Counting Tales

Fall Video Series

Saturday, September 18th | 5 - 8 pm

El Barrio's Artspace PS 109, Harlem, NY 

​

Wednesday, September 29th | 6:30 - 8 pm

Marcus Garvey Park, Harlem, NY

​

What is the video project about?

ArtFormsUs has created 8 original short videos related to the theme 'Counting.' The theme appears in myriad forms: from the sounds of whales echoing the belching sounds of a bus, the artist’s movements reflect the sounds of the city; Ripples in street puddles are chanting numbers of family members. The midpassage losses are given new echoes in our current times; Consumption is demonstrated by the artist, hooded in plastic, roaming the city as she knits an endless train of plastic bags; Jazz, trees and breathing underscore a sympathy for humanity; Counting leaves symbolizes the litany of counting deaths by Covid; the surreal slapstick of 3 disparate artists converges into a bonding and a ritual examines two of the foundational objects that brought Latinos and African Americans to the “New World.”

​

The Artists Are 

Capucine Bourcart, Dominique de Cock, Noreen Dean Dresser, Undine Groeger, Salem Krieger, Leah Poller, Viviane Rombaldi Seppey, Xavier Roux and Allicette Torres