Shows | Performance Space New York

Community Listening Session

WHAT DOES A CITY BUILT FOR ARTISTS LOOK LIKE?

At a moment when New York is rapidly changing, we want to gather artists, cultural workers, organizers, and community members to think together about a central question:

The session will take place over 90 minutes and is intended as an open exchange between the arts community and the NYC Department of Cultural Affairs.

6:00 – 6:30 Arrivals and mingling
6:30 – 8:00 Conversation and listening
8:00 – 9:30 Afterglow with some refreshments

The evening will also include opportunities for audience members to respond, ask questions, and contribute ideas in conversation with one another and with Commissioner Vij.

We hope to frame this not simply as a forum for revisiting concerns we already know well, but as a genuine opportunity to imagine futures, propose new structures, and articulate ambitious ideas for what New York could become. Commissioner Vij has expressed a sincere interest in listening to artists’ and art workers’ concerns, and we encourage everyone participating to think expansively and constructively about what kinds of policies, spaces, systems, and forms of support artists need in order to truly live, work, experiment, and remain in this city.

WIP 5 MINUTE FEEDBACK FRONT: End of Season Closing Celebration

WIP 5 MINUTE FEEDBACK FRONT: END OF SEASON CELEBRATION

Come celebrate the conclusion of the 2025/2026 Open Movement season with us next Sunday, June 7th, with an open-mic of 5 minute works-in-progress featuring:

Herbert Benjamin
Grace Caiazza
Chelsea Gaspard
Sierra Hendrix
kai’tondre
Dominika Mazurová
Maureen Reardon
Yel Rennalls
Kelly Tsai
Angie Veys
Nisha Virmani

Food and refreshments will be served after. 🖤

Open Movement‘s WIP Feedback Front, a showcase of works in progress from artists, many of whom are part of the Open Movement community. Artists present their projects in a casual, supportive atmosphere to get feedback while the works are still being developed. Audience members are invited to share their responses anonymously, creating open exchange between creators and observers.

Open Movement is curated and organized by Monica Mirabile.

EDGING

Christelle Oyiri (who DJs under the moniker CRYSTALLMESS) hosts and organizes the U.S. debut of EDGING at Performance Space New York, in conjunction with and in celebration of her first solo exhibition, Belief May Vary, at Amant. Oyiri’s EDGING is a performance and musical laboratory with DJ sets and live performances, a high energy collision of experimental electronics, regional club forms, rap, and techno, bringing dancers to a sonic edge.

LINEUP:

BOBBY BEETHOVEN
KLEIN
DJ ZIRK
DANIRO
B0YG1RL
MAK OF MEMPHIS

Art Workers Are Artists Too

Art Workers Are Artists Too is a program performed, run, and designed by technicians, designers, front of house, and other art workers who work at Performance Space New York. The program is a “thank you” to those who help shape the performances and events we present each season. Now in its 5th year, we invite performers to reflect on their time at Performance Space New York and share work that speaks to both sides of their practice—as artists and as art workers.

Holland Andrews + yuniya edi kwon

Holland Andrews returns to PSNY with their collaborator, yuniya edi kwon, in preparation for a performance of How does it feel to look at nothing, an opera co-created and co-directed by the artists, exploring on the forces and conditions that compel life’s emergence and the meanings we make within periods of decay.