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Jan 06

Power Share/Power Surge: A Panel Discussion curated by Christen Clifford

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Power Share/Power Surge: A Panel Discussion on Activism, Aging, Art,  Black Lives Matter, Civil Rights, Intersectional Feminisms, Sexuality, Trans Rights, and more. What can we do? Where do we connect? How can we share power?

Curated and donated by Christen Clifford

Moderated by Stephanie Acosta

Panelists: Ashton Applewhite, Ayana Evans, Buzz Slutzky and Pamela Sneed

This panel, curated by artist and activist Christen Clifford, came about through a consideration of feminism and asking whether there was a difference between identity politics and civil rights, and how we can come together to share our power. Clifford invited four artists and writers to connect, with the definition of  “connect” in mind as “a link to a power supply.”

Christen Clifford is an activist, curator, feminist performance artist, mother and writer whose work includes the PussyBow . She teaches at The New School.

This event is part of a fundraising series of music, performances, and workshops accompanying NASTY WOMEN exhibition, on view at Knockdown Center January 12-15th, 2017. Day time performances are free and open to the public, while evening programming can be experienced through the purchase of a $20 all-access pass that grants you access to every performance happening in the building that evening. Proceeds in benefit of select charities working towards women’s reproductive health and community health initiatives.

Jan 06

RESONATE X CHASM ft. Aurora Halal, Celestial Trax, & more

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RESONATE x CHASM
 An evening of art, music, performance, and activism. A panel discussion focused on social and political engagement in Trump’s America will be followed by live music and DJs.

 

This event is part of a fundraising series of music, performances, and workshops accompanying NASTY WOMEN exhibition, on view at Knockdown Center January 12-15th, 2017. NASTY WOMEN evening programming can be experienced through the purchase of a $20 all-access pass that grants you access to every performance happening in the building that evening. Proceeds in benefit of Callen-Lorde Community Health Center and the New York Immigration Coalition.

 

RESONATE
presented by Solidarity in Action
Aurora Halal
Bergsonist (live)
Ontal
Motiv-A
Heidi Sabertooth
Projected Screening of Masha Tupitsyn – Love Sounds
Educational forum featuring talks by Frankie Decaiza Hutchinson (Discwoman), Kunal Gupta (Babycastles) and New York Immigration Coalition

 

CHASM
Curated by Julia Sinelnikova
COLLAPSING SCENERY (live)
Celestial Trax
Richard Kennedy
Plǝbeian
Malory
JJ Brine
Sandra Cordero
Metagasm
Alfredo Salazar-Caro
Margaret Velvet
Laura Duvall
Dec 30

AdHoc Presents: Machine Girl // Diamond Terrifier Cipher // Deli Girls // Bonnie Baxter + Hisham Bharoocha

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This event is part of a fundraising series of music, performances, and workshops accompanying NASTY WOMEN exhibition, on view at Knockdown Center January 12-15th, 2017. NASTY WOMEN evening programming can be experienced through the purchase of a $20 all-access pass that grants you access to every performance happening in the building that evening. Proceeds go towards select organizations working towards women’s reproductive health and community health initiatives.
Machine Girl

Diamond Terrifier Cipher
(Feat. Miho Hatori, Don Devore, Michael Beharie)

Deli Girls

Bonnie Baxter/Hisham Bharoocha duo

Dec 30

Styles Upon Styles DJs

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This event is part of a fundraising series of music, performances, and workshops accompanying NASTY WOMEN exhibition, on view at Knockdown Center January 12-15th, 2017. NASTY WOMEN evening programming can be experienced through the purchase of a $20 all-access pass that grants you access to every performance happening in the building that evening. Proceeds go towards select organizations working towards women’s reproductive health and community health initiatives.

Styles Upon Styles DJs the Ready Room


 

Dec 30

FUTURE HOST: A Speech Opera

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Knockdown Center is pleased to present Future Host: A Speech Opera, a site-specific sound and performance installation and collaboration of artists across disciplines from China and the United States, premiering January 20-22, 2017.

Absent of actors, Future Host features digitally mastered speech recordings and live performance of original music, spatialized to activate an ambulatory experience whereby the audience freely inhabits the space of the performance.

Full press release here.

Performance Schedule

Friday, January 20, 2017 – 8:00pm
Saturday, January 21, 2017 – 3:00pm
Sunday, January 22, 2017 – 6:00pm

Performances start promptly at the times listed, and it is recommended you arrive thirty minutes in advance.

Dec 29

Dreamlands: Expanded – Optipus “The Owl Flies at Twilight”

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For the 10th and final event of “Dreamlands: Expanded“, a series of expanded cinema events organized by Microscope in collaboration with the Whitney Museum of American Art as part of the exhibition “Dreamlands: Immersive Cinema and Art, 1905-2016“, the gallery is thrilled to present a new multi-projection and sound performance The Owl Flies at Twilight composed by the Optipus collective & orchestra in its largest configuration to date featuring 28 artists.

 

New York collective or “media laboratory” Optipus, led by Bradley Eros, hints at the historic demise of analog media and the wisdom resulting from this awareness in their new work titled “The Owl Flies at Twilight”, referencing G.W.F. Hegel’s famous quote. Three distinct movements examine specific connections between vision and sound: Psychedelic, liquid light, and other complex color compositions paired with electronics; Figurative and photographic images coupled with strings; Minimal uses of pure colors, flickers, and gels accompanied by percussion elements. The full list of film and sound artists in this expanding and contracting collective will be announced closer to the date of the performance.

Projections by: Bradley Eros, Lary Seven, Gil Arno, Katherine Bauer, Rachael Guma, Genevieve H-K, Kenneth Zoran Curwood, Joel Schlemowitz, Tim Geraghty, Sarah Halpern, Simon Liu, Alison Nguyen, Lily Jue Sheng, Antonia Kuo, Shona Masarin & Andrew Hurst

Sound by: Michael Evans, David Grollman, Gabriel Guma, Rachael Guma, Victoria Keddie, Scott Kiernan, Zach Layton, Jake Naussbaum, Laura Ortman, Rachelle Rahme, Kevin Shea, Richard Sylvarnes, Mia Theodoratus

About “Dreamlands: Immersive Cinema and Art, 1905-2016”
This fall, the Whitney Museum of American Art presents Dreamlands: Immersive Cinema and Art, 1905–2016, a landmark exhibition that focuses on the ways in which technology has created new forms of immersive experience using the moving image. Artists have dismantled and reassembled the conventions of cinema—screen, projection, darkness—to create new readings of space, optical form, and time. The exhibition will fill the Museum’s 18,000-square-foot Neil Bluhm Family Galleries on the fifth floor, as well as the adjacent Kaufman Gallery, and will include a substantial film program in the Susan and John Hess Family Theater, and a series of expanded cinema events organized by Microscope Gallery in Bushwick, Brooklyn, in collaboration with the Whitney. Organized by Chrissie Iles, the Whitney’s Anne and Joel Ehrenkranz Curator.

Lead Underwriting Support Provided by the Robert D. Bielecki Foundation.
 Generous Support provided by J.J. Kasper, Paul Jost, and Natasha Reatig.

This presentation is made possible in part with public funds from the New York State Council of the Arts’ Electronic Media & Film Presentation Funds grant program, administered by The ARTS Council of the Southern Finger Lakes.

Microscope Gallery Event Series is sponsored, in part, by the Greater New York Arts Development Fund of the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, administered by Brooklyn Arts Council (BAC).

Additional Support provided by Knockdown Center and Negativland.

Sponsored by Colorlab and The Bodega. Official Media Partner: The Brooklyn Rail.

Dec 29

Psychic TV’s Genesis P-Orridge and Edley ODowd DJ Set

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Psychic TV’s Genesis P-Orridge and Edley ODowd DJ the Ready Room

This event is part of a fundraising series of music, performances, and workshops accompanying NASTY WOMEN exhibition, on view at Knockdown Center January 12-15th, 2017. NASTY WOMEN evening programming can be experienced through the purchase of a $20 all-access pass that grants you access to every performance happening in the building that evening. Proceeds go towards select organizations working towards women’s reproductive health and community health initiatives.

 

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