Date:
December 13, 2024 - 3-5:30PM
Location:
Recess
46 Washington Avenue, Brooklyn, NY 11205
Isabel Flower and Marcel Rosa-Salas will re-launch their podcast, Top Rank, which has been on a two year hiatus while they were both on maternity leave. Top Rank is a process-oriented research platform founded in 2015 that highlights people whose work is challenging and shaping our perceptions of contemporary culture. With the relaunch, they are especially interested in experiences pertaining to motherhood, creative practices, and the politics of living through/in the pandemic., which has been on a two year hiatus while they were both on maternity leave. Top Rank is a process-oriented research platform founded in 2015 that highlights people whose work is challenging and shaping our perceptions of contemporary culture. With the relaunch, they are especially interested in experiences pertaining to motherhood, creative practices, and the politics of living through/in the pandemic. The first episode will feature artist and Deli Radio founder June Canedo de Souza.
For the DJ Set immediately following, Marcelline Mandeng Nken will be blending sounds from all over the world including Zouk love, R&B, Club music and Gqom, fusing tropical elements of the music she grew up listening to with the repetitive pacing of electronic dance music that roots her in the present moment.
Marcel Rosa-Salas is a cultural anthropologist, documentarian, and speaker from Brooklyn, New York. She is cohost of the Top Rank podcast, coauthor of The Nameplate: Jewelry, Culture and Identity (Penguin Random House, 2023), and author of Total Market American: Race, Data and Advertising (forthcoming, Duke University Press).
Isabel Attyah Flower is an editor and writer living in New York City. She is executive editor of Deem Journal, public discourse manager at re:arc institute, and editorial director of Foundwork. She is cohost of the Top Rank podcast and coauthor of The Nameplate: Jewelry, Culture, and Identity (Penguin Random House, 2023).
June Canedo de Souza works with painting, sculpture, and performance. She received an MFA from The Milton Avery School of the Arts at Bard College and is an alumni of the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture. Recent projects and exhibitions include The Geffen at MOCA, Los Angeles, On View at The Kitchen, New York, and MIMO Gallery, New York. Her books have been acquired by The Museum of Modern Art, New York University, Harvard University, the Getty Institute, and more. In 2022 she was a finalist for the Foundwork Artist Prize. She is currently a 2024-25 session artist at Recess, New York, and a 2024-26 Hamiltonian Fellow, Washington D.C. @junecanedodesouza
Marcelline Mandeng Nken (b. in Yaoundé, Cameroon) combines video, sculpture, sound, and biomatter into installations that double as modular open stages for performative inquiry and non linear/parallel storytelling. In the spring, she received an MFA from Yale School of Art and attended Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture. She is currently a dance research fellow at New York Public Library's Jerome Robbins Division.