NEW YORK CITY.- A dark gallery is filled with what look to be life-sized, primitive votive figures that might come from Africa or the Caribbean, paired with a flashing psychedelic projection on the wall. The overall effect is quite engaging. Another primitivist projection is Stephen Dean's roiling, color-saturated video of an ecstatic crowd in the middle of a ritual at Uttar Pradesh, a tape that is a great 21st-century update of Carolee Schneemann's pioneering Meat Joy. Other standouts include Chan Chao's color photo-portraits of stoic refugees at the Burmese border, paired with his terse comments, which are the kind of photojournalism that brings geopolitical issues down to an intensely personal level. More cuttingly, John Leaños fills a gallery with fictive archeological artifacts, lightbox photos and drawings tracing the supposed castration rituals -- including the conceit of truncated phallic monoliths.