CURATED EVENTS ARCHIVE - NEW YORK CITY
APRIL 2023
COEVAL DANCE FILMS
Where: BAM Rose Cinemas
When: April 5, 2023
Coeval Dance Films is an observation of Black and contemporary dance films through the lens of Saint Heron.
Solange Knowles for Saint Heron has curated a Music series for the Brooklyn Academy of Music with an anomalous approach that celebrates intergenerational expressions of experimental and transcendent performance through the decades. Her dedication to reverencing and preserving the works of Black practitioners through Saint Heron continues with a lineup that consists of contemporary and historic creative revolutionaries whose artistry and innovation has left a profound mark on music and performance art. The series is named after Eldorado Ballroom, a Houston historic Black music hall in her native Third Ward neighborhood, where her love for performance started. Each night is programmed to explore artistic territory through investigations surrounding the sonic and performance-based expressions that have shaped the artist’s own practice.
More information on the event can be found here.
TEACH-IN WITH
SHELLYNE RODRIGUEZ
AND JASBIR K. PUAR
Where: P·P·O·W Gallery
When: April 18, 2023
Third World Mixtapes: The Infrastructure of Feeling, is Shellyne Rodriguez’s (b. 1977) first solo exhibition with P·P·O·W Gallery. In her highly detailed colored pencil drawings on black paper, the Bronx-based artist, educator, writer, and community organizer, stewards the stories of people that have shaped her lived experience. Engaging with the legacy of the Ashcan School, who bore witness to the rise of the modern metropolis and its effects on the poor and working classes in New York, Rodriguez views figures such as Alice Neel, Jane Dickson, and Martin Wong as extensions of this tradition and situates her practice alongside them.
Rodriguez ultimately views her work as a political education tool. Creating room for inclusion and solidarity, one of the exhibition spaces will also act as a reading room where visitors are invited to engage with physical copies of Rodriguez’s syllabi. The reading room will serve as a stage for Rodriguez to engage with fellow radicals in conversation and host teach-ins over the course of the exhibition.
More information on the teach-in can be found here.
WHAT MAKES ME SO
BLACK AND BLUR(E),
AFTER ARMSTRONG,
ELLINGTON, MOTEN,
TATE, AND WALLER
Where: Online via The Studio Museum in Harlem
When: April 18, 2023
On Tuesday, April 18, join the Studio Museum in Harlem for What Makes Me So Black and Blur(e), After Armstrong, Ellington, Moten, Tate, and Waller.
To celebrate the exhibition Projects: Ming Smith, Erica N. Cardwell will moderate a panel with Gabrielle Civil, Kenturah Davis, and Shala Miller. These interdisciplinary artists will discuss the work of Smith in relation to the topics of optics and opticality, the blur, light and shadow, and (in)visibility. Each artist will select a photograph from the exhibition as an exploration into their practice, responding to the photograph with a visual, sonic, or poetic offering. The panelists highlight the hybridity of Smith’s practice, which often explores the role of music, dance, and writing.
Free and open to all, this program is one in a series in support of Projects: Ming Smith, and is part of an ongoing collaboration between MoMA and the Studio Museum.
More information on the event can be found here.
DRY GROUND BURNING
SCREENING
Where: BAM Rose Cinemas
When: April 21, 2023
- April 27, 2023
Just released from prison, Léa (Léa Alves Silva) returns home to the Brasilia favela of Sol Nascente and joins up with her half-sister Chitara (Joana Darc Furtado), the fearless leader of an all-female gang that steals and refines oil from underground pipes and sells gasoline to a clandestine network of motorcyclists. Living in constant opposition to Jair Bolsonaro’s fiercely authoritarian and militarized government, Chitara’s women claim the streets for themselves as a declaration of radical political resistance on behalf of ex-cons and the oppressed. An electrifying portrait of Brazil’s dystopian contemporary moment, blending documentary with narrative fiction, Dry Ground Burning reunites filmmakers Joana Pimenta and Adirley Queirós (Once There Was Brasilia) to offer an imaginative vision of the country’s possible future.
There will be a Q&A with director Joana Pimenta following the 7:30pm screening on April 22, 2023.
More information on the event can be found here.
MAKE YOURSELF AT HOME
Where: 67 West St. Studio 513
When: April 22, 2023
- April 30, 2023
SUDESTADA presents the first solo exhibition of Ximena Prieto, a Mexico-City based multimedia artist and writer. Her work focuses on the creation of rituals and memory through installation and assemblage. Curated by Allegra Venturi, Make Yourself at Home explores the echoes of ancestral memory and the diaspora of the imagined home through an installation of sculptures and vases that attempt to create and nurture the fragmented conception of identity in an immigrant family and the homes we construct in the process.
Handmade with a blend of resin and wax mixed with old treasures from a mix of familial archive and collected mementos, Ximena’s installation is accompanied by the exhibition of a vintage collection of garments from the 1950s handmade by SUDESTADA’s Founder - Gimena Garmendia - grandmother in her hometown San Genaro, Santa Fe, Argentina.
The opening will feature an exclusive performance written and directed by the artist. Performers Arianna Cameron, Eyren Powell, Yo Fu, and Alyssa McDoom will activate the space by reading extracts of the poems that Ximena composed surrounding the driving questions of this show.
More information on the event can be found here.
SONA JOBARTEH
PERFORMANCE
Where: Pioneer Works
When: April 23, 2023
Join Pioneer Works and Outer Ear Projects to welcome Gambian multi-instrumentalist Sona Jobarteh on April 23.
Preserving her musical past, Sona Jobarteh innovates to support a more humanitarian future. The spirit of Sona Jobarteh’s musical work stands on the mighty shoulders of The West African Griot Tradition; she is a living archive of the Gambian people. With one ear on the family’s historic reputation, one on the all-important future legacy and her heart in both places, she is preparing a place today for the next generation. Her singing and Kora playing while fronting her band, spring directly from this tradition. The extent of her recognition today is evidenced by more than 23 million + viewers on YouTube and considerable numbers on other digital platforms.
Sona single handedly set up The Gambia Academy, a pioneering institution dedicated to achieving educational reform across the continent of Africa. This Academy is the first of its kind to deliver a mainstream academic curriculum at a high level, whilst also bringing the culture, traditions and history that belong to its students, to the front and center of their everyday education.
More information on the event can be found here.
MISHOU ART FUNDRAISER
Where: Mishou Website
When: Ongoing
Mishou Magazine is a non-profit magazine with 50% of each issue donated to schools, art nonprofits, community centers, and individual kids. Mishou’s community of creative friends have donated their work to Dizzy to sell in support of the next issue of Mishou Magazine, our non-profit children's art magazine! 100% of the proceeds from each sale will be used to pay our staff, contributors, and production expenses.
The next issue of Mishou explores all things FOOD! Serving as a recipe book, activity book, storybook, and of course art magazine. contributions include:
- Guest Editor Quori Theodor
- “Onigiri Friend Workshop” by acclaimed Chef and cookbook author Angela Dimayuga and “Anti-Racist Baby” illustrator Ashley Lukashevsky
- How to make an “Edible Bird Feeder” with actor and artist Bobbi Menuez
- “Piano Cake Recipe” by Chef Jen Monroe, inspired by her childhood birthday cake
- “Taste the Forest with Fiddleheads” by poet and professor CAConrad
- A history of politically radical puppet theater Bread & Puppet
& many more incredible recipes, artworks, and activities created by artists age 6 - 60!
More information on the event can be found here.
SARAH SZE: TIMELAPSE
Where: The Guggenheim
When: March 31, 2023
- September 10, 2023
Emerging as an artist in the 1990s, Sarah Sze has built a distinct visual language that blurs the boundaries between various mediums including painting, sculpture, sound, print, drawing, video, and architecture, challenging the threshold between digital and the analogue, the tactile and the imagined, and the permanent and the impermanent.
For this solo exhibition, Sze created a series of site-specific installations that weave a trail of discovery through multiple spaces of the Guggenheim’s iconic Frank Lloyd Wright building. Outside, the exhibition spills into the public sphere beyond the museum walls. A flowing river of images traces the building’s exterior, echoing the movement of the traffic and passersby at street level, while a live-feed projection of the moon on the curved rotunda facade will mirror its cycle over the course of the exhibition. In Sze’s reimagination, the iconic UNESCO World Heritage architecture becomes a public timekeeper in a reminder that timelines are built through collective experience and memory. Inside the museum, Sze arranged a path of unexpected encounters: a pendulum hovering above the fountain on the rotunda floor, an installation tucked into a hallway in front of the freight elevator. These quiet gestures score visitors’ progress to the top level of the rotunda, where an immersive environment comprising new works of sculpture, painting, installation, and sound awaits them.
More information on the event can be found here.
MARCH 2023
STRAND FOR WOMEN
Where: 24 Second Avenue
When: March 9, 2023
- March 15, 2023
“Iranians are asking for everyone in favor of democracy, everyone in favor of women’s rights, to support the current movement and bring light and attention to their important fight. They need all of us. A number of artists have voiced their support, and I also answered this urgent call with another call: asking for hair strands, a medium consistent with my artist practice as I started to collect hair strands from people who inspire me in 2007. And the courageous women and men in Iran should inspire all of us. People are cutting off their hair in an act of defiance: Hair has become a universal symbol that we should keep alive.
We are a group of artists who have used hair in our work for years and want to show support to the universal movement for the WomanLifeFreedom happening in Iran - with our own way of expression, art.” - Prune Nourry
More information on the event can be found here.
READING: IRENE SILT
& SYD STAITI
Where: St. Mark’s Church
When: March 13, 2023
In the writing of Irene Silt and Syd Staiti, time doesn’t make sense, like poems don’t make money, like being a person with a body in the world doesn’t make a set and static self. This begs the question, what else is there we can make? How does anyone make anything? Staiti offers, “The body / of work holds its previous versions inside — invisible and present — building its aura out of them.” This reading will feature a guest introduction by Nora Treatbaby.
Irene Silt is the author of My Pleasure and The Tricking Hour (Deluge Books 2022). They write about power, anti-work feeling, joy, and deviance.
Syd Staiti is author of Seldom Approaches (The Elephants, 2023) and The Undying Present (Krupskaya, 2015). Staiti is director of Small Press Traffic and a collective member of Light Field.
More information on the event can be found here.
AURA ROSENBERG:
WHAT IS PSYCHEDELIC
Where: Pioneer Works
When: March 17, 2023
- June 11, 2023
On March 17, Pioneer Works is hosting a public opening celebration of Aura Rosenberg: What Is Psychedelic.
What Is Psychedelic, co-presented by Mishkin Gallery and Pioneer Works, marks the first institutional survey of New York-born artist Aura Rosenberg. This two-venue exhibition traces the artist’s trajectory from early paintings of the 1970s to her more recent endeavors in photography, film, sculpture, and installation. Throughout her five decades long career in New York and Berlin, Rosenberg has moved through diverse styles, preferring to work thematically and serially while often returning to ideas from past projects. Rosenberg’s practice challenges how images produce and reproduce notions of spectatorship, gender, family, and history—that is, the conditions of everyday life. In this way, she examines how vernacular images naturalize and normalize meanings through which people understand themselves in the world.
More information on the event can be found here.
FEMINIST
ARCHITECTURAL
HISTORIES OF
MIGRATION
Where: Columbia University, Wood Auditorium
When: March 20, 2023
Feminist Architectural Histories of Migration, co-edited by Anooradha Iyer Siddiqi and Rachel Lee, is a collection of articles and media published in three phases from 2019–2022 in the open-access online journals ABE Journal: Architecture Beyond Europe, Canadian Centre for Architecture, and Aggregate. It takes migration as the central concept and historical event behind feminist narratives of constructed environments and spatial and material practices, testing migration as a method of writing antipatriarchal, antiracist, anticasteist, and antiformalist architectural histories. In historiographical solidarity with people in the past and present deterritorialized and dispossessed of land and home, collaborators on this project undertake a feminist practice of history writing and make a space for migrant narratives of built environments. Both, by necessity, are based in collaboration. This event will be live-streamed on the GSAPP YouTube Channel for those who cannot attend in person.
More information on the event can be found here.
NOT DARK YET
Where: Deli Gallery
When: Closes March 25, 2023
Alina Perez and Arel Lisette’s two-person show is a holding space. Oh, que Angustia la Mia, a drawing of an overgrown shed from Alina’s childhood backyard, functions as the subconscious double for every household’s drawer of cast-off items. These untidy repositories accumulate all the things we cannot seem to let go, kept in reserve for an unspecified future use. Butterfly Graveyard (A Very Hard Truth) recounts a visit to a butterfly sanctuary where Arel, crouched to the ground, discovered the wings of dismembered butterflies floating in a pool of murky water. Similar to Alina’s shed, this ominous sight stuck in her mind for years, with no obvious reason or meaning, until it took the form of this composition. Butterflies—one of several recurring visual motifs in this show—are signs of transition and transformation, death and disembodiment, and, ultimately, resurrection. In the artists’ words, the twelve works that comprise this show are expressions of “personal hauntings and their resulting manifestations”—the ways that the past inevitably seeps into the present, whether you want it to or not.
More information on the event can be found here.
WOMAN AS PROTAGONIST
Where: Galerie Lelong & Co.
When: Closes March 25, 2023
Galerie Lelong & Co., New York, is pleased to announce a solo exhibition by Nancy Spero dedicated to works created between the mid-1990s and the early 2000s, the final two decades of the artist’s life. Throughout a career spanning over five decades, the New York-based artist Nancy Spero (b. 1926 – d. 2009) foregrounded women’s experiences, challenging systems of authority and subverting aesthetic conventions in the process. Frustrated with the pervasive silencing of women’s voices in society, Spero was an activist who devoted herself to the advancement of women in the arts through hosting and participating in discussion groups, many held in her SoHo loft. Beginning in 1976, Spero made women the sole subject of her work to elevate their status from “other” to protagonist. In celebration of Spero’s unapologetic advocacy for the presence of women in the arts, the exhibition will coincide with Women’s History Month.
More information on the event can be found here.
PERFORMANCES BY
CATERINA BARBIERI &
ELI KESZLER +
A DJ SET BY MARIE
DAVIDSON
Where: Pioneer Works
When: March 28, 2023
Pioneer Works is hosting performances by Caterina Barbieri and Eli Keszler, followed by a DJ set by Marie Davidson.
Caterina Barbieri is an Italian composer who explores themes related to machine intelligence and object-oriented perception in sound. Caterina explores the psycho-physical effects of repetition and pattern-based operations in music, by investigating the polyphonic and polyrhythmic potential of sequencers to draw severe, complex geometries in time and space.
Eli Keszler is a New York based artist, composer and percussionist.
Marie Davidson is a Montreal based electronic musician, singer, songwriter and DJ. Her DJ sets focus on having fun with the crowd and are meant for dancing.
More information on the event can be found here.
TYPE OF GUEST
Where: BAM Fisher
When: March 31, 2023 - April 1, 2023
Celebrating the art of wordless storytelling, this generation-bridging lineup showcases the poetry of movement in works by Autumn Knight, and an installation by Maren Hassinger.
Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM) presents their 2023 music series ELDORADO BALLROOM, curated by Solange Knowles for Saint Heron. The program takes an anomalous approach to celebrating the intergenerational expressions of experimental and transcendent performance through the decades.
This show spotlights the distinction of performance art and observes the simultaneous lines between art and theater, audience and performer in manifold demonstrations of somatic practice. It features a cerebral perception-challenger by interdisciplinary artist Autumn Knight, and an original installation by the legendary multi-disciplinary artist Maren Hassinger.
More information on the event can be found here.
FEBRUARY 2023
SCREENING:
THE BLUE CAFTAN
Where: Film Forum NYC
When: February 21, 2023
Shortlisted for the 2023 Academy Award® for International Feature Film.
The medina of Salé, one of the oldest in Morocco, is the setting for THE BLUE CAFTAN, the nuanced story of a husband and wife who create elegant, hand-embroidered robes (caftans or djellabas) in one of the city’s small, traditional shops. This subtle tale of romantic intrigue between two men (the tailor and his assistant), surprisingly focuses on the emotional life of the wife, played by Lubna Azabal (INCENDIES). With a delicate touch and exquisite eye for detail, director Maryam Touzani (who wrote the script with her partner, filmmaker Nabil Ayouch), illuminates both the precise craft of caftan-making (the garment is lovingly perfected throughout the film) and the unspoken yet deeply felt attraction between two men — in a country that criminalizes same-sex relationships.
With support from the R.G. Rifkind Foundation Endowment for Queer Cinema.
More information on the event can be found here.
READING: LUCY IVES
& STACY SZYMASZEK
Where: St. Marks Church
When: February 22, 2023
In Lucy Ives and Stacy Szymaszek’s new books, moments collapse under the pressure of their multi-directional abundance, and through this collapse unfold into deeper mysteries, secret networks, and radiant strangeness.
Featuring a guest introduction by Mónica de la Torre.
A reception will take place before the event at 7:00PM. The reading will begin at 8:00PM.
This in-person event will also be livestreamed via The Poetry Project's YouTube. Livestream captions will be available via a StreamText link or the CC button on YouTube's player.
More information on the event can be found here.
YVONNNE RAINER
RETROSPECTIVE,
“MURDER AND MURDER”
SCREENING
Where: Metrograph
When: February 26, 2023
With her boundary-pushing, de-glamorized, stripped-down approach to modern dance, Rainer was already established as one of the most innovative forces in choreography before she’d started to make her first standalone films in 1972, bringing the same spirit of invention to this new medium. Inspired by developments in contemporary feminist film theory and her own developing lesbian identity, Rainer would create a cinematic oeuvre that revolutionized the depiction of dance onscreen, while also posing a challenge to traditional filmic representations of the female body. This retrospective provides a chance to sample the transformative motion picture works of this remarkable multi-hyphenate artist, still active in the world of dance today at age 88.
Rainer’s last feature (MURDER IS MURDER) is also one of her most personal, inspired by the lows and highs of a breast cancer diagnosis in the early 1990s, and the surprise of a burgeoning lesbian relationship.
More information on the event can be found here.
THE PENUMBRA
FOUNDATION’S
ARTIST SERIES:
LETHA WILSON
Where: The Penumbra Foundation
When: March 1, 2023
This series brings to life the work of featured photographers and other notable guest artists and scholars, offering a unique opportunity to engage with them in an intimate setting as they discuss their work and process.
Wilson was born in Hawaii, raised in Colorado, and currently works in Craryville and Brooklyn, New York. She received her BFA from Syracuse University, and her MFA from Hunter College in New York City. Letha attended the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture in 2009, and her artwork has been shown at many venues including Mass MoCA, deCordova Sculpture Park and Museum, Bronx Museum of the Arts, and the International Center for Photography--among others. Her work has been reviewed in Artforum, the New York Times, The New Yorker, among others. Letha has been awarded artist residencies at Yaddo, MacDowell, and the Sharpe-Walentas Studio Program, among others. In both 2019 and 2014 she was awarded a New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship in Photography, and was awarded the Windgate Artist Residency at SUNY Purchase in Fall 2022.
More information on the event can be found here.
RENDEZ-VOUS
WITH FRENCH
CINEMA TALKS:
ALICE WINOCOUR
IN CONVERSATION
WITH SOPHIE BARTHES
Where: Film at Lincoln Center
When: March 2, 2023
Unifrance and Film at Lincoln Center present the 28th edition of Rendez-Vous with French Cinema, the celebrated annual festival that exemplifies the variety and vitality of contemporary French filmmaking, taking place March 2–12.
Alice Winocour, the acclaimed director of Proxima (2019) and Disorder (2015), returns to Rendez-Vous with French Cinema with this year’s Opening Night selection Revoir Paris, an urgent, visceral, and profoundly life-affirming character study that probes the inner workings of memory, grief, and hope. Winocour and filmmaker Sophie Barthes (Cold Souls, Madame Bovary) will be brought together for an extended conversation about Winocour’s vibrant body of work, her artistic influences and collaborations, and her unique storytelling sensibility.
More information on the event can be found here.
READING: YASMINA PRICE
& ELIZABETH PURCHELL
Where: Online
When: March 9, 2023
Join the apocalypse’s greatest rejectors for the Special Film Edition of the Utopian Research & Development Summit. Prophetic cinematic visionaries Yasmina Price & Elizabeth Purchell will share their ideas for the idyllic films of the future with time for Q&A, freewriting, & collective paradise scheming. Bring a notebook & your entire brain & soul, but please no cops, landlords, politicians, or men who play acoustic guitar at parties!!!
Presented by 2021–2022 Curatorial Fellow Cassandra Gillig.
This event will take place virtually over Zoom. Registration through The Poetry Project's Eventbrite is required. Zoom links will be shared upon registration to the event. In an effort to build and hold collective community, we ask that Zoom links not be shared.
More information on the event can be found here.
PROJECTS: MING SMITH
Where: MoMA
When: Through May 29, 2023
Projects: Ming Smith offers a critical reintroduction to a photographer who has been living and working in New York since the 1970s. She has inspired a generation of artists engaging the politics and poetics of the photographic image in relation to experiences of Blackness. Through her use of long exposures, Smith dissolves the boundaries between her subjects and their surroundings, creating dreamlike, abstract images led by intuition and honed through repetition.
The result of the curators’ deep dive into Smith’s archive, Projects: Ming Smith bridges the distance between the present and the past, opening a photographic portal through which to encounter her images anew. The exhibition highlights how Smith’s images collapse the senses, encouraging us to attend to the hue of sound, the rhythm of form, and the texture of vision. As critic A. D. Coleman has written, Smith “sees and thinks in the minor key.”
More information on the event can be found here.
