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April 18 to May 18, 2023

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Lisa Cohen and Tiona Nekkia McClodden in Conversation on Chryssa

Thursday, April 27, 2023, 6:30 pm
Dia Chelsea

Event DetailsThursday, April 27, 2023, 6:30 pm Dia Chelsea537 West 22nd StreetNew York, New York Free. Register for the event here. Lisa Cohen and Tiona Nekkia McClodden, contributors to the exhibition catalogue Chryssa & New York, will reflect on Chryssa’s practice in relation to their own work and the challenges of the archive. The discussion will be moderated by exhibition curator Megan Holly Witko. Lisa Cohen’s writing brings together queer poetics and archival research to explore ephemeral, undervalued forms of knowledge and feeling. The author of All We Know: Three Lives (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2012), a finalist for the National Books Critics Circle award, she is completing a book about friendship, grief, HIV/AIDS, and long Enlightenment legacies, as well as a collection of poems. Tiona Nekkia McClodden is a visual artist, filmmaker, and curator whose work explores and critiques issues at the intersections of race, gender, sexuality, and social commentary. McClodden’s interdisciplinary approach traverses documentary film, experimental video, sculpture, and sound installations. Chryssa & New York is co-organized by Dia Art Foundation and the Menil Collection, Houston, in collaboration with Alphawood Foundation at Wrightwood 659, Chicago. The exhibition is co-curated by Megan Holly Witko, external curator, Dia Art Foundation, and Michelle White, senior curator, the Menil Collection, Houston. Public programs are made possible by support from the Consulate General of Greece in New York.

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Tiffany Sia on An-My Lê

Wednesday, May 10, 2023, 6:30 pm
Dia Chelsea

Artists on Artists Lecture Series

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Event DetailsWednesday, May 10, 2023, 6:30 pm Dia Chelsea 537 West 22nd Street New York, New York Free. Register for the event here. Tiffany Sia is an artist, filmmaker, and writer who was born in Hong Kong. She earned a BA in film studies and Asian studies from Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, New York, in 2010. Sia has directed several experimental short films, including Never Rest/Unrest (2020), Do Not Circulate (2021), and What Rules the Invisible (2022). Solo exhibitions of her work have been held at Artists Space, New York, and FELIX GAUDLITZ, Vienna. Her work has also been presented in international group exhibitions at venues including the Museum of Modern Art, New York; Seoul Museum of Art; and Kunstverein Düsseldorf. Sia is the author of the chapbook Salty Wet (2019) and the artist book Too Salty, Too Wet (2021), and her essays have appeared in the journals Film Quarterly and October. She lives in New York.

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Film and Conversation with Linda Goode Bryant and Laura Poitras

Saturday, May 13, 2023, 2 pm
Dia Beacon

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This program is part of Dia Beacon's 20th Anniversary Community Day. Admission to the museum and all activities is free. Visit here to reserve tickets. Artist Linda Goode Bryant and filmmaker Laura Poitras will present footage of their 2003 trip to Beacon, New York, to explore an empty Nabisco box printing factory that would later become Dia Beacon. After the screening, they will discuss their collaborations over the years in a conversation moderated by Donna De Salvo, senior adjunct curator. The event will be held in the Learning Lab on the museum’s lower level. Linda Goode Bryant is an artist and filmmaker, and the founder and president of Project EATS, a living installation transforming vacant lots and rooftops into neighborhood-based farms, with the goals of catalyzing creativity and cultivating greater food sovereignty across New York City. She also founded Just Above Midtown gallery, a laboratory that, from 1974 to 1986, foregrounded the work of African-American artists. She won a Peabody Award for the film Flag Wars (2003) and, in 2020, received an Anonymous Was a Woman Award and a United States Artists Berresford Prize. She is a former Guggenheim Fellow. In 2021, Bryant collaborated with architect Liz Diller to create the installation Are We Really That Different for the exhibition Social Works at Gagosian Gallery, New York. In 2022, she was lead faculty for the RAW Académie Session 9 and related exhibition, in collaboration with the Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA), Philadelphia. She collaborated with curator Thomas J. Lax and curatorial assistant Lilia Rocio Taboada in organizing the exhibition Just Above Midtown: Changing Spaces (2022–23) at the Museum of Modern Art, New York. Laura Poitras is a filmmaker and journalist. Her most recent film, All the Beauty and the Bloodshed (2022), premiered at the Venice Film Festival, where it won the Golden Lion for best film, only the second documentary to win the top prize. The film was also nominated for an Academy Award. Her film CITIZENFOUR (2014) won an Academy Award for best documentary and her journalism exposing the U.S. National Security Agency’s global mass surveillance programs was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for public service. The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, commissioned her first solo exhibition, Astro Noise (2016), which consisted of film and other elements that created an immersive environment. The exhibition was curated by Jay Sanders and commissioned under the leadership of Donna De Salvo, then chief curator and deputy director for programs at the Whitney. In response to Poitras’s post-9/11 reporting, the U.S. government placed her on a terrorist watchlist and interrogated her dozens of times at the U.S. border. In 2015, she successfully sued the government and obtained her classified FBI files. The hundreds of heavily redacted documents reveal that the FBI conducted physical and digital surveillance of her, sent FBI agents to her film screenings, subpoenaed her private communications, and conducted a classified counterintelligence investigation. Despite her watchlist status, Poitras has received recognition for her work, including a MacArthur Fellowship.

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