Presentation of New Work by
Shauna Steinbach and Ash Moniz; Listening Session with Ang Ziqi Zhang

Triangle is excited to announce:

Presentation of New Work by
Shauna Steinbach and Ash Moniz; Listening Session with Ang Ziqi Zhang

Saturday, March 2nd, 5-8 PM

20 Jay Street, Suite #317 & #318, Dumbo, Brooklyn
Join us for presentations and conversation focused on Triangle residents
Ash Moniz and Shauna Steinbach’s newest work,
followed by a listening and social space with Ang Ziqi Zhang.

Due to building access protocols guests will need to check in at the entrance. Each presentation will begin promptly.
More information and event schedule below.

 Distance from Zero by Ash Moniz
5:00 PM

Distance from Zero continues Ash Moniz’s extensive research into supply chain logistics, including “fieldwork” and interviews around the world, primarily at sea.

The work looks at the disjuncture between the legal, “on file” existence of a ship, and an actual ship floating at sea. Moniz takes as a particular focus ships that have been abandoned by their owners, leaving workers trapped on board, at times for years. Moniz realized that no matter how close they got to this crisis as it took place in from of them, the forms of representability and epistemic-register refuted the possibility of actually tapping into what is at stake within such a violent phenomenon. 

Distance from Zero embarks on an aesthetic journey, attempting to locate the violences in logic that lie behind the drastic forms of worker exploitation upon which our global economy relies. Upon completion, the work will be shown in Moniz’s upcoming solo show at the Rockbund Art Museum, Shanghai.

Spanning performance, installation, video/film, Ash Moniz’s practice is based on supply-chain logistics, informed by long-term research including “field work” (on container ships and in ports) and working with maritime lawyers to make legally accurate fictions. Through interviews/performative collaborations, Moniz deconstructs the temporality of narrative structure in “Just-In-Time” transportation logistics, emphasizing the word “plot,” and its etymological connection between land ownership & the arrangement of dramatic structure on a stage. Moniz’s work addresses the constitutions of thought and forms of naturalizing that occur in legal frameworks of shipping, and challenges how material infrastructure and legal performativity are complicit within logistical violence.

Presentation of New Works by Shauna Steinbach
6:00 PM

Visitors are invited to join Shauna Steinbach in their studio for refreshments and conversation about their newest work, produced during their
Triangle Winter Residency.

Through a broad range of installation and sculpture, Shauna Steinbach explores themes of time, memory, precarity, and connectivity. Originating at the intersection of accident and unknowing, Steinbach’s willfully ambiguous forms are often constructed of estranged elements from the everyday. Exploring the nature of impermanence and adaptability, Steinbach activates kinetic sculptures with catalysts such as water, light, heat, and wind, producing works that are in states of transition. At times, Steinbach connects objects using temporary mechanisms such as rope and zip ties, allowing the works to be scalable and responsive to changing environments.

Listening and Social Space with Ang Ziqi Zhang
7:00 PM

Ang Ziqi Zhang is proud to present an early evening, post-viewing afters.

Casual social space, or public private sensory engagement. Listening if you feel like it. In and out of listening. Talking. Brief reading from selected texts and the artists notes app followed by 100bpm music, wine, and timed drawing.

Ang Ziqi Zhang (b. 1994, Brampton, Ontario) is a painter, DJ, and friend based in Brooklyn, NY. Her painting practice is a site for abstract thought, association, and visual recalibration. She thinks about the tethers and dissonances between affect theory, western capitalism, dance music culture, visuality, and science. The resulting works are akin to stanzas in a long poem. Zhang holds an MFA in Painting/Printmaking from Yale School of Art (2023) and a dual BA in Economics and Visual Arts from the University of Chicago (2016).