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Algorave Arcade

Performance Space New York X Babycastles X LiveCodeNYC

Performance Space New York teams up with artist-run collectives Babycastles and LiveCodeNYC for this special East Village edition of an Algorave inside an Arcade.

Unplug and enjoy the creative side of technology through music and games. We’ll be presenting an Algorave, a code based dance party with visuals and music programmed in real time, inside an arcade filled with games made by independent videogame artists. Using systems built for algorithmic music and visuals, such as IXI Lang, puredata, Max/MSP, SuperCollider, Extempore, Fluxus, TidalCycles, Gibber, Sonic Pi, FoxDot and Cyril, musicians are able to compose and work live, breaking down artificial barriers between the people creating the software algorithms, the people making the music, and the people on the dance floor.

Babycastles
Babycastles is a non-profit artist-run collective with roots in New York’s D.I.Y. culture. We are dedicated to building platforms for diversity in video games culture at every level. We connect the independent game developer community with the broader New York art community, identifying exciting new voices from around the world and providing them exposure to new audiences.

LiveCode.NYC
LiveCodeNYC is a group of coders, designers, gamers, musicians and digital artists who practice performative programming in real time. We view live coding as a methodology that is not medium specific. We organize events including workshops, talks, festivals, and Algoraves. We run these events out of love for making cool things with code. The core of what we do is share live coding, whether discussing types at our meetups or teaching a system one of us built.

Algorave Arcade is co-presented by Performance Space New York with an implementation grant from the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation for the Building Demand for the Performing Arts Program.

Gala 2018

Performance Space New York’s Gala

Honoring Eileen Myles

Visionary Award Anna Deavere Smith

Tribute Deborah Berke Partners

Hosted by Jennifer McSweeney, Michael Stipe

Dinner by Angela Dimayuga

Creative Direction Leilah Weinraub

Editions:
Kerstin Brätsch and Sarah Ortmeyer
Collier Schorr Photograph of Anne Imhof’s Faust
Longsleeve by HBA’s Paul Cupo and Bjarne Melgaard

 

The Gala funds our 2018 programming.

 

Eileen Myles
is a poet, novelist and art journalist. Evolution (poems) will be out from Grove in fall, 2018. Afterglow (a dog memoir) came out in 2017. Other books include Cool for You, I Must Be Living Twice (new & selected poems) and Chelsea Girls, re-released in 2015. They have received grants and awards from the Guggenheim Foundation, Creative Capital, The Foundation for Contemporary Art and in 2016 were awarded the Clark Prize for Excellence in Art Writing. They live in NYC and Marfa TX.

 

 

Anna Deavere Smith

is an actress, playwright, teacher, and author. Her most recent play and film, Notes from the Field, look at the vulnerability of youth, inequality, the criminal justice system, and contemporary activism.

In 2012, President Obama awarded her the National Endowment for the Humanities Medal. She was the recipient of the prestigious 2013 Dorothy and Lillian Gish Prize for achievement in the arts. In 2015, she was named the Jefferson Lecturer, the nation’s highest honor in the humanities. She was the 2017 recipient of the Ridenhour Courage Prize. She was the 2017 recipient of the George Polk Career Award in Journalism.

Smith is the founding director of the Institute on the Arts and Civic Dialogue at New York University, where she is also University Professor at Tisch School of the Arts.

She serves on the boards of the Museum of Modern Art, The Aspen Institute, The Yale School of Drama, The American Museum of Natural History, and the Playwrights Realm.

 

 

Deborah Berke Partners
is a New York–based architecture practice led by partners Deborah Berke, Maitland Jones, and Marc Leff, and senior principals Stephen Brockman and Caroline Wharton Ewing. Together, they distill complex considerations—environmental, social, and aesthetic—to their essence. From visionary master plans to the focused details of interiors, Deborah Berke Partners works at all scales with transformative outcomes. The firm’s most significant work includes the 122 Community Arts Center in New York City; the Distribution Headquarters for Cummins Inc. in Indianapolis; the Rockefeller Arts Center in Fredonia, New York; the interior architecture and design of 432 Park Avenue in New York City; 21c Museum Hotels across the US; the Yale School of Art in New Haven, Connecticut; and numerous residences for private clients. The firm received a National Design Award from the Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum in 2017.

Kiki Ball

 
In 1993, the AIDS Service Center NYC (now Alliance for Positive Change) opened its Lower East Side Drop-In Center in the same building as Performance Space 122. Among the locals impacted by HIV/AIDS—the population the organization supports—are many young LGBTQ people of color who are members of the Kiki scene.
 
Emerging out of the historical House/Ballroom community, the Kiki scene is a highly organized and creative youth-led organization. It centers around so-called houses, with complex kinship structures, that function as vital support systems—support systems that the government and biological families often fail to provide. The underground scene is best known for its lavish balls, where performers present their unique looks and movement styles, competing in different categories for their respective houses. Kiki Ball celebrates 25 years of neighborship between Alliance for Positive Change and Performance Space New York, and the shared believe that community and performative expression can save lives.
 

This event was made possible with support from the Howard Gilman Foundation, Lambent Foundation Fund of Tides Foundation, The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation; and in part by public funds from New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council and New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Andrew Cuomo and the New York State Legislature.

Them

 
The AIDS epidemic had a devastating, lasting impact on the downtown artist community. Some of Performance Space New York’s most influential artists (John Bernd, Ethyl Eichelberger, Ron Vawter, David Wojnarowicz among many others) died prematurely, leaving a gaping hole in this community and a subsequent generation without important mentorship. When Ishmael Houston-Jones first started working on THEM at Performance Space 122 in 1985, with a text by Dennis Cooper and a cacophonous live electric guitar score by Chris Cochrane, it was intended to be a poetic and frank coming-of-age story of gay men. By the time it was first premiered here in 1986, AIDS was ravaging queer communities, and the artists felt it would be disingenuous not to address it in the work. They consequently included coded allusions to the epidemic and turned THEM into one of the most haunting pieces of art that came out of the early AIDS years.
 
*Post-Show Talk with Visual AIDS on June 27.
 

Conceived, directed, and performed by Chris Cochrane, Dennis Cooper, Ishmael Houston-Jones

Featuring Alvaro Gonzalez Dupuy, Johnnie Cruise Mercer, Michael Parmelee, Jeremy Pheiffer, Kensaku Shinohara, Michael Watkiss, and Hentyle Yapp

Them was made possible with support from the Jerome Robbins Foundation, Mertz Gilmore Foundation, Howard Gilman Foundation, Lambent Foundation Fund of Tides Foundation, The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation; and in part by public funds from New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council and New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Andrew Cuomo and the New York State Legislature.

Training Facility

Organized by Arianna Gil
 
By the 1990s, the area around the Astor Place Cube was an epicenter of skateboarding culture. Arianna Gil of the feminist art collective BRUJAS, whose founding members were born and raised on the Lower East Side, remembers her first skateboarding adventures in the neighborhood’s many empty lots, most of which have now been developed. To compensate for Manhattan’s limited skateboarding opportunities in 2018, BRUJAS (Robin Giordani, Antonia Perez, Tabby Wakes, Sarah Snider, Ripley Soprano, Myles Sales, Taj Williams, Orlando Gil, Miles Giordani) invites industrial designer Jonathan Olivares to build a skate park in Performance Space New York’s new theater. People with a passion for skateboarding and radical politics are invited to join open skate sessions and sign up for collaborative peer-based workshops.
 
Schedule

8pm – 1am

BRUJAS hosts their third annual Anti-Prom, as part of Red Bull Music Festival New York. 18+, no social media, and the dance floor is phone free zone. Featuring: Young M.A, La Gooney Chonga, Killavesi, Tabby Wakes, Slim Poppins, Sly C, Gods Wisdom, No Intimate, gnarianna, Flex Lang, Cofaxx

Open Skate | 12pm – 4pm
Workshop | 4pm – 6pm
Direct Action gets the goods

Organized by LJ Amsterdam
Direct Action is the practice of organizing each other to live as though we were already free. Together we’ll build a brave space to practice tactics for civil disobedience, strategies for community defense, and ways to use our bodies to build power.

Open Skate | 12pm – 6pm

Open Skate | 12pm – 6pm

Open Skate | 12pm – 6pm

Performance | 4pm – 6pm
Zhe Zhe Live
Zhe Zhe, the fictional band from the cult web series Zhe Zhe, plays live. Zhe Zhe is Ruby McCollister as Mona Deliza, Leah Hennessey as Jean D’Arc and Emily Allan as Chewie Swindleburne.

Open Skate | 12pm – 6pm

Open Skate | 12pm – 4pm
Workshop | 4pm – 6pm
Advanced DJ Seminar W/ A-Trak
Organized by A-Trak
If you have some experience DJing, come hang for an advanced learning session with A-Trak, one of the world’s premier battle DJs and founder of Fool’s Gold Records.

Open Skate | 12pm – 6pm

Open Skate | 12pm – 6pm

Open Skate | 12pm – 4pm
Workshop | 4pm – 6pm
Herban Cura: Dyeing with Flowers, Bugs and Bark
Organized by Ana Ratner
Advance registration required
Learn the basics of nature-based dyeing. We will play with different fabrics, mordants, and dyes including indigo, cochineal, osage orange, and more. We will provide strips of fabric, but participants should come with clothing or fabric they are interested in dyeing (only cotton, bamboo, linen, flax, hemp, wool, or silk blends)

Open Skate | 12pm – 4pm
Workshop | 4pm – 6pm
BRUJAS SS18 Collection: Seize Bellevue
Hosted by Emily Allan, Ripley Soprano, Isaac Madison, Arianna Gil
Brujas will host a conversation around their latest SS18 Collection, Seize Bellevue, which calls for a compassionate and radical re-conception of one of our more insidious carceral institutions – the pharmaceutical industry and mental health crisis system.

BRUJAS’ Training Facility was made possible with lead support from our corporate sponsor Red Bull as well as New York City & Company Foundation, Howard Gilman Foundation, Lambent Foundation Fund of Tides Foundation, The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the Rockefeller Brothers Fund; and in part by public funds from New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council and New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Andrew Cuomo and the New York State Legislature. This project was funded in part by a Humanities New York Action Grant.
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