Outpost Artists Resources is a non-profit arts organization located in Ridgewood, Queens. We have been serving the arts community since 1990 providing access to video, sound services and new media assistance at well below market rates. In 2003, we began the Cuts and Burns Residency Program, which provides artists with free access to our facility including personal assistance by our staff of video editors, audio engineers, and computer programmers
Outpost Artists Resources supports new creative work through its residencies, and events – its mission is to serve artists in need of technical assistance with video, audio, and physical computing based art projects and to foster a dialogue between visual art and experimental music. Outpost hosts gallery exhibitions, artists talks, screenings and events that pair visual art, video, experimental music, and performance in an effort to bring adventurous audiences challenging interdisciplinary projects.
We are very pleased to announce that our monthly concert series, Fire Over Heaven, will be guest-curated by Isabel Crespo Pardo, Ian Douglas-Moore and Lesley Mok from January to June of 2024. Che Chen, who has organized the series since taking over from series founder Greg Fox in 2017, will be on sabbatical for the first half of 2024 and we couldn’t be more excited to have Isa, Ian and Lesley join the continuum of artist/organizers who have curated the series since its inception in 2015. The first of these concerts will be on January 18th and curated by Isabel Crespo Pardo. The concert will feature their trio sinonó, with cellist Lester St. Louis and double bassist Henry Fraser, as well as guitarist Emmanuel Michael with bassist Rafael Enciso. Bios for all our new guest curators are also below. Please join us as we embark on a season of new perspectives!
Isabel Crespo Pardo (curating 1/18 and 4/18) is a NYC-based latinx vocalist, improviser-composer, and interdisciplinary artist. Their work actively entangles music, visual art, text and performance, always evolving to reflect the intra/interpersonal spaces they inhabit.
Ian Douglas-Moore (curating 2/15 and 3/21) uses guitar, electronic tones, and field recordings to examine the textures of layered resonant sounds as they engage with acoustic space. He has released recordings and toured throughout the US and Europe with musicians like percussionist Leo Suarez, saxophonist Paul Roth, and sound artist Pär Thörn; and plays in composer David First’s Western Enisphere ensemble.
Lesley Mok (curating 5/16 and 6/20) is a percussionist and interdisciplinary artist who works in sound, installation, film, and theater. Interested in the ways social conditions shape our beings, Lesley’s work focuses on overacting humanness to explore ideas about alienness and privilege. Their work draws from queer and feminist art practices, Chinese philosophy, Caribbean folkloric musical traditions, futurist perspectives, and ancestral knowledge.
