In Conversation: Charlie Perez-Tlatenchi and Chiarina Chen
Thursday, November 13, 2025, 7pmPlease join us for a conversation between artist Charlie Perez-Tlatenchi and curator Chiarina Chen, touching on their respective research into the intersections of diasporic histories, technological interventions, and mythologies of movement as they relate to the layered imagery of Charlie Perez-Tlatenchi: Triumphant Currents, Auspicious Winds.
Practical Information:
This conversation will be hosted in our ground level gallery, which is accessed by a small flight of stairs or an ADA accessible lift. Please reach out to us@canalprojects.org with any questions.
Chiarina Chen is a New York-based independent curator and writer. From a criminal psychology and art history background, her curatorial practice explores the intersections of nomadic subjectivities, critical posthuman theory, and forensic aesthetics. Her notable curatorial projects include The Tale of Errantry at Chain Theater, New York, Poetics of Inquiry: How to Stay with Trouble, at The Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Massachusets, Collecting Anxiety, presented in multiple venues worldwide, Is This Intimacy?at the University of Applied Arts Vienna and Krinzinger Projekte, Vienna, Magic Back to Town at Cyborg Foundation, and the Posthuman Research Center, New York University, New York, and The Wasteland of the Future, at the Shanghai Himalayas Museum and Art and Philosophy Center, Fudan University, Shanghai. Chen is the presenter at the 25th World Congress of Philosophy in Rome and founding member of the New York Posthuman Research Group. She has served as a visiting critic and juror at various institutions around New York City such as ISCP, ASMP, School of Art at Pratt, among others.
