April 9 – 13, 2018
Download the 2018 Gallatin Arts Festival Catalog here.
Curators’ and Producers’ Statements:
“Welcome to the 2018 Gallatin Arts Festival! This year’s festival is dedicated to providing the Gallatin community with an opportunity to explore the process of development and presentation. We recognize experimentation and the pushing and crossing of boundaries, as having dynamic potential for the production of thoughtful and engaged performances. Driven by a deep appreciation for the creative process, this year’s performers give special attention to the symbiotic relationship between process and product.
Performance has the important capacity to shed light on our identities, memories, and histories. Now more than ever, we producers feel there is a need to make space for stories that challenge the status quo and engage with political realities through personal experience. One of our most pressing tasks is to affirm people’s lived experiences; therefore, we have worked this year to raise a multiplicity of voices, to celebrate unique identities, and support marginalized and underrepresented peoples and perspectives.
It has been a joy for us to see how GAF continues to foster community across undergraduate and graduate populations, across seemingly disparate disciplines, and through a reciprocal relationship with you, our audience. We hope that this diverse, interdisciplinary and flourishing community continues beyond the week of the festival and the walls of our theater. Lest we forget fun as an integral part of the process: our artists certainly had a fun and playful time creating, so we hope you, too, have a fun and playful time engaging with their works. Welcome and enjoy the show!”
– Myka Cue (’18), Leah Lavigne (’18), Mary Jane Marcasiano (MA ’19), and Brennan O’Rourke (’18), Producers
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“At a school where varied interests sometimes struggle to find common ground, the Gallatin Arts Festival seeks to facilitate a moment of community, commentary, and experimentation. This year’s Festival highlights the range of ways in which Gallatin students engage with the arts, redefine old systems of knowledge, and suggest new modes of thinking. While Gallatin’s interdisciplinary philosophy is present in each student’s work, all of the pieces selected for the exhibition demonstrate a unique point of view on a particular social or cultural question.
From experimental short films and art zines to sculpture and virtual reality, the assortment of visual art on display reflects the shifting parameters of artistic disciplines. As curators, we aimed to bridge these mediums into a thought-provoking, experience-based exhibition that challenges our perceptions of beauty, race, and gender and our senses of belonging. And, as a result, we hope to find a sense of comfort in the questions that linger and the unexpected revelations that may follow.”
– Ebru Eltemur (’20), Grace Rogers (’19), Ankita Sethi (’20), and Kaylee Warren (’20), Curators
ARTISTS:
Aleksei Waddington, Alexi Rottenstreich, Amber Salik, Annie Felix, Blair Simmons, Bojana Coklyat, Delaney Beem, Elaine Lo, Elizabeth Crowl, Elizabeth Scout Zabinski, Ellie Bullard, Emily Cunningham, Emma Hoffman, Jalen Jackson/Barracuda Club, Jasmine Toy, Javiera Valle, Jonathan Sonnenberg, Julia Torres, Juliana Fadi-Luchkiw/Nadahada, Leah Miller, Matias Alvial, Meredith Stein, Mia Jacobs, Mikayla Scout Curtain, Nicole Spitzer, Nunnapat Ratanavanh, Pasan Dharmasena, Rogue Fong, Sabrina Zhao, Sally Oh, Sanjula Singh, Sera Barbieri, Shannon Roberts, Sharice Keyes, Stanislawa de Tilly, Sydney Mays, Sydney Rappis, Tejan Rahim, Tessa Keough, Xinxin Zhang, Zhane Lloyd
STUDENT LEADERSHIP TEAM, FACULTY, AND STAFF:
Ebru Eltemur, Grace Rogers, Ankita Sethi, Kaylee Warren, May Jane Marcasiano, Leah Lavigne, Brennan O’Rourke, Myka Cue, Cheyenne Myrie, Kristin Horton, Keith Miller
PHOTOGRAPHERS:
Alexandra Mawe and Tristan Oliveira
GRAPHIC DESIGN:
Kyle Richard
About the Gallatin Arts Festival:
MISSION
The Gallatin Arts Festival is a week-long, community-wide celebration of the unique artistry and interdisciplinary scholarship of students at NYU’s Gallatin School. The festival features student work in the visual and performing arts and serves as a galvanizing force and springboard for action and discussion through the creation and presentation of artistic work.
HISTORY
The Gallatin Arts Festival originated in 1992 as a collaborative effort between Professor Laurin Raiken and graduate student Barry Spanier. Under Professor Raiken’s guidance, Spanier developed the festival as part of his master’s thesis. Since then GAF has expanded into the largest public event sponsored by the Gallatin School. GAF provides hands-on opportunities for students to gain knowledge of the process required to produce a multidisciplinary arts festival. Under guidance from members of the arts faculty and student affairs, the Student Leadership Team serves as the primary support for the festival. GAF is a learning experience emphasizing the development of ideas and collaborative innovation.
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