ArtRx NYC
This week, learn about Ad Reinhardt's travel slides, consider sound as public space, watch 3D-printed boats race in Red Hook, and much more.
This week, learn about Ad Reinhardt’s travel slides, consider sound as public space, watch 3D-printed boats race in Red Hook, and much more.
Distill Like It’s 1799
When: Tuesday, September 20, 7–9pm
Where: Old Stone House of Brooklyn (336 Third Street, Gowanus, Brooklyn)
Have you ever longed to see a demonstration of early American baking and whiskey distillation techniques? No? Why not?? Well, tonight’s your chance, anyway, thanks to the Aaron Burr Society, aka artist Jim Costanzo, who will use a hearth and a copper still while offering “radical revelations” about economics and freedom of speech. Samples will be available, but brace yourself: from what I’ve heard, whiskey distilled by early American methods is not for the faint of heart.
Sharing a Poetic Meal
When: Wednesday, September 21, 6:30pm
Where: James Gallery, CUNY Graduate Center (365 Fifth Avenue, Midtown, Manhattan)
Artist (and Hyperallergic contributor) Chloë Bass makes work about the ways that people interact in public space, refocusing our attention on the decisions we make and the motions we perform without even noticing them. As part of an exhibition celebrating Alison Knowles’s early computer-generated poem “The House of Dust,” Bass has created “a line of domestic materials” that she’ll use throughout the run of the show. On Wednesday night, visitors will be invited to use them too, in the poetic and playful sharing of a meal.
Ad Reinhardt’s Travel Slides
When: Wednesday, September 21, 6:30pm
Where: Residency Unlimited (360 Court Street, Carroll Gardens, Brooklyn)
In addition to spotlighting the artist’s cartoons and reuniting his Black Paintings, David Zwirner’s 2013 Ad Reinhardt exhibition included a selection of his travel slides. Over the course of his career, Reinhardt produced more than 12,000 color images of architectural sites and details, presenting selections of them as “non-happenings.” At Residency Unlimited, artist Antoine Turillon will present a projection based on Reinhardt’s archive that “offer[s] a ‘reading’ of the history of art that becomes globalized, considering that the rules of perception are subjective.” —TM
Pressures of Performance
When: Thursday, September 22–Sunday, September 25 ($15)
Where: The Tank at Standard Toykraft (722 Metropolitan Avenue, Williamsburg, Brooklyn)
Two years in the making, choreographer Nadia Tykulsker’s Saw You Yesterday features four performers engaged in an intense dance of connection and struggle — all while they balance on a large wooden disc, which was built by artist Hiroko Ishikawa and which Tykulsker hand-cranks throughout the performance. Made collectively by the choreographer and dancers, the piece is an unabashedly visceral and emotional examination of “the extremes and the mundanity of what it feels like to be all / smushed together and then put under the microscope of performance.”
Brooklyn’s Native American Roots
When: Thursday, September 22, 6:30–8:30pm (RSVP)
Where: The William Vale (111 N 12th Street, Williamsburg, Brooklyn)
After one year, Marela Zacarías has completed her 20-by-25-foot sculptural installation at the new Williamsburg hotel the William Vale. The sprawling and colorful work, titled “Mannahatta,” is inspired by Native American textiles and takes the shape of Brooklyn’s map. ART21 New YorkClose Up produced a short documentary that follows Zacarías during the making of this work. On Thursday, I will moderate a conversation between the two men behind the documentary, Wes Miller and Nick Ravich, and Zacarías, who, with this work, hopes to remind Brooklyn of its roots. —EWA
Talking About How Space Talks
When: Saturday, September 24, 5–8pm (RSVP)
Where: Eyebeam (34 35th Street, Sunset Park, Brooklyn)
This conversation-symposium-listening session revolves around the issue of how built environments big and small respond to and shape sound, from the way that city vents function as speakers for unseen systems to the way certain buildings are designed to visualize their aural functions. As part of the event, artists Kenya (Robinson) and Doreen Garner will broadcast their radio show #trashDay in the Eyebeam bathrooms. —BS
Bus Festival
When: Sunday, September 25, 11am–6pm
Where: Boerum Place between State Street and Atlantic Avenue (Downtown Brooklyn)
A gathering of buses from across 80 years of New York City transit history will roll up to the annual Atlantic Antic festival in Downtown Brooklyn, care of the New York Transit Museum. Highlights include the 1930s “Betsy” double-decker bus, one of the first buses with air-conditioning, from 1956, and a 1958 General Motors bus that was among the last to have two-tone green coloring. If you want more vintage transit, the museum will have $1 admission all day. —AM
Red Hook Regatta
When: Sunday, September 25, 1–5pm
Where: Valentino Pier (Red Hook, Brooklyn)
In what’s sure to be a memorable competition, the Red Hook Regatta returns to pit homemade boats against each other, in an effort to invite public reflection on the neighborhood’s history as a shipping port. Organized by Pioneer Works, this is no ordinary boat race: all the boats were constructed using technologies from 3D modeling and printing to laser cutting. The main event is actually restricted to boats with 3D-printed hulls; the General DIY Boat Race has fewer restrictions. While the deadline to enter has passed, those interested in DIY boatmaking can begin prepping for next year by checking out Mare Liberum’s broadsheet on the step-by-step process of building a paper canoe. —CV
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With contributions by Elisa Wouk Almino, Allison Meier, Tiernan Morgan, Benjamin Sutton, and Claire Voon
