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Art Assets was thrilled to present a series of performances by Sharon Chen Lin at Water Street POPS. Sharon’s interactive pieces explore a return to a time before phones and internet. How do people meet and maintain friendships?

During the week of “Happy Hour,” participants were invited to explore and have fun at an over-size playground for adults. During the week of “Your Wish’s Day,” participants were invited to give their deepest hopes and wishes to the artist. During the week of “Holiday Special” participants collectively celebrated the birthdays of strangers and peers.

For more information about Sharon Chen Lin, you can visit the artist’s website.

This summer, Jacob’s Pillow, the venerable Berkshire dance center, hosted a series of performances by Shantala Shivalingappa. Shantala is a world-renowned performer of Kuchipudi, a style of classical Indian dancing. (Image above: Shantala Shivalingappa in Akasha. Photo: Elian Bachini)

Here is an excerpt of Shantala’s performance at Jacob’s Pillow:

A post-show interview with Shantala and her mother:

Art Assets was delighted to host a brunch for Shantala and her mother following the performance as part of our 21 ’til 21 Salon Series.

Katherine Behar is an interdisciplinary artist based in New York, whose videos, performances, and interactive installations explore issues in contemporary digital culture. Katherine’s work appears at festivals, galleries, performance spaces, screenings and art centers worldwide, in Dresden, Amsterdam, Moscow, Leeds, Rome, Poznan, Mooste, Cluj-Napoca, New York City, Chicago, Miami, and numerous cities throughout the U.S., and is held in private collections. She is Assistant Professor of New Media at Baruch College.

Created for Water Street POPS, Katherine Behar’s Street.s/wall.ing/in is a new site-specific performance about architectural memory and traumas in the urban environment. Dancers will inhabit colored shapes derived from transient urban architectural forms, animating and exploring the exterior of 32 Old Slip in Manhattan’s Wall Street neighborhood. Street.s/wall.ing/in will be performed on August 16 from 5:30-7:30 PM in conjunction with Water Street POPS, curated by Ombretta Agro’ and Art Assets. The project is supported by a residency at LaunchPad in Brooklyn.

Visit the artist’s website: Katherine Behar

Do changing landscapes – from geographical, physical spaces to metaphorical, inner spaces – impact an artist’s work? In the fifth program in our 21 ’til 21 Salon Series, we speak to four international artists about wandering.

Matti Kovler, Composer

Matti Kovler’s compositions have been performed by the Israel Philharmonic, the Fox Studios Symphony, at Carnegie Hall and at Tanglewood. Kovler has mastered a range of styles from folk and jazz to those steeped in the classical tradition, and brings these together in works of considerable dramatic scope, by turns comic, mystical, warm, and searing.  Following the premiere of his opera Here Comes Messiah! (commissioned by Carnegie Hall) Matti founded JMT, a performance company specializing in creating new works in this vein.

For more information: www.mattikovler.com

Jacqueline Nicholls, Visual Artist

Jacqueline Nicholls is a London-based visual artist, who uses art to explore and challenge traditional Jewish ideas. Initially trained as an architect and educated in Talmudic studies, Nicholls uses an amalgam of media – including drawing, print, embroidery, tailoring, paper-cutting, and more – to expand the activity of study beyond its textual origins.

For more information: www.jacquelinenicholls.com

Tirtzah Bassel, Visual Artist

Tirtzah Bassel is an Israeli visual artist based in New York. Her drawings, paintings and site-responsive duct tape installations explore the permeable borders separating public and private domains, specifically in subways, barbershops and airport security zones.

For more information: www.tirtzahbassel.com

Nino Biniashvili, Visual Artist

Nino is a graduate of Bezalel (BFA) and Konstfack (MFA) and currently she is conducting research at the Center for Jewish History, New York, as part of the Prins Foundation for Artists and Writers.

For more information, please email Pauline Nee.