Launch event:
Viseu.Us – Volume 03
Friday, May 29th, 2026, 6.30pm
Times*
151 lafayette st, 4th floor, NY 10012
https://www.timesny.org/
Performances and Readings by
Lucas Blalock
Shannon Ebner
Emilie Louise Gossiaux
with Kirby Kersels
Char Jeré
Timmy Simmonds
Event is free, but space is limited.
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*Special thanks to Francesca Sonara and Summer Guthery.
Founded by the artist Davide Balula and curator Julia Trotta, Viseu.Us is an online publication dedicated to the voices of artists and writers. Each issue is guided by intuition, friendship, and fandom, and brings together a collection of voices across generations and artistic disciplines.
Lucas Blalock is an artist and writer and occasional curator whose work, primarily in photography, mines both our everyday material culture and our image culture for the odd, the comical, and the overdetermined. Blalock’s photographs are held in numerous public collections and he has published multiple artist books that foreground his interest in pictures, process, and the slipperiness of representation. Blalock is an Assistant Professor of Art at Bard College, the author of Why Must the Mounted Messenger Be Mounted? (Objectiv, 2022), and a 2025 John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Fellow in Visual Art.
Shannon Ebner’s conceptually driven practice explores the visual, material and temporal circumstances of language using photographic and typographic means. Ebner’s most recent solo show THE SEAWEED SYNTHESIZER at kaufmann repetto, New York was accompanied by the publication SUBSOUND (Apogee Graphics, Los Angeles).
Emilie Louise Gossiaux is a multidisciplinary artist based in New York City, holding a BFA from Cooper Union and an MFA from Yale School of Art. As a visual artist who is also blind, Gossiaux translates inner worlds — dreams, memories, and touch — into drawings, ceramics, and sculptural installations that explore interdependence, Disability, and interspecies kinship, centered on their decade-long relationship with guide dog and animal companion, London. Their work has been exhibited at institutions including the Queens Museum, MoMA PS1, The Shed, and Kunsthall Trondheim, and is currently on view in the Whitney Biennial 2026. Gossiaux has received support from the Joan Mitchell Foundation, the Ida Applebroog Grant.
Char Jeré works across sculpture, sound, and installation, employing discarded materials and obsolete technologies to give form to their curiosities while navigating social, historical, and personal questions. They build systems and environments that invent tools and methods aimed at challenging and decolonizing the spaces art inhabits, extending into civic life and the infrastructures that shape it. Situated at the intersection of gender, sexuality, race, and technology, their work confronts how identities are regulated, misread, and lived. Jeré holds an MS in Data Analytics and Visualization and an MFA in Sound Art. Their work has been presented in group exhibitions including Voice of Space: UFOs and Paranormal Activities at The Drawing Center and Echo, Delay, Reverb at Palais de Tokyo, as well as presentations at The Campus Upstate and Art Basel Hong Kong. In 2023, Jeré held their first solo exhibition, Zoo or an Orchestra, at Artists Space, followed by their second solo exhibition, Remembering the Mind: A Lesson in Progress, at Andrew Kreps Gallery in 2025.
Timmy Simonds is an artist and educator working in sculpture, performance, and sound, exploring care, control, and communication. He holds an MA in Performance Studies from Brown and was a 2016 Triangle France resident. His work has been shown at Museo de Arte Carrillo Gil, Greene Naftali, Knockdown Center, Spencer Brownstone, Cathouse Proper, and Rond‑Point Projects. He has taught at Pratt, NYU, and Syracuse University School of Architecture, published in PIN‑UP, co-produces a radio project on Montez Press Radio and WGXC, and most recently exhibited “Teachers Bouquets” at Kai Matsumiya (NYC, May–Jun 2026).
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Viseu.Us – Volume 03
Lucas Blalock, Mei-mei Berssenbrugge, Louis Chude-Sokei, Zack Darsee, Shannon Ebner, Emilie Louise Gossiaux & Kirby Kersels, Char Jeré, Dorothea Lasky, Nour Mobarak, Vittorio Giampietro & Carl Van Ruin, Ron Padgett, Timmy Simonds