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Hometowns:<\/strong> Zurich, Switzerland (Hildenbrand) \/ New York City (McIntosh)
\nLive in<\/strong>: Hudson
\nMoved from<\/strong>: New York City (Hildenbrand) and the Berkshires (McIntosh)<\/p>\n

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Last December, one of Hudson\u2019s most exciting events was \u201cQu\u2019est Qui Ce Passe,\u201d a one-night-only video art show curated by Shanekia McIntosh and Bianca Hildenbrand at Time & Space Limited<\/a>. It ran for six hours, spilling over into TSL\u2019s screening room and caf\u00e9, and attracting over 80 people.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt was fun having people come up with concepts and ideas that are out of their comfort zone,\u201d says McIntosh, an artist and writer who publishes the zine ZeroCool<\/em>. Hildenbrand, a visual artist who\u2019d run a gallery in her native Switzerland, moved to Hudson from New York last summer, quickly befriending and teaming up with McIntosh.<\/p>\n

For the video show, TSL offered the space for free, and Second Ward<\/a>, a nonprofit arts foundation located in a former schoolhouse, loaned the equipment. The space itself helped dictate the pieces, notes Hildebrand: \u201cWe both like to work site specific, which determines how we set up everything.\u201d Adds McIntosh: \u201cWe don\u2019t like compromising. We could have done something really small, but then we thought, why limit ourselves to one room. We can think big about it.\u201d<\/p>\n

McIntosh considers her writing, collages, and curatorial events \u201can evolving body of work, utilizing different mediums to invoke community space and, most importantly, accessible art spaces.\u201d This ethos reflects her experience growing up immersed in New York City as the daughter of Jamaican immigrants with a modest income. \u201cWhat I lacked in financial opportunity I gained tenfold with that cultural education,\u201d she says.<\/p>\n

Hildenbrand, who attended art school in Zurich, had a similar experience in Basel, which has 40 museums and is known as Switzerland\u2019s cultural capital. \u201cThese nonprofit institutions contrasted with the general art market and influenced my way of thinking and presenting art as a curator as well as an artist,\u201d she explains. After graduating from Pratt Institute<\/a>, Hildenbrand worked as an artist\u2019s assistant \u201cand learned a lot about the relationship between artists and the business of selling art.\u201d<\/p>\n

McIntosh attended school in the Berkshires, moved back to New York, did internships at Brassland Records<\/a>, Nylon<\/em> magazine<\/a>, and Rolling Stone<\/em><\/a>, and returned to the Berkshires, becoming a programmer and volunteer at the community radio station. When she settled in Hudson, she became a programmer at a weekly two-hour show called Pure Moods at WGXC<\/a>, the community radio station for Columbia and Greene counties, and starting organizing screenings and concerts to benefit the station. \u201cIt was exciting to have the opportunity to visualize an idea and then be granted the autonomy and resources to make it happen, especially as a 21-year-old,\u201d she says.<\/p>\n

She currently works in John Doe Records<\/a>\u2014\u201cthe most clich\u00e9d job for a 20-something music nerd,\u201d she says. Her boss, Dan Seward\u2014\u201cthe main man in the bizzaro anti-music outfit Bunny Brains<\/a>\u201d\u2014is her mentor. Hildenbrand also works myriad day jobs. \u201cWe are not trust fund kids,\u201d McIntosh notes wryly.<\/p>\n

While surviving in Hudson as an artist isn\u2019t nearly as difficult as in Brooklyn, \u201cit\u2019s not that easy\u201d either, admits McIntosh. Housing prices have been increasing \u201cat an appalling rate,\u201d she notes. \u201cWe don\u2019t have a grocery store and everything is fine dining, so woop!\u201d But even though Hudson suffers from \u201cvery limited job opportunities and gigs,\u201d she adds, \u201cIt\u2019s hard everywhere right now. The economy sucks for working-class people, not to mention artists.\u201d<\/p>\n

But Hudson\u2019s relative affordability does offer the luxury of time. Plus, McIntosh says, \u201cI feel connected to a great community. In the city, my community was limited to people in the same age group or field. Hudson is all over the place; one of my close friends is 72.\u201d Adds Hildenbrand: \u201cHudson reminds me of Basel. It\u2019s a bit smaller. It\u2019s easier to get into a scene and meet people. Also there\u2019s a passion for doing things even it it\u2019s not funded, and generosity from people to help you do things. That\u2019s really new for me.\u201d<\/p>\n

The duo is planning future video series. In the meantime, \u201cI got this crazy performance art round-robin thing I\u2019m planning for summer at one of my favorite spaces in Hudson, Second Ward,\u201d says McIntosh. \u201cThe possibilities are endless with that space, and it\u2019s run by some great people. I always plan on having things\u2014be they events, readings, art shows, or whatever\u2014happen with space in between so I have time to plan properly. But it always ends up being back-to-back, and so it\u2019s nuts and I never have any money. I need to figure out how not to do that.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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