Siren Arts

Participating Artist residency artists

(she/it)

a cooking machine to melt your heart

Tina / Tai Tai 

RESIDENCY DATES: July 8 - 12, 2024
ARTIST TALK: July 10, 2024
PERFORMANCE: July 11, 2024

Image credit: Graham Foundation

Tina Wang’s artist name Tai Tai taps into the colloquial Mandarin reference of a socialite who finds survival in hosting killer parties, managing the household, and maybe raising offspring. Historically, artist Tai Tai reconsiders and breaks down social conventions that prevent an individual's path to self actualization through her performances and installations in St. Louis, New York, Oakland, Chicago, and Los Angeles. She studied dance and psychology at Washington University, dance performance at Peridance Center, translation studies at New York University, powerlifting at Crossfit Dutchkills, Iyengar yoga at Adeline Yoga, and visual arts at the University of Chicago.

In this performance series "a cooking machine to melt your heart," a storage cart is the centerpiece. Within its multiple tiers, interactions between organic materials and the skin of the body occur, preparing the body to be changed by its contact with fragrant oils that trickle down the apparatus. What and how is the preparation meant for? Dinosaurs and humans will tell its tales.

Image Credit: tasha dougé

She has been featured in Sugarcane Magazine, Essence, and The New York Times. Her work has been shown in solo and group exhibitions at The Andrew Freedman Home, Bronx, NY; The Apollo Theater, Harlem, NY; Rush Arts Gallery, Philadelphia, PA; BronxArtSpace, Bronx, NY; The Shed, New York, NY; RISD Museum, Providence, RI; Hygiene Museum, Dresden, Germany; and other notable institutions and galleries. dougé is an alum of the Laundromat Project's Create Change Fellowship, The Studio Museum of Harlem's Museum Education Program, Haiti Cultural Exchange’s Lakou Nou residency, the Caribbean Cultural Center African Diaspora Institute’s Innovative Cultural Advocacy Program and their inaugural Digital Emerging Artist Retreat. She also serves as PT faculty at Parsons of The New School and second faculty at the Brooklyn Institute for Social Research. 

Image Credit: Cat Gold

salty/breath is a multisensory improvisational performance exploring the ways water—from urban channels to the ocean—carries the remains of necropolitics, memories, and technologies of black, indigenous, queer, trans experiences from past to future. The performance is a dance with the dead, a song between the living, sex with the ocean, and witnessing the wake of shorelines, borders, crossings, and departures. It is an amorphous conscious swallowing black eruption inducing love poem.

Kelly, Self Portrait, Emerge Practice Brooklyn

Erin’s work is constructed for on-site presentation, the stage, installations, video and photographs and presented in locations as varied as gardens, galleries, warehouses, gutted stores, boats, theaters, in windows and by the side of the road. She has been an Artist In Residence at Banff,Camargo Foundation, Movement Research, LMCC and PARSE NOLA. Her work has been featured in exhibitions and venues such as: The Smithsonian American Art Museum, Serpintine Slacker Gallery, The Speed Museum, The Bass Museum: Temporary / Contemporary Series, Rogaland Kunstsenter, Kusthaus Tacheles Nacht&Nebel Festival, Sharjah Biennial9, Indianapolis Museum of Art, LPR at the Knockdown Center, Danspace, and Queens Museum.

Image Credit: Laura Bernstein

Laura Bernstein is an interdisciplinary artist and arts educator who creates immersive  installations using video, performance, sculpture, and painting. Her work plays with historical mythologies about human and animal behavior in relation to changing climates. 

Perrin Ireland explores how animals make a living- how they make noise, have sex, and try to kill each other–using language, line, and color to communicate the shocking realities of life on this planet. Her work is a collaboration with the natural world, scientists, and the viewer, whose engagement informs her visual and performance research.

Patty Gone is a performer, poet, artist, and educator. She makes art where the queer imagination and white working-class imagination crash and fall in love. Born in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, Gone draws inspiration from the art forms popular in her hometown. By contorting romance novels, soap operas, or sit-coms into surreal essay-poems, Gone strips the familiar to reveal its zany and irrational core. 

Image Credits: Sidewalkkilla

Kelindah bee Schuster (t[he]y/them) is a queer educator and a drag performance artist known as Theydy Bedbug. They've been infesting NYC nightlife since 2016 to subvert art forms and gender norms and are founder and director of the Drag Performance program at BAX. 

In the past few years, they have presented work at The Signature Theatre, Lehman College, SVA, Barnard College, Triskelion Arts, Gibney Dance, The Knockdown Center, The Stone Church, The Kraine Theater, House of Yes, BAX, The Stonewall Inn, The Brick, The Flea, The Tank, Pioneer Works, Google NY, FIT, VICE Headquarters, UCB, BAM Fisher, The Hangar Theater, Chelsea Music Hall, National Sawdust, Coney Island Sideshows by the Seashore, JACK among countless other venues in New York and beyond. 

Their performances combine spoken word poetry, lip sync, narrative storytelling, authentic movement, character work, costume, makeup, puppetry, and audience interaction in order to playfully ask the piercing questions: Who can we be if we approach our inherited roles as options rather than proscriptions? They believe that when we connect and create art that channels our authentic expression liberated from gender norms, we make space for more ways of being.

They are currently a Queer|Art Fellow developing their solo-show, "KeepSake," under the mentorship of trans trailblazer Kate Bornstein. Read about them in their NY Times feature or connect & collaborate: @theydy.bedbug | kelindahbee.art