Tiger Strikes Asteroid New York is pleased to announce Nicole Goodwin, AKA GOODW.Y.N. as our 2023 TSA STAR Artist-In-Residence. GOODW.Y.N. is working within our gallery space in Bushwick from November 27th - December 27th. They will also be hosting an online panel this Saturday, December 9th at 5:30pm. More information about this event is below.
 
Their performance works are constructed around how the body moves and conforms to stillness in ways that challenge the physical capacity of the artist. Much of their work is meant to stimulate and conjure emotions that cause displacement, and uncomfortability in the audience in order to deal with questions about race, weight, sex and sexuality in GOODW.Y.N.’s persona and within themselves.
 
GOODW.Y.N. will be developing a new body-movement performance piece inspired by combinations of “pop-n-lock” and “b-boy” dance, Butoh performance, and modern dance. Vacillating between body oscillation and stillness, GOODW.Y.N. will stretch their body into positions of spastic, convulsive flows in ways that are almost robotic, or rather “meta or mech-human."  The final performance will involve the artist’s hair suspended by long, large braids above their head, moving as if they were a marionette puppet into different dance positions and body movements.
 
As part of GOODW.Y.N.’s residency at TSA STAR, we are pleased to invite you to an online panel discussion on Dec. 9, 5:30pm EST:
 
Speaking Silence Out of the Bodies: Sharing Witness to Despair & Hope
In a turbulent global society, it has been stated and recorded that many of today’s contemporary artists are more targets than witnesses. Barring the weight of this responsibility is the topic of the Zoom discussion between GOODW.Y.N. and their invited guests from Brazil: SerformanceP and performa. The zoom link for this event is: https://us06web.zoom.us/j/86153433673?pwd=zpv1RfJEOElqazObkagoD2KNcFahup.1


GOODW.Y.N. is the winner of the LMCC Creative Engagement Grant awardee for 2023. They are also a 2022-23 Franklin Furnace Fund Recipient, semifinalist for the Headlands 2023 Chamberlain Award, finalist for the CUE Foundation’s 2022 Public Programs Fellowship, as well as the 2018 Ragdale Alice Judson Hayes Fellowship Recipient, while advancing to the 2nd Round of the 2018 Creative Capital Awards. They published the articles “Talking with My Daughter…” and “Why is this Happening in Your Life…” in the New York Times’ parentblog Motherlode. Additionally, their work “Ain’t I a Woman (?/!): Poems,” was longlisted for The Black Spring Press Group’s The Christopher Smart-Joan Alice Prize for 2020.