OCDChinatown

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OCDChinatown
Established2018
Location75 East Broadway, New York, NY, US
FounderLiutas van Hook
Website ocdchinatown.com

OCDChinatown is a contemporary space for sound, image, object, movement and thought, located in New York City in the Chinatown neighborhood of Manhattan. [1] [2] It was established in 2018 by Liutas van Hook. [3]

OCDChinatown has shown a roster of international artists and performance and has collaborated with the arts organization BOFFO for the 2019, 2021, 2022, and 2023 [4] [5] BOFFO Performance Festival Fire Island held in the Fire Island Pines. [6]

several exhibitions were selected by Artforum critics as international "Must Sees," including Nash Glynn's Self-portrait With One Foot Forward And One Hand Reaching Out, Carlos Motta and Tiamat Legion Medusa, [7] Camilo Godoy's Amigxs, [8] Geo Wyex's Looking For Stars Out Of What Stinks, [9] It's Personal (Nash Glynn, Sam Penn, Ser Serpas), [10] and Nao Bustamante's Brown Disco. [11]

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