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Abrazos de Luz

Access Provisions: ASL Interpretation, CART, and Audio Description

Abrazos de Luz is a performance evening showcasing four artists: Koyoltzintli, Alx Velozo, Mónica Palma, and Nima Jeizan, curated by Guadalupe Maravilla. Abrazos de Luz is rooted in the belief that all entities—whether birds, plants, rocks, the ocean, food, animals, buildings, cars, or even a hospital chair—possess intrinsic energy. Guadalupe chose these four artists because of their roles in their communities and who they represent in our society. Animism has been central to many ancient cultures’ spiritual perspectives, and it also plays a pivotal role in this performance event and the artists performing. Maravilla highlights the four artists’ individual artistic practices and their existence as individuals who channel love and empathy into everyone around them. Their energy, and energy like theirs, is especially important right now considering how our world constantly challenges us with unwanted wars, political turmoil, forced migrations, overall mental health issues, and the influx of news and information.

As part of the evening’s rituals, Guadalupe has invited these four artists to perform and bring an offering—a home recipe of a beverage to share with the audience during intermission—to welcome everyone into our space.

Alx Velozo’s Take it explores using their medical records as a performance score, drawing parallels between contemporary medical industrial spaces, peep shows, freak shows, and medical theater.

For this participatory performance, Koyoltzintli will enact an invocation to the four terrestrial energies—fire, earth, water, and air—and the cosmic energy that activates them, known as undifferentiated form, chaos, path, the weaver, and/or love. Four participants will be invited to take part in this invocation by coming to the stage and playing along with her.

Cae mi voz is an active drawing involving ropes and levers that constrain and outline the artist’s movement around an area. Cae mi voz can also be seen as a Rube Goldberg machine, a process that accomplishes by complex means what could otherwise be done simply. The artist uses a pulley system of hand-dyed and braided cochineal rope to move around the room, making clear stops to collect or complete an action. As the performance evolves, a clear unifying thread or braid reminds the viewer that all actions and forces in life are connected.

“Caught between an object and a being (subject), I will become the pomegranate. A chainmail of fruit husks oozes with tie-dyed horse hair filaments. A vacant body, the husk becomes a fruitless vessel, bearing dried seeds that rattle like bones. The rattling echoes a world that is not yet here. The rattling of a glass instrument. I live in the future with the innate knowledge of my past, masquerading as a body in the presence of turbulent times; masquerading as in masking—to shelter, a shell, a husk, a cocoon built for ceremonies; a ball. I wish to transcend the present time, moving into a simultaneously prehistoric and future form. I will become the pomegranate.”

*Please note masks are required for this event.

Performance Space New York Gala 2024

Tickets
 
Location

150 First Avenue, 4th Floor inside our Keith Haring Theatre
 
Concept
Divine Disco

 
Honoring
Clarissa Dalrymple
Catherine Gund

Bill T. Jones
 
Creative Direction
Richard Kennedy

 
Gala Chairs
Jesse Hernreich, Slobodan Randjelović & Thomas Rom
 
Special Performances
Bill T. Jones & Daphne Guinness
 
Hosted by
Document Journal
 
Cocktails—6pm
Dinner by Indochine—8pm
 
Afterparty—10:30pm
 
 
Dress Code
C’est Freak Chic
 
Questions

If you have any inquiries about purchasing a ticket or table please email us.
 

Purchase
 
– Access to our cocktail reception at 6pm (please note the cocktail reception is only one (1) hour long, this does not allow admission into the Gala’s performances and dinner)

– Cocktails and passed hors d’oeuvres

– 1 ticket
– Sponsor an artist seat

– 1 table (8 people)

– 1 table with premier location (12 people)

– 1 table with premier location (18 people) and bottle service


 
Committee
ALOK, Sarah Arison, Cecily Brown & Ivy Shapiro, Art Intelligence Global, Sadie Coles, Paula Cooper, Fairfax Dorn, Alexander Ferrando, Heather Flow, Gladstone Gallery, Meaghan Gragg, Agnes Gund, Jane Hait, Jeremy O. Harris, Karma, Kasmin Gallery, Anton Kern, Mariam Khayretdinova, Jeffrey Lee, Sean Leffers, Hanna Liden, Robert Longo, Kelsey Lu, Jessica Mitrani, Suzanne Modica, Sophie Mörner, Hauser & Wirth, Ted Oberwager, Adam Pendleton, Russell Piccione, Slobodan Randjelović, Thomas Rom, Andrea Rosen, Tanya Selvaratnam, Chloë Sevigny, Thor Shannon, Cindy Sherman, Lauryn Siegel, Andrea Stern, Jesse Smiley, Akeem Smith, Michael Ward Stout, Shannon and Jonathan Winer, Arden Wohl, Mendes Wood DM, David Zwirner
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Performance Space New York Gala 2024

Location

150 First Avenue, 4th Floor inside our Keith Haring Theatre

Honorees
Clarissa Dalrymple + More to come


Hosts
XXX

MC
XXX

Creative Direction

Richard Kennedy

Concept

5th Dimension Disco

Attire

XXX

Red Carpet & Cocktails — 6pm
Dinner — 8pm
After Party — 10:30pm


Questions

If you have any inquiries about purchasing a ticket or table please email us.

BODY WORK

 
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Date/Time
December 19 | 9pm – 4am
 
About
For BODY WORK Performance Space New York partners with The Spectrum to bring together NYC’s queer nightlife community with iconic DJs and performances. The Spectrum has been creating space for openness, letting go and healing on the dance floor since 2011. BODY WORK will be the most legit full circle of The Spectrum’s mission to support performers through nightlife.
 
All proceeds go to supporting our artistic programming in 2024!
 
Live Performances
HYD, Kevin Aviance, Mykki Blanco 
 
DJs
DeSe, Fashion Labeija, Manu Miran, Papi Juice with Ah-Mer-Ah-Su
 
Hosts
Angela Dimayuga, Aya Brown, Cecilia Gentili, Ceyenne Doroshow, Ellery Neon, Faris Saad Al-Shathir, Gage Spex, LEAK NYC, Linux, Monica Mirabile, Ruby Zarsky
 
Performances:
Maxi Hawkeye Canion &
EXULT: Reed Rushes & Kate Williams
 
Location
150 First Avenue, 4th Floor

Tickets!
 
—1 Ticket to BODY WORK

Tickets!
 
—1 ticket to BODY WORK
—1 drink ticket
—Skip the line

Tickets!
 
—1 ticket to BODY WORK
—2 drink tickets
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Purchase
 
—2 House Bottles and Mixers
—7 Tickets
—Skip the line

Purchase
 
—2 Top Shelf Bottles and Mixers
—8 Tickets
—Skip the line


 
If you have any inquiries or questions, please email kirsten@performancespacenewyork.org.

Knowledge Of Wounds presents Raven Chacon

Access Provision: Live ASL interpretation will be provided during the conversation.
 
Organized by S.J Norman (Wiradjuri) and Joseph M. Pierce (Cherokee Nation Citizen) Knowledge of Wounds (KoW) is an autonomous gathering space, a ceremony, a fire, a calling to vibrate in good relations across Indigenous time and space. In this iteration of ongoing programming at Performance Space New York, KoW presents a solo, improvisational noise performance by composer Raven Chacon (Diné), followed by a conversation with scholar and sound artist Hayden Ryan (Yuin).
 
Raven Chacon is a composer, performer and installation artist from Fort Defiance, Navajo Nation. As a solo artist, Chacon has exhibited, performed, or had works performed at LACMA, The Renaissance Society, San Francisco Electronic Music Festival, REDCAT, Vancouver Art Gallery, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Borealis Festival, SITE Santa Fe, Chaco Canyon, Ende Tymes Festival, and The Kennedy Center. As a member of Postcommodity from 2009-2018, he co-created artworks presented at the Whitney Biennial, documenta 14, Carnegie International 57, as well as the 2-mile long land art installation Repellent Fence.
 
Chacon has appeared on more than eighty releases on various national and international labels. Since 2004, he has mentored over 300 high school Native composers in the writing of new string quartets for the Native American Composer Apprenticeship Project (NACAP).
 
Chacon is the recipient of numerous awards, including the 2022 Pulitzer Prize in Music for his composition Voiceless Mass, and is a 2023 MacArthur Fellow.
 
Hayden Ryan is a Yuin sound artist and scholar from the South East Coast of New South Wales, Australia. He is currently studying a Master of Music in Music Technology at New York University, focusing on the integration of immersive and generative audio technologies with Indigenous sonic and spatial relationships. His research explores both the indigenisation and decolonisation of audio technologies, and normative listening frameworks that are present within settler listening settings.
 
Hayden describes his research through these immersive and generative techniques, while confronting First Nations Australian socio-cultural and political issues through signal processing, algorithmic and data composition, and spatialisation. He is currently completing his Master’s thesis, and writing an article proposal on Decolonizing Indigenous Sound Archiving Through Higher Order Ambisonics, for the Audio Engineering Society convention in Madrid, Spain.
 

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