ARAI Shin-ichi

1959

Born in Toyama city, Japan
1983
Started performances as a member of AKAGI DENKI inspired from improvised music
1987
Performances as a member of The force of job sites
1997
Started solo performances
After 2011
"We Say No Nukes But They Say No Life Nor Future" Bangkok, Hong Kong
"Happy Japan!" Shanghai, Hong Kong
"Happy Japan! --Get Back Japan(ABE regime)" Osaka
2012
"Atoms for Peace" Toyama
"Viva! Globalization for Tin Ding" Hong Kong
"HappyJapan! --ATOM for Peace" Hong Kong
"Happy Nukes!" Hong Kong
"We Say No Nukes But They Say No Life Nor Future" Toyama
"Happy Japan!" Gwangju
2013
"Happy Marxism!" Beijin
"I like America" Grace Art Space Brooklyn
2014
"Happy Japan! --Get Back Japan(ABE regime) Tokyo
"Viva ABE regime!" Shenzhen
2015
"Viva ABE regime!" ASIATOPIA Thailand
"Viva ABE regime!" Macau
2016
"Viva ABE regime!" Tokyo
"Post Globalization" Rosekill NY

MARIA LUISA
Maria Luisa is a Chicago based performance artist dealing with questions of identity and truth. She is interested primarily in creating intimate moments with the spectator through the creation of a universal language ‐ communicated through the human body, water, blood and earth ‐ in order to discuss the ephemeral nature of the social and political truths we use to define ourselves. Her work questions access, freedom, restriction, and the human being in relationship to nature, time, rituals, and empathy. Maria Luisa is inspired by growing up biracial as both first and second generation in the United States. Her primary influence s Ana Mendieta.

Joseph Ravens is founder and Director of Defibrillator Gallery, a Performance Art organization in Chicago. As an artist, Ravens has presented his work throughout Asia, Europe, South America, and the US. He studied at the Gerrit Rietveld Academie in Amsterdam, Netherlands, and is a graduate of The School of the Art Institute of Chicago with a Masters of Fine Art in Performance. Ravens is a recipient of the Illinois Arts Council Fellowship for Performance Art, the Fellowship for New Performance Forms, and other grants and awards that
have allowed him to build an international reputation. Among his accomplishments, Ravens was included in LIVE Performance Art Biennale (Vancouver 2015), the 20th Bienal Internacional de Curitiba (Brazil 2013), Venice International Performance Art Week (Italy 2012), and Intrude: Art and Life 366 at Zendai Museum ofModern Art (Shanghai, China 2008). Co‐founder and Director of the annual Rapid Pulse International Performance Art Festival, Ravens is recognized and respected for his work as an artist, an educator, and a
curator of time‐based work.
Visit www.josephravens.com for more information.

Lisa Stertz says about her work, “...I aim to direct attention to the human being on a bare, existential level. I reflect the individual in connection to its surroundings informed by society, locality, family, history, and policy. My interests stem from and are targeted towards humanness. I (re)address notions of identity, culture, understanding, acceptance, respect, honesty, reason and gratitude. In other words, my work is exposed to the
exploration of different modes of perception to point to an unbiased openness and to alter predetermination. This happens through looking at the physical body with its abilities, the emotional body with its language, and the performing body as a medium. I want to pick people up, invite them to get involved and share my time. Western society views closeness, tenderness, and kindness to be weak, suspicious, and embarrassing, I purposefully seek to create intimate moments of being together, face to face, among others, present ‐ in order to remind us of our natural and mutual longing for an/other.”

Maria Luisa is a Chicago based performance artist dealing with questions of identity and truth. She is interested primarily in creating intimate moments with the spectator through the creation of a universal language ‐ communicated through the human body, water, blood and earth ‐ in order to discuss the ephemeral nature of the social and political truths we use to define ourselves. Her work questions access, freedom, restriction, and the human being in relationship to nature, time, rituals, and empathy. Maria Luisa is inspired by growing up biracial as both first and second generation in the United States. Her primary influence s Ana Mendieta.

ROSEKILL is the Hudson Valley seasonal home for The Grace Exhibition Space.
When the weather is warm, we move outdoors and 2 hours north

ABOUT GRACE EXHIBITION SPACE

Opened in 2006, Grace Exhibition Space is devoted exclusively to Performance Art. We offer an opportunity to experience visceral and challenging works by the current generation of international performance artists whether emerging, mid career or established.

Being a Brooklyn loft, our events are presented on the floor, not on a stage, dissolving the boundary between artist and viewer. This is how performance art is meant to be experienced and our mission is the glorification of performance art.

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"I have found Grace Space to be a breath of fresh air, and a new way to see and experience feelings you may have not faced in a long time. It’s a place to let yourself be exposed, amused, delighted, and terrified all at the same time, and I can say I haven’t experienced this combination of emotions at any gallery or theater I have ever stepped into, and that’s a wonderful thing. The space provides a refreshing perspective on an art scene that has been somewhat shackled and restrained for quite a bit of time now. Grace Exhibition Space is a brave pioneer as it puts Bushwick, as well as New York City, on the forefront of exploration and exposure into the minds and bodies of artists who are truly gifted, fearless, and unique." -Terri Ciccone. Bushwick Daily January, 2013

"On each night, and in each performance, the human body is redeemed from the mundane and made anew."- David Lagaccia, Williamsburg Greenpoint News+Art (June, 2012)