Chris Bisram, 2023
Chris Bisram is an Indo-Caribbean Multidisciplinary Artist.They have completed a work-study and summer intensive at Greenspace, a dance and performance studio in Queens. I have performed in Fertile Ground Showcase, hosted by Greenspace, and City of Forest Day, hosted by IDig2Learn, a Roosevelt Island Collective. At City of Forest Day, they choreographed and performed a piece to portray the stages of life of a tree. Currently, they are a teaching artists at LIC High School, where I teach after school dance through a nonprofit organization called Zone 126.
Bisram’s background includes sculpture from Socrates Sculpture Park as a Socrateen, and through the MYM program at Noguchi Museums. Bisram displayed poetry in Gallery Aferro’s Poem Booth Exhibition discussing the trauma of having an alcoholic father. They have helped co-facilitate Kin to the Cove, an art collective/stewardship that grew out of 36.5 / A Durational Performance with the Sea by Sarah Cameron Sunde. Through this collective, they created and led a few projects centered on water pollution, climate change, and water’s place in their life, including For the Depths of Us, Meh Mudda Deh Sea, and We are all Kin to the Cove, in collaboration with The Remote Theater Project.