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Volunteer Ushers Needed

Volunteer Ushers Needed for April 29-May 5

Performance Space 122 is looking for volunteer ushers to assist audience members for our upcoming Spring Season presentation of Ant Hampton’s The Quiet Volume, a collaboration with Tim Etchells, and Cue China (Elsewhere, Offshore).

Performances take place Monday, April 29 – Sunday, May 5 in 2 locations. Our most immediate need is for the NYU Bobst Library location, 70 Washington Square South in New York City. Each day has 2 possible shifts to choose from: 11:30am-4:30pm & 4:00pm-9:00pm. Ushers will set up audience members to experience an automatic, self-generating performance that happens via headphones, iPods and teleprompters. All volunteers will have a chance to experience the performances.

A training session is required either on Sunday, April 28th from 12:00-3:00 pm (snacks provided!) in our Greenpoint offices or through private case-by-case training.

Please RSVP to boxoffice@ps122.org.

Stefan Kaegi on Ant Hampton

Vallejo recently caught up with Stefan Kaegi of Berlin-based Rimini Protokoll and he had this to say about Ant Hampton’s upcoming NY premieres:

Ant Hampton’s pieces are neither installations nor performances, they are experiences in which your environment and the people around you feel so intensely that even the smallest gesture turns into theater. The intimacy of the voices from his headphones are a kind of drug, that make faces and spaces distort to become mirrors of yourself. In The Quiet Volume you merge with an archive of books as if you were in a dream of J. L. Borges. And in Cue China (Elsewhere, Offshore) you travel through a computer-screen to the circumstances of the production of that same screen. Ant Hampton expands your mind to the size of everything you see.

The Quiet Volume was commissioned by Kaegi as part of his project CIUDADES PARALELAS / PARALLEL CITIES, a festival which offers eight perspectives on one city, three times over, and has taken place in Berlin, Buenos Aires, Warsaw and Zurich. Cue China (Elsewhere, Offshore) was also commissioned by Kaegi for the Malta Festival, Poznan – ‘Asian Investments’.

Honoree Gabrielle Hamilton on WNYC

2013 Gala honoree Gabrielle Hamilton was interviewed Friday on the Leonard Lopate show discussing what it takes to open a successful restaurant in New York city.

Gabrielle is being honored alongside two other trailblazing women, Amanda Palmer and Councilwoman Rosie Mendez.

This Weekend: Avant-Garde-Arama!

Don’t miss PS122’s longest running series, on loan to Abrons Art Center:

AVANT-GARDE-ARAMA: NEW MOON
A tribute to the late downtown luminary performance artist Tom Murrin, aka Alien Comic, in celebration of his 27 years of performing in Avant-Garde-Arama.

Performances: April 12 + 13, 8pm | Tickets: $15
At the Abrons Playhouse at Abrons Arts Center, 466 Grand Street, New York City
New York, NY – Curated by Salley May, Avant-Garde-Arama: New Moon is a tribute to the late downtown mentor and luminary performance artist Tom Murrin, who anchored the show for 27 years. This, the first Avant-Garde-Arama variety show since Tom’s death, will feature a stellar lineup of performances and video, featuring different artists each night!

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Mass Live Arts Brings Performance To The Berkshires

If you want an escape from the asphalt jungle this Summer, a new performance festival is starting in Great Barrington, Massachusetts featuring two of our favorite shows from COIL 2013 and a new show by Half Straddle / New York City Players. The program was founded by Ilan Bachrach and in addition to presenting series they also have a residency program in the works:

We are dedicated to presenting large-scale bold new works of contemporary performance in the Berkshires. MLA is also committed to fostering the creation of new American works through development residencies culminating in work-in-progress showings. This residency is for highly-talented companies or performing artists in need of space and time to create new work.

Visit the beautiful new MLA site.