Open Studios | Sensorial Saturday

Feet with pink nail polish and flowers, one with a large sunflower, on a wooden floor.

You’re invited to join us on Saturday, June 14, for our Artist-in-Residence Open Studios, showcasing a work-in-progress sensorial experience + dance party by our current resident Amy Rose Khoshbin. DJ Girlfriend will be spinning during the dance party.

Part of Khoshbin’s new body of work, this experience is about catharsis through sensorial pleasure—identifying aspects of the self and the collective that we are ready to let go of and transmute into something new together without the help of technology. Through sensory installations and somatic rituals using artist-made sculptures, flowers, fruit, and fabric, Khoshbin is creating a world where visitors can gather in physical space to explore the act of letting go together—moving from collective dissociation to reassociation and ultimately connection.

The evening culminates in a queer dance party in the spirit of queer Bacchanalian ritual with music by DJ Girlfriend that celebrates each other and the month of Pride. Part workshop, part dance party, this experience invites you to build connection and community through the transformation of self. All are welcome.

We encourage comfy clothing you don’t mind getting a little messy, and an open mind. If you attended FORMAT you may remember Amy Rose’s previous work Sun Seekers and Pool of Nothing that Knows Where it’s Going.

Free, no ticket required. For questions regarding this event, contact Guest Experience at (479) 657-2335 today.

Content Note: Because performance art is elusive and free, it often relies on the unexpected. Due to the nature of the form, we cannot disclose every element of the performance before it occurs. This event may include mature content and requires adult supervision for anyone under 18 years old.

ABOUT THE ARTIST

Amy Rose Khoshbin is a Los Angeles and New York-based artist and performer, with work spanning installation, social practice, participatory performance, video, music, sculpture, drawing, and collage. Her practice works to counteract dissociation and isolation with empathy and connection. She has shown at venues such as the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, Brooklyn Museum, Times Square Arts, Creative Time, Artpace, and The High Line, and at festivals such as South by Southwest (SXSW), FORMAT, and River to River. She has received residencies at spaces such as The Watermill Center, Anderson Ranch Arts Center, Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, Project for Empty Space, and Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity. She has received a NYFA grant, Franklin Furnace Fund, and a Rema Hort Mann Foundation grant. Khoshbin was a 2020 – 2022 Pratt Institute Civic Engagement Fellow. She has collaborated with Laurie Anderson, Karen Finley, and poets Anne Carson and Naomi Shihab Nye, among others.

While in residence, Amy Rose Khoshbin is developing a new body of work. Through immersive installation, sculpture, collage, music and performance, Khoshbin will continue exploring methods of catharsis and healing through group practices of memorialization and somatic release. Through technology-free sensory installations and rituals, Khoshbin is creating a world where we can start to collectively release our fear of vulnerability, and move towards connection and empathy for one another via sensorial experiences, movement, and play.

Learn more about Amy Rose and our Artist-in-Residence Program.