28/01/2017 15:00
28/01/2017 23:45
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Hanne Darboven, Opus 17A
Event DetailsSaturday, January 28, 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.
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January 19 to February 18, 2017
28/01/2017 15:00
28/01/2017 17:00
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Artists on Hanne Darboven
Event DetailsSaturday, January 28, 2017, 3 pm
Dia:Chelsea545 West 22nd StreetNew York City
Books will be available for purchase.
Free with admission. No reservations required.
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03/02/2017 10:00
03/02/2017 11:00
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Friday Morning Viewing
Event DetailsFriday, February 3, 2017, 10–11 amFor all members
Dia:Chelsea541 and 545 West 22nd StreetNew York City
Start your Friday morning with Hanne Darboven and Kishio Suga at Dia:Chelsea. Enjoy the works on view among fellow members over coffee.
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07/02/2017 18:30
07/02/2017 23:45
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Joel Lewis and Edwin Torres
Event DetailsTuesday, February 7, 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.
Joel LewisJoel Lewis’s latest book, My Shaolin: A Poem of Staten Island (Hanging Loose Press, 2016), is a book-length poem that serves as a psychogeographic investigation of the southernmost portion of the New York Archipelago. Previous books include North River Rundown (Accent Editions, 2012), Surrender When Leaving Coach (Hanging Loose Press, 2012), Learning from New Jersey (Talisman House, 2007), Vertical’s Currency (Talisman House, 1999), and House Rent Boogie (Yellow Press, 1992). He edited Bluestones and Salt Hay (Rutgers University Press, 1990), an anthology of contemporary New Jersey poets, as well as On the Level Everyday (Talisman House, 1997), the selected talks of Ted Berrigan, and Reality Prime (Talisman House, 1998), the selected poems of Walter Lowenfels. A social worker by day, he has taught creative writing at the Poetry Project, Rutgers University, and Writer’s Voice. And, for better or worse, he initiated the ill-fated New Jersey Poet Laureate position that was such a headache for Amiri Baraka. With his wife, Rutgers University cinema professor Sandy Flitterman-Lewis, he resides in Hoboken.
At The Bohemian Embassy Bare red balloon in the foyer She has no words except “I'll be there”. But what have I signed up for? Warps of estrangement? “Your paintings of mind-blistering cold snow..." Borrow what you can Night-kissing bitter Turkish cigarettes Of new information & the blur of freaked pigeons Your scheme to condo heating grates…. Seems that nerves do the walking Or large as a lake that burned.
Edwin TorresEdwin Torres came to poetry through performance art in New York City’s East Village in the early 1990s. The neighborhood’s diversity in addition to the combined forces of Dixon Place, Nuyorican Poets Café, and St. Marks Poetry Project shaped his multidisciplinary approach to language. His books include Ameriscopia (University of Arizona Press, 2014), Yes Thing No Thing (Roof Books, 2010), and The PoPedology of an Ambient Language (Atelos, 2007). Fellowships include the Foundation for Contemporary Arts, Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, New York Foundation for Arts, and Poetry Fund. Anthologies include Angels of the Americlypse: New Latin@ Writing (Counterpath Press, 2014), Postmodern American Poetry (W. W. Norton & Company, 2013), and Aloud; Voices From The Nuyorican Poets Café (Holt, 1994). In 2017, Torres will serve as a fellow in the Center for Programs in Contemporary Writing at the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia. He is a member of the electro-lingo band Sowndhaus, and lives in Beacon, New York, with his wife and son.
TADPOLE AT STARLIGHTa small infinityhas appeared on the crest of ignition a curve for all things stolen a swipe at things that magnify
i was infinite for a momenttraveled inside lightless eye rode a width across a legion's pupil molded by something closer than free
about to crash into a million yearsif i could just leave the floating to smaller bugs my fingers now closed my eyes hovering over my keys over each letter
my frogs looking to land on soft ground that's all we want, isn't it a launchpad over stellar indications of messy instability or maybe a drain to edit
to take the universal out of in for all things balanced on lunar surf
the circumstance of delicate cognition telegraphs a step — let me go up to you, now warm in the place i remember, and tired — do you know how — you ask, your answer the one i start with
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08/02/2017 18:30
08/02/2017 20:00
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Screening of Films by Lawrence Weiner
Event DetailsWednesday, February 8, 6:30 pmFor all members
Dia:Chelsea535 West 22nd Street, 5th floorNew York City
Join Dia and Electronic Arts Intermix (EAI) for a screening of Lawrence Weiner’s Blue Moon Over, 2001 and Altered to Suit, 1979. The artist’s moving-image works extend his signature conceptual and language-based practice into cinematic and digital realms. Blue Moon Over explores language through animated motion drawings and text fragments. Restored with a new video transfer in 2011, Altered to Suit is an experimental day-in-the-life-of narrative, as told through playfully dissonant dialogue, image, and sound.
Reception will begin at 6:30 pm, followed by the screening at 7 pm.
RSVP to Irene Koo by February 3 at ikoo@diaart.org or 212 293 5602.
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