PUSH/PULL is a transdisciplinary exhibition project featuring new works by aisha tida and Leila Mnekbi in the Upstairs BOX at Box13 ArtSpace, developed with the support of ARCOS Dance and funded in part by the City of Houston through Houston Arts Alliance.

Through experiential sculptural and sound works and audience collaboration, PUSH/PULL invites visitors to experiment with notions of agency and collectivity while questioning the patterns, loops, and illusions we wish to escape.

On view at Box13 ArtSpace May 30 through June 28, 2025.

Filed under:
curatorial, exhibition, houston, installation, pattern, participatory, performance, dance, collab


︎︎︎See: PUSH/PULL (Exhibition Project)

︎︎︎ARCOS Dance

IN/OUT/THRU
Work in Progress
2023-ongoing

An immersive installation that transports viewers to the inside of their psyche, where cognitive dissonance is visualized by geometric patterns and chromatic tension. Sit in the overwhelm that comes from reckoning with who we are versus who we want to be (individually, collectively, societally).

Filed under:
amok, pattern, installation, soft sculpture, performance

︎︎︎See: PUSH/PULL (Exhibition Project)

In/Security Blanket (Maybe someday I’ll feel complete)
Installation
2025

Currently on view
Sabine Street Studios @ Sawyer Yards
27 March - 10 May 2025

Unbound and unbacked op art quilt top, hand-mended and reinforced with hyperthin thread. 

Vibrant pattern serves as physical representation of cognitive dissonance and embeds it into the space, like a quiet but intense interruption. The alternating shapes of blue and red vibrate against each other, vying for dominance.

Filed under:
amok, pattern, installation, soft sculpture, exhibition

︎︎︎See: Divergent Threads at Sabine Street Studios

A collection of recipe card sets filled out by participants of the DD project.

Each set contains three unique cards  that guide storytelling chefs through the imaginative process of dreaming up their own diaspora dumpling. 


Please ︎ contact the artist to contribute your story-based recipe to the archive!

Filed under:
dd, participatory, social practice, food, diaspora

︎︎︎Coming Soon: Full Gallery: Diaspora Dumpling Recipe Archive

This installation is the first adaptation of the Diaspora Dumplings project for a gallery setting. Titled Diaspora Dumpling Potluck 001 (Tableau + Artifacts), the work presents the project in two ways: first, it gives a glimpse of the pilot Diaspora Dumpling Potluck + Archiving Party (held in September 2024), and second, invites exhibition visitors to co-author the DD project by contributing their own set of story-based recipes to the archive.

Exhibited in EXperimental at Box13 ArtSpace January - Februrary 2025.

Filed under:
dd, installation, exhibition, food, sculpture, diaspora, participatory, social practice, houston

︎︎︎Coming Soon: Gallery: Diaspora Dumpling Recipe Archive