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The work of these three beloved artists challenge us to live more honestly, create more freely, and think more critically about the structures we live within, inspiring us to live more deeply together.
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Michèle Lamy, a total icon of culture – uniquely influencing fields of fashion, design, performance, dance, and activism. She is the co-founder of Owenscorp, acting as designer and muse, shaping the brand’s aesthetic through the blend of performance, art and furniture, spirituality, film, and social and cultural commentary. Her performances are often visceral, poetic, and ritualistic, merging classic styles like cabaret with punk and mystical sensibilities.

Paul McCarthy is one of the most influential artists of our time, whose work encompasses a wide-range of styles and forms like painting, sculpture, multimedia installation, performance, photography, and film and transgresses norms of polite society. His absurdist work invokes a reexamining of our most closely held beliefs around consumerism, capitalism, sex, and authority.

Samuel R. Delany is an acclaimed writer and literary critic born and raised in Harlem, New York City with work expanding beyond definitions of genre. His science fiction novels Babel-17, Nova, Dhalgren, and Stars in My Pocket Like Grains of Sand are widely recognized as literary masterpieces and his ever-relevant 1999 book of essays Times Square Red, Times Square Blue explores the unique 30-year history of porn theatres and public sex in Times Square and the social phenomena of “contact” and “networking”.

Location

150 First Avenue, 4th Floor, Keith Haring Theatre

Theme
FEEL EVERYTHING

Honoring
Michèle Lamy
Paul McCarthy
Samuel R. Delany

Creative Direction
Jordan Tannahill

Gala Chairs
Slobodan Randjelović & Thomas Rom

Cocktail Party—6pm
Dinner by Pinch—8pm
Afterparty—10pm

Questions

If you have any inquiries about purchasing a ticket or table please email us. NOTE: Only single dinner tickets for this year’s Gala available.

In conjunction with We Exist in the Ambivalence of Those Motherfuckers, co-organizers maura nguyen donohue, Lumi Tan, and Anh Vo guest edited Issue #62 of Movement Research Performance Journal, inviting 21 Vietnamese artists, curators, and organizers engaged in experimental performance to contribute reflections on their own work, on historical spaces, performances, and events, or on present concerns. 

To celebrate the launch of the journal, donohue, Tan, Vo, contributor Vu Duc Toan, and MRPJ editor-in-chief Joshua Lubin-Levy will read excerpts from the journal, followed by a screening of the documentary Hanoi Eclipse – The Music of Dai Lam Linh (2010) directed by Barley Norton.