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.
This week
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X AMENDMENTS: Carla Kihlstedt, Rafael Osés, Holland Andrews, Gelsey Bell, Anaïs Maviel, Kalyn Harewood, and Dither (Night 2)
An improvised piece for voices, electric guitars, and the audience itself, with the Bill of Rights as its raw material. Kihlstedt, Holland Andrews, and Gelsey Bell are among the performers.
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.
PI RECORDINGS 25th ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATION // Luke Stewart Silt Trio +
Bassist Luke Stewart's Silt Trio, with Brian Settles on tenor and Chad Taylor on drums, joins reedman Daniel Carter to mark a quarter century of an independent creative-music label.
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.
Ravi Coltrane Centennial Celebration
Ravi Coltrane, who has spent years curating his parents' recordings, leads two different quartets, one with Virelles, Douglas and Blake, in the Vanguard's intimate basement room.
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.
PI RECORDINGS 25th ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATION // Jonathan Finlayson Quartet
Trumpeter Jonathan Finlayson leads a tight quartet with Brian Settles on tenor sax, John Hébert on bass and Damion Reid on drums, marking Pi Recordings' 25th anniversary.
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.
Horse Lords, Jules Reidy, Silk Fence
Baltimore quartet Horse Lords are known for tightly interlocking rhythms and adventurous composition, and here they play their new tour program alongside Jules Reidy and Silk Fence.
AVATARS: THE DOMINATRIX SLEEPS TONIGHT
Six shorts spanning four decades, by or with people from the leathersex scene, treat the dominatrix as an elusive figure of artifice. Includes Beth B's band video and overlooked and censored work.
Exhibition Tour: The Lost World: The Art of Minnie Evans
A guided walk through the Minnie Evans exhibition, with the Whitney's own guide helping you read the work up close. A good way to see her art with some context rather than wandering alone.
ABERIKULA
Harris Eisenstadt plays batá drums with pianist Angelica Sanchez and bassoonist Sara Schoenbeck, an unusual trio, in a residency where every night brings a different lineup.
WOMEN IN ANIMATION PGM 2: ON BEING A WOMAN
Nine animated shorts by women, from a 1930s Lotte Reiniger film to Signe Baumane's Birth, with Faith Hubley and Caroline Leaf in between, all on the subject of being a woman.
Exhibition Tour, The Battle of Brooklyn: Fought and Remembered
A guided tour of an exhibition on the first and largest battle of the American Revolution, told through primary sources and led at the Center for Brooklyn History.
PI RECORDINGS 25th ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATION // Dan Weiss Quartet
Drummer Dan Weiss leads a quartet with guitarist Miles Okazaki, trumpeter Adam O'Farrill and vibraphonist Patricia Brennan, marking the label's anniversary in an intimate room with two sets.
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.
Find Your Own Voice: James Brandon Lewis and Anne Waldman // Oliver Lake and Josh Werner // Tuesday Taylor and Melanie Dyer // Taylor Pace and Kokayi
Four poet-and-musician pairings across generations, including James Brandon Lewis with Anne Waldman and Oliver Lake with Josh Werner, in a residency by a Jazz Generations Initiative fellow.
