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OCDChinatown
Established2018
Location75 East Broadway, New York, NY, US
FounderLiutas MvH
Websiteocdchinatown.com

OCDChinatown is a contemporary space for sound and image, object and statement, movement and thought, located in New York City in the Chinatown neighborhood of Manhattan.[1][2] It was established in 2018 and curated by Liutas MvH since.[3]

OCDChinatown has shown a roster of international artists and performance, often non-orthodox and queer artists. It has collaborated with the arts organization BOFFO for the 2019, 2021, 2022, and 2023[4][5] BOFFO Performance Festival Fire Island held in the Fire Island Pines.[6]

Seven exhibitions have been selected by Artforum critics as international "Must Sees," including Nash Glynn's Self-portrait With One Foot Forward And One Hand Reaching Out, Carlos Motta and Tiamat Legion Medusa,[7] Camilo Godoy's Amigxs,[8] Geo Wyex's Looking For Stars Out Of What Stinks,[9] It's Personal (Nash Glynn, Sam Penn, Ser Serpas),[10] Nao Bustamante's Brown Disco,[11] Ethan James Green, Martine Gutierrez, and Sam Penn's Turn My Way,[12] and E. Jane, Chelsea A. Flowers, Kearra Amaya Gopee, Shala Miller, Elle Pérez's I Am Standing Here Surrounded By So Much Beauty.[13]

Collaborations

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OCDChinatown collaborated with BOFFO for the 2019 annual Fire Island Performance Festival in the historically LGBTQ community on Long Island. The Festival's theme was, Dancing in the Face of Adversity, and it included an immersive performance by Ryan McNamara, as well as appearances by Young Boy Dancing Group, Bichon (Karlo Bueno Bello), ELSZ, West Dakota, Sebastian Hernandez, and Papi Juice.[14]

In 2020, the painter Nash Glynn presented a large self-portrait titled, 'Self Portrait with One Foot Forward and One Hand Reaching Out.' The work was collected by the Tate Modern for future public display.[15] The actress and writer, Hari Nef, featured the opening and the work in an essay on the artist: OPENINGS: NASH GLYNN, in the 2020/2021 January Issue of Artforum. Of the artist, Nef writes:

"Her body is pink and toned, perched in contrapposto at the edge of a classic American landscape. She’s a colossus. There’s green at her feet—definitely grass, some pines maybe, a smear of amber near the horizon. The landscape submits to the Yves Klein blue of a sky she’s turning toward, collapsing longitude and altitude in the lean of her hip. Clouds bloom around and above her; they’re mauve, like the ones at sunset over a beach town. Except there’s no sun in the sky, no source of pink to crush purple in a white cloud. In the absence of sun, there is Nash Glynn, her body turning away. But her head is turned toward me. She looks down at me. She extends her hand. Or maybe she’s pointing. Just visible on the horizon is a rainbow."[16]

Camilo Godoy's, 'Amigxs' showed eight black-and-white photographs and one, giant photograph by the Colombian-born artist Camilo Godoy.[17] The show was presented in 2021.

In 2022, a show called, "When I Leave This World," which featured a video of Carlos Motta and Tiamat Legion Medusa was on view. The video blended Motta’s background in Shibari (Motta was shown nude in a crucifixion-styled pose) with Medusa’s work on suspensions. Shibari's technique of suspension enables the body to be elevated by metal hooks that penetrate the skin.[18] Shibari has a legendary status in the body-modification community such as transition in gender as well as species, which includes, " facial horn implants, numerous piercings, the replacement of teeth with sharp fangs, a split tongue, ear-cartilage removal, a reshaped nose, full-body tattoos, and an orchiectomy."[19]

Nao Bustamnte's "Brown Disco," was installed at the space in 2023. Bustamnte, the 2023-24 Rome Prize winner, hung an 8-foot inflatable disco ball that paid "homage to the spatio-temporality that is the club."[20] The lights were dimmed, a Donna Summer soundtrack played, and a live microphone was set up. For another show that year, the space installed Pippa Garner's show-cum-tattoo parlor, Pippa Garner: I’m With Me.[21]

Photographer Sam Penn put together a show of five photographs that included herself, Martine Guiterrez, and Ethan James Green titled, Turn My Way, in 2024. Exhibition text was written by Artforum's former editor-in-chief, David Velasco, who summed up the show of self-portraits: “Can you imagine? Being both seducer and seduced.”[22]

I AM STANDING HERE SURROUNDED BY SO MUCH BEAUTY was a curated film program by multidisciplinary artist and musician E. Jane, showcasing works from themselves and several other artists—Chelsea A. Flowers, Kearra Amaya Gopee, Shala Miller, and Elle Pérez. The exhibition reflected on conversations among the group, each of whom attended the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture. This shared experience is evident in the opening film, Skowhegan 4th of July.[23]

In fall of 2024, artist K8 Hardy put together an installation as well as pop-up shop for a limited edition dress that also works as workwear or an artist's smock. Jenna Lyons was a model for the show and was photographed wearing the dress.[24]

Artists and collaborators

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References

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  32. ^ Colucci, Emily (2023-05-16). "Nao Bustamante Puts Her Own Spin on Nightlife Memorials in "Brown Disco" at OCDChinatown". Filthy Dreams. Retrieved 2023-08-30.
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