Shiny Objects

Created and Performed by Kristel Baldoz

Kristel Baldoz is a Filipina-American artist from Delano, California, home to the Table Grape Strike. She was a 2019 EmergeNYC fellow at the Hemispheric Institute and artist-in-residence at Tisch/Danspace Residency and the Jonah Boaker Arts Foundation | Chez Bushwick, and a 2020 Brooklyn Art Exchange Space Grant Recipient. She was a 2022 artist-in-resident at Chautauqua Instiitution School of Visual Art and is currently in residence with Motive Brooklyn. As a performer, she has worked with Reggie Wilson, Wilmer Wilson IV, and Alex Da Corte. As an arts administrator, she has supported Common Field and the operation at Movement Research, project managed for Faustin Linyekula, and assisted Anna Deveare Smith. She holds an MA in Arts Politics from New York University and a BA in Dance, Theater, and Performance Studies from UC Berkeley.

Photos by Shige Moriya and Brandon Perdomo

OUTSIGHT is presented by LEIMAY in partnership with New York Restoration Project.

The New York Restoration Project believes that access to nature is a fundamental human right. We work to ensure that all New Yorkers have equitable access to green space. For 25 years, NYRP has invested in and stewarded parks and gardens throughout the city’s five boroughs to strengthen communities, promote food sovereignty, and counter environmental and social injustice. Effectively carrying out our mission requires collaboration, synergy, and understanding of the communities we serve on many different levels. Diversity, equity, and inclusion are embedded into our core identity and we deeply value the unique perspectives, knowledge, and resources that each member of our team and extended community brings to NYRP. Visit nyrp.org

LEIMAY is a grassroots non-profit arts organization and ensemble based in Brooklyn since 1996. LEIMAY attracts, provokes, and supports exchange and generative confrontation, among culturally diverse audiences and artists, by producing work and programs that center the creation and the experience of art as catalysts to transform ourselves and the world around us. Programs include OUTSIGHT (2017-Present), LEIMAY Incubator Program (2021-Present), LEIMAY Fellowship (2008-2021), LEIMAY Art in the Community Garden Commissioning Fellows Program (2018-2021), SOAK (2012-2018), the NY Butoh Festival (2003-2009), the CAVE gallery (1996-2006), Vietnamese Artist-in-Residence Program (2004-2005), Butoh Workshops (2001-2007), NY Butoh Kan Training Initiative/ NY Butoh Kan Teaching Residency (2008 -2011).

OUTSIGHT is supported, in part, by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, in partnership with the City Council, the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Andrew M. Cuomo and the New York State Legislature and the Mertz Gilmore Foundation.

LEIMAY works and programs are supported, in part, by the New York State Council on the Arts, the City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council, National Endowment for the Arts, Howard Gilman Foundation, Mertz Gilmore Foundation, Dance/NYC, The Alliance of Resident Theatres/New York, Indie Space, and Café Royal Cultural Foundation, and many generous contributions from individual donors.

Ximena Garnica and Shige Moriya: Artistic and General Co-Directors
Krystel Copper: Marketing and Outreach Associate
Talissa Bavaresco: Marketing Associate
Brandon Perdomo: Administrative and Program Associate
Greer Dworman: Finance Associate
Megan Kendzior: Strategic Development Consultant