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January 5 to February 4, 2023

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Special Event

Tiffany Lethabo King

Sunday, January 22, 2023, 12 pm
Dia Chelsea

Event DetailsSunday, January 22, 2023, 12 pmDia Chelsea537 West 22nd StreetNew York, New York Free. Register for the event here. In conjunction with Leslie Hewitt at Dia Bridgehampton, scholar Tiffany Lethabo King will present research stemming from her influential book The Black Shoals: Offshore Formations of Black and Native Studies. Tiffany Lethabo King is an educator and scholar. King is associate professor in the women, gender, and sexuality studies department at the College and Graduate School of Arts and Sciences at the University of Virginia, Charlottesville. She is the author of The Black Shoals: Offshore Formations of Black and Native Studies (Duke University Press, 2019) which won the Lora Romero First Book Prize of the American Studies Association. She also co-edited Otherwise Worlds: Against Settler Colonialism and Anti-Black Racism (Duke University Press, 2021). She lives in Charlottesville.

Poetry Reading

Poetry &: Art or Not with Anaïs Duplan and Noelle de la Paz

Saturday, January 28, 2023, 6 pm
Dia Chelsea

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Event DetailsSaturday, January 28, 6 pm Dia Chelsea537 West 22nd StreetNew York, New York Free. Register for the event here. Acclaimed poets and artists Anaïs Duplan and Noelle de la Paz have created Art or Not, a one-time-only game show and screening of short art films. Featuring their new games Critical Meme Analysis and the titular Art or Not, this event will create a critical, intertextual poetic experience of pop and digital culture. With a sharp and knowing blend of the silly and the rigorous, this event is an attempt to respond to scholar Christina Sharpe’s call to “become undisciplined.” Audience participation, written or spoken, mellow or loud, is encouraged, and the artists request that attendees “bring the homies.” About the Artists Anaïs Duplan is a trans* poet, curator, and artist. He is the author of the poetry volumes Take This Stallion (2016) and I NEED MUSIC (2021), as well as the book of essays Blackspace: On the Poetics of an Afrofuture (2020). He is a professor of postcolonial literature at Bennington College, Vermont, and has taught poetry at Columbia University, New York; the New School, New York; and Sarah Lawrence College, Bronxville, New York. He is the recipient of the 2021 QUEER|ART prize for recent work and a 2022 Whiting Award in nonfiction. Noelle de la Paz is a writer, poet, and artist who draws from stories that are inherited, lived, and made up—almost always some combination of the three. Through iterative explorations of form, narrative, and translation, she assembles words and images, plants and food, clay and fire, in an attempt to make visible and interrogate girlness, brownness, languaging, and movements through borders, real and imagined. She lives and works in New York and San Francisco.

Special Event

Hudson Valley Free Day

Sunday, January 29, 2023, 10 am–4 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. 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.

Dia Talks

Andrea Fraser and Claudia Rankine in Conversation

Saturday, February 4, 2023, 4:00 pm
Dia Chelsea

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Event DetailsSaturday, February 4, 2023, 4:00 pmDia Chelsea 537 West 22nd StreetNew York, New York Free. Register for the event here. Andrea Fraser and Claudia Rankine will discuss the intersections between their recent works, This meeting is being recorded (2021) and Just Us: An American Conversation (2020), and their shared interests in subjects such as re-performing conversations, complicating notions of authority, the complex intersections of white privilege and antiracism work, and the emotional and psychological structures within these dynamics. This program is presented in conjunction with Fraser’s solo exhibition at Marian Goodman Gallery New York. Andrea Fraser was born in Billings, Montana in 1965. She is a professor in the department of art at the School of the Arts and Architecture at the University of California, Los Angeles. Since the mid-1980s, her work in the field of institutional critique has investigated the social, financial, and affective economies of cultural organizations, fields, and groups. Combining the site-specific and research-based approaches to conceptualism with feminist investigations of subjectivity and desire, Fraser works across the disciplines of performance, video, text, and a range of other forms. Her work has been exhibited in solo shows at, among others, the Hammer Museum, Los Angeles; the Philadelphia Museum of Modern Art; Kunstlerhaus Stuttgart, Germany; and the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York. Retrospectives of her work have been presented at institutions including the Barcelona Museum of Contemporary Art; and Museo Universitario Arte Contemporáneo, Mexico City; and Museum Ludwig, Cologne, Germany. She has participated in the Venice and Shanghai Biennales; Whitney Biennial; Bienal de São Paulo; and Prospect New Orleans. Her project 2016 in Museums, Money, and Politics (2018) was named the best art book of the decade by ARTnews. She lives in Los Angeles. Claudia Rankine is the author of five books of poetry, including Citizen: An American Lyric (2014) and Don’t Let Me Be Lonely: An American Lyric (2004); three plays, including HELP (2020) and The White Card (2018), which was published by Graywolf Press in 2019; and has collaborated on numerous videos. Her recent collection of essays, Just Us: An American Conversation, was published by Graywolf Press in 2020. She is the co-editor of anthologies including The Racial Imaginary: Writers on Race in the Life of the Mind (2015). In 2016, Rankine co-founded The Racial Imaginary Institute (TRII). A former chancellor of the Academy of American Poets, she is a professor in the creative writing program at New York University. She lives in New York.

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