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Everyone is getting into the Critical Halloween mood with Storefront for Art and Architecture, while artists have the option to dispose of their artworks at MoMA PS1. And there's one really big performance mashup scheduled at the Brooklyn Museum this Saturday.
Everyone is getting into the Critical Halloween mood with Storefront for Art and Architecture, while artists have the option to dispose of their artworks at MoMA PS1. And there’s one really big performance mashup scheduled at the Brooklyn Museum this Saturday. That’s just the beginning.
Double Take X
When: Wednesday, October 29, 7pm
Where: Apexart (291 Church Street, Tribeca, Manhattan)
Organized by Hyperallergic Weekend’s Albert Mobilio, Apexart’s Double Take is a series of public readings by renowned authors. The concept is simple: authors are asked to select a partner to discuss an experience they shared together. The result is two stories, each told from a different perspective. Double Take X features Alexandra Chasin, J.C. Hallman, Robert Lopez, James Marcus, Filip Noterdaeme, and Rick Whitaker.
Artists After Occupy
When: Wednesday, October 29, 7pm ($5)
Where: Artists Space (55 Walker Street, Tribeca, Manhattan)
“Artists After Occupy” is a three-way discussion centered on activism and art. Writers Yates Mckee and Chris Kraus join Thomas Gokey, one of the organizers of Rolling Jubilee, a project by Strike Debt. Rolling Jubilee has so far extinguished over $18.5 million in medical and student debt. How? By buying up cheap packages of debt and then abolishing it rather than collecting on it. The talk promises to explore the relationship between art and activism with an “empirical approach”:
What kinds of actual social movements and radical projects are actual artists engaged in today? Do they participate as artists, or is this aspect of their identity incidental to their involvement? Do artists have particular skills and knowledge that can be useful to emancipatory struggles? Conversely, in what ways do artists, wittingly or otherwise, contribute to the cooptation and recuperation of these struggles?
Bob & Roberta Smith: Art Amnesty
When: Open through Sunday, March 8, 2015
Where: MoMA PS1 (22-25 Jackson Avenue, Long Island City, Queens)
In what sounds like a more elaborate version of Michael Landy’s “Art Bin” (2010), Bob & Roberta Smith are now inviting artists to dispose of their work at MoMA PS1. Artists have two options: either throw your work directly into the museum’s dumpsters or have it displayed one last (or first) time on the walls of PS1 for the duration of Art Amnesty (check submission guidelines here). Visitors are also invited to sign one of two pledges: “I PROMISE NEVER TO MAKE ART AGAIN” or “I NEVER WANT TO SEE THIS WORK OF ART AGAIN.”
Utopia School
When: Wednesday, October 29, to Friday, October 31
Where: Flux Factory (39-31 29th Street, Long Island City, Queens)
This week marks the end of Utopia School, a month-long series of workshops and events exploring the questions that “are useful for re-imagining the future.” Final events include a gathering of the Kristiania Salon, a collective for writers to share and discuss their work, and The People’s Kitchen, a standing dinner date for around 35 participants.
MoMA PopRally: Hood by Air
When: Thursday, October 30, 8pm–12am ($25)
Where: The Museum of Modern Art (11 West 53rd Street, Midtown, Manhattan)
The latest MoMA PopRally presents Id, a “performance masquerading as a party ” by design concept Hood by Air (HBA). There’s little in the way of specifics, though like all of MoMA’s PopRally’s, you can be sure it will involve an artful blend of music, performance, and theater. Our advice is to beat the line by buying tickets in advance.
Poltergeist
When: Friday, October 31, 7:30pm ($12)
Where: Museum of the Moving Image (36-01 35th Avenue, Astoria, Queens)
They’re here.
Produced by Steven Spielberg and directed by Tobe Hooper (The Texas Chainsaw Massacre), Poltergeist (1982) follows the great horror tradition of preying on suburban insecurities, with the plot focused on a young family besieged by a series of strange, paranormal events. Terrific, terrifying fun.
Critical Halloween 2014
When: Friday, October 31, 9:30pm–2am ($50)
Where: 80 Greenwich Street (80 Greenwich Street, Lower Manhattan)
Hyperallergic continues its partnership with the Storefront for Art and Architecture by hosting its annual Halloween costume competition. This year’s theme? “I-Relevance.” What does relevance mean in our digital world? Costumes will be featured on Hyperallergic,and there is a special prize for our first-place winner. The party will go on late into the night and tickets include an open bar. See you there!
Brooklyn Performance Combine
When: Saturday, November 1, 7–9pm
Where: The Brooklyn Museum (200 Eastern Parkway, Prospect Heights, Brooklyn)
As part of the Brooklyn Museum’s programming for First Saturdays, Norte Maar is hosting The Brooklyn Performance Combine, a mashup of performances by a range of Brooklyn-based performers, painters, and poets. The list of over 25 participants includes Loren Munk, William Powhida, Tamara Gonzales, Jeff Feld, Paul D’Agostino, Josh Henderson, and the Brooklyn Ballet Youth Ensemble. Performances will apparently be timed:
Each artist will be programmed to begin and end at a time designated through chance operations within the 120-minute interval. At times a poet will be reading while a sound artist is performing. A dancer will enter, perform and depart. Sounds will overlap. There will be silence. Every aspect of the performance will be unrehearsed, live, spontaneous, and uninterrupted. Audiences can come and go as the event clock ticks out of time.
