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Carl Craig: Party/After-Party Vinyl Launch and Signing

Tuesday, September 13, 2022, 6–8 pm
Dia Chelsea

Event DetailsTuesday, September 13, 2022, 6–8 pm Dia Chelsea 537 West 22nd Street New York, New York Free. This event is currently at capacity. To celebrate the release of the LP box set Carl Craig: Party/After-Party, Dia is hosting a listening party and signing event with Carl Craig, which will feature remarks from the artist and Jessica Morgan, Dia’s director. The LP will be available for purchase for the first time at the launch. In 2020 Dia premiered the large-scale installation and sound work Party/After-Party (2020) by acclaimed Detroit-based techno DJ and producer Carl Craig. This work was Craig’s first commission for an art institution and culminated a five-year engagement with Dia. Party/After-Party (2020) lives on in this box set of two vinyl LPs featuring four tracks of studio versions of the artist’s commission and live recordings at Dia Beacon. The LPs are supplemented by a sixteen-page booklet of liner notes that include an introduction to the project by exhibition curator Kelly Kivland; a note on the work’s technical components by Dia’s manager of exhibition technology Randy Gibson; a consideration of the work in light of Black musical traditions and the city of Detroit by writer, media theorist, and curator DeForrest Brown, Jr.; and a reflection on the commission by Peter L’Official, associate professor of literature and director of American Studies at Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, New York. This release is made possible, in part, by generous support from Bottega Veneta. The LP is distributed by Craig’s Planet E Communications. The LP will be available for purchase from Dia’s online bookshop and at Dia Beacon and Dia Chelsea beginning September 13. Carl Craig was born in Detroit in 1969. He began his career in the late 1980s as a DJ and producer, and soon came to prominence within the Detroit techno scene. Craig is frequently acknowledged as one of the field’s most wide-ranging artists, integrating inspirations and sounds from a variety of musical genres into his work. He has released several recordings on both his own Planet E Communications record label, which celebrates its thirtieth anniversary this year. In 2020 Craig’s commission by Dia Art Foundation to create a sound installation was realized in Beacon, New York. In 2021 he collaborated with Bottega Veneta’s creative director, Daniel Lee, to create Runway, a series of site-specific sonic sculptures and minimal light installations at the historic Michigan Building Theater in Detroit. In early 2022 the Carl Craig Synthesizer Ensemble partnered with New York’s Carnegie Hall for the Afrofuturism Festival. Also in 2022, for the 59th Venice Biennale, Craig performed a special set in the naval complex Tese 98, in celebration of artist Stan Douglas’s participation in the Canada Pavilion. Jessica Morgan is Dia’s Nathalie de Gunzburg Director.

Dia Talks

A Conversation with Camille Norment, Stephon Alexander, and Nina Sun Eidsheim

Wednesday, September 14, 2022, 6:30 pm
Dia Chelsea

Camille Norment: Plexus, Context and Constellations

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Event DetailsWednesday, September 14, 2022, 6:30 pm        Dia Chelsea537 West 22nd StreetNew York, New York This event is now sold out. On the occasion of her exhibition Plexus at Dia Chelsea, New York, artist Camille Norment will be joined in conversation by physicist and musician Stephon Alexander and by musicologist and vocalist Nina Sun Eidsheim. They will address the artist’s work in the context of vibration and the metaphysics of sound. Stephon Alexander is a physicist and musician who works between theoretical physics and jazz music. A specialist in the field of string cosmology, Alexander is professor of physics at Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island. In 2001 he co-invented the model of inflation based on higher-dimensional hypersurfaces in string theory called D-branes. Alexander is the author of The Jazz of Physics: The Secret Link Between Music and the Structure of the Universe (2016) and Fear of a Black Universe: An Outsider’s Guide to the Future of Physics (2021). Nina Sun Eidsheim is professor of musicology at the UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music and founder and director of the UCLA Practice-based Experimental Epistemology (PEER) Lab. She is the author of Sensing Sound: Singing and Listening as Vibrational Practice (2015) and The Race of Sound: Listening, Timbre, and Vocality in African American Music (2019), and co-editor of the Oxford Handbook of Voice Studies (2019) and the Refiguring American Music book series for Duke University Press. She received a BA from Agder Music Conservatory, Kristiansand, Norway; an MFA from the California Institute of the Arts (CalArts), Santa Clarita; and a PhD in musicology from the University of California, San Diego. Currently she is working on a book collaboration with Wadada Leo Smith and a multimodel project that maps networks of metaphors structuring musical discourse and practice. Camille Norment was born in Silver Spring, Maryland, in 1970. She received a BA in comparative literature and art history from the University of Michigan in 1992, and an MFA and an MA in Interactive Telecommunications from New York University in 1994 and 1998. She attended the Whitney Independent Study Program from 1994–95. Informed by the sonic, Norment’s practice spans drawing, installation, performance, sculpture, sound, and video. Her work has recently been the subject of solo exhibitions at Oslo Kunstforening, Norway; the Reva and David Logan Center for the Arts, University of Chicago; and Temple Bar Gallery + Studios, Dublin. Several public works by Norment are permanently installed in Norway and Italy. She has recently performed at institutions including the Munch Museum, Oslo (2021); the Renaissance Society, University of Chicago (with Hamid Drake, 2019); and the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis (with Craig Taborn, 2019). Her albums include Toll (2011) and the soundtrack and special edition LP for the film The Haunted (2017/20). Norment represented Norway in the 2015 Venice Biennale and has since participated in the biennials of Kochi-Muziris, India (2016); Montreal, Canada (2016); Lyon, France (2017); and Thailand (2018). She is prorector of research at the Kunsthøgskolen i Oslo (Oslo National Academy of the Arts). She lives in Oslo.

Dia Talks

Naeem Mohaiemen with Marina Tabassum on Diller + Scofidio

Saturday, September 17, 2022, 6:30 pm
Dia Chelsea

Artists on Artists Lecture Series

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Event DetailsSaturday, September 17, 2022, 6:30 pm Dia Chelsea537 West 22nd StreetNew York, New York Free. Register for the event here. In 1998 Diller + Scofidio created Refresh for Dia’s Artist Web Projects series. The work was centered around a dozen live webcams in offices around the world. Diller + Scofidio fabricated a narrative for each location to reflect on the effect of live video on everyday life. For his Artists on Artists lecture, Naeem Mohaiemen has changed the number of sites, time span, and locations referenced in Diller + Scofidio’s project—from twelve offices to one (Marina Tabassum Architects), from one year to one day, and from Western cities to a two-room Dhaka office. The Apple icon from 1998 that was used in Refresh is replaced by the spinning color wheel. Certain signifiers are quixotically off-limits. Waiting for time to pass is the universal constant. The project will be accompanied by a conversation between Mohaiemen and Marina Tabassum. Naeem Mohaiemen combines film, photography, and essays to research forms of utopia and dystopia beginning from South Asia’s two postcolonial markers (1947 and 1971) and radiating outward to transnational alliances and collisions in the Muslim world after 1945. A through line in his work is the family unit as a locus for pain-beauty dyads, abandoned buildings as staging grounds for lost souls, and the necessity of small deviations from the truth to keep on living. He is the author of Prisoners of Shothik Itihash (2014) and Midnight’s Third Child (forthcoming in 2022) and co-editor of Solidarity Must be Defended (2023). Mohaiemen is associate professor of visual arts and concentration head of photography at Columbia University, New York. Marina Tabassum founded the Dhaka-based firm Marina Tabassum Architects in 2005 after ten years as a partner and co-founder of URBANA, Dhaka. She is the founder and chair of the Foundation for Architecture and Community Equity and chair of the Prokritee board. In addition to lecturing widely, Tabassum has taught at Harvard University Graduate School of Design, Cambridge, Massachusetts; Technical University, Delft, Netherlands; University of Texas at Arlington; and BRAC University, Dhaka. She received an honorary doctorate from the Technical University of Munich. Her honors include the Lisbon Triennale Lifetime Achievement Award; the Aga Khan Award for Architecture; the Arnold W. Brunner Memorial Prize from the American Academy of Arts and Letters; the Gold Medal of the French Academy of Architecture; the Soane Medal from Sir John Soane Museum, London; and the Jameel Prize from the Victoria and Albert Museum, London.

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