Works In Progress (WIP) is an open forum for students and scholars at Columbia to share and discuss their work.
This year’s first WIP event, Art Club Sociality, will feature presentations by Ashleigh Deosaran (MODA) on RAGGA NYC, Paula Vilaplana de Miguel (CCCP) on El Internacional, and special guests.
Ashleigh Deosaran (b.1992, Trinidad and Tobago) is a multidisciplinary artist, writer and curator based in New York City, where she earned her B.A. in Fine Arts from Pace University, and is pursuing a Masters in Modern Art: Critical and Curatorial Studies at Columbia University. She researches contemporary Latinx art with a focus on the Caribbean, often through queer theory, post-colonialism, and social justice. She has exhibited in the United States and Trinidad and is currently working on her thesis exploring Latinx artists who filter personal and national histories through the lenses of futurity, science/fiction, cybernetics, and techno-culture.
Paula Vilaplana (Alicante, 1985) is a New York based architect, designer, and performer. She is co-director of the firms Fru*Fru and Vilaplana&Vilaplana where she develops installations and performances related to the intrusion of technology and the media in domestic landscapes. Her work has been exhibited in the Victoria and Albert Museum in London and Matadero Madrid amongst other places. She has recently developed design works for Storefront for Art And Architecture NY and Princeton University. Vilaplana is actually enrolled in the MS in Critical, Curatorial, and Conceptual Practices in Architecture where she has been recently awarded the Buell Center for American Architecture Fellowship for the project Haunted Real Estate. A piece of her work is on exhibition now at the Spanish Pavilion in the Venice Architecture Biennale.
Free and open to the public. Drinks and food provided.
Organized by graduate students at Columbia’s School of the Arts, Art History and Archaeology, and GSAPP including Paula Kroll (MODA), Claire Shiying Li (MODA), Amelyn Ng (CCCP), Ayoung Yu (MFA), and Travis Fairclough (MFA).