Pick of the Day with Display Distribute
Géza, 306 Maujer
Display Distribute is a thematic inquiry, distribution service, now and again exhibition space, and sometimes shop emerging from the material and social relations criss-crossing the border between Hong Kong and mainland China. Operated by a roving cast of conceptual shop girls and co-conspirators, the pop-up in New York shall take place in re-distributed fashion, where different corners of Amant will be occupied by experiments around mutual, long-term themes of unseen female labor, economic redistribution, and otherwise solidarities. Formulated as relayed plays with commerce, Pick of the Day opens the floor as a small-scale evening bazaar with stations from Bungee Space, Canal Street Research Association, Fei Liu, and Jen Liu available for rotational consultation throughout the evening.
Please bring your unwanted pennies to begin the exchange, and ‘buy into’ a non-accruing circulation of collaboration, value, and maybe-useful-to-someone knowledge. Our publications will not be on site for sale, but some other things might be.
This program is part of the For Your Reference series, where our artists in residence share and discuss key references informing their ongoing research at Amant. Amant programs are always free.
Doors for Pick of the Day will open at 7 pm on Wednesday, April 29 in Géza, located at 306 Maujer Street. RSVPs are encouraged but not required. Entry is first come, first served.
Among several inquiries into the illicit movements of goods and people, the entrepreneurial front of LIGHT LOGISTICS, organised by Display Distribute since 2015, operates as a travelogue and burgeoning carrier infrastructure in service of the channels between a ‘coming community’ of readers, couriers, and semi-autonomous publishers. Engaging these extra-practices of reading and writing, Display Distribute re-considers logisticality in support of the informal, unseen, and counter-hegemonic. It is a ‘not-in-time’ enterprise, with manoeuvrings having fought the clock art handling at, among others: Winona (Brussels, 2025), Warehouse421 (Abu Dhabi, 2020), Para Site (Hong Kong, 2019), Mediacity Biennale (Seoul, 2018), Hamburger Bahnhof Museum für Gegenwart (Berlin, 2017), as well as aboard a boat named Eleonore, docked along the Danube River (Linz, 2016). IG: @light.logistics
Bungee Space
What (MORE) can a bookstore do? A question we must constantly propose. Bungee Space is an image study- and image criticism-focused art bookstore, which also sells coffee, wearable designs, and works as an artist-run space & publisher. Rooting in where we come from, our ways of working, and means to survive, we simultaneously try to pursue independence and sustainability to provide a valuable space for emerging contributors to our art ecology. Standing beyond conventional definitions of a bookstore, we involve, form, and transform community, intervene in social, political, and cultural lives, creating chaos. IG: @bungee.space
Canal Street Research Association
Canal Street Research Association is a fictional office founded in 2020 in an empty storefront on Canal Street, New York City’s counterfeit epicenter. Delving into the cultural and material ecologies of the street and its long history as a site that probes the limits of ownership and authorship, the Association repurposes underused real estate as spaces for gathering ephemeral histories, mapping local lore, and tracing the flows and fissures of capital. They have occupied storefronts, empty office buildings, a storage unit, a basement, and a riverbank. They collaborate with local artists, businesses, vendors and passersby and have worked with art and community spaces including Abrons Arts Center, Amant, Artists Space, Canal Projects, CARA, the Center for Canadian Architecture, Clemente Soto Velez, Cuchifritos, MoMA PS1, SculptureCenter, and Storefront for Art & Architecture. IG: @canalstreetresearch
Fei Liu
Fei Liu 刘斐 is a New York-based Chinese artist, designer, and educator whose work moves between socially engaged art practices, mutual aid, performance, and the politics of embodied labor. Her projects place her own body inside of, or adjacent to, extractive systems to investigate who bears physical risk and who profits from it. Earlier work investigated how technological systems attempt to replicate and automate care, and what passes as companionship. Previous residencies and grants include Brooklyn Arts Council, ONASSIS USA, Pioneer Works, New Museum, NEW INC, and Akademie Schloss Solitude. IG: @binaricorn
Jen Liu
Jen Liu is a Taiwanese American artist working in video, painting, biomaterial, and programming, on histories of labor, diasporic Asian identities, and technology’s role in entanglement capitalism. Liu is a recipient of the Guggenheim Fellowship, Creative Capital Grant, LACMA Art + Technology Lab, and Anonymous Was a Woman Award, amongst others. She’s presented work at MoMA, The Whitney Museum, The New Museum, The Kitchen, and has participated in the 2015 Shanghai Biennale, 2019 Singapore Biennial, 2023 Taipei Biennial, and multiple iterations of the Berlinale. IG: @jenliu13
