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Virtual Screening of Remix Ready Mix

Monday, November 14–Sunday, November 19, 2022
Dia Online

Event DetailsMonday, November 14–Sunday, November 19, 2022Virtual screening online Dia’s latest LP, Remix Ready Mix by Lucy Raven and Deantoni Parks, is now available for purchase. This album reimagines the soundtrack to Raven’s film installation Ready Mix (2021), which was commissioned to inaugurate Dia Chelsea’s new galleries last year. To celebrate this release, Parks’s 2021 live performance in response to Ready Mix will be screened virtually for one week on Dia’s website. Deantoni Park’s performance will is live, and will remain available on this page until Sunday, November 19. Deantoni Parks was born in Newnan, Georgia, in 1977. He is a founding member of the band KUDU and cofounder (with Nicci Kasper) of the duo We Are Dark Angels. He has also collaborated with John Cale and performed with the bands Mars Volta and Bosnian Rainbows. His acclaimed solo album Technoself was released in 2015. He has also taught at the Stanford Jazz Workshop in California and Berklee College of Music in Boston. Lucy Raven was born in Tucson, Arizona, in 1977. She received a BFA in studio art and a BA in art history from the University of Arizona, Tucson, in 2000, and an MFA from Bard College’s Milton Avery Graduate School of the Arts, Annandale-on-Hudson, New York, in 2008. Her work has been exhibited in solo presentations at the Nevada Museum of Art, Reno (2010); Hammer Museum, Los Angeles (2012); Portikus, Frankfurt (2014); Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco (2014); VOX centre de l’image contemporaine, Montreal (2015); Columbus Museum of Art, Ohio (2016); and Serpentine Galleries, London (2016–17). Select group shows include those at Mass MoCA, North Adams, Massachusetts (2008–09); Wexner Center for the Arts, Ohio State University, Columbus (2010); Whitney Museum of American Art, New York (2013); and Los Angeles County Museum of Art (2018–19). Additionally, Raven’s work was included in the 2012 Whitney Biennial, New York; 2016 Montreal Biennial; and 2018 Dhaka Art Summit, Bangladesh. With Vic Brooks and Evan Calder Williams, she is a founding member of 13BC, a moving-image research and production collective. Raven teaches at the Cooper Union School of Art in New York.

Members’ Event

Members' Shopping Days

Friday, November 25–Saturday, December 31, 2022
Dia Beacon and Dia Chelsea

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From November 25 through December 31, Dia members receive a 30% discount on all Dia publications and a 20% discount on other items purchased at Dia bookshops, or a 30% discount online. Gift memberships will be 10% off and include a complimentary Dia item. Upgrades for current or lapsed members will also have a 20% discount. Exclusions apply. Please note: Gift memberships and membership upgrades must be purchased either over the phone at 212 293 5520 or in person at Dia Beacon or Dia Chelsea to receive this special rate. This gift membership promotion is not valid online. Join, renew, or gift a membership today.

Learning Program

Activations: Johann Diedrick at Chelsea Recreation Center

Saturday, November 5, 2022, 1:30–3:30 pm
Offsite

Activations

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Event DetailsSaturday, November 5, 2022, 1:30–3:30 pm Chelsea Recreation Center430 West 25th StreetNew York, New York Free and open to the general public. For more information visit NYC Parks. Sited in the Chelsea Recreation Center’s gymnasium, Johann Diedrick’s Activation program Swish is a temporary sound installation that proposes listening as an act of spectatorship. Participants are invited onto a basketball court absent of athletes but filled with the sound of previously recorded scrimmages, voices, and rhythmic dribbling, where they will join Diedrick in live mixing the recordings into a new sonic experience of the site. Additional recording and editing by Caleb Giles. A demonstration and series of one-minute-long improvisational performances will take place from 2:30–3 pm. Program Description Activations is a series of interdisciplinary public workshops designed by artists in response to civic spaces in New York City. Each activation invites participants to encounter a readymade site through the lens of an artistic practice, reimagining them as spaces of creative possibility. All are welcome to participate. Fall 2022 Activations take place at the Chelsea Recreation Center. Johann Diedrick (he/him) is an award-winning artist, engineer, and musician that makes installations, performances, and sculptures to create sonic encounters with the world. He bring to the surface resonant histories of past interactions inscribed in material and embedded in space, peeling back vibratory layers to reveal hidden memories and untold stories. He shares his tools and techniques through listening tours, workshops, and open-source hardware/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 for revealing new sonic possibilities off the grid. He is the director of engineering at Somewhere Good, a 2022 Future Imagination collaboratory fellow at the Tisch School of the Arts at New York University (NYU), a 2022 Wave Farm artist in residence, a 2021 Mozilla Creative Media Award recipient, a 2020 Pioneer Works technology resident, a community member of NEW INC, and an adjunct professor at NYU’s Interactive Telecommunications Program. His work has been featured in the Wire, Musicworks, and presented at MoMA PS1, New York; the New Museum, New York; Ars Electronica, Linz, Austria; Science Gallery Dublin; Somerset House, London; and multiple New Interfaces for Musical Expression conferences. More EventsActivations: Stella Zhong at the Chelsea Recreation CenterSaturday, November 19, 12:30–3:30 pm, Chelsea Recreation Center

Dia Talks

Camille Norment Performance

Friday, November 11, 6:30 pm
Dia Chelsea

Camille Norment: Plexus, Context and Constellations

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Event DetailsFriday, November 11, 6:30 pm        Dia Chelsea537 West 22nd StreetNew York, New York This event is now sold out. As an extension of her exhibition Plexus at Dia Chelsea, artist Camille Norment will stage a one-time performance, bringing a small ensemble of instrumentation and vocals to the gallery in collaboration with the feedback created by the work itself. Randy Gibson is a Hudson Valley–based artist, composer, and vocalist. A longtime student of the Minimalist artists La Monte Young and Marian Zazeela, Gibson rigorously explores the transdisciplinary potential of a precise set of numerical relationships while inviting stasis and reflection. In 2016 Gibson was awarded a NYFA fellowship in music and sound. His three-and-a-half-hour-long piano work The Four Pillars Appearing… was named 2017 classical album of the year by Textura. His album Distant Pillars, Private Pillars (2020) is available on GALTTA Media. Commissions for performance, dance, film, installation, and fixed media include works for Transit New Music Festival, Dia Art Foundation, Erik Carlson, R. Andrew Lee, Kim Olson/Sweetedge, Ekmeles Vocal Ensemble, Scott Worthington, and The Tapeworm. Gibson has presented performances and installations at festivals around the world including the Avant Music Festival in New York; Spark Festival of Electronic Music and Art in Minneapolis; the Nief-Norf festival in Knoxville, Tennessee; and Transit New Music Festival in Leuven, Belgium. Lisa E. Harris, Li, is an interdisciplinary artist, filmmaker, creative soprano, performer, composer, improviser, writer, singer, songwriter, researcher, educator, and cultural producer from Houston. Harris’s course “Sound, Mind and Body: Achieving Spiritual Harmony in an Out of Tune World” is a recent cross-disciplinary addition to the department of music at Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts. Harris is an artist in residence at Harvard ArtLab and the recipient of the 2021 Foundation for Contemporary Arts Dorothea Tanning Award in Music/Sound. In 2022 she was a fellow at the Brown Foundation at the American Academy in Rome and at the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. Harris is the founder and creative director of Studio Enertia, an arts collective and production company in Houston. Studio Enertia produced Harris’s ten-year-long durational opera film Cry of the Third Eye (2020), which archives the effects of development and the displacement of people and culture in her Houston neighborhood. In 2018 she created and curated Houston’s inaugural Free Time Flow Festival at MacGregor Park. In 2023 at Carnegie Hall in New York she will join flautist Claire Chase in a performance, Pauline at 90, celebrating the legacy of the humanitarian composer and Houstonian Pauline Oliveros. 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. Mariel Roberts is a cellist and composer. Her passion for collaboration and experimentation as an interpreter, improvisor, and composer has contributed to a body of work that bridges avant-garde, contemporary, jazz, classical, and traditional music. Roberts has appeared as a soloist and chamber musician across four continents, most notably as a member and co-director of the Wet Ink Ensemble, as well as with the International Contemporary Ensemble (ICE), Mivos Quartet, Bang on a Can All Stars, and Ensemble Signal. She appears regularly on major stages for new music such as the Lincoln Center Festival in New York, Wien Modern in Austria, Lucerne Festival in Switzerland, Cervantino Festival in Mexico, and Klang Festival in Denmark. Roberts has been featured on a wide variety of recordings, including titles released by Innova Records, Albany Records, and New World Records. Her compositions have been performed at venues such as Merkin Hall and Miller Theater in New York City. Roberts has released two solo albums of new works commissioned for her: Nonextraneous Sounds (2012) and Cartography (2017). Nate Wooley was born in 1974 in Clatskanie, Oregon, and began playing trumpet professionally with his father, a big band saxophonist, at the age of thirteen. He made his debut as soloist with the New York Philharmonic at the opening series of their 2019 season. Considered one of the leading lights of the American movement to redefine the physical boundaries of the horn, Wooley has been gathering international acclaim for his idiosyncratic trumpet language. He is the editor of Sound American Publications, a journal dedicated to the idea that music is for everyone. The journal features the ideas and work of musicians through their own words and has released twenty-nine issues to date. He is the recipient of a Foundation for Contemporary Arts grant, the Spencer Glendon First Principles Prize, and a 2022 NYSCA/NYFA artist fellowship.

Dia Talks

A Conversation with Camille Norment and Kathryn Yusoff

Saturday, November 12, 2022, 1 pm
Dia Online

Camille Norment: Plexus, Context and Constellations

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Event DetailsSaturday, November 12, 2022, 1 pm Live on zoom. Register in advance here. On the occasion of her exhibition Plexus at Dia Chelsea, artist Camille Norment will be joined in conversation by Kathryn Yusoff, professor of inhuman geography in the School of Geography at Queen Mary University of London. Kathryn Yusoff researches how the inhuman and the inorganic affect our understanding of environmental change and issues of race and subjectivity. She is professor of inhuman geography at the School of Geography at Queen Mary University of London and the author of A Billion Black Anthropocenes or None (2018); Supplementary Information (SI) on “Geosocial Formations and the Anthropocene” (with Nigel Clark), in e-flux; and “The Inhumanities,” in Annals of the American Association of Geographers. Her forthcoming book Geologic Life: Inhuman Intimacies and the Geophysics of Race addresses histories of geology and gravities of race. She received the Association of American Geographers 2022 Award for Creativity in Geography. 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 (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.

Learning Program

Saturday Studio on the Farm

Saturday, November 19, 2022, 10:30 am - 12 pm
Common Ground Farm

Saturday Studio

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Event DetailsSaturday, November 19, 2022, 10:30 am–12 pm Common Ground Farm79 Farmstead LaneWappingers Falls, New York Join a practicing artist for a free outdoor workshop of art making and exploration offered in partnership with Common Ground Farm. Designed for all ages, Saturday Studio is a family friendly program that is most suitable for children ages 5 and up. Saturday Studio begins promptly at 10:30 am at Common Ground Farm. In the case of inclement weather, the program will take place on Sunday, November 20, from 10:30 am–12 pm. Space is limited and reservations are required. Reservations open on Friday, November 11, at 9 am. Program Guidelines: Families attending Saturday Studio must include at least one adult caretaker; groups should be no larger than six people Wearing a mask is optional Advanced reservations are required; walk-ins will not be accepted An inherent risk of exposure to COVID-19 exists in any public place where people are present; by attending Saturday Studio at Common Ground Farm, you voluntarily assume all risks related to exposure to COVID-19 For more information, email learning@diaart.org. Common Ground is a nonprofit community farm that works hard to ensure food and educational access to everyone in our community. To learn more about their work, visit commongroundfarm.org. Common Ground runs on the generous support of its community. If you are able, please consider making a donation.

Learning Program

Activations: Stella Zhong at the Chelsea Recreation Center

Saturday, November 19, 2022, 12:30–3:30 pm
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Activations

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Event DetailsSaturday, November 19, 2022, 12:30–3:30 pm Chelsea Recreation Center430 West 25th StreetNew York, New York Free and open to the general public. To RSVP please visit NYC Parks. Inspired by particles, ingredients, and secret spaces, Stella Zhong's workshop converts the Chelsea Recreation Center’s spin room into the home base for a large-scale miniature sculpture operation. Participants are invited to choose from a buffet of small objects and assemble them into site-specific installations throughout the recreation center’s common areas. By encouraging participants to defy human-centered design logic, Zhong proposes that it is possible to create new worlds within the one we already inhabit. Program Description Activations is a series of interdisciplinary public workshops designed by artists in response to civic spaces in New York City. Each activation invites participants to encounter a readymade site through the lens of an artistic practice, reimagining them as spaces of creative possibility. All are welcome to participate. Stella Zhong (b. 1993) works across sculpture, video, and painting. She holds an MFA in sculpture from Yale University, New Haven, CT, and a BFA in glass from Rhode Island School of Design, Providence. Zhong has exhibited nationally and internationally at Chapter NY, New York; Fanta-MLN, Milan; Adams and Ollman, Portland, OR; Guan Shanyue Art Museum, Shenzhen, China; SculptureCenter, New York; Galerie Marguo, Paris; The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, Ridgefield, CT; and more. Her work has been reviewed by The New York Times, New Yorker, Mousse, Texte zur Kunst, and ArtAsiaPacific, among others. Zhong lives in New York. More EventsActivations: Johann Diedrick at Chelsea Recreation CenterSaturday, November 5, 2022, 1:30–3:30 pm, Chelsea Recreation Center

Special Event

Jason Moran

Sunday, November 27, 2022, 3 pm
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Event DetailsSunday, November 27, 2022, 3 pm Village Vanguard178 7th AvenueNew York, New York Sold out. Standby line on the day of the event. In conjunction with Leslie Hewitt at Dia Bridgehampton, Jason Moran presents a solo piano interpretation of a score realized collaboratively by Hewitt and Jamal Cyrus, titled For Solo Piano, Alto Saxophone, or Tambourine (This Score May Be Realized in Any Imaginative Way, or in conjunction with or in response to the recording of the song Evidence (Justice) 00:07:55 on the album Monk in Tokyo, Columbia Records (1963) with Thelonious Monk on piano, Charlie Rouse on tenor saxophone, Butch Warren on bass, and Frankie Dunlap on drums or Evidence 00:04:41 on the album Thelonious Monk Quartet with John Coltrane at Carnegie Hall, Blue Note Records (1957) with Thelonious Monk on piano, John Coltrane on tenor saxophone, Ahamed Abdul-Malik on bass, and Shadow Wilson on drums or Evidence 00:05:00 on the album Evidence, New Jazz (1962) with Steve Lacy on soprano saxophone, Don Cherry on trumpet; Carl Brown on Bass, and Billie Higgins (Abdul Kareem) on drums) (2022). This performance by the acclaimed pianist, composer, and educator is the first of three matinees that punctuate the run of Hewitt’s exhibition. The score will subsequently be interpreted by saxophonist Immanuel Wilkins in March and choreographer Rashida Bumbray in May. Building upon traditions of indeterminate musical notation and the fractal logic of the jazz standard, Hewitt and Cyrus’s score is comprised of an arrangement of objects overlaid with metadata and sound that can be imagined in relation to Thelonious Monk’s song Evidence (first recorded in 1948). Just as the score calls attention to relationality, its interpretation occurs in the register of practice. Shifting attention away from linear notation and finished performance, the focus on practice emphasizes interpretation as an exercise in discovery and an opportunity to critically add to the score. Jason Moran was born in Houston in 1975. He is a jazz pianist, composer, and educator. He earned a degree from the Manhattan School of Music, where he studied with Jaki Byard. He was named a MacArthur Fellow in 2010 and is the artistic director for jazz at the Kennedy Center, Washington, DC. Moran’s work has been featured in numerous solo exhibitions, including at the Museum of Contemporary Art Denver (2021) and Whitney Museum of American Art, New York (2019). He participated in the 56th Venice Biennale and the 2012 Whitney Biennial. Moran teaches at the New England Conservatory of Music, Boston. He lives in Harlem, New York.

Special Event

Hudson Valley Free Day

Sunday, November 27, 2022, 10 am–4 pm
Dia Beacon

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Hudson Valley residents receive free admission to Dia Beacon on the last Sunday of each month. The Hudson Valley encompasses the following counties: Albany, Columbia, Dutchess, Greene, Orange, Putnam, Rensselaer, Rockland, Saratoga, Schenectady, Sullivan, Ulster, Washington, and Westchester. Please contact 845 231 0811 or tickets@diaart.org to reserve tickets. Hudson Valley Free Days at Dia Beacon are made possible by Charlie Pohlad.

Special Event

Wadada Leo Smith Performance

Saturday, December 3, 2022, 2 pm
Dia Beacon

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Event DetailsSaturday, December 3, 2022, 2 pmDia Beacon 3 Beekman Street Beacon, New York Free with museum admission. Event sold out. Waiting list on the day of the performance. Provoked by the formal qualities of Jack Whitten’s art, and to honor the artist’s lifelong interest in experimental music, Dia has invited trumpeter and composer Wadada Leo Smith to musically interpret Whitten’s Greek Alphabet paintings on view at Dia Beacon. This rare performance by one of the foremost figures in contemporary music will take place in the museum galleries. Wadada Leo Smith is a multi-instrumentalist and composer. For five decades he has been a member of the Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians (AACM). Smith’s notational system for improvisation in an ensemble context, which he calls Ankhrasmation, has been critical to his music and work as an educator and ensemble leader. His music philosophy is detailed in his book notes (8 pieces), source a new world music: creative music, first published in 1973. From 1994–2013, Smith was on the faculty of the Herb Alpert School of Music at California Institute of the Arts (CalArts), Santa Clarita, where he was the director of the African American Improvisational Music program. He earned an honorary doctorate from CalArts, where he was also celebrated as Faculty Emeritus. Smith’s honors include the Mohn Career Achievement Award for Made in L.A. 2016 at the Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, and a Doris Duke Artist Award (2016); he was named a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in Music (2013). In 2017 DownBeat magazine’s 65th Annual Critics Poll placed him first in the categories of Jazz Artist, Trumpet, and Jazz Album (America’s National Parks).

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