About this Event
Open Studios is free and welcoming, informal, and accessible to all ages.
About The Arts Center Residency
The 2026 Arts Center Residency cohort includes 18 artists, one On-Site Assistant, and, for the first time, two Scholars-in-Residence from Stony Brook University and an Organization-in-Residence: Seaweed City.
Experience participatory activations and performances by residents Nicole Cooper, Garret Allen, Tanika Williams, Sari Nordman, and Lisa Ann Schonberg! Learn more about the artist activations here.
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About Anh Vo Work-in-Progress Performance (4pm)
A sign, a signal, a delivery, a deliverance brings Ca Trù, a rare northern Vietnamese chamber music tradition, into dialogue with possession rituals. Drawing from Ca Trù’s austere, trance-like soundscape and its precise rhythmic structures, the project explores quieter states of losing oneself. Here, possession emerges through discipline and devotion rather than abandon and catharsis, where control itself becomes the condition for being overtaken.
Anh Vo
Based in Brooklyn and Hanoi, Anh Vo is a Vietnamese choreographer and writer working in the expanded field of performance. Their practice mobilizes the naked body in its variations to make explicit the entanglement of power and apparitional forces that cut across flesh. Their work emerges from the unlikely lineage convergences between Downtown New York experimental performance, Hanoi performance art, and Vietnamese folk ritual practices.
Event venue & nearby stays
The Arts Center at Governors Island, 110 Andes Rd, New York, NY 10004, United States
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