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Our first collaboration with @icamiami Art + Research Center now has its first official exhibition.

After weeks of work, Cohort 20 is ready to present Liminal Field, featuring the work of 11 artists from around the world. The exhibition opens alongside Harmony Korine: Perfect Nonsense at ICA Miami. The opening will take place both online and offline, allowing audiences in Miami and beyond to participate.

Liminal Field explores what it means to move through technology rather than simply use it. Bringing together immersive, digital, and virtual environments, from metaverse confessions to game-like worlds, the exhibition traces fragile connections between the visible and the hidden, the human and the non-human.Is it possible to listen for signals within these environments, to attune to subtle tensions between beauty and fragility, sensation and structure? Moving through layered digital terrains where memory, media, and deep time overlap, Liminal Field considers what kinds of relationships can take root within these spaces of passage.

The exhibiting artists participated in Loop’s Spring 2026 session (February–March), led by artist @jillian_mayer_ (b. 1986, Miami) and the Loop team, alongside complementary workshops by Neysa King and Brian Zeeger.

✨OPENING RECEPTION
In Person (ICA Miami): April 15, 6–9 PM

🟢nline: April 15, 6–9 PM
https://dub.sh/liminal (via @onland platform)

FEATURED ARTISTS

SAMARA ASH — @samaraashstudio
SIM CIUDAD — @2nd.systems
PETER HOSFELD — @peterhosfeld
NAZ KARAGÖZ — @duality.live
CHAEYEON KANG — @cynk.l
MICHAEL LEWY — @mlewy (to confirm)
DAN LICHTMAN — (no IG listed)
CAT MARTINO — @stranger_cat__
MAЯ — (no IG listed)
AURORA MITITELU — @auroramititelu
LISA SMOLKIN — @lisasmolkin

Here is some photo documentation of my recent performances titled, It’s Giving at Struts Gallery in Sackville, NB. Video link in bio. Photos by @sheddyschmidt

Here is some photo documentation of my recent performances titled, It’s Giving at Struts Gallery in Sackville, NB. Video link in bio. Photos by @sheddyschmidt

Here is some photo documentation of my recent performances titled, It’s Giving at Struts Gallery in Sackville, NB. Video link in bio. Photos by @sheddyschmidt

Here is some photo documentation of my recent performances titled, It’s Giving at Struts Gallery in Sackville, NB. Video link in bio. Photos by @sheddyschmidt

Sunday! Don’t miss Lisa Smolkin’s second performance of “It’s Giving” at @Sappyfest ~ 4:30pm at Struts Gallery. Arrive a little early to get a seat - limited capacity!

Sunday! Don’t miss Lisa Smolkin’s second performance of “It’s Giving” at @Sappyfest ~ 4:30pm at Struts Gallery. Arrive a little early to get a seat - limited capacity!

Struts is happy to present “It’s Giving” by Lisa Smolkin in partnership with @sappyfest
Performances: Saturday, August 3 – 12:30 – 1:15 / Sunday, August 4, 4:30 – 5:15 pm
Film Screening ongoing throughout the weekend
Struts Gallery, back gallery

“𝑨𝒖𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒏𝒕𝒊𝒄𝒊𝒕𝒚 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒗𝒖𝒍𝒏𝒆𝒓𝒂𝒃𝒊𝒍𝒊𝒕𝒚 𝒄𝒂𝒏 𝒃𝒆 𝒂 𝒕𝒚𝒑𝒆 𝒐𝒇 𝒑𝒔𝒚𝒄𝒉𝒊𝒄 𝒓𝒆𝒔𝒕. 𝑰 𝒂𝒎 𝒎𝒂𝒌𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒔𝒑𝒂𝒄𝒆 𝒇𝒐𝒓 𝒚𝒐𝒖 𝒉𝒆𝒓𝒆.”

“It’s Giving” is a performance and video screening event examining contemporary wellness culture, positive psychology, and the championing of Tik Tok spirituality in lieu of more functional strategies of existence.

About Lisa
Lisa Smolkin (Tkaronto/Toronto) is an artist whose practice comprises performance, video, and installation, exploring themes of selfhood and hierarchies by incorporating elements from popular culture and healing traditions within humorous narrative structures.

To read more about Lisa Smolkin and her work click the link in our bio.

We acknowledge the support of the Canada Council for the Arts.

Image credit: Zak Tatham

I’m doing a new interactive performance called It’s Giving at Struts Gallery in Sackville, New Brunswick as a part of Sappyfest.
About the performance and screening: I was so heartbroken and didn’t understand where I fit into the world. I could not find a positive narrative to my career, my relationships, society, or aging. It was not depression. Society was crumbling/had crumbled. I began to rely on social media psychics posting daily to infuse hope; something good could happen in the future and it would. My blessings were being blocked but that would end, the opportunities meant for me were being shielded to align with divine timing. Structuring art from the concept of not this, not that, but the secret third thing, It’s Giving will begin with a screening of 2022/23 video, Grafter in which a subtle interdimensional traveller realizes she is in a body and tries to be appealing to others. She investigates her childlike affects and her need to go back to the places of childhood to wrestle with unmet emotional and developmental needs. She explores the concept of self-abandonment and experiences empathy burnout. She turns to health food trends, supplements, and accupressure to fill the gap. Lamenting the loss of most of her friends, she celebrates her last one. She is grateful for her AI Social Emotional companion. We see her come alive in the presence of appreciation, acknowledgment, and reciprocity.
This will be followed by a restorative interactive performance; an exploration that syncs us to our best selves in all space time continuums.image by Zak Tatham

Glam-Resting after my @dripdrop.tv performance

IF IT'S NOT A HELL YES, IT'S A NO
with Lisa Smolkin

Streaming live on drip-drop.tv
Saturday, October 28 2023
1.30pm EDT

In situations of cursed ancestry and bad astrological charts, is it possible to change your circumstances? Through the holding of online files we immerse ourselves in desire, hope, and wish-making. Can we craft our dream lives? Peer into my files: view for yourselves my aspirations and attempts to ascend. Google Drive is like an air lock in that it is the space to transition from one set of circumstances to another. Are the conditions correct for entering into a new atmosphere?

Livestream: Oliver Husain, Sound: Matt Smith, Camera: Monica Moraru, Production support: Amy Lam & Robin Simpson

With support from the Canada Council for the Arts

Really excited to have my video work from 2016 to the present time, now distributed by Vtape. Wow, I forgot how to do an IG post.

My work is included in this show in Montreal. Thank-you @dazibaomtl and @emma_kate_guimond. The opening is tonight.

I made all this Back to the Future themed art a little while ago. I included a Cameo from the bully in the Back to the Future movies made just for me addressing my angst. I wish I could show you all but he didn't want it shared on social media. I also included my therapist's notes about me in Disney font and a sculpture with rainbow coloured boxer brief underwear.

Still from my new video Spiritually Held.