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initial research is a nonprofit arts organization located in SoHo, New York. We foster an environment where artistic inquiry becomes a space for connection. Our programs support artists and cultural workers in taking risks, experimenting, and collaborating across disciplines and cultures.

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Please join us for an exhibition presented by our 2025/2026 fellow Sowon Kwon’s sculpture class at The Cooper Union:
𝗜 𝗦𝗽𝗹𝗶𝘁 𝗪𝗶𝘁𝗵 𝗠𝘆 𝗙𝗿𝗶𝗲𝗻𝗱𝘀, 𝗧𝗮𝘆𝗹𝗼𝗿, 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗖𝗵𝗿𝗶𝘀

A linguistic paradigm in sculptural practice was a point of departure, as was one Duck-Rabbit, and we went from there.

Opening Reception
May 15, 2026, 6:30–8 PM

Exhibition Dates
May 16–20, 2026, 1–5 PM (Closed Sunday)

Bereket Adamu
Muneeb Alam
Agatha Carlson
Dessa Ely
Ella Giallanzo
Sydnie Marshall
Hannah Muallem
Eric Nguyen
Nona Nishigawara
Mauricio Perdomo-Doncel
Gabo Sambar-Lande

——

A linguistic paradigm in sculptural practice was a point of departure, as was one Duck-Rabbit, and we went from there.

THREE WORDS:
anachronic grids, strata,
asemic, topographic, numinous,
equal-ish subset, misregister,
reiteration, reiteration, camo,
color, balance, quartet,
parallax, binocular, afterimage,
polytheistic, placeholder, metronome,
dayglo, vulnerable, bonfire,
bistabile, Saussurean treepaper,
in neutral, comma,
pathos, and, bathos,

AND A QUESTION:
How do you recognize when an additional gesture begins to hover, no longer requiring another?
What do the folds hold?
Is there a relationship between Genzken’s speculative interventions and Michael Asher at the SMMoA (now ICA LA)?
Have you had a chance to look into Maria Eichhorn’s work on value?
John Berger’s Another Way of Telling?
Are these viewing apparatuses and if so, what can they help us see that we couldn’t before?
If the canopy allows light in, what can grow?
Have you seen such a beautiful sunset since?
Are the ears-beak really a hinge?
Do owls visit you often?
“Morning, boys, how’s the water?”

Please join us for an exhibition presented by our 2025/2026 fellow Sowon Kwon’s sculpture class at The Cooper Union:
𝗜 𝗦𝗽𝗹𝗶𝘁 𝗪𝗶𝘁𝗵 𝗠𝘆 𝗙𝗿𝗶𝗲𝗻𝗱𝘀, 𝗧𝗮𝘆𝗹𝗼𝗿, 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗖𝗵𝗿𝗶𝘀

A linguistic paradigm in sculptural practice was a point of departure, as was one Duck-Rabbit, and we went from there.

Opening Reception
May 15, 2026, 6:30–8 PM

Exhibition Dates
May 16–20, 2026, 1–5 PM (Closed Sunday)

Bereket Adamu
Muneeb Alam
Agatha Carlson
Dessa Ely
Ella Giallanzo
Sydnie Marshall
Hannah Muallem
Eric Nguyen
Nona Nishigawara
Mauricio Perdomo-Doncel
Gabo Sambar-Lande

——

A linguistic paradigm in sculptural practice was a point of departure, as was one Duck-Rabbit, and we went from there.

THREE WORDS:
anachronic grids, strata,
asemic, topographic, numinous,
equal-ish subset, misregister,
reiteration, reiteration, camo,
color, balance, quartet,
parallax, binocular, afterimage,
polytheistic, placeholder, metronome,
dayglo, vulnerable, bonfire,
bistabile, Saussurean treepaper,
in neutral, comma,
pathos, and, bathos,

AND A QUESTION:
How do you recognize when an additional gesture begins to hover, no longer requiring another?
What do the folds hold?
Is there a relationship between Genzken’s speculative interventions and Michael Asher at the SMMoA (now ICA LA)?
Have you had a chance to look into Maria Eichhorn’s work on value?
John Berger’s Another Way of Telling?
Are these viewing apparatuses and if so, what can they help us see that we couldn’t before?
If the canopy allows light in, what can grow?
Have you seen such a beautiful sunset since?
Are the ears-beak really a hinge?
Do owls visit you often?
“Morning, boys, how’s the water?”

Join us for 𝗨𝗻𝘁𝗶𝘁𝗹𝗲𝗱.
哎 idles in dollar stores and empty classrooms.
They morph from a stream of soft depression to a string of instant imagination.
Accidentally,
They reclaim AI!

哎在壹圓店和空蕩的教室中游離。
它從一泉柔軟的沮喪變形成一串瞬間的想像。
不經意間，
它重塑了AI！

This work is part of our current fellow BHKM and Yu Ji’s ongoing project Shack. (@bhkmonline @yuuu_jiii )

“When you enter the space of initial research, you will find a box standing against the wall. We call it Shack, a temporary body of sculpture that represents Yu Ji and BHKM: cardboard walls, painted radish red, cement flooring, supported by 3/8x3/8 wooden sticks, all walls open individually suggests alternative dimensions of the space that contains. Our materialistic practice happens inside and performative practice happens both inside and outside. The Shark employs method of ‘____’ and community building in order to circulate the idea of use “of”. Matters and happenings updated coordinately and improvisedly.”
— BHKM and Yu Ji

Performer: 哎（pronounced ai）

Additional-Performer: BHKM

🗓️ Sunday, May 3, 7:00—8:30 PM. Doors open at 7:00 PM. Please note that doors will close at 7:30 PM.
📍 41 Wooster Street, Floor 2, New York, NY 10013
✅ RSVP in bio

Join us for 𝗨𝗻𝘁𝗶𝘁𝗹𝗲𝗱.
哎 idles in dollar stores and empty classrooms.
They morph from a stream of soft depression to a string of instant imagination.
Accidentally,
They reclaim AI!

哎在壹圓店和空蕩的教室中游離。
它從一泉柔軟的沮喪變形成一串瞬間的想像。
不經意間，
它重塑了AI！

This work is part of our current fellow BHKM and Yu Ji’s ongoing project Shack. (@bhkmonline @yuuu_jiii )

“When you enter the space of initial research, you will find a box standing against the wall. We call it Shack, a temporary body of sculpture that represents Yu Ji and BHKM: cardboard walls, painted radish red, cement flooring, supported by 3/8x3/8 wooden sticks, all walls open individually suggests alternative dimensions of the space that contains. Our materialistic practice happens inside and performative practice happens both inside and outside. The Shark employs method of ‘____’ and community building in order to circulate the idea of use “of”. Matters and happenings updated coordinately and improvisedly.”
— BHKM and Yu Ji

Performer: 哎（pronounced ai）

Additional-Performer: BHKM

🗓️ Sunday, May 3, 7:00—8:30 PM. Doors open at 7:00 PM. Please note that doors will close at 7:30 PM.
📍 41 Wooster Street, Floor 2, New York, NY 10013
✅ RSVP in bio

Join us for 𝗨𝗻𝘁𝗶𝘁𝗹𝗲𝗱.
哎 idles in dollar stores and empty classrooms.
They morph from a stream of soft depression to a string of instant imagination.
Accidentally,
They reclaim AI!

哎在壹圓店和空蕩的教室中游離。
它從一泉柔軟的沮喪變形成一串瞬間的想像。
不經意間，
它重塑了AI！

This work is part of our current fellow BHKM and Yu Ji’s ongoing project Shack. (@bhkmonline @yuuu_jiii )

“When you enter the space of initial research, you will find a box standing against the wall. We call it Shack, a temporary body of sculpture that represents Yu Ji and BHKM: cardboard walls, painted radish red, cement flooring, supported by 3/8x3/8 wooden sticks, all walls open individually suggests alternative dimensions of the space that contains. Our materialistic practice happens inside and performative practice happens both inside and outside. The Shark employs method of ‘____’ and community building in order to circulate the idea of use “of”. Matters and happenings updated coordinately and improvisedly.”
— BHKM and Yu Ji

Performer: 哎（pronounced ai）

Additional-Performer: BHKM

🗓️ Sunday, May 3, 7:00—8:30 PM. Doors open at 7:00 PM. Please note that doors will close at 7:30 PM.
📍 41 Wooster Street, Floor 2, New York, NY 10013
✅ RSVP in bio

Join us for 𝗪𝗵𝗲𝗻 𝗟𝗶𝗴𝗵𝘁 𝗶𝘀 𝗔𝗹𝗶𝘃𝗲. This performance explores light in different ways. The artist,
Joy Li (@joy_li__ ), becomes a non-human creature by wearing wearable sculptures made of glass and light, using them as an extension of the body to interact with the audience. When light is alive, when it approaches, your pupils begin to constrict beyond your control.

This work is part of our current fellow BHKM and Yu Ji’s ongoing project Shack. (@bhkmonline @yuuu_jiii )

“When you enter the space of initial research, you will find a box standing against the wall. We call it Shack, a temporary body of sculpture that represents Yu Ji and BHKM: cardboard walls, painted radish red, cement flooring, supported by 3/8x3/8 wooden sticks, all walls open individually suggests alternative dimensions of the space that contains. Ourmaterialistic practicehappens inside and performative practice happens both inside and outside. The Shark employs method of ‘____’ and community building in order to circulate the idea of use “of”. Matters and happenings updated coordinately and improvisedly.”
— BHKM and Yu Ji

Performer: Joy Li

🗓️ Saturday, May 2, 7:00—8:30 PM. Doors open at 7:00 PM. Please note that doors will close at 7:30 PM.
📍 41 Wooster Street, Floor 2, New York, NY 10013
✅ RSVP in bio

______
Image 3: Portrait of Joy Li by Cameron Patricia Downey

Join us for 𝗪𝗵𝗲𝗻 𝗟𝗶𝗴𝗵𝘁 𝗶𝘀 𝗔𝗹𝗶𝘃𝗲. This performance explores light in different ways. The artist,
Joy Li (@joy_li__ ), becomes a non-human creature by wearing wearable sculptures made of glass and light, using them as an extension of the body to interact with the audience. When light is alive, when it approaches, your pupils begin to constrict beyond your control.

This work is part of our current fellow BHKM and Yu Ji’s ongoing project Shack. (@bhkmonline @yuuu_jiii )

“When you enter the space of initial research, you will find a box standing against the wall. We call it Shack, a temporary body of sculpture that represents Yu Ji and BHKM: cardboard walls, painted radish red, cement flooring, supported by 3/8x3/8 wooden sticks, all walls open individually suggests alternative dimensions of the space that contains. Ourmaterialistic practicehappens inside and performative practice happens both inside and outside. The Shark employs method of ‘____’ and community building in order to circulate the idea of use “of”. Matters and happenings updated coordinately and improvisedly.”
— BHKM and Yu Ji

Performer: Joy Li

🗓️ Saturday, May 2, 7:00—8:30 PM. Doors open at 7:00 PM. Please note that doors will close at 7:30 PM.
📍 41 Wooster Street, Floor 2, New York, NY 10013
✅ RSVP in bio

______
Image 3: Portrait of Joy Li by Cameron Patricia Downey

Join us for 𝗪𝗵𝗲𝗻 𝗟𝗶𝗴𝗵𝘁 𝗶𝘀 𝗔𝗹𝗶𝘃𝗲. This performance explores light in different ways. The artist,
Joy Li (@joy_li__ ), becomes a non-human creature by wearing wearable sculptures made of glass and light, using them as an extension of the body to interact with the audience. When light is alive, when it approaches, your pupils begin to constrict beyond your control.

This work is part of our current fellow BHKM and Yu Ji’s ongoing project Shack. (@bhkmonline @yuuu_jiii )

“When you enter the space of initial research, you will find a box standing against the wall. We call it Shack, a temporary body of sculpture that represents Yu Ji and BHKM: cardboard walls, painted radish red, cement flooring, supported by 3/8x3/8 wooden sticks, all walls open individually suggests alternative dimensions of the space that contains. Ourmaterialistic practicehappens inside and performative practice happens both inside and outside. The Shark employs method of ‘____’ and community building in order to circulate the idea of use “of”. Matters and happenings updated coordinately and improvisedly.”
— BHKM and Yu Ji

Performer: Joy Li

🗓️ Saturday, May 2, 7:00—8:30 PM. Doors open at 7:00 PM. Please note that doors will close at 7:30 PM.
📍 41 Wooster Street, Floor 2, New York, NY 10013
✅ RSVP in bio

______
Image 3: Portrait of Joy Li by Cameron Patricia Downey

Downtown Culture Walk
Saturday, April 25, 2026
12-6PM
with the Soho Arts Network

The Downtown Culture Walk is a self-guided walking tour presented by the SoHo Arts Network (SAN), highlighting non-profit art spaces in and around SoHo. SAN celebrates the rich history of our unique creative community and collectively shares our distinct cultural contributions with neighborhood residents and visitors. 

On Saturday, April 25, members of SAN will open their doors for the Downtown Culture Walk. initial research will be open from 12-6pm with free admission.

Physical maps will be available at all spaces. Access the digital maps at the link in bio. 

Participating spaces:
apexart
Canal Projects
Dia: The New York Earth Room & The Broken Kilometer
The Drawing Center
Judd Foundation
Leslie-Lohman Museum of Art
Milton Resnick and Pat Passlof Foundation
Museum of Chinese in America
The Renee & Chaim Gross Foundation
Ukrainian Museum
initial research

Downtown Culture Walk
Saturday, April 25, 2026
12-6PM
with the Soho Arts Network

The Downtown Culture Walk is a self-guided walking tour presented by the SoHo Arts Network (SAN), highlighting non-profit art spaces in and around SoHo. SAN celebrates the rich history of our unique creative community and collectively shares our distinct cultural contributions with neighborhood residents and visitors. 

On Saturday, April 25, members of SAN will open their doors for the Downtown Culture Walk. initial research will be open from 12-6pm with free admission.

Physical maps will be available at all spaces. Access the digital maps at the link in bio. 

Participating spaces:
apexart
Canal Projects
Dia: The New York Earth Room & The Broken Kilometer
The Drawing Center
Judd Foundation
Leslie-Lohman Museum of Art
Milton Resnick and Pat Passlof Foundation
Museum of Chinese in America
The Renee & Chaim Gross Foundation
Ukrainian Museum
initial research

Downtown Culture Walk
Saturday, April 25, 2026
12-6PM
with the Soho Arts Network

The Downtown Culture Walk is a self-guided walking tour presented by the SoHo Arts Network (SAN), highlighting non-profit art spaces in and around SoHo. SAN celebrates the rich history of our unique creative community and collectively shares our distinct cultural contributions with neighborhood residents and visitors. 

On Saturday, April 25, members of SAN will open their doors for the Downtown Culture Walk. initial research will be open from 12-6pm with free admission.

Physical maps will be available at all spaces. Access the digital maps at the link in bio. 

Participating spaces:
apexart
Canal Projects
Dia: The New York Earth Room & The Broken Kilometer
The Drawing Center
Judd Foundation
Leslie-Lohman Museum of Art
Milton Resnick and Pat Passlof Foundation
Museum of Chinese in America
The Renee & Chaim Gross Foundation
Ukrainian Museum
initial research

We warmly invite you to a body practice, open to all, dancers and non-dancers alike!

Beyond creating work, our current fellow NiNi Dongnier @dongnier_nini would like to foster meaningful connections through a regular practice and artistic offering. In sensing periphery, she shares body practice in an inclusive dance session.

Layers of practice:
- Awareness through gesture and the logic of moments in transition, deepening, and quiet transformation.
- Take our place in time and space, guided improvisations nourished by imagination and memories stored in the body.
- A material study of “Mongolian folk dance my mom created and taught me, but different.”

A note on the name from Yuan Fuca @heichiyuanr : we’re calling this practice sensing periphery, inspired by early morning light, when attention is soft, and the edges of things become perceptible again.

⭐Please wear layers and comfortable clothes. Bring a yoga mat or blanket if you have one.

🗓️ Tuesday, April 7, 6:00—7:15 PM (Space opens at 5:30 PM)
📍 41 Wooster Street, Floor 2, New York, NY 10013
✅ RSVP in bio

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Image 2: Portrait of Dongnier at The Watermill Center. Photo by Lindsay Morris.
Image 3: Workshop led by Dongnier. Photo by Chris Randle.

We warmly invite you to a body practice, open to all, dancers and non-dancers alike!

Beyond creating work, our current fellow NiNi Dongnier @dongnier_nini would like to foster meaningful connections through a regular practice and artistic offering. In sensing periphery, she shares body practice in an inclusive dance session.

Layers of practice:
- Awareness through gesture and the logic of moments in transition, deepening, and quiet transformation.
- Take our place in time and space, guided improvisations nourished by imagination and memories stored in the body.
- A material study of “Mongolian folk dance my mom created and taught me, but different.”

A note on the name from Yuan Fuca @heichiyuanr : we’re calling this practice sensing periphery, inspired by early morning light, when attention is soft, and the edges of things become perceptible again.

⭐Please wear layers and comfortable clothes. Bring a yoga mat or blanket if you have one.

🗓️ Tuesday, April 7, 6:00—7:15 PM (Space opens at 5:30 PM)
📍 41 Wooster Street, Floor 2, New York, NY 10013
✅ RSVP in bio

_____
Image 2: Portrait of Dongnier at The Watermill Center. Photo by Lindsay Morris.
Image 3: Workshop led by Dongnier. Photo by Chris Randle.

We warmly invite you to a body practice, open to all, dancers and non-dancers alike!

Beyond creating work, our current fellow NiNi Dongnier @dongnier_nini would like to foster meaningful connections through a regular practice and artistic offering. In sensing periphery, she shares body practice in an inclusive dance session.

Layers of practice:
- Awareness through gesture and the logic of moments in transition, deepening, and quiet transformation.
- Take our place in time and space, guided improvisations nourished by imagination and memories stored in the body.
- A material study of “Mongolian folk dance my mom created and taught me, but different.”

A note on the name from Yuan Fuca @heichiyuanr : we’re calling this practice sensing periphery, inspired by early morning light, when attention is soft, and the edges of things become perceptible again.

⭐Please wear layers and comfortable clothes. Bring a yoga mat or blanket if you have one.

🗓️ Tuesday, April 7, 6:00—7:15 PM (Space opens at 5:30 PM)
📍 41 Wooster Street, Floor 2, New York, NY 10013
✅ RSVP in bio

_____
Image 2: Portrait of Dongnier at The Watermill Center. Photo by Lindsay Morris.
Image 3: Workshop led by Dongnier. Photo by Chris Randle.

Join us for a conversation between two artists, Shouma Banerjee Kak @shoumabkak and Jin Mei, who have each returned to art making in their fifties, after decades-long absence. Working autonomously and persistently, both have arrived at a practice of repetition, certitude, and joy.

The discussion will be mediated by their daughters: Chang Yuchen @yuchenyuchen , herself an artist, and Amba Kak @ambaonadventure , a critical voice on technology and its discontents. Together, they will draw out what it means to return to something, to make steadily, to find in repetition not monotony but a kind of freedom.

For more information about Shouma Banerjee Kak: https://shoumabanerjeekak.com/ • @shoumabkak

For more information about Jin Mei: https://changyuchen.com/jin-mei-1 • Xiaohongshu: 晋美jm

🗓️ Friday, April 10, 6:00—7:30 PM
📍 41 Wooster Street, Floor 2, New York, NY 10013
✅ RSVP in bio

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Image 2: Photo by Sanjay Kak.
Image 3: Drawing by Shouma Banerjee Kak (12 x 18 inches (or 30.45 x 45.72 cm), 2025, watercolor on paper).
Image 4: Jin Mei‘s talk at MoMA PS1 in March 2026. Photo by Chang Qing.
Image 5: Drawing by Jin Mei (10 x 15 cm, 2026, crayon on paper).

Join us for a conversation between two artists, Shouma Banerjee Kak @shoumabkak and Jin Mei, who have each returned to art making in their fifties, after decades-long absence. Working autonomously and persistently, both have arrived at a practice of repetition, certitude, and joy.

The discussion will be mediated by their daughters: Chang Yuchen @yuchenyuchen , herself an artist, and Amba Kak @ambaonadventure , a critical voice on technology and its discontents. Together, they will draw out what it means to return to something, to make steadily, to find in repetition not monotony but a kind of freedom.

For more information about Shouma Banerjee Kak: https://shoumabanerjeekak.com/ • @shoumabkak

For more information about Jin Mei: https://changyuchen.com/jin-mei-1 • Xiaohongshu: 晋美jm

🗓️ Friday, April 10, 6:00—7:30 PM
📍 41 Wooster Street, Floor 2, New York, NY 10013
✅ RSVP in bio

_____
Image 2: Photo by Sanjay Kak.
Image 3: Drawing by Shouma Banerjee Kak (12 x 18 inches (or 30.45 x 45.72 cm), 2025, watercolor on paper).
Image 4: Jin Mei‘s talk at MoMA PS1 in March 2026. Photo by Chang Qing.
Image 5: Drawing by Jin Mei (10 x 15 cm, 2026, crayon on paper).

Join us for a conversation between two artists, Shouma Banerjee Kak @shoumabkak and Jin Mei, who have each returned to art making in their fifties, after decades-long absence. Working autonomously and persistently, both have arrived at a practice of repetition, certitude, and joy.

The discussion will be mediated by their daughters: Chang Yuchen @yuchenyuchen , herself an artist, and Amba Kak @ambaonadventure , a critical voice on technology and its discontents. Together, they will draw out what it means to return to something, to make steadily, to find in repetition not monotony but a kind of freedom.

For more information about Shouma Banerjee Kak: https://shoumabanerjeekak.com/ • @shoumabkak

For more information about Jin Mei: https://changyuchen.com/jin-mei-1 • Xiaohongshu: 晋美jm

🗓️ Friday, April 10, 6:00—7:30 PM
📍 41 Wooster Street, Floor 2, New York, NY 10013
✅ RSVP in bio

_____
Image 2: Photo by Sanjay Kak.
Image 3: Drawing by Shouma Banerjee Kak (12 x 18 inches (or 30.45 x 45.72 cm), 2025, watercolor on paper).
Image 4: Jin Mei‘s talk at MoMA PS1 in March 2026. Photo by Chang Qing.
Image 5: Drawing by Jin Mei (10 x 15 cm, 2026, crayon on paper).

Join us for a conversation between two artists, Shouma Banerjee Kak @shoumabkak and Jin Mei, who have each returned to art making in their fifties, after decades-long absence. Working autonomously and persistently, both have arrived at a practice of repetition, certitude, and joy.

The discussion will be mediated by their daughters: Chang Yuchen @yuchenyuchen , herself an artist, and Amba Kak @ambaonadventure , a critical voice on technology and its discontents. Together, they will draw out what it means to return to something, to make steadily, to find in repetition not monotony but a kind of freedom.

For more information about Shouma Banerjee Kak: https://shoumabanerjeekak.com/ • @shoumabkak

For more information about Jin Mei: https://changyuchen.com/jin-mei-1 • Xiaohongshu: 晋美jm

🗓️ Friday, April 10, 6:00—7:30 PM
📍 41 Wooster Street, Floor 2, New York, NY 10013
✅ RSVP in bio

_____
Image 2: Photo by Sanjay Kak.
Image 3: Drawing by Shouma Banerjee Kak (12 x 18 inches (or 30.45 x 45.72 cm), 2025, watercolor on paper).
Image 4: Jin Mei‘s talk at MoMA PS1 in March 2026. Photo by Chang Qing.
Image 5: Drawing by Jin Mei (10 x 15 cm, 2026, crayon on paper).

Join us for a conversation between two artists, Shouma Banerjee Kak @shoumabkak and Jin Mei, who have each returned to art making in their fifties, after decades-long absence. Working autonomously and persistently, both have arrived at a practice of repetition, certitude, and joy.

The discussion will be mediated by their daughters: Chang Yuchen @yuchenyuchen , herself an artist, and Amba Kak @ambaonadventure , a critical voice on technology and its discontents. Together, they will draw out what it means to return to something, to make steadily, to find in repetition not monotony but a kind of freedom.

For more information about Shouma Banerjee Kak: https://shoumabanerjeekak.com/ • @shoumabkak

For more information about Jin Mei: https://changyuchen.com/jin-mei-1 • Xiaohongshu: 晋美jm

🗓️ Friday, April 10, 6:00—7:30 PM
📍 41 Wooster Street, Floor 2, New York, NY 10013
✅ RSVP in bio

_____
Image 2: Photo by Sanjay Kak.
Image 3: Drawing by Shouma Banerjee Kak (12 x 18 inches (or 30.45 x 45.72 cm), 2025, watercolor on paper).
Image 4: Jin Mei‘s talk at MoMA PS1 in March 2026. Photo by Chang Qing.
Image 5: Drawing by Jin Mei (10 x 15 cm, 2026, crayon on paper).

Join us for 𝐃𝐢𝐬𝐩𝐥𝐚𝐲 𝟐𝟎𝟐𝟔 – 𝐉𝐮𝐦𝐛𝐥𝐞, 𝐓𝐮𝐦𝐛𝐥𝐞 Public Rehearsal 1. This work for two performers, wood blocks, and electronics explores the temporality of thoughts and experiences. Through the tactile setup of woodblocks and the sonic interplay, actions accumulate, collapse, and reassemble, tracing the fragile line between order and disorder. The performance is a live process of redefining meaning from scattered elements, revealing construction and deconstruction as inseparable acts.

This work is part of our current fellow BHKM and Yu Ji’s ongoing project Shack. (@bhkmonline @yuuu_jiii )

“When you enter the space of initial research, you will find a box standing against the wall. We call it Shack, a temporary body of sculpture that represents Yu Ji and BHKM: cardboard walls, painted radish red, cement flooring, supported by 3/8x3/8 wooden sticks, all walls open individually suggests alternative dimensions of the space that contains. Our materialistic practice happens inside and performative practice happens both inside and outside. The Shark employs method of ‘____’ and community building in order to circulate the idea of use “of”. Matters and happenings updated coordinately and improvisedly.” — BHKM and Yu Ji

Performer: Tian Qin, Jil D.

Additional-Performer: Yu Ji

🕖 Doors open at 7:00 PM. Please note that doors will close at 7:30 PM, as the performance involves children’s participation.
✅ RSVP via link in bio.
📍 41 Wooster Street, Floor 2, New York, NY 10013

Join us for 𝐃𝐢𝐬𝐩𝐥𝐚𝐲 𝟐𝟎𝟐𝟔 – 𝐉𝐮𝐦𝐛𝐥𝐞, 𝐓𝐮𝐦𝐛𝐥𝐞 Public Rehearsal 1. This work for two performers, wood blocks, and electronics explores the temporality of thoughts and experiences. Through the tactile setup of woodblocks and the sonic interplay, actions accumulate, collapse, and reassemble, tracing the fragile line between order and disorder. The performance is a live process of redefining meaning from scattered elements, revealing construction and deconstruction as inseparable acts.

This work is part of our current fellow BHKM and Yu Ji’s ongoing project Shack. (@bhkmonline @yuuu_jiii )

“When you enter the space of initial research, you will find a box standing against the wall. We call it Shack, a temporary body of sculpture that represents Yu Ji and BHKM: cardboard walls, painted radish red, cement flooring, supported by 3/8x3/8 wooden sticks, all walls open individually suggests alternative dimensions of the space that contains. Our materialistic practice happens inside and performative practice happens both inside and outside. The Shark employs method of ‘____’ and community building in order to circulate the idea of use “of”. Matters and happenings updated coordinately and improvisedly.” — BHKM and Yu Ji

Performer: Tian Qin, Jil D.

Additional-Performer: Yu Ji

🕖 Doors open at 7:00 PM. Please note that doors will close at 7:30 PM, as the performance involves children’s participation.
✅ RSVP via link in bio.
📍 41 Wooster Street, Floor 2, New York, NY 10013

Join us for 𝐃𝐢𝐬𝐩𝐥𝐚𝐲 𝟐𝟎𝟐𝟔 – 𝐉𝐮𝐦𝐛𝐥𝐞, 𝐓𝐮𝐦𝐛𝐥𝐞 Public Rehearsal 1. This work for two performers, wood blocks, and electronics explores the temporality of thoughts and experiences. Through the tactile setup of woodblocks and the sonic interplay, actions accumulate, collapse, and reassemble, tracing the fragile line between order and disorder. The performance is a live process of redefining meaning from scattered elements, revealing construction and deconstruction as inseparable acts.

This work is part of our current fellow BHKM and Yu Ji’s ongoing project Shack. (@bhkmonline @yuuu_jiii )

“When you enter the space of initial research, you will find a box standing against the wall. We call it Shack, a temporary body of sculpture that represents Yu Ji and BHKM: cardboard walls, painted radish red, cement flooring, supported by 3/8x3/8 wooden sticks, all walls open individually suggests alternative dimensions of the space that contains. Our materialistic practice happens inside and performative practice happens both inside and outside. The Shark employs method of ‘____’ and community building in order to circulate the idea of use “of”. Matters and happenings updated coordinately and improvisedly.” — BHKM and Yu Ji

Performer: Tian Qin, Jil D.

Additional-Performer: Yu Ji

🕖 Doors open at 7:00 PM. Please note that doors will close at 7:30 PM, as the performance involves children’s participation.
✅ RSVP via link in bio.
📍 41 Wooster Street, Floor 2, New York, NY 10013

Join us for 𝐃𝐢𝐬𝐩𝐥𝐚𝐲 𝟐𝟎𝟐𝟔 – 𝐉𝐮𝐦𝐛𝐥𝐞, 𝐓𝐮𝐦𝐛𝐥𝐞 Public Rehearsal 1. This work for two performers, wood blocks, and electronics explores the temporality of thoughts and experiences. Through the tactile setup of woodblocks and the sonic interplay, actions accumulate, collapse, and reassemble, tracing the fragile line between order and disorder. The performance is a live process of redefining meaning from scattered elements, revealing construction and deconstruction as inseparable acts.

This work is part of our current fellow BHKM and Yu Ji’s ongoing project Shack. (@bhkmonline @yuuu_jiii )

“When you enter the space of initial research, you will find a box standing against the wall. We call it Shack, a temporary body of sculpture that represents Yu Ji and BHKM: cardboard walls, painted radish red, cement flooring, supported by 3/8x3/8 wooden sticks, all walls open individually suggests alternative dimensions of the space that contains. Our materialistic practice happens inside and performative practice happens both inside and outside. The Shark employs method of ‘____’ and community building in order to circulate the idea of use “of”. Matters and happenings updated coordinately and improvisedly.” — BHKM and Yu Ji

Performer: Tian Qin, Jil D.

Additional-Performer: Yu Ji

🕖 Doors open at 7:00 PM. Please note that doors will close at 7:30 PM, as the performance involves children’s participation.
✅ RSVP via link in bio.
📍 41 Wooster Street, Floor 2, New York, NY 10013

Join us for 𝐁𝐫𝐞𝐥𝐞𝐜𝐭𝐫𝐚 𝐒𝐡𝐞𝐧𝐠𝐚𝐩ø𝐩, a talk and concert co-presented by Chaospace @chaospacenyc & See See Records @seeseerecords . The program brings together electronic music, visual arts, and two Asian instruments — the Sheng and the Gayageum.

🕟 Artist Talk: Saturday, March 7 | 4:30 PM | Free with RSVP in bio
🕢 Concert: Saturday, March 7 | 7:30 PM | Tickets in bio
📍 41 Wooster Street, Floor 2, New York, NY 10013

Featuring:
Sheng — Special Guest
Gayageum — DoYeon Kim

Composers / Sound Artists:
Qiujiang Levi Lu
Tianyu Zou
Chen Shuhe Yue

Join us for 𝐁𝐫𝐞𝐥𝐞𝐜𝐭𝐫𝐚 𝐒𝐡𝐞𝐧𝐠𝐚𝐩ø𝐩, a talk and concert co-presented by Chaospace @chaospacenyc & See See Records @seeseerecords . The program brings together electronic music, visual arts, and two Asian instruments — the Sheng and the Gayageum.

🕟 Artist Talk: Saturday, March 7 | 4:30 PM | Free with RSVP in bio
🕢 Concert: Saturday, March 7 | 7:30 PM | Tickets in bio
📍 41 Wooster Street, Floor 2, New York, NY 10013

Featuring:
Sheng — Special Guest
Gayageum — DoYeon Kim

Composers / Sound Artists:
Qiujiang Levi Lu
Tianyu Zou
Chen Shuhe Yue

Kicking off our new season of programming, join us for an intimate performance of Ca Trù, the endangered northern Vietnamese chamber music tradition once banned in the 20th century for its associations with prostitution and opium culture. Presented as part of our 2025/2026 fellow Anh Vo’s new research into the form’s complex social history.

🗓️ Wednesday, Feb 25, 6:00—7:30 PM
📍 41 Wooster Street, Floor 2, New York, NY 10013
✅ RSVP in bio

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Image 2: Courtesy of the artists.
Image 3: Portrait by Maira Baranova

Kicking off our new season of programming, join us for an intimate performance of Ca Trù, the endangered northern Vietnamese chamber music tradition once banned in the 20th century for its associations with prostitution and opium culture. Presented as part of our 2025/2026 fellow Anh Vo’s new research into the form’s complex social history.

🗓️ Wednesday, Feb 25, 6:00—7:30 PM
📍 41 Wooster Street, Floor 2, New York, NY 10013
✅ RSVP in bio

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Image 2: Courtesy of the artists.
Image 3: Portrait by Maira Baranova

Kicking off our new season of programming, join us for an intimate performance of Ca Trù, the endangered northern Vietnamese chamber music tradition once banned in the 20th century for its associations with prostitution and opium culture. Presented as part of our 2025/2026 fellow Anh Vo’s new research into the form’s complex social history.

🗓️ Wednesday, Feb 25, 6:00—7:30 PM
📍 41 Wooster Street, Floor 2, New York, NY 10013
✅ RSVP in bio

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Image 2: Courtesy of the artists.
Image 3: Portrait by Maira Baranova

Join us for 𝗔𝘀𝗶𝗮𝗻 𝗖𝗼𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗺𝗽𝗼𝗿𝗮𝗿𝘆 𝗖𝘂𝗿𝗿𝗲𝗻𝘁𝘀, an afternoon event that brings together Asian Cultural Council (ACC) fellows Julia Hung (@jujuhung ), Kenneth Wong See Huat (@peopleideasculture ), Nursalim Yadi Anugerah (@nursalimyadi_ ), Renu Savant, and Souya Handa (@souya_h ). Working across sculpture, performance, experimental film, ritual, and research-driven practice, each artist will offer brief presentations sharing the questions and discoveries that drive their work.

​As current ACC fellows, these artists are participating in a six-month program in New York. This fellowship has historically supported the early careers of visionaries such as Yayoi Kusama, Nam June Paik, and Takashi Murakami.

​This event highlights the diversity of their perspectives, creating a space for reflection and dialogue. Through their varied approaches, the speakers illuminate the intersections of materiality, labor, identity, and cross-cultural exploration.

🗓️ Saturday, December 13, 4:00–5:30 PM
📍 41 Wooster Street, Floor 2, New York, NY 10013
✅ RSVP in bio

Join us for 𝗔𝘀𝗶𝗮𝗻 𝗖𝗼𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗺𝗽𝗼𝗿𝗮𝗿𝘆 𝗖𝘂𝗿𝗿𝗲𝗻𝘁𝘀, an afternoon event that brings together Asian Cultural Council (ACC) fellows Julia Hung (@jujuhung ), Kenneth Wong See Huat (@peopleideasculture ), Nursalim Yadi Anugerah (@nursalimyadi_ ), Renu Savant, and Souya Handa (@souya_h ). Working across sculpture, performance, experimental film, ritual, and research-driven practice, each artist will offer brief presentations sharing the questions and discoveries that drive their work.

​As current ACC fellows, these artists are participating in a six-month program in New York. This fellowship has historically supported the early careers of visionaries such as Yayoi Kusama, Nam June Paik, and Takashi Murakami.

​This event highlights the diversity of their perspectives, creating a space for reflection and dialogue. Through their varied approaches, the speakers illuminate the intersections of materiality, labor, identity, and cross-cultural exploration.

🗓️ Saturday, December 13, 4:00–5:30 PM
📍 41 Wooster Street, Floor 2, New York, NY 10013
✅ RSVP in bio

Join us for 𝗔𝘀𝗶𝗮𝗻 𝗖𝗼𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗺𝗽𝗼𝗿𝗮𝗿𝘆 𝗖𝘂𝗿𝗿𝗲𝗻𝘁𝘀, an afternoon event that brings together Asian Cultural Council (ACC) fellows Julia Hung (@jujuhung ), Kenneth Wong See Huat (@peopleideasculture ), Nursalim Yadi Anugerah (@nursalimyadi_ ), Renu Savant, and Souya Handa (@souya_h ). Working across sculpture, performance, experimental film, ritual, and research-driven practice, each artist will offer brief presentations sharing the questions and discoveries that drive their work.

​As current ACC fellows, these artists are participating in a six-month program in New York. This fellowship has historically supported the early careers of visionaries such as Yayoi Kusama, Nam June Paik, and Takashi Murakami.

​This event highlights the diversity of their perspectives, creating a space for reflection and dialogue. Through their varied approaches, the speakers illuminate the intersections of materiality, labor, identity, and cross-cultural exploration.

🗓️ Saturday, December 13, 4:00–5:30 PM
📍 41 Wooster Street, Floor 2, New York, NY 10013
✅ RSVP in bio

Join us for 𝗔𝘀𝗶𝗮𝗻 𝗖𝗼𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗺𝗽𝗼𝗿𝗮𝗿𝘆 𝗖𝘂𝗿𝗿𝗲𝗻𝘁𝘀, an afternoon event that brings together Asian Cultural Council (ACC) fellows Julia Hung (@jujuhung ), Kenneth Wong See Huat (@peopleideasculture ), Nursalim Yadi Anugerah (@nursalimyadi_ ), Renu Savant, and Souya Handa (@souya_h ). Working across sculpture, performance, experimental film, ritual, and research-driven practice, each artist will offer brief presentations sharing the questions and discoveries that drive their work.

​As current ACC fellows, these artists are participating in a six-month program in New York. This fellowship has historically supported the early careers of visionaries such as Yayoi Kusama, Nam June Paik, and Takashi Murakami.

​This event highlights the diversity of their perspectives, creating a space for reflection and dialogue. Through their varied approaches, the speakers illuminate the intersections of materiality, labor, identity, and cross-cultural exploration.

🗓️ Saturday, December 13, 4:00–5:30 PM
📍 41 Wooster Street, Floor 2, New York, NY 10013
✅ RSVP in bio

Join us for 𝗔𝘀𝗶𝗮𝗻 𝗖𝗼𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗺𝗽𝗼𝗿𝗮𝗿𝘆 𝗖𝘂𝗿𝗿𝗲𝗻𝘁𝘀, an afternoon event that brings together Asian Cultural Council (ACC) fellows Julia Hung (@jujuhung ), Kenneth Wong See Huat (@peopleideasculture ), Nursalim Yadi Anugerah (@nursalimyadi_ ), Renu Savant, and Souya Handa (@souya_h ). Working across sculpture, performance, experimental film, ritual, and research-driven practice, each artist will offer brief presentations sharing the questions and discoveries that drive their work.

​As current ACC fellows, these artists are participating in a six-month program in New York. This fellowship has historically supported the early careers of visionaries such as Yayoi Kusama, Nam June Paik, and Takashi Murakami.

​This event highlights the diversity of their perspectives, creating a space for reflection and dialogue. Through their varied approaches, the speakers illuminate the intersections of materiality, labor, identity, and cross-cultural exploration.

🗓️ Saturday, December 13, 4:00–5:30 PM
📍 41 Wooster Street, Floor 2, New York, NY 10013
✅ RSVP in bio

Join initial research for an end-of-year pre-dinner gathering, 𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗦𝗺𝗶𝗹𝗶𝗻𝗴, 𝗣𝗿𝗼𝘂𝗱 𝗪𝗮𝗻𝗱𝗲𝗿𝗲𝗿𝘀 (笑傲江湖). The evening’s theme takes its name from Journey to the West and later from a novel by Jin Yong, whose martial-arts novels shaped contemporary Chinese pop culture.

Held in SoHo in the winter of 2025, the gathering is a small salute to people who move through heavy times with mischief, courage, and a stubborn sense of joy—today’s diasporic artists and art travelers.

initial research will transform into a jianghu tavern—“rivers and lakes” in Chinese—a world of wanderers, outlaws, and those who live on the periphery. The evening will feature improvised performances by three folk musicians: Zhou Yi on pipa, Song Dan on guzheng, and Suvda Khereid with Mongolian long song. Artist Doreen Chan will craft a special cocktail for the night, complemented by simple snacks for sharing.

Feel free to drop by before dinner, stay to connect, or simply drift on.

👗Dress code: Chinese chivalrous / jianghu-inspired, if you feel like it.

🗓️Saturday, December 13, 6:00–8:00 PM
📍41 Wooster Street, Floor 2, New York, NY 10013
🎟️Tickets in bio — 100% to artists

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Image 4: Artist Portrait by Liza Wolters.

We thank peprealestate.com for finding great space for us. Please contact Pep Real Estate at (212)925-3280 Ext, 101, or visit them at www.peprealestate.com, #peprealesatate #sohopopup #sohoretal

Join initial research for an end-of-year pre-dinner gathering, 𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗦𝗺𝗶𝗹𝗶𝗻𝗴, 𝗣𝗿𝗼𝘂𝗱 𝗪𝗮𝗻𝗱𝗲𝗿𝗲𝗿𝘀 (笑傲江湖). The evening’s theme takes its name from Journey to the West and later from a novel by Jin Yong, whose martial-arts novels shaped contemporary Chinese pop culture.

Held in SoHo in the winter of 2025, the gathering is a small salute to people who move through heavy times with mischief, courage, and a stubborn sense of joy—today’s diasporic artists and art travelers.

initial research will transform into a jianghu tavern—“rivers and lakes” in Chinese—a world of wanderers, outlaws, and those who live on the periphery. The evening will feature improvised performances by three folk musicians: Zhou Yi on pipa, Song Dan on guzheng, and Suvda Khereid with Mongolian long song. Artist Doreen Chan will craft a special cocktail for the night, complemented by simple snacks for sharing.

Feel free to drop by before dinner, stay to connect, or simply drift on.

👗Dress code: Chinese chivalrous / jianghu-inspired, if you feel like it.

🗓️Saturday, December 13, 6:00–8:00 PM
📍41 Wooster Street, Floor 2, New York, NY 10013
🎟️Tickets in bio — 100% to artists

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Image 4: Artist Portrait by Liza Wolters.

We thank peprealestate.com for finding great space for us. Please contact Pep Real Estate at (212)925-3280 Ext, 101, or visit them at www.peprealestate.com, #peprealesatate #sohopopup #sohoretal

Join initial research for an end-of-year pre-dinner gathering, 𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗦𝗺𝗶𝗹𝗶𝗻𝗴, 𝗣𝗿𝗼𝘂𝗱 𝗪𝗮𝗻𝗱𝗲𝗿𝗲𝗿𝘀 (笑傲江湖). The evening’s theme takes its name from Journey to the West and later from a novel by Jin Yong, whose martial-arts novels shaped contemporary Chinese pop culture.

Held in SoHo in the winter of 2025, the gathering is a small salute to people who move through heavy times with mischief, courage, and a stubborn sense of joy—today’s diasporic artists and art travelers.

initial research will transform into a jianghu tavern—“rivers and lakes” in Chinese—a world of wanderers, outlaws, and those who live on the periphery. The evening will feature improvised performances by three folk musicians: Zhou Yi on pipa, Song Dan on guzheng, and Suvda Khereid with Mongolian long song. Artist Doreen Chan will craft a special cocktail for the night, complemented by simple snacks for sharing.

Feel free to drop by before dinner, stay to connect, or simply drift on.

👗Dress code: Chinese chivalrous / jianghu-inspired, if you feel like it.

🗓️Saturday, December 13, 6:00–8:00 PM
📍41 Wooster Street, Floor 2, New York, NY 10013
🎟️Tickets in bio — 100% to artists

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Image 4: Artist Portrait by Liza Wolters.

We thank peprealestate.com for finding great space for us. Please contact Pep Real Estate at (212)925-3280 Ext, 101, or visit them at www.peprealestate.com, #peprealesatate #sohopopup #sohoretal

Join initial research for an end-of-year pre-dinner gathering, 𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗦𝗺𝗶𝗹𝗶𝗻𝗴, 𝗣𝗿𝗼𝘂𝗱 𝗪𝗮𝗻𝗱𝗲𝗿𝗲𝗿𝘀 (笑傲江湖). The evening’s theme takes its name from Journey to the West and later from a novel by Jin Yong, whose martial-arts novels shaped contemporary Chinese pop culture.

Held in SoHo in the winter of 2025, the gathering is a small salute to people who move through heavy times with mischief, courage, and a stubborn sense of joy—today’s diasporic artists and art travelers.

initial research will transform into a jianghu tavern—“rivers and lakes” in Chinese—a world of wanderers, outlaws, and those who live on the periphery. The evening will feature improvised performances by three folk musicians: Zhou Yi on pipa, Song Dan on guzheng, and Suvda Khereid with Mongolian long song. Artist Doreen Chan will craft a special cocktail for the night, complemented by simple snacks for sharing.

Feel free to drop by before dinner, stay to connect, or simply drift on.

👗Dress code: Chinese chivalrous / jianghu-inspired, if you feel like it.

🗓️Saturday, December 13, 6:00–8:00 PM
📍41 Wooster Street, Floor 2, New York, NY 10013
🎟️Tickets in bio — 100% to artists

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Image 4: Artist Portrait by Liza Wolters.

We thank peprealestate.com for finding great space for us. Please contact Pep Real Estate at (212)925-3280 Ext, 101, or visit them at www.peprealestate.com, #peprealesatate #sohopopup #sohoretal

Join initial research for an end-of-year pre-dinner gathering, 𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗦𝗺𝗶𝗹𝗶𝗻𝗴, 𝗣𝗿𝗼𝘂𝗱 𝗪𝗮𝗻𝗱𝗲𝗿𝗲𝗿𝘀 (笑傲江湖). The evening’s theme takes its name from Journey to the West and later from a novel by Jin Yong, whose martial-arts novels shaped contemporary Chinese pop culture.

Held in SoHo in the winter of 2025, the gathering is a small salute to people who move through heavy times with mischief, courage, and a stubborn sense of joy—today’s diasporic artists and art travelers.

initial research will transform into a jianghu tavern—“rivers and lakes” in Chinese—a world of wanderers, outlaws, and those who live on the periphery. The evening will feature improvised performances by three folk musicians: Zhou Yi on pipa, Song Dan on guzheng, and Suvda Khereid with Mongolian long song. Artist Doreen Chan will craft a special cocktail for the night, complemented by simple snacks for sharing.

Feel free to drop by before dinner, stay to connect, or simply drift on.

👗Dress code: Chinese chivalrous / jianghu-inspired, if you feel like it.

🗓️Saturday, December 13, 6:00–8:00 PM
📍41 Wooster Street, Floor 2, New York, NY 10013
🎟️Tickets in bio — 100% to artists

_____
Image 4: Artist Portrait by Liza Wolters.

We thank peprealestate.com for finding great space for us. Please contact Pep Real Estate at (212)925-3280 Ext, 101, or visit them at www.peprealestate.com, #peprealesatate #sohopopup #sohoretal

Join initial research for an end-of-year pre-dinner gathering, 𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗦𝗺𝗶𝗹𝗶𝗻𝗴, 𝗣𝗿𝗼𝘂𝗱 𝗪𝗮𝗻𝗱𝗲𝗿𝗲𝗿𝘀 (笑傲江湖). The evening’s theme takes its name from Journey to the West and later from a novel by Jin Yong, whose martial-arts novels shaped contemporary Chinese pop culture.

Held in SoHo in the winter of 2025, the gathering is a small salute to people who move through heavy times with mischief, courage, and a stubborn sense of joy—today’s diasporic artists and art travelers.

initial research will transform into a jianghu tavern—“rivers and lakes” in Chinese—a world of wanderers, outlaws, and those who live on the periphery. The evening will feature improvised performances by three folk musicians: Zhou Yi on pipa, Song Dan on guzheng, and Suvda Khereid with Mongolian long song. Artist Doreen Chan will craft a special cocktail for the night, complemented by simple snacks for sharing.

Feel free to drop by before dinner, stay to connect, or simply drift on.

👗Dress code: Chinese chivalrous / jianghu-inspired, if you feel like it.

🗓️Saturday, December 13, 6:00–8:00 PM
📍41 Wooster Street, Floor 2, New York, NY 10013
🎟️Tickets in bio — 100% to artists

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Image 4: Artist Portrait by Liza Wolters.

We thank peprealestate.com for finding great space for us. Please contact Pep Real Estate at (212)925-3280 Ext, 101, or visit them at www.peprealestate.com, #peprealesatate #sohopopup #sohoretal

Join initial research for an end-of-year pre-dinner gathering, 𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗦𝗺𝗶𝗹𝗶𝗻𝗴, 𝗣𝗿𝗼𝘂𝗱 𝗪𝗮𝗻𝗱𝗲𝗿𝗲𝗿𝘀 (笑傲江湖). The evening’s theme takes its name from Journey to the West and later from a novel by Jin Yong, whose martial-arts novels shaped contemporary Chinese pop culture.

Held in SoHo in the winter of 2025, the gathering is a small salute to people who move through heavy times with mischief, courage, and a stubborn sense of joy—today’s diasporic artists and art travelers.

initial research will transform into a jianghu tavern—“rivers and lakes” in Chinese—a world of wanderers, outlaws, and those who live on the periphery. The evening will feature improvised performances by three folk musicians: Zhou Yi on pipa, Song Dan on guzheng, and Suvda Khereid with Mongolian long song. Artist Doreen Chan will craft a special cocktail for the night, complemented by simple snacks for sharing.

Feel free to drop by before dinner, stay to connect, or simply drift on.

👗Dress code: Chinese chivalrous / jianghu-inspired, if you feel like it.

🗓️Saturday, December 13, 6:00–8:00 PM
📍41 Wooster Street, Floor 2, New York, NY 10013
🎟️Tickets in bio — 100% to artists

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Image 4: Artist Portrait by Liza Wolters.

We thank peprealestate.com for finding great space for us. Please contact Pep Real Estate at (212)925-3280 Ext, 101, or visit them at www.peprealestate.com, #peprealesatate #sohopopup #sohoretal