MONDAY 9

Art/Trek NYC travels to Flatbush with acclaimed performance and video artist Kalup Linzy to meet Edoheart, an emerging performance artist. Journeying from the Brooklyn Museum to Fort Greene, Kalup and Edoheart choose from her many styles of painting, performance and video to curate ArtV, Art/Trek NYC’s mobile art gallery. The episode introduces her work to the public and records their unfiltered reactions.

Featured Artist: Born in Nigeria, Edoheart is an award-winning poet, musician, dancer and visual artist. Her work often concerns trauma, iconography, African identity and trance. Her live shows feature video projections, her own songs and ritualistic dance. Edoheart holds two Bachelor’s degrees from the University of Michigan (Ann Arbor) and Hunter College and is completing a Master’s degree at NYU. She also facilitates workshops in the arts and has published two books of poems.

Guest Host: Kalup Linzy is a video and performance artist based in Brooklyn. His work is in the public collection at the Studio Museum in Harlem, Whitney Museum of Art and the Museum of Modern Art. In 2010, he appeared on the ABC daytime series General Hospital alongside James Franco in a storyline that incorporated performance art. In 2011, he was featured in the production Four Saints in Three Acts: An Opera Installation presented by the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art and Yerba Beuna Center. He received his MFA from the University of South Florida.

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