Maya Jeffereis, Passages II, 2024 (still image). Courtesy of the artist.
The fourth season of Sight/Geist continues with a group screening of films by Vi Tuong Bui, Logan Lynette Burroughs, Lananh Chu, Mónica Félix, Daniel Pravit Fethke, and Maya Jeffereis. These six mediative and conversational works highlight colonial histories, bodily survival, and desires for familial connection. The screening will be followed by a discussion between the artists and Charles de Agustin, Programs and Engagement Manager at the Foundation.
All events are free and open to the public, with RSVPs requested. Scrawlspace is on view from 11am on the day of the program, with select works obstructed from 5:30pm due to the event setup. The screening will begin no later than 6:30pm. Info on accessing our space can be found here. Email us with any questions.
Program (56 minutes):
Lananh Chu, Poem for three voices, 2023
Vi Tuong Bui, Thời Thơ Ấu (Childhood), 2023
Daniel Pravit Fethke, Teak & Bricks, 2024
Mónica Félix, Pieza de conversación (Conversation Piece), 2023
Maya Jeffereis, Passages II, 2024
Logan Lynette Burroughs, to heaven, 2022
Vi Tuong Bui (she/her) is a queer photographer and filmmaker based in Brooklyn, New York. She is the daughter of former boat refugees from the American War in Vietnam / Vietnam War. Vi’s practice is in 16mm, and her work often explores memory; intergenerational trauma / healing; and Vietnamese and Asian American identity. She was a 2022-2023 Production Workshop Fellow at Third World Newsreel. During the summer of 2023 Vi was an artist in residence at Casa Do Xisto (Barcelos, Portugal). Her films have screened at Visual Studies Workshop, Anthology Film Archives, New Orleans Film Festival, Beijing International Short Film Festival, The Museum of Modern Art among others. Vi teaches 16mm color film making at Mono No Aware. vituongbui.com
Logan Lynette Burroughs’ visual poems focus on Black existence, especially often in the South. Through filmmaking and photography, Burroughs tenderly documents the intricate intimacies of the Black community through a queer lens. They’ve received their bachelors in Fine Arts with a focus in Photography in 2021, but have been in a variety of exhibitions before then. In 2018 they made their body of photographic work, Adornment Series, in conversation of rituals passed down still post colonialism. In 2019, they decided to take their photographic practice into moving imagery through the form of video. In 2020, Burroughs made their first video composition, "Spirit never dies, only transitions," which has been in a number of film festivals as well as was Oscars qualifying. Recently they've shown two video works, "to heaven" and "Deep Waters," at the North Carolina Museum of Art and South Eastern Center of Contemporary Art.
Lananh Chu is a Vietnamese writer and maker. Her/their works are attentive to the entanglements between humans, non-humans, and media. She/they is unwaveringly supporting the Palestinian liberation. linktr.ee/lananhchu
Mónica Félix (b. 1984, Cayey, Puerto Rico) is an interdisciplinary artist, professional photographer, and yoga teacher based in Brooklyn, New York. She has a BA in Communications from the University of Puerto Rico, a Photography Certificate from Pratt Institute, and a Visual Arts MFA from Columbia University. Félix’s work has been featured in multiple solo and group exhibitions in the United States, Puerto Rico, and Spain at institutions such as the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Jewish Museum, Museo de Arte de Puerto Rico, and Universidad de Salamanca. She was granted the 2013 Lexus Scholarship for Artists, and more recently she was the featured artist of The Great Hall Exhibition at the Institute of Fine Arts at New York University. She has participated in art residencies such as Jiwar in Barcelona, SOMA in México, and LMCC's Governors Island Summer Residency. In 2023 she had a solo video and film exhibition at the Institute of Fine Arts at NYU as prat of their Great Hall Exhibition series. Félix uses photography, video, installation, writing, and performance to explore identity through a deeply personal story that represents the migratory experience of a queer femme body. You can learn more about the artist at monicafelix.com.
Daniel Pravit Fethke (b. 1993, New York, NY) is an interdisciplinary artist working in film, performance, social practice, and installation. He has worked in the New York film industry since 2013, and has produced fiction and documentary works that have screened at festivals internationally including the Locarno Film Festival, Bushwick Film Festival, and the Society for Visual Anthropology. Teaching is a central part of Daniel's practice, and he regularly facilitates workshops, cooking classes, and creative gatherings that center food and recipes as ways to explore identity, narrative, and culture. He co-founded the mutual aid food pop-up Angry Papaya, and has hosted workshops at Dia:Beacon, Socrates Sculpture Park, and the Performing Garage. Daniel has held several artist residencies, including at the Wassaic Project (2024), the Woodstock-Byrdcliffe Guild (2024), and as a Culinary Resident at the Ox-Bow School of Art (2024-25). He has exhibited work internationally in Bangkok, Berlin, Barcelona, and domestically at the Yale School of Art, Recess Art Space, and the Knockdown Center. He received his B.A. in. Modern Culture & Media Studies from Brown University in 2015. Daniel recently published an autobiographical Thai-American cookbook through Pratt Institute, where he also received his MFA in Fine Arts in 2023. He currently lives and works in Brooklyn.
Maya Jeffereis is an artist and filmmaker whose work in video, performance, and installation seeks to expand upon overlooked histories and fill in archival gaps with counter narratives, personal histories, and speculative fictions. Jeffereis’ work has been presented in the United States and internationally, including the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Brooklyn Museum, The Noguchi Museum, and Queens Museum, among other institutions. Jeffereis has been an artist-in-residence at Lower Manhattan Cultural Center (LMCC), Banff Centre for Arts & Creativity, and Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts. She is a recipient of the A.I.R. Gallery Fellowship and Cisneros Initiative for Latin American Art. She teaches art, art history, and Asian American Studies at Parsons School of Design at The New School and Hunter College (CUNY). She earned an MFA from Hunter College and BA and BFA from the University of Washington. mayajeffereis.com
Image description: A film still of a vast ocean with layered blue textures. Light blue centered text reads: “we know the ocean is in our blood”