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Noah Fischer
Performance Breakthrough 2036
(A Speculative Fable)
Co-Commissioned by American Realness and Yale’s Theater magazine
Presented by Gibney
Thursday, January 10, 12:00pm
50 minutes
Gibney
The Theater
280 Broadway (Entrance at 53A Chambers Street)
Manhattan
FREE
RSVP!During the Occupy Wall Street Movement, the artist wandered Zuccotti Park as a talking coin giving voice to the complaints of a faltering democracy in the face of concentrated corporate wealth. Then one day an old Yippie, famous for pie-in-the facing Washington elites, admonished him to leave the comfort of the occupation in search of more productive confrontations. Seven years later in a world now sizzling with conflict and audiences programmed into echo-chambers, Fischer speculates on future performances that could confront dystopia head on and win.
Image courtesy of Noah Fisher
madison moore
unapologetic femme
Co-Commissioned by American Realness and Yale’s Theater magazine
Presented by Gibney
Wednesday, January 9, 4:00pm
50 minutes
Gibney
Studio X
280 Broadway (Entrance at 53A Chambers Street)
Manhattan
FREE
RSVP!
This lecture articulates the stakes, pleasures and lessons of being unapologetically femme, and even downright faggoty, in a world / gay marketplace of desire where femmes are constantly undervalued, desexualized, seen as entertainment — and worse: blocked. Holding an unapologetically femme space is risky. Through fashion and glitter as protest it highlights a conscious decision to clock out of the systems, norms and algorithms that privilege the fascism of white gay masculinity and desire politics.
Photo courtesy of madison moore
Jackson Polys
MANIFEST X
Co-Commissioned by American Realness and Yale’s Theater magazine
Presented by Gibney and in partnership with First Nations Dialogue, and Global First Nations Performance Network
Tuesday, January 8, 4:00pm
50 minutes
Gibney
The Black Box
280 Broadway (Entrance at 53A Chambers Street)
Manhattan
FREE
RSVP!Given our readymade settler colonialism as a public secret, that when probed, amplifies the proliferation of attendant fears that create sites of paralysis — quagmires of cultural appropriation, occlusion, imposter syndrome, inappropriate speech and empathic overreach — what routes for the production of movements can escape impinging on Indigenous bodies and their accomplices? Summoning red flags, Jackson Polys, supported by a host of proxies in a multimedia lecture performance, targets the aporias formed by desiring indigeneity.
NRO initiate at THE NEW RED ORDER PRESENTS: THE SAVAGE PHILOSOPHY OF ENDLESS ACKNOWLEDGEMENT, Whitney Museum June 13, 2018. Performer Jeremy Pheiffer. Photo by Paula Court.
Karyn Recollet
Care, kinship, and the realness of lands’ overflows into the celestial
Co-Commissioned by American Realness and Yale’s Theater magazine
Presented by Gibney and in partnership with First Nations Dialogue, and Global First Nations Performance Network
Sunday, January 6, 12:00pm
50 minutes
Gibney
The Theater
280 Broadway (Entrance at 53A Chambers Street)
Manhattan
FREE
RSVP!This gathering activates ‘kinstillatory’ as an ethic and mode of survivance for Indigenous gathering that evokes futurist gesture of embodying dark matter (our own between spaces) that are the building blocks for kin-in-the-making. What are the desired intentions, ethics, practices and forms of a kinstillatory gathering in Lenape territory? What are the connecting tissues (the dark matter) of an alternative land pedagogy based upon urban Indigenous folx land relations. We explore the practices and protocols of kin-ing, land-ing and involved in the conceptualization of ‘Choreographies of the fall’ (Recollet, 2018). This experience provides an opportunity to share and exchange knowledges and vocabularies (gestural, movement based and other arts informed practices) for the celestial in the body; and in our gatherings.
Dr. des. Nana Adusei-Poku
Das N Baby und ihre Puppe Afrika-
An autobiographical collage
Co-Commissioned by American Realness and Yale’s Theater magazine
Presented by Gibney
Friday, January 4, 4:00pm
50 minutes
Gibney
The Theater
280 Broadway (Entrance at 53A Chambers Street)
Manhattan
FREE
RSVP!Blackness is not monolithic.
There are many ways to be Black.
There are many Diasporas and many Black His/Her/Their – stories.
Many of these diasporas and stories intersect and intertwine.
During the last ten years African American artists have gained stronger representation in European cultural contexts, often whilst local Afro European histories and peoples remain overlooked and marginalized.
When exhibiting and/or performing abroad African American performers encounter these European cultural contexts, and are confronted with viewers who have limited knowledge of local racial discourses, African American history, or Black performance history.
This performative lecture engages with the ways in which Black identity is experienced, through an autobiographical collage, which situates itself outside of the middle passage narrative in order to open gateways of relations, which find seldom address in the US American dominant narrative of Blackness.
Photo by Argenis Apolinario
Bodies on the Gears
Five lecture performances
Curated by Tom Sellar
“There is a time when the operation of the machine becomes so odious, makes you so sick at heart, that you can’t take part…. And you’ve got to put your bodies upon the gears and upon the wheels, upon the levers, upon all the apparatus, and you’ve got to make it stop.”
– Mario Savio, Berkeley, 1964
Artists have been critical agitators in the current movements for social, economic, and political justice—from Occupy to Tahir Square, the Women’s March, Black Lives Matter, and beyond. Their creative interventions have shifted public perceptions of conflicts at pipelines, national borders, and more locally, at museums and cultural institutions.
For this 2019 Discourse series, co-presented with the Yale journal Theater, American Realness invites five writers and artists to reflect on relationships between creative practice and political agency—especially when it comes to live forms.
Bodies are vulnerable subjects under siege today: Black and brown bodies. Women’s bodies. Queer bodies. Migratory and indigenous bodies. Disabled bodies. Muslim bodies. Bodies make movements when they form a protest; bodies also make movements in dance. Do these actions converge?
How can choreographies, theater, and visual culture shape and carry—not just augment—ideas of protest? Can performance and other spaces for live encounters awaken and catalyze and renew—or are our institutions aesthetic tombs, permanently dead to the possibility? Could live arts hold special potential as public assemblies, as rigorously imagined convenings of micro-utopias? What can expressive projections of past and future contribute to the movements of the present? Fresh vocabularies, imagery, or other elements? What examples should we keep in mind?
The five lecture-performances are co-commissioned by Theater magazine, a creative journal published by Yale School of Drama/Yale Repertory Theatre and Duke University Press. The original texts will be published in the Fall 2019 edition (www.theatermagazine.org).
All events are FREE with RSVP.
Dr. des. Nana Adusei-Poku
Das N(eger) Baby und Ihre Puppe Afrika- An autobiographical Collage
Friday, January 4, 4:00pm
Gibney, The Theater
280 Broadway (Entrance at 53A Chambers Street)
Manhattan
Karen Recollet
Care, kinship, and the realness of lands’ overflows into the celestial
Sunday, January 6, 12:00pm
Gibney, The Theater
280 Broadway (Entrance at 53A Chambers Street)
Manhattan
Jackson Polys
MANIFEST X
Tuesday, January 8, 4:00pm
Gibney, The Black Box
280 Broadway (Entrance at 53A Chambers Street)
Manhattan
madison moore
unapologetic femme
Wednesday, January 9, 4:00pm
Gibney, Studio X
280 Broadway (Entrance at 53A Chambers Street)
Manhattan
Noah Fischer
Survival’s Breakthrough Performance
Thursday, January 10, 12:00pm
Gibney, The Theater
280 Broadway (Entrance at 53A Chambers Street)
Manhattan
Emily Marks and Michèle Steinwald
Artists Building a Code of Ethics in the Era of #MeToo
Presented by APAP|NYC 2019 Conference
Friday, January 4, 1:30-3pm
Hilton New York Midtown, Concourse B
1335 6th Ave
Manhattan
FREE
In response to #MeToo and other social justice movements, artists and artistic communities are developing codes of ethics to hold themselves and others accountable, as instances of implicit bias and of explicit harassment gain greater recognition in society and in our field.
Speakers: Elaina Di Monaco (Philadelphia Theatre: A Code of Ethics), Laura T. Fisher (Not in Our House), Emily Marks (Memphis Performing Arts Coalition), Imani Uzuri (We Have Voice), Taja Will (Diversity & Inclusion Committee at Earthdance), with Michèle Steinwald (facilitator).
We respect your participation, at your own comfort level, and encourage the practice of self-care.
Paola Balla, Genevieve Grieves and Emily Johnson
KIN Conversations
Presented by Performance Space New York
in partnership with First Nations Dialogues, BlakDance, Global First Nations Performance Network
Curated by Emily Johnson for KIN
Sunday, January 6, 5:00pm
Tuesday, January 8, 4:00pm
Thursday, January 10, 4:00pm
Performance Space New York
150 First Avenue, 4th Floor
Manhattan
FREE
RSVP!KIN Conversations 1: Center of Center of Center
KIN Conversations 2: Uqamaltaciq, the weight of something
KIN Conversations 3: Qailluqtarr, to act, change or deal with things in various ways – some ways in which are hard to explain
Guided by First Nations artists and scholars—Paola Balla, a Wemba-Wemba and Gunditjmara woman based in Melbourne; Genevieve Grieves, a Worimi woman from Southeast Australia based in Melbourne; and Emily Johnson, a Yup’ik woman from Alaska based in New York City—this series of conversations threads through KIN and like KIN, it weaves through trauma, violence, and history with a generous resolve for the present and future—a commitment to generosity, positive motion, and the kind of deep love that moves forward like the undercurrent of the East River, the Birrarung, the Mnisose…
Please come to all three conversations if you can, as they are accumulative.
Performance Space New York’s presentation of KIN is supported by the Barragga Bay Fund with additional support by the Australian Government through the Australia Council for the Arts, its arts funding and advisory body.
Muriel Miguel / Spiderwoman Theater
Pulling Threads Fabric Workshop
Presented by Performance Space New York
in partnership with First Nations Dialogues, BlakDance, Global First Nations Performance Network
Curated by Emily Johnson for KIN
Monday, January 7, 3:00pm – 9:00pm
Performance Space New York
150 First Avenue, 4th Floor
Manhattan
FREE
RSVP!Led by Muriel Miguel—one of the founders of the legendary Indigenous women’s theater company Spiderwoman Theater—the Pulling Threads Fabric Workshop invites participants to share stories and listen, to stitch together that which has been ripped apart, through storytelling and quilting, and to engage with personal and community stories of violence, healing, and ultimately, renewal. The workshop is open to female identified people only.
Performance Space New York’s presentation of KIN is supported by the Barragga Bay Fund with additional support by the Australian Government through the Australia Council for the Arts, its arts funding and advisory body.
Pepatián ~ Bronx Artists Now
Showcase & Conversation
Co-Presented with Hostos Center for the Arts & Culture
and Bronx Arts Space
Friday, January 4, 10:00am – 3:00pm
Hostos Center for the Arts & Culture
Hostos Community College/CUNY
450 Grand Concourse
The Bronx
Bronx Arts Space
305 E 140th Street #1
The Bronx
FREE / RSVP to pepatian@gmail.com to register for transportation and lunch
Initiated in 2010 and produced by Jane Gabriels, Ph.D., Pepatián ~ Bronx Artists Now: Showcase & Conversation is a network of South Bronx arts and community organizations who pool resources to create unique opportunities for presenters and funders to enjoy the latest works by Latinx and Bronx-based artists. The 2019 Bronx Artists Now: Showcase & Conversation is co-curated with Beatrice Capote and Maleek Washington.
9:00am: Depart from the Hilton Hotel (53rd Street & 6th Ave, Manhattan). Limited seating; must RSVP.
9:45am: Arrive at Hostos Center for the Arts & Culture, Hostos Community College, 450 Grand Concourse
10:00am: Showcase: Cain Collective / Matthew Perez and Coleman Cain, Curet Performance Project / Megan Curet, KAYLA FARRISH / Decent Structures Arts, MICHIYAYA Dance / Anya Clarke and Mitsuko Verdery, Yesenia Fernandez-Selier, Ebony Williams with Jason A. Rodriguez, Candace Thompson-Zachery.
12:15pm: Arrive at Bronx Arts Space, 305 E 140th St (buffet lunch with vegan options provided with RSVP)
1:00pm: Showcase: Beatrice Capote, Myriam Gadri, Kayla Hamilton
2:00-2:30pm: Dancing La Botanica: La Tierra Vive! (the earth is alive), Conversation/Interview with Beatrice Capote and Alicia Díaz: a platform for Latinx choreographers/dance makers that supports the development of new work.
2:30-3:00pm: Publications launch: Curating Live Arts: Critical Perspectives, Essays and Conversation on Theory and Practice (Berghahn Books), and Configurations in Montreal: Performance curation and communities of color (booklet published by Concordia University and Slippage: Performance / Culture / Technology).
3:00pm: Transportation provided
This event is supported, in part, by The Shelley & Donald Rubin Foundation, public funds from the Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council, public funds from the Bronx Council on the Arts though the New York State Council on the Arts Decentralization Program, the New Yankee Stadium Community Benefits Fund, Inc., and the generosity of individual donations to Pepatián.
www.pepatian.org
Images courtesy of participating artists.