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MEMORIES OF DISRUPTION
THE IMMIGRANT ARTIST BINNIAL
CURATED BY SANNA ALMAJEDI AND SOFIA THIÊU D’AMICO
AT BRIC
November 7, 2026, 6-8PM
IVANA DAMA
LITA VINUEZA
ANDREW YONG HOON LEE
SIMON LIU & CHARLIE PEREZ-TLATENCHI
MAYA JEFFEREIS
The Immigrant Artist Biennial: Identity Card brings a two-hour performance evening to BRIC. Five emergent new media and performance artists transform BRIC into a site of disturbance and rupture. Centering sonic, visual, and geopolitical disruptions—the aftershocks of contemporary life’s collision with colonial and imperial intervention—Memories of Disruption allows audience members to feel how these histories continue to reverberate sonically and visually through bodies, landscapes, and collective cultural memory.
Memories of Disruption traces how histories of violence not only persist but can be transformed by opening space for reconfiguration, refusal, and autonomy. Ivana Dama’s sound performance is shaped by her experience of growing up in Belgrade during wartime, engaging the siren as a sculptural sonic form that recalls systems of warning and collective anxiety. Andrew Yong Hoon Lee stages a sonic performance that examines migration, language, and phenomenology through the interplay of sound, light, and spatial experience. Maya Jeffereis screens Land of Eternal Summer, a phytogram-based 16mm film that reanimates archival histories of Japanese migration to Brazil through plant-developed imagery, poetry, and reflections on labor, identity, and colonial erasure. Simon Liu and Charlie Perez-Tlatenchi present Ocean Terminal, an audiovisual lecture-performance combining live noise, collage, and abstraction to trace the psychic architectures of respective homes and travels, through fragmented memory and diaspora. Lita Vinueza’s series Sonic Liberation Devices uses synthesis and electronic sound to explore the intersections of sonic experimentation, political resistance, and Palestinian cultural expression.
Against the impulse to rebuild what was lost, audiences will hold on to longing—where history and memory remains incomplete, shifting, and unresolved—as they move through the rhythmic and multisensory program.
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