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2026 AiR Erica Enriquez presents a movement and language based workshop that invites audience participants to play with cardboard. What structures can be built, destroyed, flattened, filled, emptied or imagined by group motion? How can language be a generative mechanism for arriving at a movement beyond its initial meaning or purpose? How might material and language work in tandem with one another, guided by the subconscious connections drawn by audience participants?
Using the song The First Snow In Kokomo by Aretha Franklin as a portal, the workshop will be accompanied by an acoustic trio performing a set of music inspired by the lyrics “Applegate discovered a coronet, almost right away.” Participants will be supplied with a room full of cardboard boxes, packing tape and dollies, while collectively considering the expansive potential of the words “Almost” “Right” and “Away” …
This OPEN LAB serves as a deeper investigation into a performance by Enriquez entitled MOVING COMPANY.
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Erica Enriquez (b. 1997, Newburgh NY) is a multidisciplinary artist based in Queens, NY. Erica received her BFA in Sculpture from the Rhode Island School of Design in 2019 and MFA from Columbia University School of the Arts with a concentration in Sculpture: Expanded Practice in 2024. Erica has shared her work and performed internationally in spaces such as MoMA PS1, the RISD museum, a handful of galleries in lower Manhattan, the St Moritz Film Festival in Switzerland, most of the 200 cap music venues in the Brooklyn, a black box theater in LES, a comedy club on St Marks, 2 wrestling rings, and a dumpster in her brother’s old apartment. Erica’s work has been featured in and reviewed by publications such as Artforum, The MODA Critical Review, Thrasher Magazine, Quartersnacks, Obscure Sound, and Wisteria Mag. She is also the proud conductor of New York City’s No.1 Train Themed Rock Band CHOO CHOO, which is available on all streaming platforms. All aboard!
OPEN LAB is a series that encompasses theoretical and practical discussions, movement research, and workshops open to the public that invite practice-based inquiry and creative exchange of ideas.