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May 9 to June 8, 2022

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Dia Talks

Precious Okoyomon with Gio Escobar on Walter De Maria

May 11, 2022, 6 pm
Dia Chelsea

Event DetailsWednesday, May 11, 2022, 6 pm Dia Chelsea537 West 22nd StreetNew York, New York Free. Register for the event here. Precious Okoyomon was born in London in 1993. They are an artist, poet, chef, and founding member of the cooking collective Spiral Theory Test Kitchen. Okoyomon’s installations, which often incorporate lush plants and soil along with poetry, music, and sculpture, have been exhibited internationally at venues including the Aspen Art Museum, Colorado; Luma Foundation, Arles, France; and Performance Space, New York. Their work is currently on view at the 59th Venice Biennale. They are the author of Ajebota (2016) and But Did U Die (2020), and they have performed their poetry at venues including Club Wonder at Ace Hotel Brooklyn; the Palais de Tokyo, Paris; and Poetry Project, New York. Okoyomon lives in Brooklyn. Gio Escobar was born in Brooklyn in 1995. He is a jazz composer, musician, radio host, and member of the Standing on the Corner ensemble. Escobar has collaborated with Okoyomon on several projects, most recently at the Aspen Art Museum, Colorado, and Luma Foundation, Arles, France. He lives in Brooklyn. The Artists on Artists Lecture Series is organized by Matilde Guidelli-Guidi, associate curator at Dia, with Theodora Bocanegra Lang, curatorial assistant.

Poetry Reading

Poetry &: Lineage and Remembrance with Elisabet Velasquez and Jive Poetic

May 12, 2022, 6–7 pm
Dia Chelsea

Poetry &

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Event DetailsThursday, May 12, 2022, 6–7 pm Dia Chelsea537 West 22nd StreetNew York, New York Free. Register for the event here. Poet Elisabet Velasquez will collaborate with poet and DJ Jive Poetic to throw a party that celebrates love, grief, and the written and spoken word. This event will feature interactive altars to honor the poets and ancestors who guide us from the other side. We offer this event as testament to our continued fight for justice and joy and as a ritual to honor all the love and struggle that makes us possible. About the artists Born in Bushwick, Brooklyn, Elisabet Velasquez is a Boricua writer. Her work has been featured in Muzzle Magazine, Winter Tangerine, Latina, We Are Mitú, Tidal, and more. Her debut novel, When We Make It (2021), was named as a Indie Next selection and a New York Times book to watch for. Jive Poetic is a Brooklyn-based writer, organizer, and educator. He received his BA in media studies from the State University of New York at Buffalo and his MFA in writing and activism from the Pratt Institute, Brooklyn. Jive Poetic is the founder of Insurgent Poets Society and Carnival Slam: Cultural Exchange and a co-founder of the Brooklyn Poetry Slam. In 2017 he became the first recipient of the John Morning Award for Art and Service. He curates and hosts the Friday Night Slam at the Nuyorican Poets Café.

Learning Program

Saturday Studio on the Farm

Saturday, May 14, 2022, 10:30 am
Common Ground Farm

Saturday Studio

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Event DetailsSaturday, May 14, 2022, 10:30 am–12 pm Common Ground Farm79 Farmstead LaneWappingers Falls, New York Join a practicing artist for a free outdoor workshop of art making and exploration offered in partnership with Common Ground Farm. Designed for all ages, Saturday Studio is a family friendly program that is most suitable for children ages 5 and up. Saturday Studio begins promptly at 10:30 am at Common Ground Farm. In the case of inclement weather, the program will take place on Sunday, May 15, from 10:30 am–12 pm. Space is limited and reservations are required. Reservations open on Friday, May 6, at 9 am. Program Guidelines: Families attending Saturday Studio must include at least one adult caretaker; groups should be no larger than six people Wearing a mask outdoors is optional; however, wearing a mask over your nose and mouth is required when indoors Advanced reservations are required; walk-ins will not be accepted An inherent risk of exposure to COVID-19 exists in any public place where people are present; by attending Saturday Studio at Common Ground Farm, you voluntarily assume all risks related to exposure to COVID-19 For more information, email beaconprogram@diaart.org. Common Ground is a nonprofit community farm that works hard to ensure food and educational access to everyone in our community. To learn more about their work, visit commongroundfarm.org. Common Ground runs on the generous support of its community. If you are able, please consider making a donation.

Dia Talks

Camille Norment in Conversation with David Toop

Thursday, May 19, 2022, 6 pm
Dia Chelsea

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Event DetailsThursday, May 19, 2022, 6 pm        Dia Chelsea537 West 22nd StreetNew York, New York Free. Register for the event here. The artist Camille Norment will be in conversation with musician, author, and curator David Toop about Camille Norment: Plexus, the current exhibition at Dia Chelsea. Toop has long engaged with Norment’s practice. He contributed to the Camille Norment: Rapture (2015), and is a contributor to Plexus’s accompanying publication, forthcoming from Dia. Camille Norment was born in Silver Spring, Maryland, in 1970. She received a BA in comparative literature and art history from the University of Michigan in 1992, and an MFA and an MA in Interactive Telecommunications from New York University in 1994 and 1998. She attended the Whitney Independent Study Program from 1994–95. Informed by the sonic, Norment’s practice spans drawing, installation, performance, sculpture, sound, and video. Her work has recently been the subject of solo exhibitions at Oslo Kunstforening, Norway; the Reva and David Logan Center for the Arts, University of Chicago; and Temple Bar Gallery + Studios, Dublin. Several public works by Norment are permanently installed in Norway and Italy. She has recently performed at institutions including the Munch Museum, Oslo (2021); the Renaissance Society, University of Chicago (with Hamid Drake, 2019); and the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis (with Craig Taborn, 2019). Her albums include Toll (2011) and the soundtrack and special edition LP for the film The Haunted (2017/20). Norment represented Norway in the 2015 Venice Biennale and has since participated in the biennials of Kochi-Muziris, India (2016); Montreal (2016); Lyon, France (2017); and Thailand (2018). She is prorector of research at the Kunsthøgskolen i Oslo (Oslo National Academy of the Arts). She lives in Oslo. David Toop’s practice crosses boundaries between sound, listening, music, and materials, and encompasses performances of improvised music, writing, electronic sound, field recordings, curation, sound art installations, and opera. He is the author of eight acclaimed books, including The Rap Attack (1984), Ocean of Sound (1995), Sinister Resonance (2010), and Inflamed Invisible: Writings on Art and Sound, 1976–2018 (2019). Briefly a member of David Cunningham’s pop project the Flying Lizards, Toop has released fourteen solo albums, among them New and Rediscovered Musical Instruments (1975), Sound Body (2006), Entities Inertias Faint Beings (2016), and Apparition Paintings (2021). His 1978 Amazonas recordings of Yanomami shamanism and ritual were released on Sub Rosa as Lost Shadows (2016). In recent years, he has collaborated with Camille Norment, Sidsel Endresen, Alasdair Roberts, Lucie Štěpánková, Fred Frith, Thurston Moore, Ryuichi Sakamoto, and others. He has curated exhibitions of sound art, including Sonic Boom at the Hayward Gallery in London (2000), and his opera Star-shaped Biscuit was performed in 2012 at Snape Maltings, Suffolk, England.

Special Event

Hudson Valley Free Day

Sunday, May 29, 2022, 10 am–5 pm
Dia Beacon

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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. Please contact 845 231 0811 or tickets@diaart.org to reserve tickets. Hudson Valley Free Days at Dia Beacon are made possible by Charlie Pohlad.

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