Performing Pro Arts COMMONS with Natalia Ivanova: Recent Episodes
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Performing Pro Arts COMMONS conversations with host Natalia Ivanova, Executive Director of Pro Arts Gallery & COMMONS in Oakland, CA.
In this episode, I am in transit in Berlin, Germany going to an event with fellow artist in residence and collaborator Chris Borrelli. Chris is an opera singer/countertenor based in Spain and we became close friends and collaborators while at Scope BLN artist residency in Berlin. We are discussing art labor, respect, and community/collaboration while in transit and in relation to our experience at this international residency. To follow Chris: www.christianborrelli.com and YouTube @christiangilborrelli His instagram handle is @chrisgborrelli
Natalia Ivanova in Oakland and Boshko Boskovic is New York occupying intellectual property in a new episode of Duality is Overrated. Boshko Boskovic is a Reiki Master, trained & certified in the Usui Shiki Ryoho lineage and founder of Let’s Heal NYC, a private practice specializing in Reiki treatments. He is a Reiki practitioner at Minka Brooklyn and gives Reiki & guided meditation classes at various Senior Centers in New York City. He has worked at Reiki Clinics at the Jewish Community Center in Manhattan and has given in person and virtual Reiki sessions at institutions such as Weinberg Center for Balanced Living, Soho Works, Reimagine Worldwide Virtual Festival, Healthcare for the People and Brooklyn Hospital. Boskovic is also part of a )) R.I.S.E. (( which is an acronym for Reiki-Infused Sound Experiences, a Brooklyn-based sound healing collective made up of healing artists: Boshko Boskovic, Gabriel Wade and Rebecca Nison. His background is in contemporary visual art, where he spent 15 years as a curator and administrator implementing programs and exhibitions for cultural institutions, foundations and commercial ventures in New York City and globally. Instagram: letshealnyc Listen to Album on Spotify https://open.spotify.com/album/7KAlJXJ4VQTdUWpj4lH6cI?si=qVc-hNGdTRyUCTBXJgpz2g&nd=1 Links to videos: The Sky is in the Ground, the Ground is in the Sky https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=34rP__GMBic&t=8s Beam Me Up https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCvLo-NMwdSUM9N9eN9SCzLg This is Your Voice Speaking https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G6zqe67BtB4 Message from the Moon https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pBogYH-NL4E&t=21s
Feral Fabric (Amanda and Paulina) in conversation with ED of Pro Arts Gallery & COMMONS, Natalia, on their current installation at Pro Arts “Story Quilts”. For more info follow: www.feralfabric.com. “Story Quilts” is at Pro Arts until end of May 2022. Follow us: www.proartscommons.org
Some thoughts on magic, libidinal economy, organizing, and really, just many obsessions…
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