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NEW YORK CITY — A new exhibition at The UBS Art Gallery in midtown Manhattan will present ten new and recent works of performance, audio and installation art. “25 Years Later: Welcome to Art in General” will be on view at The UBS Art Gallery August 16–November 9. On the occasion of Art in General’s 25th anniversary, the exhibition will celebrate the institution that has supported local and international artists for a quarter century.

In “The Complex, So. Cal, Multi-4,” Kianga Ford invites individuals into cocoonlike pods in which they can listen to recorded narratives from a fictional apartment complex. Surasi Kusolwong raises questions around competition, consumption and international power relationships through an installation that revolves around a game of ping-pong.

Timothy Hutchings, a sculptor and video artist also well known in the gaming community, presents a live-action role playing activity through which gallery visitors can attempt to deal with imagined catastrophes. Jiri Skala presents two desks at which people copy one another’s handwriting in “Exchange of Handwriting.”

The possibility of vanishing informs the work of two artists duos: Chitra Ganesh and Mariam Ghani have created “Index of the Disappeared,” a library based on research on immigration, and the Dutch collective Bik Van der Pol has created an installation inspired by the now out-of-print guidebook How to Disappear Completely and Never Be Found.

Art in General, founded in 1981, is a nonprofit organization that assists artists with the production and presentation of new work.

The UBS Art Gallery is in the UBS Building at 1285 Avenue of the Americas (between 51st and 52nd Streets). For recorded information, 212-713-2885.