Monica Duncan: Breathing as a stone

When

July 19 – September 1, 2025 All Day

Where

Glyndor Gallery

Price

Free

with admission to the grounds

Monica Duncan presents Breathing as a stone, a video and performance installation in the Sunroom that is based in part on the plants in Wave Hill’s Alpine House and the history of camouflage studies in Van Cortlandt Park in the Bronx. Through choreography, image compositing, video projection and sound, the artist attempts to embody a rocky habitat—becoming plant, rock, lichen to name a few, while incorporating movement and image-making to listen and learn from this organic matter. Duncan will also create field recordings using stereo and geophone microphones to capture the sonic ecosystem above and below ground as the soundscape for the exhibition, and experiment with creating performative text scores and instructions to embody this habitat and de-center human presence.

Organized by Curator of Visual Arts Rachel Raphaela Gugelberger, the Sunroom Project Space is an open call opportunity for New York-area artists to develop and exhibit a site-specific project as a solo exhibition. The 2025 applications were reviewed by a panel of arts professionals including Jordany Genao, a Dominican interdisciplinary artist and educator; Nicolás Dumit Estévez Raful Espejo Ovalles Morel, an artist whose practice unfolds performatively through creative experiences within the quotidian, and the founding director of The Interior Beauty Salon, an organism at the intersection of creativity and healing; and Gugelberger.

Monica Duncan

Monica Duncan

Monica Duncan is a Riverdale, Bronx-based video and performance artist whose time-based work investigates sensory perceptions, queer potentiality, and relationality to our more-than human world. Her video and performance work has been presented at Hebbel am Ufer HAU1, Berlin; Franfurt Lab, zietraumexit, Mannheim and ZKM Center for Art and Media, Karlsruhe, all in Germany; Warszawa, Warsaw, Poland; La Casa Encendida, Madrid, Spain; Los Angeles County Museum of Art and Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions, CA; Kuala Lumpur Experimental Film, Video & Music Festival, Malaysia; Athens International Film + Video Festival, Greece; Chicago Underground Film Festival, IL; Ann Arbor Film Festival, MI; and The Kitchen and Hallwalls Buffalo, both in New York. Duncan has been an artist-in-residence at the Experimental Television Center, Institute for Electronic Arts, Binghampton; Lower Manhattan Cultural Council; and Harvestworks Digital Media Arts Center, all in NY; PACT Zollverein, Essen, Germany and Scena Robocza, Poznań, Poland, among others. She earned a BFA from the NYSCC School of Art and Design at Alfred University, NY; anMFA in Visual Arts from the University of California, San Diego; and an MA in Choreography and Performance at the Institute for Applied Theater Studies, Justus Liebig University Gießen, Germany. Learn more about the artist at https://monicaduncan.net.
Photo: Dean Erdmann