Bessie Award-winning interdisciplinary artist Jonathan González will be leading an introduction and embodied workshop related to their interdisciplinary performance practice, followed by a question and answer session. All students are welcome to join and participate

Jonathan González is an artist working at the intersections of performance, text, sculpture, and other time-based media from Queens, New York. González’s work speculates on the political utility of performance as a method to interface with publics upon systems of collectivity, and economies that construct the built environment. They are an organizer with the 02020 takeover of 122 CC and Soul Fire Farm. Their works include: Not Total (homeschool PDX, Yale Union x Paragon Arts Gallery, 2019), Working on Water in collaboration with Mario Gooden (Columbia School of Architecture, 2019 / Bard Architecture Symposium, 2020), h/S: Jonathan González (CICCIO Gallery, 2019), Maroonage: Elaborations on the Stage and Staying Alive (Contact Quarterly), Lucifer Landing I & II (MoMA PS1 x Abrons Arts Center, 2019), black MoMA (Pop Rally, 2018), On Soul Fire Farm (deem Journal), and their upcoming book, Liar Liar (53rd Press). Their curations include Sunday Service @ Knockdown Center and Movement Research Fall Festival: invisible material. Previously an Lower Manhattan Cultural Council Workspace Resident (2018-19), NARS Foundation AIR (2018), Jerome Foundation Fellow (2019), Mertz Gilmore Grantee (2018), Art Matters Fellow (2020), FCA Grants to Artists (2020), and Bessie-nominee for Outstanding Production (ZERO, Danspace Project, 2018) and Breakout Choreographer (2019).