Studio Visit - A curatorial project by Anicka Yi and Josh Kline for Performance Space New York

'Studio Visit' foregrounds the studio as material infrastructure and conceptual site. The project centers on the studio not as a private enclave of production, but as part of a larger generative field in which identities are formed, solidarities are tested and economies emerge. Artist studios often flock together in larger buildings and neighborhoods. Community and dialogue—and invitations to visit each other's studios—often grow out of chance encounters between young artists brought into close proximity by real estate. Yi and Kline consider the artists participating in the exhibition their collaborators and co-authors. In addition to lending work for the exhibition, each artist was asked to describe in writing the studios or their studio practices they occupied at early, formative stages in their career. These accounts were translated, using AI, into large-scale, full-color, wall-mounted renderings. These machine-generated memories are both the backdrop against which each artist's work is presented and an invitation to extend their studio and studio practice into the show. Many artists today, including some participating in this project, work nomadically, share temporary workspaces, or sustain practices without a studio at all. The images of studios on the walls reflect this reality as well. The studio images are meant to operate as a collective index of studio life—its precarity, improvisation, and resourcefulness—while also staging encounters across generation, geography and medium.