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Play Sets: Imi Knoebel

Saturday, May 4, 2024, 10:30 am
Dia Beacon

Event detailsSaturday, May 4, 202410:30–11:15 am Dia Beacon3 Beekman StreetBeacon, New York Free. Spaces are limited and offered on a first-come, first-served basis. Explore the galleries through in-depth engagements with a single artist or artwork. Each program includes hands-on exercises that invite participants to see, think, and imagine in new ways. On May 4, Dia educators will focus on the work of Imi Knoebel. Recommended for families with children ages five and up. All families participating in the Play Sets program receive free admission to Dia Beacon for the day. For more information, please contact learning@diaart.org.

Performance

Momentum

Friday, May 10, and Sunday, May 12, 2024
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Event detailsFriday, May 10, and Sunday, May 12, 202412 pm Dia Beacon 3 Beekman StreetBeacon, New York Free with museum admission. For the duration of Rita McBride: Arena Momentum at Dia Beacon, an expanding body of artists, performers, writers, musicians, and dancers activates physical and virtual spaces as part of a series of engagements with McBride’s Arena (1997). The activations are guided by the conceptual parameters of Arena’s copyleft license (ɔ). The digital files of Arena are freely available to the public in perpetuity in accordance with this license. Momentum continues this May, following activations in October 2023 and February 2024, with choreographic interludes developed over time by Alexandra Waierstall in close collaboration with dancers from around the world and interactions from the Berlin studio of discoteca flaming star with Michael Mahalchick. Momentum was initiated by Rita McBride, choreographer Alexandra Waierstall, and the experimental performance collective discoteca flaming star (founded by Cristina Gómez Barrio and Wolfgang Mayer). Please note that the Momentum performances will involve nudity. Photography in the Rita McBride: Arena Momentum galleries will not be permitted during the performances. Rita McBride was born in Des Moines and lives in Düsseldorf and California. Since the mid-1980s, she has developed a conceptual, cross-disciplinary, intermedia, and feminist approach to art-making that holds collaboration at its center. Her artwork, Arena, was realized in 1997. Alexandra Waierstall was born in England, raised in Cyprus, and lives in Düsseldorf. Her conceptual choreographic practice attends to the relationships between time, memory, presence, and embodiment. Since 2016, she has choreographed cyclical encounters with Arena. discoteca flaming star (DFS) is a shared interdisciplinary practice based in Berlin. Through conceptual, visual, and musical transfers, DFS creates experimental performances to challenge conventional notions pertinent to public memory. Since 1999, DFS has engaged, informed, and performed with Arena. Momentum collaborators: Amani AlquatraniOlivia AnconaVolker BertelmannStavros GasparatosRandy GibsonRachel GillKimberly GoldingMatilde Guidelli-GuidiJudith JaegerScott JenningsAmy JoshGeorgios KotsifakisSofia LombaAlexis LowryMichael MahalchickEmily MarkertMollie McKinleyIoanna ParaskevopoulouSara PereiraEvangelia RandouDavid ReinfurtRosa SarholzChristina SickingenCourtney SmithDon StahlEftychia StefanouKarolina SzymuraSara TuckerLucia VornheinDan WolfeYing Yun Chen

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Play Sets: Felix Gonzalez Torres

Saturday, May 18, 2024, 10:30 am
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Event detailsSaturday, May 18, 202410:30–11:15 am Dia Beacon3 Beekman StreetBeacon, New York Free. Spaces are limited and offered on a first-come, first-served basis. Explore the galleries through in-depth engagements with a single artist or artwork. Each program includes hands-on exercises that invite participants to see, think, and imagine in new ways. On May 18, Dia educators will focus on the work of Felix Gonzalez Torres. Recommended for families with children ages five and up. All families participating in the Play Sets program receive free admission to Dia Beacon for the day. For more information, please contact learning@diaart.org.

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Play Sets: Louise Lawler

Saturday, May 25, 2024, 10:30 am
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Event detailsSaturday, May 25, 202410:30–11:15 am Dia Beacon3 Beekman StreetBeacon, New York Free. Spaces are limited and offered on a first-come, first-served basis. Explore the galleries through in-depth engagements with a single artist or artwork. Each program includes hands-on exercises that invite participants to see, think, and imagine in new ways. On May 25, Dia educators will focus on the work of Louise Lawler. Recommended for families with children ages five and up. All families participating in the Play Sets program receive free admission to Dia Beacon for the day. For more information, please contact learning@diaart.org.

Special Event

Hudson Valley Free Day

Sunday, May 26, 2024, 10 am–5 pm
Dia Beacon

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Event detailsSunday, May 26, 2024 10 am–5 pm Dia Beacon3 BeekmanBeacon, New York Hudson Valley residents receive free admission to Dia Beacon on the last Sunday of each month. The Hudson Valley encompasses the following counties: Albany, Columbia, Dutchess, Greene, Orange, Putnam, Rensselaer, Rockland, Saratoga, Schenectady, Sullivan, Ulster, Washington, and Westchester. To get tickets for Hudson Valley Free Day please fill out our Free Admission Request. Hudson Valley Free Days at Dia Beacon are made possible by Charlie Pohlad.

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Play Sets: Steve McQueen

Sunday, May 26, 2024, 10:30 am
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Event detailsSunday, May 26, 202410:30–11:15 am Dia Beacon3 Beekman StreetBeacon, New York Free. Spaces are limited and offered on a first-come, first-served basis. Explore the galleries through in-depth engagements with a single artist or artwork. Each program includes hands-on exercises that invite participants to see, think, and imagine in new ways. On May 26, Dia educators will focus on the work of Steve McQueen. Recommended for families with children ages five and up. All families participating in the Play Sets program receive free admission to Dia Beacon for the day. For more information, please contact learning@diaart.org.

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Play Sets: Sol LeWitt

Saturday, June 1, 2024, 10:30 am
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Event detailsSaturday, June 1, 202410:30–11:15 am Dia Beacon3 Beekman StreetBeacon, New York Free. Spaces are limited and offered on a first-come, first-served basis. Explore the galleries through in-depth engagements with a single artist or artwork. Each program includes hands-on exercises that invite participants to see, think, and imagine in new ways. On June 1, Dia educators will focus on the work of Sol LeWitt. Recommended for families with children ages five and up. All families participating in the Play Sets program receive free admission to Dia Beacon for the day. For more information, please contact learning@diaart.org.

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