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Jul 25

Radio Collection

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Radio Collection is a performatic installation by Jorge Chikiar with the use of 8 AM and FM modulated radios. The main aim of tuning in broadcasts of different radio dial stations of the NY area is to use the phonemes as part of an embryo of sounds which will give shape to the structure of the work intervened with the collaboration of local artists playing their instruments and processed in real time.

Jorge Chikiar is an Argentine composer,  sound artist and producer. He has presented work at Colon Theater, CETC, Maccarone Gallery, and The Kitchen, among others. Chikiar has produced works for Laurie Anderson, Michael J. Shumacher, Thurston Moore, Jim O’Rourke, David Behrman, Zeena Parkins, Ikue Morí, Steve Reich and more. He has composed works such as Wu Wang for Fractus Ensemble, Granos en el Viento work for Moxenio and Live Electronics, Cracks of Ice, a multichannel acousmatic installation  with sounds recorded in Antarctica. He has collaborated with John King for their Crossing Hemispheres recordings and with Marcelo Toledo to produce the opera The Jungle Within.

 

October 8, 7pm:
Jorge Chikiar clarinet & live electronics
John King viola & live electronics
Ariel Passadore samplers

October 9, 5:30pm:
Jorge Chikiar clarinet & live electronics
Marcelo Toledo Bandoneón, Tibetan trumpet, sakushi.
 Leo Genovese keyboards and saxophones
Ariel Passadore samplers

with
Pablo Gonzalez interface designer
Nicolas Stavorengo electronic engineering

 

Jul 25

Lucy in Limbo

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Lucy in Limbo is a two-part play that sees the build and wake of a cataclysmic storm spanning two decades of a couple’s lives together. Holed up in their New York City apartment, immobilized and mummified in bandages, they find themselves at the mercy of an over-caffeinated journalist as she prods them about their survival. Written by Moze Halperin and Anna Eisley of Onderdonk Collective, Lucy in Limbo finds isolation and horror through the heightened style of traditional American sitcoms.

Jul 25

BUSHWIG 2016

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Welcome to BUSHWIG 2016! – The biggest, queerest & most fabulous festival of drag, music & love in the world. We have moved house again this year to the Knockdown Center a 5000 capacity playground! This year we are creating a paradise island of drag queens, gorgeous food, installations, projections, discos, international DJs, live music & outdoor fun.

Weekend pass for Sep 10 and 11: $60
Saturday Sep 10: $30
Sunday Sep 11: $30

Check BUSHWIG.COM for full line-up!


Music:
TIM SWEENEY (Beats in Space) MACY RODMAN • DJ BEBE • AMBER VALENTINE WOLFGANG TILLMANS (DJ) • CARRY NATION • GAVIN RUSSOM • LAUREN FLAX GLORYHOLE (DFA) • SAFTEY SCISSORS (BPitch) • BROMO • OCCUPY THE DISCO WILL SHERIDAN • DICAP • ZIEMBA • FELIX & THE FUTURE

Drag Queens:
LATRICE ROYALE • LADY BUNNY BOULET BROTHERS • THORGY THOR • HORRORCHATA • UNTITLED QUEEN • MERRIE CHERRY BIBLE GIRL • IMP KID • BON BON • CHRIS OF HUR • AQUARIA • SEVERELY MAME • CHERRY BAUM • LEO GUGU • JUST J • RAUL DE NIEVES • JAKE DIBELER • HANNAH LOU • TYLER ASHLEY • CUP CAKE • ELIZABETH JAMES • RAGAMUFFIN • SCARLET ENVY • BABYHAY ONIO • NEPTUNE ANGEL • METH • ULTRAVIOLET • MINI HORRORWITZ • GLAM OR STEPHANIE
BEBE DELUXE • KELSEY HAGGARD • AMBER ALERT • MS TER • JEFF POULIN • LADY GRACKLE • B HOLLYWOOD • RIFY ROYALTY
• THE MOONBABY • ERIKA KLASH • PATTI SPLIFF • LADY QUESA’DILLA • LADY SIMON • BEBE BERETA • MOMO SHADE • SOIGNE • PANDY • MANIFESTANY SQUIRTZ • MIZ JADE • MALESTIA CHILD • QWEEN AMOR • DREAM • CLAUDIA CLIFFER • BRITA FILTER • RUBY ROO • CAMERON COLE • HOUSE OF FEMANON • MICA • VIVVYANNE • CAMERON COOPER •
BEBE DELUXE • REGGI REGINA • GLACE CHASE • SASHA VELOUR • AVI MUNSTER • VALENTINE STEPHAN • KASHI GOLEAN • FOXY SQUIRE • GAGE OF THE BOONE • CHARLENE • LUCY BALLS • SWITCH & PLAY • CRIMSON KITTY • ELLE EMENOPE • GLOSSY HEATHER ACS • LADY BEARICA ANDREWS • JO JO • MISTY MEANER • YOLANDII FIZZURE • BEVERLY SAGE • K JAMES • HOLLYWOOD SOUTH • JANUARY BONES • DAPHNE SUMTIMEZ • DAPHNE SUMTIMEZ • THE COUNTESS MASCARA • JIZZABELLA • PULP FRICTION • ANNIE B FRANK • HEIDI GLUM • CHER NOBEL • MARY JO • SAM BANKS • DEE DEESCO • PANDY • GOLDIE PEACOCK • ELLEN DEGENERATE • ALOTTA MCGRIDDLES • IVY FERRIYA • AKIRA • BOY GEORGIA • BETTINA JACKSON • PANTHERA LUSH • SUBURBIA • SLATER G STRING • RHONDA JEWELS • MANDY QUINN • BOY WOLF • KIMBERLY CLARK • DUSTY MOORHEAD (BOSTON) • BABYI RADEL • BOBBIE JUPITER STONE • MISS CUNTSRUDE • KANDY MUSE • LADY HAVOKK • FANTASY GRANDMA BEATRIX LESTRANGE • HYSTEE LAUDER • BLAKE DEADLY • PAN DULCE • CICI QUINN • JANTINA PARKER • ZALIKA PARSONS • VIV RED • DAVID SEROTTE

Vendors:
VENDORS: DRAKE.USA • LATIC CLAIRE FLEURY • BCALLA  • TYLER WALLACE STUDIO • CUNT[ESS] •
ALOTTA STUFF  •  LISA NEW YORK THE CLOUT CLUB •
BAD GIRL HARDWARE

Installation:
BALLOON SCULPTURES BY SINA GREINERT

Jul 22

View

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An improvised dance performance in the vast open space of Knockdown Center by Jenna Balfe and Misael Soto, with accompanying flute by Dennis Fuller. The performers create a dance that embodies the continuation of a longer collaboration, alternating between witness and viewer, showing how gaze can empower, reflect, and transform a dialogue. In these times, how we “view” each other can be a matter of life or death. Join us as we meditate upon this subject.

Jul 22

Seed Bombs with non/studio

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Topsoil forms at the rate of about 1 inch every 100 years, the speed of decay and rock fracture. Learn how to find (and fix) phosphorous, potassium and nitrogen in soil, use soil-as-dye and make worm poop seed bombs with non/studio.

We will use red clay, fabric, brushes, soil from different Brooklyn locations, seeds, and worm compost for a free workshop for all ages. Folks will walk away with seed bombs, fabric dyed with soil and a zine about how to test soil for nutrients & pH.

Organized in connection with So much dirt but not enough soil, an exhibition by Loney Abrams and Johnny Stanish.
Jul 05

Fake Accent presents: RUDE GYAL (Mami)

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A fête of the feminine future with an audio/visual ‘spiral up’ for the closing of MAMI with a blessed lineup of womxn-identified DJs.

☯THE FAKE ACCENT COLLECTIVE☯  hosts a special evening as we call upon Mami Wata for wealth, wisdom, emotional guidance, and sexual liberation.

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Jul 05

P2P (Mami)

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Peer-to-peer (P2P) computing is an architectural form of data sharing where personal computers no longer require a dominant central server to receive crucial resources. Rather, they rely on each other in a network of equally privileged systems.

In the world of double dutch, jumpers and turners form a similar internal network of communication, resulting in new forms of empathy and a hyperawareness of each others’ movements and well-being.

P2P, a collaboration between sound artist Dyani Douze, new media artist Salome Asega, and world champion Floyd Little Double Dutch Team, explores the matrilineal structure of the double dutch tradition in America.

Presented as part of MAMI

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Jul 05

MAMI Market

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The MAMI MARKET is an all-day marketplace featuring goods for sale by local womxn-identified//qtpoc artists and entrepreneurs, a lineup of DJ sets, discussions, and workshops. Organized with love by BALTI GURLS, Browntourage, Ladin Awad, Top Rank Magazine, POWRPLNT, and the MAMI Curatorial Team. For*Us*By*Us* This event is presented as part of MAMI, on view at Knockdown Center from August 6 – September 4, 2016.

ALL DAY:
**LEVEL UP YOUR 2-STEP: Aural blessings by DJ Trillnatured, DJ Selam and Jaqi Sparro
**BE THE STAR OF YOUR OWN LIFE: Green Screen photo opp, courtesy of POWRPLNT

1:15-2:15PM:
BALTI GURLS in Conversation- An open discussion facilitated by Baltimore-based WOC arts collective Balti Gurls, in collaboration with Mami Market vendors, collectives, and guests about the politics of “safe space.” Does it exist?//How can it function?//Can it be achieved?

2:30-5:30PM:
SMART GIRL CLUB presents: “A Miidnight Summer’s Dream: Goddess, Siren, Nymph”, a healing workshop. Smart Girl Club is an urban feminist collective based in the arts and community outreach. Founded by Destiny Frasqueri and Milah Libin, Smart Girl Club aims to empower women of all shapes, sizes, colors, sexualities, and orientations by focusing on creative collaboration and celebration between women. For it’s third time, SGC will host a healing workshop led by Destiny and Milah. This workshop will be a light, sweet & intoxicating afternoon of activities such as elemental magic healing, Fairy Magick, Goddess Worship, Self Love, Color & Sound Therapy. Ethereal, Goddess, Witchy Attire is encouraged.
**$5 suggested donation. RSVP AT witchesofhealingrsvp@gmail.com with your name, age, and why you want to participate in the workshop.**

3:45-4:45PM:
TOP RANK MAGAZINE Live Podcast Episode: A conversation with writer Doreen St. Felix, Arianna Gil (brujas) + Ryann Holmes (bklyn boihood), hosted by Isabel Flower and Marcel Rosa-Salas.

5-6PM:
Soul line dance workshop taught by the one and only Empire City Line Dancers. You will learn the latest line dances from around the US, danced to current and classic R&B music. Great introductory workshop for first timers!

7PM:
Performance by Shea Boogie Mizrahi

Jun 20

Long Term Exposure: Transaction closing peformance

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Pat Noecker will set up 10 amps in a circle and execute his tonal sound work called “Long Term Exposure” for the closing of Transaction, an exhibition of 23 suspended personal artifacts organized by Elijah Wheat Showroom. A floor rug and pillow will be positioned in front of each amp in order to provide listeners with an immersive experience where they will be bathed in sustained sine waves over a period of 30 minutes. Long Term Exposure was designed using tone-generating apps with the aim to positively alter the physical body through protracted sound.  The piece grew from Noecker’s experiments playing tone-generating apps, most recently for Hopes And Fears Magazine and at Trans-Pecos.

BIO
RAFT is the sound and music exploration of Pat Noecker. He has been exploring composition through IOS apps and the potentiality of crowd-sourced collage since 2012. Noecker’s projects have received critical acclaim from Rolling Stone, The New Yorker, New York Magazine, Wire, Spin, and numerous other publications and he has performed for MoMA, the Whitney, PS1, the Kennedy Center, the Getty Museum, London ICA, and the San Francisco Fillmore, among many other cultural and underground venues.
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