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Dia Talks

Julia Phillips on Louise Bourgeois

Wednesday, May 1, 2024, 6:30 pm
Dia Chelsea

Event details Wednesday, May 1, 20246:30 pm Dia Chelsea 537 West 22nd Street New York, New York Free; register for the event here. Julia Phillips was born in Hamburg in 1985. Her practice encompasses sculpture, drawing, and video art. Recent solo exhibitions include Failure Detection, MoMA PS1, Queens (2018); and Fake Truth, Kunstverein Braunschweig, Germany (2019). Recent group exhibitions include those at the New Museum, New York (2021); 59th Venice Biennale: The Milk of Dreams (2022); and the Drawing Center, New York (2023). Phillips lives in Berlin and Chicago.

Poetry Reading

Poetry &: Presence, Absence, and Hallucination with Brenda Iijima and Johann Diedrick

Friday, May 17, 2024, 6:30 pm
Dia Chelsea

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Event detailsFriday, May 17, 20246:30 pm Dia Chelsea537 West 22nd StreetNew York, New York Free; register for the event here. Presence, Absence, and Hallucination is a performance, reading, and sound activation of space-time dimensions in order to pressurize modes and forms of reality (in its glitchy, elusive, shapeshifting capacity) as it is perceived, experienced, and documented—ecologically, historically, sociologically, philosophically, and ever more frequently using artificial intelligence. Three prose texts by Brenda Iijima act as reference points for a collaboration with sound artist Johann Diedrick that opens pathways and trace resonances into the prismatic densities of the past, present, and future. Brenda Iijima is a poet, novelist, playwright, choreographer, and visual artist. She is the author of nine books of poetry. Her artistic and conceptual interests occur at the intersections and mutations of genre, mode, receptivity, and field of study. In her current work she engages with submerged and occluded histories, other-than-human expressiveness, and telluric awareness in all forms. A novella, A roundtable, unanimous dreamers chime in, written in collaboration with Janice Lee, was published by Meekling Press in 2023. In 2024, two of Iijima’s works have been published: the play Daily Life in China with elis press, as well as the novel Presence with the University of Georgia Press. Iijima is the founding editor-publisher of Portable Press @ Yo-Yo Labs. She lives in Brooklyn. Johann Diedrick is an artist and engineer who makes listening rooms, spaces for encountering new sonic possibilities off-the-grid. He works to surface resonant histories of past interactions inscribed in material and embedded in space, peeling back layers to reveal hidden memories and untold stories. He shares his tools and techniques through listening tours, workshops, and open-source hardware and software. He is the founder of A Quiet Life, a sonic engineering and research studio that designs and builds audio-related software and hardware products. He is a 2023–25 Just Tech fellow and 2023–24 Performance AIRspace Resident at Abrons Art Center, New York. His work has been featured in The Wire and Musicworks and presented at the Ars Electronica Festival, Linz, Austria; Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C.; and MoMA PS1, Queens.

Learning Program

My Body is a Bog: an Olfactory Lecture by Camila Marambio

Wednesday, May 22, 2024, 6:30 pm
Dia Chelsea

Soil Sessions

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Event detailsWednesday, May 22, 20246:30 pm Dia Chelsea 537 West 22nd StreetNew York, New York Free. Spaces are limited; registration opens Wednesday, May 8. Join us for a lecture by curator and writer Camila Marambio as she reflects on Morelos’s exhibition in relation to her own practice at the intersection of environmental humanities, decolonial nature conservation, contemporary art, and performance studies, with a particular focus on her research and conservation efforts of peatlands and coastal wetland ecosystems. For Dia’s forthcoming publication dedicated to Morelos’s soil-based works, Marambio and ecologist Renee Rossini contributed a text on peat, which is a revered material for the artist in this commission. The lecture is accompanied by a scent invocation and textual contribution by artist agustine zegers, inviting peatlands from various corners of the world into the space. Camila Marambio is a transdisciplinary curator, storyteller, and somatic care worker. Marambio earned an MA in Modern and Contemporary Art: Critical and Curatorial Studies from Columbia University, New York, in 2004; an MA of Experiments in Arts and Politics from Sciences Po, Paris, in 2012; and a PhD in Curatorial Practice from Monash University, Melbourne, in 2019. In 2010, in partnership with the Wildlife Conservation Society Chile, she founded Ensayos, a collective research practice dedicated to long-term, process-based projects focused on ecocultural conservation work in Karokynká, Tierra del Fuego, Chile, and other archipelagos. In 2020, she was a guest curator of the Extended Research Project at the Cisneros Institute of the Museum of Modern Art in New York, during which she convened the Aconcagua Summit. In 2021, she was a postdoctoral fellow at the Royal Institute of Art in Stockholm as part of The Seedbox: An Environmental Humanities Collaboratory. In 2022, for the Chilean Pavilion at the 59th Venice Art Biennale, she curated the collective and interdisciplinary project Turba Tol Hol-Hol Tol, which includes an eponymous book of ecotransfeminist writing from Latin America and the Caribbean. Marambio’s writing has been published in Art+Australia, Australian Feminist Studies, Discipline, Kerb Journal, Terremoto, The River Rail, and Third Text, among others. She has co-authored Slow Down Fast, A Toda Raja (2019) with Cecilia Vicuña, and Sandcastles: A Queerfemme Proposition on Cancer Ecologies (2024) with Nina Lykke. Currently, Marambio is Curator of New Perspectives at the conservation NGO Para La Naturaleza in Borikén, Puerto Rico. About the program series In conjunction with Delcy Morelos: El abrazo, Dia presents Soil Sessions, an iterative series of interdisciplinary activations, poetic responses to, discursive reflections on, and embodied engagements with earth as subject and material in Morelos’s work. These public programs, presented monthly throughout the run of the exhibition, invite sustained engagement with the commission through a variety of lenses. More information on the full program series is available here.

Tour

Recorrido público de
Delcy Morelos: El abrazo

Sábado, 25 de mayo de 2024, 12 pm
Dia Chelsea

Soil Sessions

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Detalles del eventoSábado, 25 de mayo de 202412 pm Dia Chelsea537 West 22nd StreetNew York, New York Gratis. Se recomienda hacer reservación, pero no es obligatorio. Participe en un recorrido en español de la exposición de Delcy Morelos, la primera exposición individual de la artista en Estados Unidos. El recorrido dura aproximadamente 30 minutos. Se requiere reservación para todos los grupos de adultos y estudiantes que visiten Dia Chelsea. Para más información, contacte grouptours@diaart.org.

Tour

Public Tour of
Delcy Morelos: El abrazo

Saturday, May 25, 2024, 12:30 pm
Dia Chelsea

Soil Sessions

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Event detailsSaturday, May 25, 202412:30 pm Dia Chelsea 537 West 22nd StreetNew York, New York Free. Reservations suggested but not required. Join a free tour of Delcy Morelos’s exhibition—the artist’s first solo presentation in the United States. Tours are approximately 30 minutes long. Advance reservations are required for all adult and student groups visiting Dia Chelsea. For more information, please contact grouptours@diaart.org.

Dia Talks

Leidy Churchman on Joseph Beuys with Justin von Bujdoss

Wednesday, May 29, 2024, 6:30 pm
Dia Chelsea

Artists on Artists Lecture Series

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Event details Wednesday, May 29, 20246:30 pm Dia Chelsea 537 West 22nd Street New York, New York Free; register for the event here. Leidy Churchman was born in Villanova, Pennsylvania, in 1979. Churchman paints as a means to explore the nature of reality, working from a deep influence of Tibetan Buddhism. Intuition and meditation give rise to a wide range of subject matter, which has included the natural world, urban landscapes, political structures, and the flow of visual information in society. Recent solo exhibitions include Free Delivery, Kölnischer Kunstverein, Cologne (2017); Crocodile, Hessel Museum of Art, Annandale-on-Hudson, New York (2019); and FOCUS, Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Texas (2021). Recent group exhibitions include those at the Fondazione Prada, Venice (2021), and National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa (2022); as well as the 2022 Whitney Biennial: Quiet as It's Kept at the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York. Churchman lives in New York. Lama Justin von Bujdoss is an American vajrayana Buddhist teacher and writer. Lama Justin was ordained as a repa by His Eminence Gyaltsab Rinpoche and is a ngakpa in the Yuthok Nyingthig tantric Buddhist lineage. He is a co-founder of Bhumisparsha, an experimental Buddhist sangha, along with Lama Rod Owens, and of Yangti Yoga Retreat Center with Dr. Nida Chenagtsang. He is the author of Modern Tantric Buddhism: Authenticity and Embodiment in Dharma Practice (2019) and a contributor to Buddhism and Whiteness: Critical Reflections (2021). From 2016 to 2021 Lama Justin served as Executive Director of Chaplaincy and Staff Wellness for New York City Department of Correction, where he also served as Staff Chaplain. Lama Justin has presented on Buddhist practice at numerous academic institutions including Yale University, New Haven; the University of Chicago; and Columbia University, New York. He has served as visiting instructor at Union Theological Seminary, New York, and teaches at Pure Land Farms in Topanga, California.

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