Parley Bronx1 Nevarez Tevere 2015 photo Tod Seelie Gothamist

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Listening back to Parley

When

Sat, Oct 3, 2026 2:00PM – 3:30PM

Where

Glyndor Terrace Garden

Price

Free with admission to the grounds

Join us for a discussion with exhibiting artists Angel Nevarez & Valerie Tevere and legendary hip-hop artist La Roka (Rokafella). Presented in conjunction with the exhibition As far as the ear can hear, this program revisits the artists' collaboration on Parley, one of four works in the exhibition that explores sound across the landscapes of the Bronx, New Orleans, and the Sonoran Desert.

Originally commissioned for the 2015 exhibition When You Cut Into the Present, the Future Leaks Out at the Old Bronx Borough Courthouse, Parley, performed by pioneering Bronx b-girl Rokafella (Ana Garcia) and MC Lady L (Lynn Saunders) draws on the sampling techniques and lyrical traditions of early hip-hop to reanimate questions of truth, justice, and hope. Using the musical framework of call and response to form a multilingual dialogue between two voices, Parley reflects Nevarez & Tevere's ongoing interest in framing sound and listening as a transformative practice that connects fragmented histories and collective memory to open new forms of relation.

Glyndor Gallery is wheelchair-accessible. There is an accessible, ground-level entrance at the front of the building with an elevator that provides access to the gallery level. The Sunroom Project Space can be accessed with an ADA-compliant ramp. The restroom on the gallery level is all-gender and ADA-compliant.

The Glyndor Terrace Garden is accessible via a bluestone path that begins south of the Glyndor House entrance and continues along its western perimeter towards an ADA-compliant ramp located at the Glyndor Terrace Garden’s north entrance.

Valerie Tevere & Angel Nevarez

Valerie Tevere & Angel Nevarez

Angel Nevarez and Valerie Tevere are interdisciplinary artists whose practice spans over twenty years of projects that actuate music and sound, radio, dissent, and the cultural complexities of the public sphere. The artists have produced works in video installation, lyric writing, performance, and photography. Their research interests lie in the intersection between music, civic action, and historical moments that resonate through distinct musical instrumentation and sonorous traditions.
Nevarez and Tevere have exhibited and screened their work at The Museum of Modern Art, The Guggenheim Museum, Creative Time, New Museum, and Paul Kasmin Gallery in New York; Manifesta 8/Spain; Museo Raúl Anguiano, Guadalajara, Mexico; Casino Luxembourg, LU; Henie Onstad Art Centre, Høvikodden, Norway; Taxispalais, Innsbruck, Austria, and elsewhere. The first US survey of their work was presented at the Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, in 2016. Their fellowships and grants include a Guggenheim Fellowship, a Creative Capital fellowship, an Art Matters grant, an NEA Project Grant, and a Franklin Furnace Performance Art fellowship. Both Nevarez and Tevere were Studio Fellows at The Whitney Museum’s Independent Study Program, artists-in-residence at Wave Hill and Pioneer Works in New York; the International Artists Studio Program in Sweden; Grand Central Art Center, Santa Ana, CA; Artpace, San Antonio, TX; Marble House Project, Dorset, VT; Interlude, Livingston, NY; and Antenna Gallery, New Orleans.
Nevarez, also a musician, studied Biology at the University of California, San Diego, and has taught at various Universities and Art Schools in New York and across the Northeast.
Tevere earned an MFA in photography from California Institute of the Arts and a BA in political science from the University of California, San Diego, and is Professor of Media Culture at the College of Staten Island / City University of New York.
Learn more about the artists at nevareztevere.info.
Photo: Lourdes Severny