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Fragments: Silkroad Returns
Maeve Gilchrist, Kevork Mourad, Edward Perez, Kaoru Watanabe, Shane Shanahan, Wu Tong, and Mark Freeman
Pairs of Silkroad artists collaborated over the course of a month from a distance – sometimes across continents - to create brand new works. Yet another avenue for Silkroad to build bridges across traditions, these brief works are both a reflection of life in the time of a global pandemic and a celebration of creativity that brings us together. Join the artists in a lively conversation as they share high quality video of their creations
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The Migration of Memory: The Art of Kevork Mourad
Kevork Mourad, Osvaldo Golijov, Meredith Fluke, and Mark Freeman
In his extraordinary practice, Syrian artist Kevork Mourad creates and projects drawings live in concert alongside musicians, such as members of the Silkroad Ensemble. His work explores a wide range of issues, including personal and cultural memory, the ways in which memory is inscribed in architectural spaces, the plight of refugees and survivors of genocide, and, perhaps most importantly, the possibility of our finding one another amid the cultural and political differences that so often
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Open Studio with Kevork Mourad
Kevork Mourad and Cristi Rinklin
Take a tour of acclaimed Syrian-Armenian visual artist Kevork Mourad’s Brooklyn studio and discover his current projects, with a window into his process, signature techniques he employs in drawing, printmaking and animation, and his intricate, multi-layered works.
Mourad employs his technique of live drawing and animation in concert with musicians – developing a collaboration in which art and music harmonize with one another. Collaborators include Yo-Yo Ma, Kim Kashkashian, the Los Angeles Master Chorale, Brooklyn
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Black Spring: Music and Activism with Samora Pinderhughes
Samora Pinderhughes and Bonnie Johnson
In the midst of the pandemic and BLM protests, Samora Pinderhughes--a biracial musician and activist--released his timely new EP "Black Spring." The project is inspired by the revolutionary energy of 1960s songwriters, and looks to reflect the questions and anger that people are feeling during these times of uncertainty and chaos. The title describes an energy of uprising: a time for action, a time for flourishing and moving forward with revolutionary spirit. Pinderhughes is a
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Martha Redbone & Aaron Whitby
Martha Redbone, Aaron Whitby, and Yonca Karakilic
One of today’s most vital voices in American roots music, Martha Redbone and her artistic & life partner Aaron Whitby return to ATB following an unforgettable appearance with BoneHill: The Concert in 2018. Be among the first to hear songs from a new work-in-progress Redbone and Whitby are creating as part of the Artistic Instigators series at the New York Theater Workshop. This song cycle is a reflection on our lives under the pandemic, Black
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