Lifelong Studio: Alternative Archives New York Performances

Presented live at The Bronx Museum of the Arts, Lifelong Studio: Alternative Archives takes the form of an exhibition that treats the archive as a working method rather than a storage space. It gathers traces of artistic labor, community memory, and institutional record into a public reading of how histories are made and unmade in New York City. Shown in the Bronx, it sits in a borough with its own contested narratives, where documentation often arrives late or not at all. The work’s quiet insistence is its critique: what gets preserved is rarely neutral.