May MakkiAbout

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May Makki is a curator and creative producer based in New York. Currently, she is a Curatorial Assistant in the Department of Media and Performance at the Museum of Modern Art, New York. She is the 2024-2025 Curatorial AIRspace Resident at Abrons Arts Center. 

may.makki@gmail.com

Nasa4nasa: Promises
99 Canal, NY
August 1, 2024 nasa4nasa is a dance collective co-founded in Cairo in 2016 by dancers Noura Seif Hassanein and Salma AbdelSalam. 

In the early days of their practice, nasa4nasa would intervene into public and semi-public spaces and perform “vignettes” that they would post on Instagram. Since that moment, they have presented their work on digital platforms and at international performance venues alike. In both virtual and physical formats, their work explores themes of virtuality, desire, and twinning. 

At 99 Canal, nasa4nasa performed Promises, a new improvisational score in which two bodies attempt to choreograph a field of tender composition.

Martin Beck: Last Night 
The Museum of Modern Art, NY
June 2, 2024 Martin Beck: Last Night presents the artist’s eponymous film work for one day only, on June 2, 2024. Acquired by the Museum of Modern Art in 2022, Last Night (2016) revisits the records that musical host David Mancuso played on June 2, 1984, at one of the last parties at the 99 Prince Street location of the legendary New York dance party known as the Loft.

JJJJJerome Ellis: Loops of Retreat 
Sweet Pass Sculpture Park, Dallas, TX
May 25-July 22, 2023 In his album The Clearing (2021), musician and composer JJJJJerome Ellis imagines his block stutter to be a point of departure for examining the relationship between music, blackness, disabled speech, and time. For this exhibition, the opening track from the album was presented as an immersive audio and video environment. The artist performed a live impovisation on May 25, 2023, produced with support from the Dallas Contemporary. 

Beyond Documentation: Aesthetics of Policing
Center for Human Rights and the Arts, Bard College, NY
February 3-4, 2023

Beyond Documentation: Aesthetics of Policing was a two-day workshop exploring cataloging, photographic excess, found footage filmmaking, zine making, and performance as potential genres for examining police violence and rendering political struggle. Contributers included  Sierra Pettengill, LaCharles Ward, Isshaq Albarbary, Civic Gaze, and Interference Archive.

The workshop was annotated via illustrations by CHRA artist-in-residence Haitham Haddad.

Friends of Elliptical Orbits: Kayfa ta and Radio Alhara 
The Hessel Museum of Art, NY 
April 2-May 29, 2022 Friends of Elliptical Orbits presents Kayfa ta and Radio Alhara, two ongoing collaborative projects that offer new approaches to communal production. Unfolding across sites including the Hessel Museum, a Bard College shuttle stop, and radioalhara.net, Friends of Elliptical Orbits explores how each project’s design and structure embody its values.