nyartdoc: curating as advocacy
art + medicine
In the early 90s, Hawaii-born physician Kóan-Jeff Baysa began to combine a curatorial practice that promoted the work of emerging and underrepresented artists as well as themes of health, the body, concurrent with a clinical practice. Like other medically educated individuals who establish themselves in creative fields, he has organized over thirty exhibitions cross-linking perception (smell, hearing, touch, taste, sexuality), knowledge of the world (propriocept, stereognosis, balance), body responses, substances, and conditions (fear, honor, anxiety, vanishing, cadavers, blood, skin), and popular culture (condom use, visual literacy, representation, digital photography, fetishism). Dr. Baysa has taught courses in visual literacy and is on the boards of art organizations that serve specific populations like Art Omi International Artists Residency Program (Ghent, NY), Vera List Center for Art and Politics (NY), and Cross Path Culture (NY and Johannesburg), New York art-science organizations ArtFlask and PaperVeins Museum of Art, is the in-house curator at TAMA (NY) and in the past served on the boards of Iona Pearl Dance Theater (Honolulu) and Creative Growth Art Center (Oakland). With business partner Ryan Harris, he is also the co-editor of the online contemporary art journal ArtPulse and the co-director of KJREE the art, commerce, and culture consultancy. An alumnus of the Whitney Museum of American Art’s prestigious Independent Study Program, Curatorial Section, Baysa works from bases in New York, Los Angeles, and Hawaii. He continues to forge new alliances between art and medicine from world-wide resources.
list of artists:
daiki wakachi
michelle lopez
long nguyen
qui zhijie
pan xing lei
maghan leborious
catya plate
stas orlovski
sarah lovitt
allan desouza
mark depman
jeff wyckoff
heather sparks
gordon matta-clarke.
ann hamilton
marina abramovic
oscar muñoz
wendy jacob
montien boonma
pak keung wan
david shaw
roland flexner
rey akdogan
william anastasi
dove bradshaw
thomas caggiano
carla rocha
wendy jacob
stephen lang
robert narracci
dennis oppenheim
marco scoffier
ian curry
mariko tanaka
anexandra charriol
grimanesa amoros
christopher saunders
catya plate
ginger andro
chuck glicksman
lance fung
richard humann
top changtrakul
nathan elbogen