NEWS

In December 2014, Shared Studios launched the global public art project, Portals, enabling conversations between Tehran and New York City. Portals are shipping containers equipped with specialized communications technology. Individuals enter one at a time and converse with a person in the other location as if in the same room.

In Performance at shared studio on FRIDAY, DECEMBER 19, 2014 at 06:00am/2pm:
PEGAH TABASSINEJAD AND CAITLIN MASLEY are talking/collaborating online at portals!

Caitlin Masley’s installations of wall drawings and hanging sculptural elements examine images of reconstructed forms of facades, abandoned topographies and a new mobile population’s evolving global landscape. In the tradition of Daniel Liebeskind’s Chora series, Lebbeus Woods’ drawings and Greg Lynn’s speculative animations, Masley’s work takes one step further to create a physical construct that provokes a dialogue of moments between structure and audience. She holds a Masters of Fine Art from the University of Arizona and a Masters of Science in Design and Urban Ecology from Parsons/The New School. She is the recipient of several grants and fellowships, including an Emerging Artist Fellowship from the Socrates Sculpture Park, a Pollock-Krasner Fellowship, and the LMCC Swing Space Residency. Masley has been artist-in-residence in Austria, Germany, Quebec, Norway and Switzerland, as well as had exhibited at MoMA PS1, Storefront for Art and Architecture, Urban Institute of Contemporary Art, HVcc Foundation, Kingston Museum of Contemporary Art, and the HDLU Museum in Zagreb, Croatia, among others. She is also the founder of studioMAPstudioSWAP which is part of the Parsons/DESIS Lab/CSI Incubator program.