilize the square actuator to the side of the entrances to mobilize the doors. Upon entrance, there will be a wide hallway and a guard stationed at a desk near the bottom of the stairwell.
Bathrooms
There is an ADA compliant, gender-neutral bathroom located in Studio H where the event will take place.