Residency: remy malik & Bo Hwang, April 21 through April 25, 2025, closing event Saturday, April 26, 7:00pm, with kelechi agwuncha + mallika singh, and Brian Alarcon
remy malik & Bo Hwang will be in residence at Counterpath from April 21 through April 25, 2025. Their closing interdisciplinary performance, “Double Dutch,” will take place on Saturday, April 26, 2025 at 7:00 p.m., and also feature kelechi agwuncha + mallika singh, and Brian Alarcon.
“Double Dutch”
A choreopoem of
Objectivity in 3 Acts (4 if you’re paying attention).
Another present moves alongside the present expropriated from (us).
At the Counterpath Residency, malik & Hwang will work with movement, scoring, sound, and staging. What is at play for subjects that are objects out of breadth or none the wiser? A collaboration in negativity and growing new limbs between what is a concept, what is metaphysical, what is physical, what is reality and what is natural.
remy malik is a Black Trans nonbinary poet and performance artist from St. Louis, Missouri. They are the 2022 Allen Ginsberg Fellow at the Jack Kerouac School. Their work has been published in Nat Brut, Sleepingfish, and as part of the 2021 Transformation Residency in Portland, OR. malik’s work is centered on blackness and abstraction.
Bo Hwang is an artist and writer working with poetry and movement. abalone is a poetry performance, object, and chapbook out from Counterpath (2025). Other recent work includes Nightlaps (Wendy’s Subway 2024 Open Reading Period finalist) and Squat Practice, an essay work on tropical opacity (Essay Press 2024 Chapbook Contest finalist). Bo has taught movement workshops at The Poetry Project and the Jack Kerouac School, and lives in Albuquerque by a big tree.
kelechi agwuncha is an Igbo-American multimedia artist who reanimates archival material, self-documentation, and moving images through percussive force. A former athlete, their work explores athletic gestures and spatiality as a rehearsal of play. They prioritize live image manipulations and incorporate outdoor, public spaces and their people into the work in real-time. Their practice explores our connection to environments and memories, fostering new relations. Agwuncha often uses drum machines, 35mm slide projectors, and 1990s Panasonic video mixers to engage with the image.
mallika singh is a poet, farmer, and cook living in Albuquerque, New Mexico. their chapbook, Retrieval, was published in 2020 from Wendy’s Subway. this season they are growing okra, marigolds, hibiscus, and more with their coworkers at Ashokra Farm. find them out in the field or by the river.
Brian Alarcon is a Colombian-American poet, performance and visual artist from Queens, New York. His poetry crosses the borders between mediums and industries, having performed at art galleries, for media clients such as Versace and Drome Magazine, non-profits like City Artists Corps and Counterpath Press, and he’s received fellowships from the Queer|Art Foundation and the Jack Kerouac School.