Upcoming Artist in Residence
November - 2021
Anika Nawar Ullah and Wushang Pihay
PARSE SECO presents TRANSPACIFIC PORTALS, a network of interactive, dispersed art installations and music performances throughout Taos by transpacific duo Anika Nawar Ullah and Wushang Pihay in collaboration with the Paseo Project.
Virtual Gallery Viewing (By Appointment Only)
Tuesday December 1 - Tuesday December 8 2020, 12 pm - 7 pm at Parse Seco Immersive Art Gallery
Virtual Gallery Viewing (By Appointment Only)
Tuesday December 1 - Tuesday December 8 2020, 12 pm - 7 pm at Parse Seco Immersive Art Gallery
For Parse Seco’s artists-in-residence, Anika Nawar Ullah and Wushang Pihay, unseen portals connect us. These portals may be shaped by water, climate change or a displacement of peoples. Transpacific Portals, the duo’s immersive installation running December 1st to December 8th, is an opening into these connections despite distance and differences.
The idea was born in 2018 when Ullah, a Bengali-American, was studying as a Fulbright research scholar in Taiwan, where she met Pihay on his indigenous Amis lands. The two immediately clicked over their eerily similar taste in music and social justice activism. After organizing a community protest together — wherein they rallied musicians, pro-bono lawyers and young Amis tribe members who’d left for college in the city to go against a company building and dumping waste on an Amis sacred ceremonial site — the portals started opening. Ullah, now 24, and Pihay, now 34, realized the threats that colonialism and capitalism had on both of their native homes.
The idea was born in 2018 when Ullah, a Bengali-American, was studying as a Fulbright research scholar in Taiwan, where she met Pihay on his indigenous Amis lands. The two immediately clicked over their eerily similar taste in music and social justice activism. After organizing a community protest together — wherein they rallied musicians, pro-bono lawyers and young Amis tribe members who’d left for college in the city to go against a company building and dumping waste on an Amis sacred ceremonial site — the portals started opening. Ullah, now 24, and Pihay, now 34, realized the threats that colonialism and capitalism had on both of their native homes.
