Saturday November 22, 7:30pm
“Resistance in Time”
Qween Amor, Kamari Carter, Jodie Lyn-Kee-Chow, Nicky Enright, Jessica Fairfax Hirst, Marni Kotak, Matt Town
Organized by Marni Kotak
For FALL OF FREEDOM
Microscope Gallery hosts an evening of videos and live performances by Qween Amor, Kamari Carter, Jodie Lyn-Kee-Chow, Nicky Enright, Jessica Fairfax Hirst, Marni Kotak, and Matt Town.
The event is organized by Marni Kotak, as part of FALL OF FREEDOM. Admission is free.
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Qween Amor is a trans woman of color and performance artist whose work merges protest, spiritual reclamation, and public intervention. For over a decade, she has used her body as a site of resistance—dancing in streets, churches, and politically charged spaces to confront state violence, religious oppression, and the policing of Black, Brown, trans, and migrant lives. Drawing from the legacy of Mary Magdalene, her performances expose the brutality of American power while insisting on liberation, visibility, and radical truth.
Kamari Carter (b. 1992) is a New York-based artist working primarily with installation, video, sound, and performance to investigate notions such as space, systems of identity, oppression, control, and surveillance. His work has been exhibited at Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), New York; Perez Art Museum Miami, Miami, FL; Rhode Island School of Design (RISD) Museum, Providence, RI; Mana Contemporary, Jersey City, NJ; Flux Factory, Long Island City, NY; Wave Hill, New York; Fridman Gallery, New York; and Automata Arts, Los Angeles, among others, and has been featured in publications including Artnet, Flash Art, and Whitewall, among others. Carter received a BFA from California Institute of the Arts (CalArts), Valencia, CA in 2017 and an MFA from Columbia University in 2019.
Nicky Enright is an undisciplined, interdisciplinary disciple of the arts — A multimedia artist, educator, DJ, and writer. Working with audio and visual media, his work explores global issues including the construction of nationhood, the theory and practice of borders, currency, and language. His work has been presented and exhibited at NYC venues including Rush Arts, Smack Mellon, Wave Hill, and the Bronx Museum, the Kennedy Center and the Museum of the Americas in Washington D.C., and the Emerson Gallery Berlin, in Germany. Enright has executed numerous public commissions, including for the MTA Arts & Design (NYC). He has been awarded a fellowship in socially-engaged art from A Blade of Grass foundation and he is an apexart International Fellow. He earned a BFA from The Cooper Union and an MFA from Hunter College (NYC). Born in Guayaquil, Ecuador, he lives and works in the Bronx, NY.
Jessica Fairfax Hirst. I am a multidisciplinary, disabled, and neurodivergent artist. I work mainly in performance, video, installation, and social practice. I grew up on the outskirts of the capital of the United States, studied at Stanford University in “Earth systems,” and then worked in the administration of President Bill Clinton and Vice President Al Gore in climate change policy. I suffered a catastrophic withdrawal from an antidepressant at the end of the century, which forced me to abandon my environmental policy career, become a dance teacher and choreographer, and over the years transition into a Performance and visual artist. I have been a refugee since 2006 from the toxic habitat of the United States, having lived in Nicaragua (2006-2009), Spain (2009-2012 and 2018-2020) and the Dominican Republic (2012-2016 and 2020 – present). I work on topics such as neurodiversity and other forms of difference, psychotropic drugs, socio-political problems such as the continuous impacts of United States interventions in Latin America, and various aspects of the climate crisis and our place in the ecosystems we inhabit. I maintain that the climate crisis and the problems with psychotropic drugs have the same root – neoliberal capitalism, corporatist, corrupt, without control or ethical conscience. I have had exhibitions, performances, screenings, presentations, publications and residencies in India (Kolkata, Morni Hills, Chandigargh), Thailand (Bangkok, Koh Lanta), Japan (Matsumoto), Colombia (Bogotá and Anolaima), Chile (Valdivia), Ecuador, Mexico (CDMX, Narogachi), Zimbabwe, Senegal, Dominican Republic (Puerto Plata, Cabarete, Sosúa, Santo Domingo, Las Terrenas), Spain (Madrid, Malaga, Barcelona, Seville, La Riera de Gaia, Villanueva del Rosario, Tarragona), France (Paris, Cazals), Austria, Jordan (Wadi Rum), Israel, Occupied West Bank, Serbia (Belgrade, Novi Sad, Odcaci), Germany (Berlin, Kassel, Nordhorn), Brazil (Belo Horizonte, Campinas), United Kingdom (London, Reading, Belfast), Latvia, Italy, United States (Washington, DC, New York, San Diego, Los Angeles). In addition to my Stanford degree, I have studied at the Energy and Resources Group at UC Berkeley, psychology at Johns Hopkins, Contemporary Art at Metafora Barcelona, and Public Practice Art at Otis College of Art and Design Los Angeles.
Marni Kotak is a multimedia and performance artist presenting everyday life being lived. She has received international attention for her durational performances and exhibitions, most notably “The Birth of Baby X” (2011) in which she gave birth to her son as a live performance and “Mad Meds” (2014) during which the artist slowly withdrew from psychiatric medications prescribed for postpartum depression. Kotak’s works have also appeared at the Santiago Museum of Contemporary Art, Santiago, Chile; Artists Space, New York, NY; Exit Art, New York, NY; White Box, New York, NY Momenta Art, Brooklyn, NY; English Kills Gallery, Brooklyn, NY; Grace Exhibition Space, Brooklyn, NY; among others. She has performed extensively in the US and abroad. Her exhibitions have been featured in Artforum, Art Pulse, The Huffington Post, Hyperallergic, Los Angeles Times, Studio International, The Brooklyn Rail, The New York Times, The New Yorker, The Village Voice, Time Magazine, Washington Post, among many others. Kotak’s work also appear in books and publications including “The Maternal, Digital Subjectivity, and the Aesthetics of Interruption,” Bloomsbury (2022); Maternal Performance: Feminist Relations, Palgrave McMillian (2021); The Art of Feminisim: Images that shaped the Fight for Equality, 1957-2017, Chronicle Books (2018); and Blackwells Companions to Contemporary Art: A Companion to Feminist Art, John Wiley & Sons (2019), among others. Kotak has appeared on Good Morning America (ABC), CBC Radio, NPR, ZDFKultur, and other broadcasts as well as in the documentary “The Art of Making it,” (2021) currently streaming on Amazon Prime. Marni Kotak received a BA from Bard College and an MFA from Brooklyn College.
Jodie Lyn-Kee-Chow is a 1.5 generation Jamaican-American interdisciplinary artist based in NYC whose work has been exhibited at venues including Queens Museum, NY,The Wing Luke Museum of the Asian Pacific Experience,CA, Chinese Historical Society of America,NY and Five Myles, NY. Lyn-Kee-Chow co-authored Living Histories of Sugar in the Caribbean and Scotland: Transnationalisms, Performance and Co-creation, a project funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council and presented in Kingston, JA, and Greenock and Edinburgh in Scotland (2022). Recent accolades include Bronx Museum AIM Fellowship (2024), KODA Residency on Governors Island, NY (2023, 2025), Residency Unlimited (2023), Wave Hill Winter Workspace (2022), and NYSCA New York State Council on the Arts Award (2025). She is an inaugural artist fellow of Triangle Arts, Brooklyn, NY (2022). Additionally Lyn-Kee-Chow was shortlisted for Creative Capital (2022) and nominated for the Anonymous Was a Woman Award (2024). Publications include The New York Times, Hyperallergic, White Hot Magazine, and Artsy. Her work is in the collections of Museum of Chinese in the Americas,NY, Wing Luke Museum,WA, and The National Gallery of Jamaica as well as private collections.
Matt Town (b. 1989, Sarasota, Florida) is a Los Angeles-based artist working with moving image, photography, painting, installation and sculpture. His work is primarily concerned with a sense of community and one’s role within it and has appeared at CommonsLA, Los Angeles, CA; Night Gallery, Los Angeles, CA; The Box, Los Angeles, CA; Torrance Art Museum, Torrance, CA; eyes never sleep, New York; and The Horse, Dublin, Ireland, among others. His works have screened at Anthology Film Archives, New York, NY; Millennium Film Workshop, New York, NY; UnionDocs, Brooklyn, NY; and Centre Pompidou, Paris, France; among others. His works have been discussed in ARTnews, ArtObserved, Hyperallergic, and others. Matt Town received a BA in Film & Media Studies from the University of Florida in 2013 and an MFA in Art from California Institute of the Arts (CalArts) in 2017.