march 5 - march 18, 2016 

progress

MacKenzie Angelo Seecharan and Anthony Rosado

opening reception: Saturday, march 5, 6-8pm

As rent skyrockets in our, join us and engage with interactive multimedia performances and installations that reflect on progress through the lens of gentrification. We will create a space to process the historical erasure of blackness (accompanied by encroaching whiteness) under the guise of progress. In an effort to put in motion a city and world that centers and values black lives, we will critically look back in order to move forward.

Born, bred, and based in Bushwick, Anthony Rosado is a multidisciplinary creator, educator, and curator committed to creating dance-theatre performances driven by social justice. His works relay themes of identity, legacy, giving/receiving love, and knowing true hirstory. He is engaging with organizers, collectives, and politicians in Bushwick to bridge native & non-native residents, so he may mobilize together against negative effects of gentrification. With his work he hopes to plant seeds for conversation, build bridges, and band people together to dismantle & refute the negative effects of gentrification. Via love we will succeed.

For McKenzie Angelo Seecharan’s, liberation is at the core of everything he does. Art is just the vehicle being used to get to that destination. As an artist and educator, he uses a variety of mediums to converse with different participants. Whether it be in classrooms, city streets, bedrooms or galleries. Currently, he is invested in using light to illuminate what needs to be seen and offer a space to reflect and interact with our collective states of oppression and empowerment. As a black queer womyn, born and bred in Brooklyn, I am particularly concerned with figuring out sustainable ways to share stories and knowledge in those communities through a creative lens.

GALLERY HOURS:

Thursday - Sunday, 1 - 6pm, or by appointment. Please email hanne@fivemyles.org, or call 718-783-4438.

DIRECTIONS:

Take 2, 3, or 4 trains to Franklin Avenue. Walk two blocks against the traffic on Franklin. Walk ¾ block to 558 St. Johns Place. FiveMyles is within easy walking distance from the Brooklyn Museum.

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS:

FiveMyles is in part supported by the New York State Council for the Arts, Public Funds from the New York City Dept. of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council, Council Member Laurie Cumbo,  The Jacques and Natasha Gelman Foundation, the Shelley and Donald Rubin Foundation, the Perlemeter Foundation, the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, the Joseph Robert Foundation, and the William Talbott Hillman Foundation.