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.
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.
Nasty Nigel released his first solo work El Ultimo Playboy: La Vida Y Los Tiempos De Nigel Rubirosa
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.
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
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
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
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.
Outdoors!
A bicycle tour of local galleries ending up at Knockdown for conversation and drink specials! Meet at the Parlour Gallery, 791 Bushwick Avenue (at Dekalb) at 2:30pm! Follow our trip on instagram @sundayscycleclub.
The Parlour / 791 Bushwick Ave
Outlet / 253 Wilson Ave
99¢ plus / 238 Wilson Ave
Hood Gallery / 1397 Myrtle Avenue
Orgy Park / 237 Jefferson St
Signal / 260 Johnson Ave
Present Co. / 254 Johnson Ave
Safe Gallery / 1004 Metropolitan Ave
Interstate Projects / 66 Knickerbocker Ave
TSA / 1329 Willoughby Ave, #2A
Transmitter / 1329 Willoughby Ave, #2A
Underdonk / 1329 Willoughby Ave, #211
Knockdown Center / 52-19 Flushing Ave
Anna Mikhailovskaia hosts a sculpture-making workshop in which participants will create a table-top plaster sculpture. Using found materials, each participant will assemble an armature fixed upon a base. The resulting abstract shape will then be covered in plaster. As a final touch, texture will be created with explorative surface treatments.
Anna will demonstrate a process evident in many of her own sculptures, including some on view in the concurrent exhibition at Knockdown Center. Anna’s work lies somewhere between vernacular buildings, religious objects and architectural fragments. Her carefully crafted, bold, efficient sculptures explore perceptions of scale, weight and surface.
Presented in conjunction with the exhibition Anna Mikhailovskaia & John Schacht through Sunday, June 19, 2016.
RSVP for the wait list to staciemaya@gmail.com or 773.771.2377
