by Sofy Yuditskaya, Pepper Fajans, with Ria Rajan Filmed and edited by Walter Patrick Smith, AIA LEED A Sofy Yuditskaya (@horusVacui) is a site-specific media artist and educator working with video, interactivity, projections, code, paper, and salvaged material. Her work focuses on techno-occult rituals, street performance, and participatory art. Sofy’s performances enact and reframe hegemonies, she works with materials that exemplify our deep entanglement with petro-culture and technology’s affect on consciousness. She has worked on projects at Eyebeam, 3LD, the Rubin Museum, the Netherlands Institute voor Media Kunst, ARS Electronica, Games for Learning Institute, The Guggenheim (NYC), The National Mall and has taught workshops at GAFFTA, and MoMA. She is a PhD Candidate in Audio-Visual Composition at NYU GSAS. Pepper Fajans, Founder and Director of Brooklyn Studios for Dance (BkSD). Dancer, Puppeteer, Carpenter, producer of Object Theatre. Fajans partnered with Cadman Congregational Church in Brooklyn to renovate their 1920’s era gymnasium into BkSD. Since opening in 2015 BkSD has offered classes, workshops, and performances featuring the work of hundreds of teaching and performing artists. His performing company, the Brooklyn Touring Outfit, was awarded Most Outstanding Choreography at the Montréal Fringe Festival in 2015 for Co. Venture, remounted the work at the Centaur Theater (Montréal), and gave their US premier at Baryshnikov Arts Center in 2016. Fajans was personal assistant to Merce Cunningham and toured with the Cunningham Company as production staff and assistant to Cunningham Archivist, David Vaughan, through the final world tour, and was the production/stage manager for New York Theatre Ballet. Fajans has created work through St. Ann’s Puppet Lab and his latest work, Co. Incident, was presented at JACK in 2017. He was a puppeteer in Hagoromo at Brooklyn Academy of Music and The Windup Bird Chronicle at the Ohio Theater and has shown work through Movement Research at Judson Church, 92Y – Fridays at Noon, and DraftWork at Danspace. Fajans received his BA from Sarah Lawrence College, and has taught through Sarah Lawrence College and Pratt Institute. He is a member of the Brooklyn Contemporary Chorus. bksd.org | @BKSdance | @BKoutfit Ria Rajan (@riafish) is a visual artist and designer whose work spans across mediums both analog and digital, including drawing, painting, image making, material and sculptural explorations and interventions in spaces. She has been invited to participate in multiple public art projects such as Urban Avant Garde (Bangalore), Investment Zone (Bangalore), Figment (NY) and was a member of the erstwhile art collective Jaaga Juice.

In Lost Property Unit, dance explorer Mei-Yin Ng opens an investigation into the bodily and soul-driven limits of surveillance, networking, and media. Dance, robotic sculpture, and a time bending blend of live and recorded video craft a chilling narrative of a beautiful recluse and the cyborg pet who is anything but her best friend. Lost Property Unit lures us into a head space where solitude is never total and togetherness is always just out of reach. Choreography: Mei-Yin Ng Projection Design: Sofy Yuditskaya Additional Projection Design: Eric Barry Drasin Lighting Design: Poe Ayumu Sound Design: James Lo

Lost Property Unit Work in Progress Performance at Gov's Island

Video from comfort of numbers

Documentation from Act I of "L'Chaim" Directed by Talya Chalef

Re-posted from Valeria Maraco who made this film and is the dancer in it!

Projections on Ria Rajan's Heart Under the Flyover in Bangalore. The projection responds to and visualizes the sounds of traffic.