The Enigma Room | Screening & Conversation
CultureHub NYC
47 Great Jones Street 3rd Floor
New York, NY 10012
April 21, 2023
7pm ET
Free / Donations Welcome
Join artists Ed Kashi, Brenda Bingham, and Michael Curry in person at CultureHub NYC for a showing of The Enigma Room at CultureHub's annual festival Re–Fest. This unique collaborative audio visual experience, transports the viewer into a sensory journey through unending life cycles of chaos, calm, and rebirth.
The installation extracts Kashi’s archival stills and video footage from its original context, creating abstract connections across time and space. The recontextualized stories, photographs, and videos are woven together through custom coding, digital manipulation, and composite methods, reflecting photography’s continued transformation into a new digital medium, celebrating the evolving technical tools at our disposal.
Throughout time and location, the same stories, struggles, and cycles repeat themselves over and over again in this installation – from Black Lives Matter protests in America to uprisings in the Middle East to the plight of young Syrian refugees and the persistence of the natural cycles of life. Grounded in part by the elements of water, fire, air, earth and humanity, this enveloping user experience presents a fresh and sometimes dystopian view of modern life.
The Enigma Room screening will start at 7pm ET on Friday, April 21 with an overview of the work by the artists themselves. Immediately following the screening, Kashi, Bingham, and Curry will be available for an audience Q&A.
The Enigma Room will also be on view at CultureHub NYC during the following times:
April 20, 2023: 6:30–9pm
April 21, 2023: 1–7pm
April 22, 2023: 1–7pm
Explore the full line-up at Re–Fest 2023 here.