VIKA KIRCHENBAUER PGM 1
Six experimental shorts by Vika Kirchenbauer, from a seductive address out of a black void to a work on the impossibility of tickling yourself. She is there in person.
Talks in East Village
Talks · East Village — change
VIKA KIRCHENBAUER PGM 2
Four shorts by Vika Kirchenbauer that take on the art economy's labor politics and its complicit institutions, from a welcome address to a study of early public art exhibitions. The filmmaker attends.
Tongo Eisen-Martin + Margaret Randall
A two-poet reading that puts Tongo Eisen-Martin and Margaret Randall on one bill, so you hear both read their own work aloud in a room built for listening.
“And in this heart, which has neither had a cause nor the lack of one”: On Translation, Craft, and Necessity
A reading that turns to translation itself, asking what the craft demands and what makes it necessary. The title's line about a heart with neither cause nor the lack of one sets the tone.
VACANCES
Filmed over ten years at a Provence villa, this documentary follows a bohemian countess grandmother and her strained family around the pool. The filmmaker will be there in person.
PLAYING WITH FIRE: AN ECOSEXUAL EMERGENCY
Annie Sprinkle and Beth Stephens close their ecosexual climate trilogy with a film about fire, narrated partly by a white peacock, and they open each show with a performative "Ecosex 101."
WOMEN IN ANIMATION PGM 1: ANIMATED ANIMALS
Ten shorts spotlighting women in animation, from a silent flower-fairy film to Mary Ellen Bute and Sally Cruikshank, many from 35mm and 16mm. Mindy Johnson and Rachael Guma introduce.
MULTI-MEDIA RESOURCE CENTER PGM 7: PATTERN FILMS, PART 1
Laird Sutton's unscripted 16mm portraits of ordinary people's sexual patterns, made for therapy sessions, with a mood-easing short first. Introduced by archivist Oscar Becher.
Aaron Gilbert: Alex Katz Chair in Painting Artist Talk
A painter talks about his work: intimate scenes of private life set against the fluorescent glow of technocapitalism, in the social realist line of Courbet, Otto Dix, and George Tooker.
"The future exists for the most part in the present": On Poetry, the Avant-Garde, and the Left
A reading stretched over three evenings, taking up how poetry, the avant-garde, and the left meet. The Poetry Project hosts it at St. Mark’s Church.
