- Art
SuRan Song & William M. Weis III: You’re Soaking in It!
When
All Day
Where
Glyndor Terrace Garden
You’re Soaking in It! is an interactive sculpture and dreamwork project that explores the ethics and poetics of sleeping and dreaming in public. Presented by SuRan Song and William M. Weis III in the Glyndor Terrace Garden, this project exemplifies the community-based nature of the artists’ almost-thirty-year collaborative practice. You’re Soaking in It! invites listeners to reflect on identity, memory, and the personal politics of love, consumption and trust while resting on a hybrid sculpture that can exist as both a bed and a performance platform. Song and Weis provoke visitors to actively reflect on a question posed by Bronx-born Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor regarding the prohibition of sleeping in public: how and why do we punish those who need to do so, namely unhoused individuals. You’re Soaking in It! does not pretend to resolve the tension at the heart of this argument. Instead, it offers a bed, a stage, and an invitation—to rest, to gather, and to imagine new forms of public kinship through dreaming. Equal parts art piece, social experiment, and performance, visitors are encouraged to record dreams and garden musings by scanning a QR code; these contributions become source material for the artists’ evolving songwriting and performance research.
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.
Sunday, July 13: Meet the Artists SuRan Song and William M. Weis III will guide a workshop and conversation that explores civic trust, Justice Sotomayor’s recognition of the right to sleep in public, and the Orphic philosophy of Parmenides.
Saturday, August 2, 12PM, Meet the Artists: SuRan Song and William M. Weis III will guide a workshop and conversation that explores civic trust, Justice Sotomayor’s recognition of the right to sleep in public, and the Orphic philosophy of Parmenides.
Saturday, August 2, 1:15PM, Meet the Artist: 1:15 PM: Join artist Jennifer Tobias for a conversation about her Sun Porch installation and a Bird Feeder Workshop, based on the materials used in her installation. The workshop is open to all ages and ranges of abilities.
Saturday, August 2, 2:30 PM, Meet the Artist: Join Monica Duncan in her Sunroom exhibition for Plant Contouring Workshop: Embodying Plants through Movement. Observe the flora of Wave Hill, make contour line drawings and create collective plant choreographies in the garden.
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Suran Song
Suran Song
SuRan Song is a Riverdale, Bronx-based artist of Korean and Greek descent. Her multidisciplinary performance practice explores how justice relates to love, the ancient roots of Greek hospitality, Sanskrit, audience engagement and accessibility, among other themes. Inspired by post-punk songwriters and Early Dada artists, she also leads a performance art rock band that has toured widely. Song’s work has been featured in exhibitions at the Katonah Museum of Art and Queens Museum, both in NY, and the Villa Terrace Arts Museum in Milwaukee, WI. She earned an MFA in Sculpture from Parsons School of Design, NY. Learn more about the artist at https://suransong.com/narrative-bio/.
Photo: Anastasia Song.
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William M. Weis III
William M. Weis III
William M. Weis III is a multidisciplinary artist born in New Jersey and based in Riverdale, Bronx. His love for hip-hop, punk rock, surfing, and freestyle BMX led him to explore realistic styles in his art, however, he transitioned later to more expressive modes of painting, drawing and collage. Throughout the 1990s, Weis collaborated with various bands, briefly attracting major label attention from American Recordings with the band Nomen Nudum. In 1995, he joined forces with kindred spirit SuRan Song in her performance art rock band, which has toured extensively and released four studio albums. The band gained recognition on the CMJ Charts and performed live on numerous radio stations across the United States, including WBAI, WFMU and KEXP. Weis majored in Fine Arts at School of Visual Arts, NY, before pursuing his passion for music.
Photo courtesy of the artist
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