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Simone Leigh: You Don’t Know Where Her Mouth Has Been
This solo exhibition presents the New York premiere of Simone Leigh’s most recent sculptural explorations of materiality, women’s work, and Afrofuturism. Leigh is known for her archaic, anthropomorphic forms in porcelain, terracotta, tobacco, glass, and steel that employ early African ceramic techniques to evoke contemporary parallels and underlying social and economic conditions.
January 18–March 11, 2012
Opening Reception, Wednesday, January 18, 6-8pm
FREE
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Neal Medlyn: Wicked Clown Love
Neal Medlyn’s latest is built around the music of the Insane Clown Posse (ICP) and the worldwide opaque brother and sisterhood of the Juggalos. The show will revolve around Medlyn’s dark specter versions of ICP songs, male bonding activities, flashlight wrestling, terror and horror, face paint, underground Midwestern horror rap, Faygo showers, clown love, and much more.
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An Evening with Amanda Loulaki and Levi Gonzalez
Choreographers Amanda Loulaki and Levi Gonzalez share an evening premiering two new works. Amanda Loulaki’s solo work explores the ways that the experience of fragmented time through imagery and the body can reconstruct reality. Levi Gonzalez creates a solo for dancer Natalie Green, in which he “performs” the role of director onstage to make transparent the tension and intimacy of the relationships among choreographer, performer, and audience in live performance.
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Missy Mazzoli: Song from the Uproar—The Lives & Deaths Of Isabelle Eberhardt
This multimedia opera premiere by celebrated Brooklyn composer Missy Mazzoli is a unique combination of live musical performance and original films, inspired by the life and writings of early-20th-century explorer Isabelle Eberhardt. With filmmaker Stephen Taylor, librettist Royce Vavrek, stage director Gia Forakis, and NOW Ensemble with mezzo-soprano Abigail Fischer and a vocal ensemble of some of NYC’s finest singers.
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Pam Tanowitz: Untitled (The Blue Ballet)
Choreographer Pam Tanowitz collaborates with renowned new music ensemble FLUX Quartet, putting her new choreography to avant-garde composer Morton Feldman’s challenging String Quartet #1. Featuring Sasha Dmochowski, Jean Freebury, John Heginbotham, Brian Reeder, and Ashley Tuttle.
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Robert Beavers on Markopoulos and the Temenos
Filmmaker Robert Beavers presents an evening of short films by Gregory J. Markopoulos (1928–92). Beavers’s selection of films, including that reveals Markopoulos’s various approaches to the film-portrait, a genre that he developed in relation to his films of Greek myth and films of place in his monumental final work, Eniaios (1947–1991).
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An Evening with Ugly Duckling Presse: Emergency INDEX
Ugly Duckling Presse presents the inaugural edition of Emergency INDEX. This annual print publication features descriptions of new performance in the words of its creators. For this launch event, the editors have invited choreographers, directors, playwrights, and performance artists to create new performance works based on documents from the pages of INDEX 2011.
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Virginia Overton
In her works in sculpture and installation, Virginia Overton employs readily available or repurposed building materials as well as common found imagery in reaction to the particular conditions of the exhibition space and its environs.
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Instrumentals
The Kitchen dips into the Music Program archive and extends its envelope-pushing legacy to a new generation with this weekend of shared double bills. Featuring composers William Basinski and Tristan Perich on Friday evening followed up on Saturday with Mary Halvorson and her septet, with Arthur Russell collaborator and fellow composer Peter Gordon who will conduct a new reading for Russell’s Instrumentals.
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An Evening with The New Inquiry
The New Inquiry—an electronic journal of literary and cultural criticism—will celebrate the release of its second issue Youth. The evening will include a screening of the 1968 film youth-power exploitation classic Wild in the Streets, to be followed by a panel discussion with the journal’s editors and special guests.
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Optipus Laboratory
A weekend of live cinema, sound work, ephemeral projections, and live soundtracks. Organized by Bradley Eros, Friday features audio-visual experimenters Gill Arno, Jonas Asher, Lea Bertucci, MV Carbon, Eros, Victoria Keddie, and Lary Seven. Saturday, Optipus—an NYC media collective composed of Eros, Keddie, and Seven, plus Katherine Bauer, Tim Geraghty, Rachael Guma, Sarah Halpern, Jay Hudson, Rachelle Rahme, and Pancho—present an evening of works.
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An Evening with Douglas Crimp: “Our Kind of Movie”—The Films of Andy Warhol
With “Our Kind of Movie” Douglas Crimp offers the first single-authored book about the full range of Andy Warhol’s films in forty years—and the first since the films were put back into circulation. With readings from the book and screenings of films, Crimp shows us how Warhol’s inventive cinema techniques, his collaborative working methods, and his superstars’ unique capabilities make visible new, queer forms of sociality.
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