In Conversation with Pocoapoco.

May 2024, NYC.

Contemporary Artists on their Practices, Processes and Purpose

Pocoapoco presents two evenings of conversation with artists working across disciplines and geographies, discussing how creative practice opens up possibilities of a more inclusive collective future.

with National Magazine Award Winner, writer and interviewer Jazmine Hughes.

*Proceeds benefit Pocoapoco’s residencies, artist grants, and education programs.

May 7th : Reframing Narratives

Jazmine Hughes in Conversation with Tamara Santibañez, Marina Garcia-Vasquez & Andrea Bauzá.

+ Open Bar by Yana Volfson

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About the Artists

Jazmine Hughes

writes about people: celebrities, civilians, and, of course, herself. She spends a lot of time thinking about social codes, interpersonal relationships, and cultural pull and why we like the things that we like. From 2015 to 2023 she was a member of the editorial staff of the New York Times. She began as an editor but left as a writer, mostly doing profiles on people like Lil Nas X, Whoopi Goldberg, Viola Davis, and Judge Judy. For her work there, she received two National Magazine Awards and an award from the National Association of LGBTQ+ Journalists.

Tamara Santibañez

an interdisciplinary artist whose work spans painting, multimedia sculpture, writing, tattooing, and oral history. Their work is rooted in storytelling and the visual language of identity construction, exploring subcultural semiotics and the meanings we make from bodily adornment.

Marina García-Vasquez

has spent her working life advocating for underserved voices by using new digital formats. While working as a journalist and editor, she covered youth protests on Instagram, curated a female art show on sexuality at the Museum of Sex titled “Female Gaze”, and conceived and facilitated events around social causes like youth incarceration and urban natives.

Andrea Bauzá

is an architect from Puerto Rico whose interests are in collaborative intersections between the multiple disciplines of art, design, and urbanism, their effect on society, and vice-versa. For the past years, she has been involved with community organizing in Río Piedras, PR, to resist displacement and gentrification, advocating for the preservation of the community's rights, identity, and heritage.

Sarah Zarina Hakani

is a queer Muslim activist and educator. She holds a Masters in Interactive Media Art and is currently a research resident in the same program conducting research in memory and sound. She’s also a freelance curriculum developer, building toolkits for first-gen and disabled students and runs a Muslim art magazine.

Zainab Aliyu

is a Nigerian-American artist and cultural worker. Her work contextualizes the cybernetic and temporal entanglement embedded within societal dynamics to understand how all socio-technological systems of control are interconnected, and how we are all materially implicated through time. She draws upon her body as a corporeal archive and site of ancestral memory to craft counter-narratives through built virtual environments, printed matter, video, archives, installation, oral histories and community-participatory (un)learning.

Rennie Jones

Their architectural work is focused on urban-scale interventions in climate adaptation and resilience. In their sculptural ceramics practice, they center queer subjectivities to explore the tension between self-identification and the external appearance of the body. Their work challenges the assumed relationship between gender and anatomy and questions how societal standards influence perceived value.