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Members’ Event

Walter De Maria Open House and Film Screening

Wednesday, March 22, 2017, 6–8 pm

Event DetailsWednesday, March 22, 6–8 pmFor individual members and above. Join as a member to attend. The New York Earth Room (1977)141 Wooster Street, New York City The Broken Kilometer (1979)393 West Broadway, New York City Celebrate the fortieth anniversary of Walter De Maria’s The New York Earth Room. De Maria’s two permanent installations in New York City will be open to members after hours. As you visit both sites, join Dia’s curators for a reception and special screenings of the artist’s films Bed of Spikes (1968–69) and Hard Core (1969) at Grand Support café, adjacent to The Broken Kilometer. The screenings will take place at 6:15 and 7:15 pm. Ground Support399 West Broadway, New York City RSVP to Irene Koo by March 17 at ikoo@diaart.org or 212 293 5602.

Concert

Hanne Darboven, Opus 17B

Saturday, March 18, 2017, 3 pm
Dia Chelsea

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Event DetailsSaturday, March 18, 2017, 3 pm Dia:Chelsea545 West 22nd StreetNew York City Free with admission. No reservations required. In conjunction with the installation of Hanne Darboven’s Kulturgeschichte 1880–1983 (Cultural History 1880–1983, 1980–83), Dia Art Foundation presents four performances of Darboven’s musical compositions for double bass. Completed in 1984, Wunschkonzert is both a large-scale visual installation and a four-part musical score for double bass, featuring Opus 17A, Opus 17B, Opus 18A, and Opus 18B. Opus 17A was first presented at the 1996 opening of Cultural History 1880–1983 at Dia Center for the Arts. In addition to Opus 17A, Robert Black, who performed the work in 1996, performs the three companion pieces—Opus 17B, Opus 18A, and Opus 18B. All four concerts take place within the installation at Dia:Chelsea to allow visitors to experience a live performance of Darboven’s musical work within the all-encompassing visual impact of her installation.Robert BlackRobert Black is a musician and composer for the solo double bass who collaborates with actors, artists, composers, dancers, musicians, and technophiles. He is a founding and current member of the musical group Bang on a Can All-Stars. Current projects include a Philip Glass commission for a seven-movement solo partita, which includes recited poetry by seven New York-based musicians and poets, and Possessed, a series of solo improvisatory performances in Utah’s rugged landscape. His CD recordings include State of the Bass (O. O. Discs, 1994), Christian Wolff: Look She Said (Complete Works for Bass) (Mode Records, 2002), Giacinto Scelsi: The Works for Double Bass (Mode Records, 2008), and Modern American Bass (New World Records, 2011), in addition to many recordings for Bang on a Can All-Stars (Cantaloupe Records). Black teaches at the Hartt School at the University of Hartford in Connecticut, Manhattan School of Music in New York, and the Festival Eleazar de Carvalho in Brazil.

Dia Talks

Renée Green on Chantal Akerman and On Kawara

Tuesday, March 28, 2017, 6:30 pm
Dia Chelsea

Artists on Artists Lecture Series

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Event DetailsTuesday, March 28, 2017, 6:30 pmDia:Chelsea535 West 22nd Street, 5th FloorNew York City Advance tickets are no longer available. Walk up tickets will be sold based on availability. Renée Green was born in Cleveland in 1959. She has had several recent solo exhibitions including Endless Dreams and Time-Based Streams at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco (2010), and the two-year engagement Pacing at the Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts (2016–18). In 2016, she was selected to organize the Artists Research Laboratory at the Fondazione Antonio Ratti in Como, Italy. Her most recent books include Other Planes of There: Selected Writings (Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 2014), Renée Green: Endless Dreams and Time-Based Streams (San Francisco: Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, 2011), and Ongoing Becomings: Retrospective 1989–2009 (Lausanne: Musée cantonal des Beaux-Arts; Zürich: JRP|Ringier, 2009). Green is a professor at the program in art, culture, and technology at MIT’s School of Architecture and Planning. She lives and works in Somerville, Massachusetts, and New York City.

Poetry Reading

Sylvia Gorelick and Cole Swensen

Tuesday, April 4, 2017, 6:30 pm
Dia Chelsea

Readings in Contemporary Poetry

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Event DetailsTuesday, April 4, 2017, 6:30 pmDia:Chelsea535 West 22nd Street, 5th FloorNew York City Readings in Contemporary Poetry curator, Vincent Katz provided an introduction for the evening's reading. Free for Dia members; $10 general admission; $6 admission for students and seniors Advance ticket purchases recommended. Tickets are also available for purchase at the door, subject to availability. Sylvia Mae GorelickSylvia Mae Gorelick is a poet, writer, and translator based in New York City. Her chapbooks include Olympians, we are breathless (Poetry will be made by all!, 2014) and Seven Poems for Bill Berkson (Kostro Editions, 2009). Her work recently appeared in the anthologies In|Filtration: An Anthology of Innovative Writing from the Hudson River Valley (Station Hill, 2016) and For Bill, Anything: Images and Text for Bill Berkson (Pressed Wafer, 2015). The University of Chicago Press published her translation of Nietzsche’s Journey to Sorrento by Paolo D’Iorio in 2016, and her translation of Stéphane Mallarmé’s Le Livre is forthcoming from Exact Change Press. POEMEmerging somehow into power you see the fog fall in and out of nightand women on the street days go by in a vertigo of willsand wanting some word to reach to reinvent what seeing means once you wake towar in your country and the games are all over you want to shatter but shattering can’t be had life lines moving through us we are only a few hours into dark andalready time disappears through our hands — the truthdoes not exist — it’s everybody’s angel all the things that keep us from thinking there’s a difference between the abstract body we love and the body suddenly precarious sheltered by danger there is nothing outside representation but the trembling core and us inside it Cole SwensenCole Swensen is the author of sixteen books of poetry, including the upcoming On Walking On (Nightboat Books, 2017). Swensen is the recipient of the Iowa Poetry Prize, the San Francisco State Poetry Center Book Award, and a National Poetry Series selection, among others. She has also been a finalist for the National Book Award and the Los Angeles Times Book Award. Also a translator, she has won the PEN USA Award in Literary Translation and has translated over fifteen volumes of contemporary French poetry into English. Swensen is also the coeditor of American Hybrid: A Norton Anthology of New Poetry (W. W. Norton & Company, 2009). She divides her time between Paris and Providence, where she teaches at Brown University. Debordà la derive de la Bièvre de Guy Debord who could sweep through any cityon a curve could river aloft even an old river knotted in the middleof the night can be traced by its heat Debord who refused to followthe meticulous scent only a city could in such debt could a city disarticulate its flickering grid in walking is the destruction of city planning the de- Haussmannization of the mind on an October afternoon filtered light fingering a break in the seal cast aside decades later a group of young peoplegot into the habit of walking a straight line across Paris no matter what buildingsrivers or other obstacles happened to get in their way they unlocked the genetic sequence and not without effect on the English Inclosure Acts ofthe 18th and 19th centuries though this is difficult to document which is oneof its principal strengths.

Dia Talks

Alexandra Munroe on Kishio Suga

Saturday, April 8, 2017, 2:30 pm
Dia Chelsea

Dia Talks

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Event DetailsSaturday, April 8, 2017, 2:30 pm Dia:Chelsea535 West 22nd Street, 5th FloorNew York City Free; no reservations required. Alexandra Munroe is an award-winning author, curator, and scholar, focusing on art, culture, and institutional global strategy. Munroe is the Samsung Senior Curator of Asian Art and Senior Advisor of Global Arts at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York City, where she has led the Guggenheim’s Asian Art Initiative since it was founded in 2006. Under her leadership, the museum has presented groundbreaking exhibitions and scholarly publications on Asian art in a global context and has expanded its mission to study, acquire, and exhibit art from beyond the Western world. Her project Japanese Art after 1945: Scream Against the Sky (1994) is recognized for initiating the field of postwar Japanese art history in the United States. She is currently organizing the exhibition Art and China after 1989: Theater of the World, which opens at the Guggenheim in October 2017.

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