OPEN AiR | Kyle b. co.: Critical Club Therapy

It's a dance party at CPR. 

It was once said “In da Clerb, We all fam.”

We all exist under the same rhythm, the same beat. Are standing in the same line.

There was also that one song “We Are the World” by the supergroup USA for Africa. 

That is the vibe here. The patterns of race made music as part of Critical Race Therapy are spread through machines and brought to life in some imaginative DJ sets. Critical Club Therapy uses the club as architecture for connecting one another’s experience. There will be a bar, there will be a dance floor. There will be a line to get in. 

Featuring: Silas, Isaac Silber, Alex Capraro and some other special guests. 

ABOUT THE ARTIST
Kyle b. co. is a trans-disciplinary artist, performer, educator, and baker based in Brooklyn, NY. They are a 2024-25 Franklin Furnace Fund recipient, a 2023 Smack Mellon Hot Pick, and were short-listed for the 2025 Creative Capital award in visual arts. They have received a RISCA Merit Fellowship in 3-D Arts and a Providence Arts, Culture, and Tourism Public Art Fellowship. Their work has found kinship at Hera Gallery, RISD Museum, Buoy Gallery, Zimmerli Museum of Art, Westbeth Gallery, Lucas, Lucas, and Grace Exhibition Space, among other spaces. Their practice engages with the task of mapping the present as a method of document and engagement with form. They work with materials of culture and personal history to make monuments of possibility. The matrices that hold an image may not be visible ‘til named. Their practice is one of futurity as they seek what can be sensed, not what is known. In various ways, they try to grasp at the transmission/translation of a feeling. Feeling(s) as a concept is unclear in its relationship to time. When did the feeling begin? Has the feeling ever stopped? Will you have this feeling again in the future? Their work spans both objects/installation and performance, the distinction between mediums not being that important. Their work is about feeling (&) connection(s).

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