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¡Oye! Avant Garde Night

¡OYE! Avant Garde Night is an annual festival celebrating new work-in-progress performances by artists in theater, dance, film & more from NYC. ¡OYE! Avant Garde Night turns up the volume on out-of-the-box thinking and revolutionary imagination. Unlike most festivals that primarily focus on 'new artists, new work, and emerging talent,' Oye! Avant Garde Night offers artists at any stage of their professional career the opportunity to create something different or unexpected without the fear, pressure, or shame of failure.

¡OYE! Avant-Garde was created to celebrate and share the city’s unique converging arts communities.

Previous Festival Participants:

Maya Mcdonald, Cinthia Candelaria, Chelsea D. Harrison, Beth Graczyk, Sam Silbiger, Jerry Aquino, Sarah Serrano, Daniel Ramirez, Yazmeen Vargas, Mariela Regalado, Dirty Bandanaband, Mairys Joaquin, Karina Paez, D. Bird, Laura Petit, Anna Rogovoy, Eliza Bent, Sam Soghor, Meeko Gattuso, Robert Greene, Camilo Quiroz-Vázquez, Eric Acevedo, Juan Álvarez, Nick M. Daniels, Vanessa Pereda, Anastasia Beliakova, Ellpetha Tsivicos.

!OYE! AVANT GARDE NIGHT 2024!

¡OYE! Avant Garde Night is an annual showcase of new, radical performances from a wide range of genres and styles. Now, in its seventh iteration, ¡OYE! Avant Garde Night turns up the volume on out-of-the-box thinking and revolutionary imagination. Unlike most festivals that primarily focus on 'new artists, new work, and emerging talent,' Oye! Avant Garde Night offers artists at any stage of their professional career the opportunity to create something different or unexpected without the fear, pressure, or shame of failure.

This year our theme was Sazón con Flavor!

MEET THE ARTISTS

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**Victor Morales** is a Multidisciplinary Artist whose work includes theater direction, video design, animation, text, sound design, and digital puppetry. He has collaborated with international artists such as Chris Kondek (Berlin), Joseph Silovsky (NYC), Jim Findlay (NYC), Wolfgang Mitterer (Austria) among others. Since 2003, Victor has been obsessed with the art of video game software tech and his work is an exploration of video game engines as simulation environments, where "digital" death and physics are transformed into dramatic and comedic real time performance. Victor teaches technology applied to arts at NYU and Montclair University
@clicktator instagram

Kenneth Keng is a Filipino-Chinese playwright and performer who makes work about falling in love with a culture that is devouring their own. They are a 2023/24 Artist-In-Residence with the Performance Project at University Settlement, which staged their postcolonial Filipino space opera Brought Up. Their solo piece about their Chinese grandmother’s life in the Japanese occupation of Manila AMA is slated for staging at Brooklyn’s Target Margin Theater for the 2025 Exponential Festival. They were selected as a Finalist for The Civilians/Princeton’s Next Forever Initiative 2024 for Harmonic Tremors, a documentary play about Philippine civil society’s response to the 1991 Mt. Pinatubo eruption, co-written with Guelan Luarca. Other plays they’ve written and subsequently staged include one with giant robots (Going Up), one with giant swords (Wake Up) and another with a giant hawk (Time’s Up), because subtext is for cowards and titles are hard.

kennethkeng.com

**Nzingha Primus** is a writer, filmmaker and production manager based in NYC. She's previously worked with Oye Group as a production manager for their Shake on The Block artistic showcase, in collaboration with Guns Down Life Up and NYC Health + Hospitals at Carnegie Hall.
Past credits include screenwriter of The Cinema School's portion of the NYC’s Department of Education’s Shelter-In PSA, co-producer of *"Awoke"*, a short film as part of Downtown Community Television's Media Fellowship for Youth in 2017, Set PA Intern on Disney’s *"Better Nate Than Ever"*, and directing 2 commercial campaigns in conjunction with The Ghetto Film School and The WocStar Academy.

**Eliut Ortiz,** hailing from the Lower East Side, Manhattan he has been immersed in the world of theater and dance from a young age. Equipped with exceptional talent and a diverse skill set, he is poised to create a breathtaking masterpiece that will leave a lasting impression on all who experience it. Throughout his career, he has honed his craft through various experiences, including works such as The Magazine, Tranquilo and Mercedes.

Joey Weiss is an artist living in New York with a background in painting and sculpture. His work involves presentations, performance, and lectures on various subjects.

**Ker Chen** is a multimedia artist who signals through creating virtual worlds and producing live experiences. Ker explores myths, fortune-telling, and AI algorithms to capture data points from the future and validate the present. Concerned with the simulation of sensations by endogenous chemicals, Ker strives to find elements of control within the invisible and chaotic aspects of existence, looking inward to the body, outward to the surrounding environment, and beyond to the external world.
IG: @hereiskerke

New York-based artist and organizer of DigiAna Group. **Seungjin Lee** uses multi-sensory digital and analog media to create works focusing on augmented reality and the cultural intersections between human-felt experience and a virtually-impelled world. Lee was born in South Korea, spent his formative years following his parents as they repeatedly moved between Japan and South Korea, and received his BFA from Tama Art University Japan. Since 2014, when he moved to NY, he has done a lot of formats, Art activities, and organized events.
seungjinlee.com

Past Festivals

2021

On March 5th, 2021, OYE Avant-Garde featured performances by Eric Acevado, Nick M. Daniels, Ellpetha Tsivicos, Camilo Quiroz- Vazquez, Anastasia Beliakova, Juan Alvarez, and Vanessa Pereda!

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