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
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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.
Terence Tao: Six Math Essentials
Fields Medalist Terence Tao talks with Janna Levin about his first popular book, tracing its six pillars, from algebra as abstraction to the mathematics of change, as a creative way of thinking.
Lecture on the History of Skywriting
Paul Lazar plays the sky itself in Anne Carson's text, moving through song, dance, video and phone calls from love before the Big Bang to bombs in blue air. Comic and poignant.
Archtober: Ancestral Ecologies Sunset Tour
The garden's curators walk you through a site-specific exhibition of new work by the first fellows of a new art and environment fellowship, with the tour timed for sunset.
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."
Panel Discussion: Photography Education
Four people who run photography programs talk about who gets to tell the story: Shahidul Alam of Pathshala, Helen Alonzo Hurtado of Las Fotos Project, Gary Knight of VII, and Michael Kamber.
Shinnecock Oral History Plant Tour
Chenae Bullock, a member of the Shinnecock Nation, leads a walk through the Native Flora Garden, with plants explained through Indigenous traditional ecological knowledge. A small, specific tour.
Talk of the Town: Before New York with Eric Sanderson
Landscape ecologist Dr. Eric Sanderson gives a public lecture on historical ecology, looking at what the land was like before the city. It's held in a historic house.
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.
Before New York: Staten Island
Dr. Eric W. Sanderson reconstructs the original forests, wetlands, and waterways of the place and ties them to today's flooding, climate resilience, and environmental justice.
Marlon James: The Disappearers
A celebration of Marlon James's Booker-finalist novel, in which eight men rehearsing a play are brutally attacked one night and must reckon with the hatred the violence exposed.
LAU NOAH'S "A DECADE OF MIRACLES" - A FOLK OPERA IN DEFENSE OF HUMAN ART
Classical, jazz and folk musicians trade songs by ear and memory, never written down and never improvised. Expect a short film, an early listen to the record, and a live set.
Visions of the American Landscape: An Evening of Films by Allison Janae Hamilton, with Imani Perry in Conversation
A screening of Allison Janae Hamilton's films on the American landscape, followed by a conversation between the artist and Imani Perry. It's a focused pairing of an artist and a thinker.
The Downtown Festival: ART/New York & 3 Downtown Artists + Q&A
Puts Robert Mapplethorpe, Jean-Michel Basquiat and Nan Goldin together on one bill with ART/New York, and a Q&A rounds it out. A screening for anyone drawn to downtown art.
Indigenous Peoples' Day: Native Plant and Bird Tour
Haley Scott and Tecumseh Ceaser of the Metoac Indigenous Collective lead a walk pointing out native birds and plants, and the Indigenous history and cultural meaning tied to them.
Siena’s Bronze Renaissance
A lecture on the molten-metal side of a city known for painting: furnaces, bells, and monuments, with Donatello, Vecchietta, and Francesco di Giorgio among the makers.
DUMMY: A New Play by Walker Caplan
Playwright Walker Caplan reads from DUMMY and talks with Eliza Palter of New Relic Theatre about reimagining the historic "dumb scene," drawing on archival research and library materials.
