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Artist, designer, creative technologist, and beloved former Production and Facilities Manager at CPR Nico Cabalquinto guest curates OPEN STUDIOS, inviting multimedia artists Fernando Gregório, Kevin Peter He, and MIZU to share works in development.
OPEN STUDIOS is a series of work-in-progress showings held regularly throughout the year, organized by guest curators, and serves as an incubator for new work, inviting the public into the artistic process.
PROGRAM
Fernando Gregório: bichinha
In Brazilian Portuguese, bichinha is a slang term that can mean “little fag” or the feminine form of “little critter”. In this work-in-progress performance, Fernando plays an augmented DJ set in a territory where forbidden words need noisy spaces to survive.
Kevin Peter He: Vestige (WIP)
Kevin Peter He’s work sits at the intersection of performance, cinema, and interactive technology. Rooted in freestyle hip-hop dance, he approaches movement not just as physical expression but as a way of shaping images in real time. He's audiovisual performances unfold like live cinema—he constructs and manipulates virtual worlds inside a game engine with a series of custom controllers, directing the camera and environment improvisationally to the music. The result is a constantly shifting, immersive world where bodies and landscapes emerge and dissolve. This work-in-progress expands He’s virtual performance practice by introducing a live dancer on stage. Projected onto a large screen behind them, the visuals function not as a static backdrop but as an active presence—at times a second dancer, an evolving environment, or an abstract force that guides or resists movement. The performance experiments with different modes of interaction: moments of mirroring, tension, and transformation that blur the lines between physical and digital embodiment. By weaving together real-time visuals, improvisation, and choreography, this piece explores new ways of storytelling—where body and image merge, and where the boundary between human and virtual presence remains fluid and unresolved.
MIZU: Forest Scenes Live
MIZU presents a cinematic realization of her sophomore album Forest Scenes, featuring a companion film by director Dan Silver.
ABOUT THE ARTISTS
Nico Cabalquinto is a Brooklyn-based light artist, designer, creative technologist and production manager who uses audiovisual equipment, interactive technologies, and digital fabrication tools for their light sculptures and installations to transform public spaces, blur material boundaries, and enhance live performances. They completed their postdoctoral artist residency at NYU Tisch’s Interactive Telecommunications Program, where they earned their Masters of Professional Studies. They have shown their light and sound installations at Knockdown Center, Elsewhere, National Sawdust, and in various art and music festivals.
Fernando Gregório, aka DJ FeG, is a Brazilian mixed media artist and experimental performer based in Brooklyn, NY. Meditating on the binaries between humans, nature, and technology, he works with augmented reality while playing with a navigational model in which “augmentation is neither a more nor a better, but an elsewhere.”
Kevin Peter He is an NYC-based, Shanghai-raised artist working across film, live performance, and game engines to create living stories—narratives shaped not only by human intent but by the evolving systems, infrastructures, and technologies that sustain them. Rooted in the cinematic language and shaped by procedural systems, his practice explores how agency is modulated by the structures we build, the tools we wield, and the ecologies we inhabit. Kevin’s work constructs environments where narrative is not imposed but emerges—an unfolding dialogue between participants, digital frameworks, and the logics that govern them. The camera, a recurring presence, functions not just as a recording device but as an embodied interface—framing, mediating, and actively shaping the world it observes. Kevin’s work has been showcased at SIGGRAPH, MUTEK Montreal, Tribeca Festival, NOWNESS, and Onassis ONX, with recent projects including Passage_SoftRains, a sensor-driven installation where a digital ecosystem reshapes itself in response to human presence, and Flux, a live audiovisual duet where improvisational movement collides with machine perception. The former creative director of ZeroSpace, he has collaborated with institutions such as Lincoln Center, Cartier, and Nike, bridging emerging technologies with experimental storytelling. Kevin holds a Master’s from NYU’s Interactive Telecommunications Program (ITP), where he also teaches, and a Bachelor’s in Film from USC.
“Frequently gorgeous, at times unsettling, and constantly in flux” (Pitchfork), MIZU explores themes of transformation and the infinite possibilities of self through her singular cello playing and daring performing. Trained as a cellist at Juilliard, her experimental practice sees her transforming self-recorded explorations on her instrument into bold and distinct soundscapes. Her works 4 | 2 | 3, Forest Scenes, and Distant Intervals received critical praise and attention from platforms such as Pitchfork, The FADER, NOWNESS Asia, Bandcamp Daily, The New York Times, New Sounds, Stereogum, and Them.