New York City welcomes the arrival of ITINERANT, the annual Performance Art Festival NYC, to take place throughout the five boroughs from May 17 to 25. ITINERANT launches its 2018 program with the photographic exhibition “Entanglements” at EOArts on Thursday, May 17, and live performances at Last Frontier NYC on Friday, May 18. The festival will run until Friday, May 25 featuring local, national and international artists at Queens Museum (May 19), Staten Island Arts (May 20), Bronx Academy of Arts and Dance, BAAD (May 22), Smack Mellon (May 23),and BMCC Theatre Program in Tribeca (May 24). In addition, the festival will hold the Symposium “Bodies that Matter” hosted at La Guardia Community College (May 21), and the public interventions at Flushing Meadows Park (May 19). The closing event of the festival will be hosted at Knockdown Center on Friday, May 25.

This year’s program, organized and curated independently by interdisciplinary artist, Hector Canonge, focuses on works that explore, treat, and propose new alternatives to binary constructions regarding gender, nationality, identity, religion and/or ideological structures. Departing from the current socio-politico-economic transformations around the globe, and the questioning of habitual norms about race, gender, sexuality, and origin. The festival will feature performance art works by emerging and established local, national as well as international artists from Europe, Latin America, Asia, and North America.

SMACK MELLON
92 Plymouth St, Brooklyn, NY

Featured Artists:

• Live Performances: Jana Astanov (Poland) with Niko van Egten (United States), Neil Daigle Orians (United States), Christian Cruz (Mexico), and Verónica Peña -photo banner- (Spain).
• Video Performances: Marsten L. Tarigan (Indonesia), Jeffrey Byrd (United States), Michele Manzini (Italy), Liss LaFleur (United States), Endika Basaguren (Spain), Saut Prayuda(Indonesia), and B Ajay Sharma (India).

Free and open to the public.