General Access Information
Gathering Intention
This occasion is first and foremost a space for gathering across multiple realms–virtual and in person. None of it is possible without IWBWYE’s Access Coordinator Madison Zalopany and the care, commitment, and imagination of all of the access workers, consultants, and friends in bringing this occasion into being. Thank you. We’d also like to deeply thank Dickie Hearts for Access Consultation. Special shout out to Alexis Fagan for elaborating the Low Stim room with artworks and more. Shout out to Finnegan Shannon and Carolyn Lazard for providing seating that are both artworks and access. Thank you Constantine for the haptic touches on the already extant seating too.
Access URL
Livestream connectivity between in-person and online attendance via Zoom. Zoom breakout rooms, including a quiet-only breakout room. Live CART captioning. Online ASL interpretation for performances and breakout rooms. Access doulas providing audio and image description.
Access IRL
Livestream connectivity between in-person and online attendance via Zoom. In-person ASL interpretation for performances as well as an informal conversation among attendees. Access doulas providing audio and image description. Quiet rooms and quiet-er rooms will be open both inside Performance Space as well as outdoors in an area adjoining the courtyard. Wayfinding signage will be provided onsite. A large canopy will provide shade and cover in the event of rain with multiple seating spaces and seating options available, including seating with vibrational transducer frequency tactile input.
Covid Protocol
This is a primarily outdoor and online event, with an outdoor stage and projection screen and indoor spaces including bathrooms and a low-stim room. Many people will be wearing masks. Some of us can’t wear masks, and for others of us masks make communicating impossible. If you can maintain distance while communicating and hanging out, please do. If you can wear a mask please do. “Smile” see-through masks will be available onsite. Please stay home and rest if you’re experiencing Covid-related symptoms. Please attend online with us.
Food
Food will be onsite at Performance Space with gluten-free and vegetarian options.
Bathrooms
ADA all-gender bathrooms are located inside Performance Space on the 4th and 5th floors. These uncaptioned videos show the 4th-floor and the 5th-floor bathrooms.
RSVP
Both in-person and online attendance is free with RSVP. Please RSVP here.
Getting in Touch
If you or a friend require a particular form of support or translation not listed here or in the event descriptions, we would love to connect. Email us at boxoffice@PerformanceSpaceNewYork.org. Advance notice is appreciated and requests made by June 9 will have the best chance of being met.
Venue
Performance Space New York is located at 150 First Avenue at the corner of 9th Street in Manhattan. The courtyard is step-free with a gridded flooring overlaying gravel. A large canopy will provide shade and cover in the event of rain, with multiple seating options available. Animals are welcome.
Audience Travel Fund
Getting around New York City is expensive. For local accessible transport in the form of a Lyft/Uber voucher or reimbursement please fill out this form by June 19.
Getting to Performance Space
Subway
Click each train stop to view a video route to Performance Space New York.
L train to 1st Avenue
6 train to Astor Place
F train to 2nd Avenue
R/W trains to 8 Street Station
4/5/6/N/Q/R trains to Union Square – wheelchair accessible
6/B/D/F/M trains to Bleeker/Broadway-Lafayette Street – wheelchair accessible
Bus Stops
M8– St Marks Place/ 1st Avenue, East 9th Street/1st Avenue
M14a– Avenue A/ East 9th Street
M15– 1st Avenue/ St. Marks Place
Access-A-Ride
Note: If you are new to Access-A-Ride, it may take up to 21 days to process your application. Please plan accordingly.
Parking
Limited street parking is available close to Performance Space New York. Please read street signs carefully. Meter rates are posted on each parking meter, typically $4 for the first hour, and $10.75 for 2-hour increments.
The closest parking garage to Performance Space New York can be found at 310 East 11th Street between First and Second Avenues, 0.2 miles from Performance Space. Please call (212) 475-5262 to inquire about their rates if you are interested.
Weather Contingency
In the event of rain, no ceremonial fire will take place.
Air Quality Contingency
In the event of outdoor Air Quality Index (AQI) numbers projected to reach or exceed 100, this event will be rescheduled or moved to an improvised Zoom room. This event is planned as a hybridized event where our camera crews send multiple angles to Zoom from the Courtyard and our Access Teams are coordinated in and across both spaces. We cannot simply move it all to Zoom in the same ways nor will we move it all inside. No one left behind. We will update all ticket holders on or before June 20th.
Archives: Shows
John Giorno Octopus Series
Performers: Kevin Beasley, Taja Cheek (L’Rain) and Ben Chapoteau-Katz (L’Rain), Eli Keszler, and Moor Mother.
This event celebrates the release of Kevin Beasley’s new publication, A View of a Landscape, published by the Renaissance Society at the University of Chicago. Please join us for a launch event featuring performances by Kevin Beasley, Taja Cheek (L’Rain) Ben Chapoteau-Katz (L’Rain), Eli Keszler, and Moor Mother.
A View of a Landscape pairs a 300-page book and double LP, conceived as equal elements and designed together. The book is an expansive look at Beasley’s work in sculpture, sound, and performance, illuminating how his practice finds its grounding in his family’s land in Virginia, a place that also brings out larger American histories. Along with texts by nine writers with strong ties to the artist, the substantial book features a large array of images that include Beasley’s work and materials from his own amassed visual archive. The double LP features newly recorded tracks by musicians and artists from Beasley’s close creative circles, produced in partnership with London-based record label Hyperdub. The musician’s tracks are uniquely their own, but they all sample recordings that Beasley made, reflecting an ongoing spirit of collaboration.
Contributors:
Book: Andy Battaglia, Kevin Beasley, Daphne A. Brooks, Adrienne Edwards, Leon Finley, Mark Godfrey, Thomas J. Lax, Ralph Lemon, Tiona Nekkia McClodden, Fred Moten
Double LP: Laurel Halo, Jlin, Eli Keszler, L’Rain, Ralph Lemon, Robert Aiki Aubrey Lowe, Kelsey Lu, Jason Moran, Fred Moten, Moor Mother, Okwui Okpokwasili, SCRAAATCH
The publication will be available for purchase on the night, and can also be pre-ordered from the Renaissance Society website.
About
Using the Octopus’s decentralized nervous system as an inspiration for Performance Space New York’s curatorial practice, the John Giorno Octopus Series invites artists and guest curators to organize an evening-length program with several artists working in any number of disciplines. The series is named after legendary performance poet, John Giorno, and continues Performance Space’s legacy of artist-centric programming and creating space for risk-taking.
John Giorno Octopus Series
Using the Octopus’s decentralized nervous system as an inspiration for Performance Space New York’s curatorial practice, the John Giorno Octopus Series invites artists and guest curators to organize an evening-length program with several artists working in any number of disciplines. The series is named after legendary performance poet, John Giorno, and continues Performance Space’s legacy of artist-centric programming and creating space for risk-taking.
John Giorno Octopus Series – Ballroom Has Something To Say: An Ode To Black Queer Men
Performers and Presenters: Michael Roberson, Icon Pony Zion, Rev. Ken Alston Jr., Ricky Tucker, Legendary Kaos Lanvin, and Brad Walrond.
WHAT IS PERFORMANCE? Does it have a politic? Does it have a theology? What are the conditions in which performance opens up spaces of freedom? Tonight we will explore these propositions through the history and narrative of the house/ball ballroom community, an intentional kinship structure that has it’s roots stemming from the Harlem Renaissance, created through the ethos of black trans-women and today has globalized across the world. We will examine this community’s pains, it’s struggles, it’s joys, it’s triumphs, it’s cultural productions, beyond 1990’s documentary PARIS IS BURNING, and Madonna’s vogue song/video, and even beyond the FX television show “POSE” and HBO/MAX’S “LEGENDARY.” We will do this through dialogue, through the black poetics, through the written text, and through the ballroom signature dance form vogue; all through the lens and hermeneutics of the black queer/gay man, an ode to his perseverance, his strengths, his resilience in the face of both struggles and catastrophe. It is a true sentiment, that ballroom really has something to say, to teach the world over about what it means to be human, and the struggle for freedom, in the face of catastrophe.
About Octopus
Using the Octopus’s decentralized nervous system as an inspiration for Performance Space New York’s curatorial practice, the John Giorno Octopus Series invites artists and guest curators to organize an evening-length program with several artists working in any number of disciplines. The series is named after legendary performance poet, John Giorno, and continues Performance Space’s legacy of artist-centric programming and creating space for risk-taking.
John Giorno Octopus Series
Performers: Vanessa Dion Fletcher, Elisa Harkins, Izayotilmahtzin Mazehualli & Marcela Torres.
Using the Octopus’s decentralized nervous system as an inspiration for Performance Space New York’s curatorial practice, the John Giorno Octopus Series invites artists and guest curators to organize an evening-length program with several artists working in any number of disciplines. The series is named after legendary performance poet, John Giorno, and continues Performance Space’s legacy of artist-centric programming and creating space for risk-taking.