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November 30 to December 30, 2024

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Play Sets: Steve McQueen


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30/11/2024 10:30 30/11/2024 23:45 America/New_York Play Sets: Steve McQueen Event detailsSaturday, November 30, 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 November 30, 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. Dia Beacon FALSE DD/MM/YYYY Play Sets: Steve McQueen

Poetry Reading

Poetry &: Clear Air with Ben Estes and Ben Vida


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07/12/2024 00:00 07/12/2024 23:45 America/New_York Poetry &: Clear Air with Ben Estes and Ben Vida Event detailsSaturday, December 7, 202412:30 pm, 1:30 pm, and 2:30 pm Dia Beacon3 Beekman StreetBeacon, New York Free with museum admission. Clear Air is a collaborative sound-and-text performance by Ben Estes and Ben Vida, taking place in the Felix Gonzalez-Torres galleries at Dia Beacon. In Estes’s text, performed by Estes, Tom Cole, Randy Danson, and Jane Gregory, formless voices of human awareness travel down beams of light, hang still in midair, appear as shadows on furniture, or are broadcast on radio waves; they may be the voices of spirits caught between worlds. Drawing on spiritualism, concrete poetry, and Quakerism, Clear Air behaves like a text written in the ether. Giving sonic form to Estes’s translucent streams of thought, composer Ben Vida contributes a hypnotic electronic music score. The arrangement of voices and electronics acts to produce an atmosphere of ambient language, abstracted narrative, and vocal texture. Ben Estes is the author of the poetry collections Illustrated Games of Patience (2015) and ABC Moonlight (2022). He is the editor of A Dark Dreambox of Another Kind: The Poems of Alfred Starr Hamilton, with Alan Felsenthal (2013); Photographs: Together & Alone by Karlheinz Weinberger (2020); the 50th anniversary poetry anthology On the Mesa: An Anthology of Bolinas Writing, with Joel Weishaus (2021); and The Sphinx and the Milky Way: Selections from the Journals of Charles Burchfield (2023), among others. Together with Felsenthal, he runs the small literary press the Song Cave. Estes’s paintings were most recently shown at Bad Water, Knoxville; Headstone Gallery, Kingston, New York; James Fuentes Gallery, New York; Kobo Chika, Shibuya, Japan; and Paula Cooper Gallery, New York. Estes lives in Kingston. Ben Vida is a composer, improviser, writer, and artist. His practice encompasses works for voice and ensembles, musique concrète, text-based compositions, and electro-acoustic improvisation. In the mid-1990s he was involved in Chicago’s multifaceted experimental music scene, co-founding the quartet Town & Country. In the mid-2000s he relocated to New York and began producing electronic and systems-based compositions, which focused on psychoacoustics and advanced synthesis techniques, releasing records on PAN and Shelter Press, as well as exhibiting video art, text drawings, and sound installations. Since 2013, he has been composing pieces that combine his interests in group vocalization, durational performance, and typographical scores. In 2023 his piece The Beat My Head Hit, composed for the quartet Yarn/Wire and vocalist Nina Dante, was released on Shelter Press, and this past summer his composition Vocal Trio was released on Blume Editions. Vida teaches in the Sonic Arts MFA program at Brooklyn College. Dia Beacon TURE DD/MM/YYYY Poetry &: Clear Air with Ben Estes and Ben Vida

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Play Sets: Keith Sonnier


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07/12/2024 10:30 07/12/2024 23:45 America/New_York Play Sets: Keith Sonnier Event detailsSaturday, December 7, 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 December 7, Dia educators will focus on the work of Keith Sonnier. 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. Dia Beacon FALSE DD/MM/YYYY Play Sets: Keith Sonnier

Book Launch

Echoes from the Borderlands Book Launch


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11/12/2024 17:00 11/12/2024 23:45 America/New_York Echoes from the Borderlands Book Launch Event details Wednesday, December 11, 20245 pm Dia Chelsea537 West 22nd StreetNew York, New York Free. Spaces are limited; register here. As part of the opening celebration for Echoes from the Borderlands, a poignant, multilayered sound work featured at Dia Chelsea this winter, Dia’s director of publications Kamilah N. Foreman and deputy director of program Humberto Moro hold a conversation with artists Valeria Luiselli, Ricardo Giraldo, and Leo Heiblum. The piece—which runs 24 hours, the time it takes to drive from San Diego and Tijuana off the Pacific Coast to the Gulf of Mexico—blends soundscapes, melodies, archival and field recordings, and interviews to highlight issues like the genocide of native peoples, migration, reproductive rights, and environmental destruction. At its core, the chapbook contains more than just the libretto to the audio in the galleries; it also presents imaginative responses to the border, including a chorus of four voices who provide incisive commentary along the way. A QR code inside the chapbook links to the audio for an immersive reading experience. Valeria Luiselli was born in Mexico City and grew up in South Africa, South Korea, and India. She is the author of the award-winning novels Faces in the Crowd (originally Los ingrávidos, 2011) and The Story of My Teeth (La historia de mis dientes, 2013), as well as essay collections Sidewalks (Papeles falsos, 2012) and Tell Me How It Ends: An Essay in 40 Questions (2017), the latter winning the American Book Award. Her literary work has been translated to over 20 languages and appeared in publications such as Granta, Harper’s Magazine, New Yorker, and the New York Times. Her most recent novel, Lost Children Archive (2019), won several prizes including the Dublin Literary Award; was a finalist for the Kirkus Prize and National Book Critics Circle award; and longlisted for the Booker Prize and Women’s Prize for Fiction. Luiselli has volunteered in federal immigration court, translating testimonies of undocumented, asylum-seeking minors. In 2018, she received an Arts for Justice Fund grant to conduct research and develop a project related to mass incarceration, with which she started a creative writing workshop in a detention center for undocumented minors. A 2019 McArthur Fellow, Luiselli is the recipient of an Emerson Collective grant, a Vilcek Prize for Creative Promise in Literature, and a Guggenheim Fellowship (all 2020). Luiselli teaches at Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, New York, and lives in the Bronx. Ricardo Giraldo works in sound, film promotion, contemporary classical music, audiovisual media, and exhibition design. He is the director of the new podcast division of La Corriente del Golfo. He has directed Cinema23 and its Fénix film awards (2012–19), the latter of which was broadcast on live TV in more than 50 countries, and served as programmer of the Ambulante Documentary Film Festival (2009–10). Having studied music in Mexico and the Netherlands, he has worked as composer-in-residence for the Residentie Orkest of the Hague from 2000 to 2005. His compositions and audiovisual works have been presented in different festivals and venues internationally. From 2006 to 2011, he was consigned to design the permanent exhibition on the Holocaust and other genocides for the Museo Memoria y Tolerancia in Mexico City. Giraldo lives in Mexico City. Leonardo Heiblum is a composer, producer, and sound artist from Mexico City, where he studied piano and composition. He also studied tabla in India, son jarocho in Veracruz, and Latin American music in Argentina. Heiblum has produced for and played with Philip Glass on several records, including The Spirit of the Earth (2002), Concert for the Sixth Sun (2013), and Introducing the Suso/Glass Quartet (2018). One of the most prolific film composers in Mexico, Heiblum has, for the past 20 years, scored over 40 films from all over the world and is a member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. Among his major awards for composition are the Ariel (2009, 2013, and 2014) and Fénix (2016 and 2018), and films with his music have been lauded at the Berlinale, Festival de Cannes, and Sundance Film Festival. He has co-written and co-produced work with Patti Smith and Soundwalk Collective. His Encyclopedia Sonica, an album of music composed from his decades-long archive of field recordings worldwide, was released in 2024. Heiblum lives in Tepoztlán, Morelos.  Dia Chelsea FALSE DD/MM/YYYY Echoes from the Borderlands Book Launch

Learning Program

Saturday Studio at Dia Beacon


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14/12/2024 10:30 14/12/2024 23:45 America/New_York Saturday Studio at Dia Beacon Event detailsSaturday, December 14, 202410:30 am–12 pm Dia Beacon Learning Lab3 Beekman StreetBeacon, New York Free. Spaces are limited; registration opens Friday, December 6, at 9 am. Join a practicing artist for a workshop of art-making, material experimentation, and play at Dia Beacon. Designed for all ages, Saturday Studio is a family-friendly program that is most suitable for children ages five and up. Saturday Studio begins promptly at 10:30 am at Dia Beacon. For more information, please contact learning@diaart.org.  Dia Beacon FALSE DD/MM/YYYY Saturday Studio at Dia Beacon

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Play Sets: Imi Knoebel


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21/12/2024 10:30 21/12/2024 23:45 America/New_York Play Sets: Imi Knoebel Event detailsSaturday, December 21, 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 December 21, 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. Dia Beacon FALSE DD/MM/YYYY Play Sets: Imi Knoebel

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Play Sets: Louise Bourgeois


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28/12/2024 10:30 28/12/2024 23:45 America/New_York Play Sets: Louise Bourgeois Event detailsSaturday, December 28, 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 December 28, Dia educators will focus on the work of Louise Bourgeois. 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. Dia Beacon FALSE DD/MM/YYYY Play Sets: Louise Bourgeois

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Play Sets: Sol LeWitt


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29/12/2024 10:30 29/12/2024 23:45 America/New_York Play Sets: Sol LeWitt Event detailsSunday, December 29, 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 December 29, 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. Dia Beacon FALSE DD/MM/YYYY Play Sets: Sol LeWitt

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