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August 19, 2010 – September 22, 2010

Constructing Views: Experimental Film and Video from Brazil

Part of Exhibition Related
 
Film / Video

In conjunction with the exhibition "Rivane Neuenschwander: A Day Like Any Other," the New Museum presents Constructing Views, a series of contemporary Brazilian film and video that explores relationships between visual art and film, while portraying a playful and poetic perspective on the world. Constructing Views is curated by João Dumans with additional support from Maria Chiaretti, Assistant C... more >

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Saturday, September 4, 2010 | 10:00 AM – 12:00 PM

New Museum First Saturdays for Families: Rivane Neuenschwander: A Day Like Any Other

Part of Exhibition Related, New Museum First Saturdays for Families
 
Family Programs

Brazilian artist Rivane Neuenschwander merges painting, photography, film, sculpture, immersive installations, and participatory actions in the exhibition “A Day Like Any Other.” She stresses the relations between art and viewer in works such as Involuntary Sculptures (2001–10), fifteen small sculptures made out of everyday items (bottle caps, straws, small pieces of paper), created by peopl... more >

Minor

Thursday, September 9, 2010 | 7:00 PM

Initiation: Max G. Morton, Johanna Constantine, Sebastian Mlynarski, and F. Sean Martin

Part of Get Weird, Exhibition Related
 
Music / Performance

Initiation is the first in a series of performances seeking a psychonautic state of consciousness, paralleling the efforts of Brion Gysin’s Dreamachine. The centerpiece of the evening is a reading of Cut-Ups by Max G. Morton. These Cut-Ups of his writings will be accompanied by projected visual Cut-Ups, directed by Sebastian Mlynarski; and live programming, instrumentation, and a dueling audio t... more >

Minor

Friday, September 10, 2010 | 7:00 PM

Margins of Error


Part of Museum as Hub
 
Discussions, Film / Video

This audio-visual extravaganza of the Bidoun Library Project features ahistorical reenactments, misreadings, poorly transferred film screenings, and a slideshow. Presented by the editors of Bidoun, with special guests Fatima Al Qadiri and Anand Balakrishnan.Fatima Al Qadiri is an artist and musician based in New York. Her most recent Bidoun project is “Whatever the Cost,” a photonovel in Kuwai... more >

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Thursday, September 23, 2010 | 7:00 PM

Notations in the Flicker: Brion Gysin’s Text and Image Now

Part of Exhibition Related
 
Discussions

The New Museum hosts two consecutive lectures on topics related to the exhibition “Brion Gysin: Dream Machine.” Emphasizing interdisciplinary, they link Brion Gysin’s work and legacy to contemporary systems and pra... more >

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September 24, 2010 – October 14, 2010

THEM AND NOW: Ishmael Houston-Jones with Chris Cochrane and Dennis Cooper

Part of RE:NEW RE:PLAY
 
Music / Performance

Friday, September 24, 7 p.m. - "WINGING IT" IN HIGH HEELS AND A BLINDFOLD
Friday, October 1, 7 p.m. - US V THEM: A Showcase of Young Improvisers
Friday, October 8, 7 p.m. - SOUND CHECK ’86
Thursday, October 14, 7 p.m. - D...... more >

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Friday, September 24, 2010 | 7:00 PM

“WINGING IT” IN HIGH HEELS AND A BLINDFOLD: A Discussion with Ishmael Houston-Jones, Mark Russell, Terry Fox, and Lucy Sexton: Part of THEM AND NOW

Discussions

A presentation and panel discussion around the performance works of master improviser Ishmael Houston-Jones, “WINGING IT” will include a screening of scenes from Houston-Jones’s past works. Following the screening,... more >

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Saturday, September 25, 2010 | 1:00 PM

Gysin’s Ghost: Poetry Marathon

Part of Exhibition Related
 
Music / Performance

Three generations of poets participate in a daylong poetry reading on the New Museum’s seventh floor. Invited are poets that knew Gysin personally, and who participated in the community surrounding concrete and sound p... more >

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Thursday, September 30, 2010 | 7:00 PM

Counterculture: Volume 24 Launch Event

Part of Special Engagement
 
Discussions

Volume Magazine celebrates the release of issue number 24, which explores the legacy of American ’60s counterculture on today’s mainstream views of technology, the environment, and community. Panelists include Richar... more >

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Friday, October 1, 2010 | 7:00 PM

US V THEM: A Showcase of Young Improvisers: Part of THEM AND NOW

Music / Performance

US V THEM presents an evening of performance from young improvisers of today. Curated by THEM director and choreographer Ishmael Houston-Jones, US V THEM features the work of those who keeping the practice of improvisati... more >

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Saturday, October 2, 2010 | 10:00 AM – 12:00 PM

New Museum First Saturdays for Families: Brion Gysin: Dream Machine

Part of New Museum First Saturdays for Families
 
Family Programs

Explore the exhibition “Brion Gysin: Dream Machine,” and discover how by working simultaneously in a variety of mediums, Gysin invented, collaborated, and subverted with considerable innovations that continue to infl... more >

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Friday, October 8, 2010 | 7:00 PM

SOUND CHECK ’86: Part of THEM AND NOW

Music / Performance

Sparked by an invitation to form the experimental rock band No Safety, Chris Cochrane began to write songs and music for dance in the mid-1980s. Cochrane’s music, both improvised and composed, has been described as “... more >

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Thursday, October 14, 2010 | 7:00 PM

DENNIS AND THE BOYS: Part of THEM AND NOW

Music / Performance

Acclaimed author Dennis Cooper reads selections from his chillingly gruesome, sexually perverse, and affectingly human fiction and poetry written when THEM was originally created and performed. Cooper is the author of te... more >

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Friday, October 15, 2010 | 7:00 PM

A Proposition by Sharon Hayes

Part of Propositions
 
Discussions

Propositions is a public forum that explores ideas in development. Each two-day seminar explores a topic of current investigation in an invited speaker’s own artistic or intellectual practice. Over the course of a semi... more >

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Saturday, October 16, 2010 | 2:00 PM

A Proposition by Sharon Hayes

Part of Propositions
 
Discussions

Propositions is a public forum that explores ideas in development. Each two-day seminar explores a topic of current investigation in an invited speaker’s own artistic or intellectual practice. Over the course of a semi... more >

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Sunday, October 17, 2010 | 3:00 PM

SkowheganTALKS: How to Paint, Write, Teach, be an Activist, and Generally Try to Stay Sane: A Conversation between Carrie Moyer and Mira Schor

Part of Special Engagement
 
Discussions

SkowheganTALKS, a lecture series organized by the Skowhegan School of Painting & Sculpture, features conversations between some of the most influential visual artists working today. The third talk of the second season of... more >

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Friday, October 29, 2010 | 7:00 PM

Get Weird: Xeno and Oaklander / No Fun Acid

Part of Get Weird
 
Music / Performance

The careful, melancholic, and complex songs of Xeno and Oaklander are the product of the brightest duo in the contemporary minimal electronics world. Merging the cold, cinematic aesthetics of artist Liz Wendelbo with the... more >

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Saturday, October 30, 2010 | 3:00 PM

The Female Ghost: Eileen Myles, Renee Gladman, and Laurie Weeks

Three poet/fiction writers have a conversation about the apparitional quality of the female figure in literary history and the flickering presence of the narrator in their own new and upcoming books of fiction. Eileen My... more >

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Friday, November 12, 2010 | 7:00 PM

A Proposition by Young Jean Lee

Part of Propositions
 
Discussions

Propositions is a public forum that explores ideas in development. Each two-day seminar explores a topic of current investigation in an invited speaker’s own artistic or intellectual practice. Over the course of a semi... more >

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Saturday, November 13, 2010 | 2:00 PM

A Proposition by Young Jean Lee

Part of Propositions
 
Discussions

Propositions is a public forum that explores ideas in development. Each two-day seminar explores a topic of current investigation in an invited speaker’s own artistic or intellectual practice. Over the course of a semi... more >

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Friday, November 19, 2010 | 7:00 PM

Open: a film by Jake Yuzna

Part of New Museum Presents
 
Film / Video

The first American film to receive the Teddy Jury Prize at the Berlin Film Festival, Open presents the new forms of love and sex emerging at the dawn of the twenty-first century. Partially based on the life and work of G... more >

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Sunday, December 12, 2010 | 3:00 PM

Independent Curators International and the New Museum present The Curator’s Perspective: Weng Choy Lee

Part of Special Engagement
 
Discussions

On Sunday, December 12, Weng Choy Lee will speak at The Curator’s Perspective, an itinerant public discussion series that features international curators who distill current happenings in contemporary art, including th... more >

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December 16 – 19, 2010

Untitled Feminist Multimedia Technology Show: A Work-In-Progress by Young Jean Lee’s Theater Company

Part of RE:NEW RE:PLAY
 
Music / Performance, New Media

Thursday, December 16, 7 p.m.
Friday, December 17, 7 p.m.
Saturday, December 18, 3 p.m.
Sunday, December 19, 3 p.m.
In Untitled Feminist Multimedia Technology Show, writer/director Young Jean Lee uses her signature disorient... more >