UNDO Spotlight: A Showcase of Supported Projects — Day 2
UnionDocs is thrilled to invite you to a night celebrating the incredible artists supported by our Fiscal Sponsorship program! Come through and tune into a special showcase of work with the following artists in attendance: Elise Ahrens, William Jonathan Gordon Coley, Katherine Halper, Kalli Anderson, Brent Chesanek, Emma Francis Snyder, Nathan Fitch, Sarah Friedland, Alice Arnold, Danya Abt, Francesca Trianni, Armand Yervant Tufenkian and Tamer Hassan, Jennie Butler, Akeema-Zane Anthony, Crystal Kayiza, Jessica Bardsley, Shabtai Pinchevsky, Claudia Zamora-Valencia, Felix Endara and John Hulsey!
Their work traverses extraordinary terrain — Their work traverses extraordinary terrain — from the lives of queer men exiled under Italian Fascism to the legacy of a pioneering transmasculine photographer, and the intimate negotiations of bodily autonomy, identity, and belonging. These projects follow Holocaust survivors protesting the genocide in Gaza, investigate the expanding machinery of digital surveillance, and question how a self-driving car might navigate the segregated roads of Palestine. They move through the sonic imagination of an experimental composer, the landscapes of Washington Irving, and the shifting streets of SoHo, while uncovering the strange economies of American antiques and the quiet labor of rug restoration between Queens and Armenia. Elsewhere, they trace the enduring spirit of Carnival in Trinidad and Tobago, the guardians of a historic Black cemetery in Mississippi, and the changing relationship between conservation, tourism, and livelihood on the coast of Oaxaca. They reckon with dementia, terminal illness, and the mysteries of mortality, explore the unexpected bonds of family and the pressures of reproduction, and find connections between personal loss and ecological crisis. From the looming promises of technological salvation to the intimate act of posing for a figure drawing class, these projects invite us to reconsider how we inhabit our bodies, care for one another, and imagine our collective futures.
This is a free community event. Come through and toast these pioneering artists and their budding projects!
All of the presenting artists in this program received a 2026 Support for Artists grant, administered through UnionDocs’ fiscal sponsorship program and made possible by the New York State Council on the Arts with support from the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature