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October 22 to November 21, 2021

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Screening

Film Club

September 10–Ongoing, 2021
Le Cinéma Club

September 10–Ongoing, 2021 In conjunction with Lucy Raven’s exhibition at the newly reopened Dia Chelsea, Dia presents a series of film screenings in collaboration with Raven and Le Cinéma Club. Raven’s work explores cultural, material, and geographical conceptions of the western United States, with particular attention to cinematic representations of the region. For this collaboration, she invited artists to select films and video works that have both been influential to their own thinking and that also draw connections with Raven’s film Ready Mix (2021). These selections will culminate in a series of screenings, the first two of which will be hosted by Le Cinéma Club. The first guest artist was Michael Snow, whose film selection was available until September 16. The second guest artist was Sharon Lockhart, whose film selection was available until September 23.The final event in the series is a live screening of Joris Ivens’s New Earth (1933), and Yuyan Wang’s All Movements Should Kill the Wind (2019), selected by guest artists Vic Brooks and Evan Calder Williams. This screening has been postponed, with a new date to be announced in the coming weeks.

Learning Program

Saturday Studio on the Farm

Saturday, October 23, 2021, 10:30 am
Common Ground Farm

Saturday Studio

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Event DetailsSaturday, October 23, 2021, 10:30 am–12 pm Common Ground Farm79 Farmstead LaneWappingers Falls, New York Join practicing artists for free outdoor art and exploration workshops 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 five 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, October 24, 2021, 10:30 am–12 pm. In consideration of everyone’s safety, space is limited and reservations are required. Reservations open on Friday, October 15, 2021, at 9 am. For those that are not able to attend the program, artist-designed exercises for the home will be available through the Saturday Studio mailing list. Program Guidelines: Families attending Saturday Studio must include at least one adult caretaker. Groups should be no larger than six people. The program will take place outdoors with social distancing. Families will have individual stations and materials. Programs may involve walking and exploring the grounds of the farm. Face coverings are required throughout the duration of the program except when families are seated at their individual stations. Advanced reservations are required. No walk-ins will 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 beaconprogram@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.

Special Event

Hudson Valley Free Day

Sunday, October 31, 2021, 10 am–5 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.

Performance

Remix Ready Mix Live

November 3, 2021, 6 pm
Dia Chelsea

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Event Details Wednesday, November 3, 2021, 6 pm Dia Chelsea 537 West 22nd Street New York, New York Free. Register for the event here. To celebrate the digital release of Remix Ready Mix—extractions from the score of Lucy Raven’s film Ready Mix (2021)—composer Deantoni Parks will perform a live soundtrack within the exhibition. 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.

Rethinking German Minimalism Symposium

November 12, 2021, 12:30 pm
Dia Chelsea

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Event DetailsFriday, November 12, 2021, 12:30–2:30 pm, Dia Chelsea and Dia Online Dia Chelsea 537 West 22nd Street New York, New York Register for the in-person event here Register for the online event here. On the occasion of Dia Beacon’s simultaneous presentation of works by Imi Knoebel, Charlotte Posenenske, and Franz Erhard Walther, this two-hour event brings together a new generation of artists and scholars to reconsider the classification of “German Minimalism,” a term that has been used to describe artistic practices that emerged in West Germany in the mid-1960s. Reflecting conceptual engagement—and sometimes direct contact—with Minimalist art from the United States, Knoebel, Posenenske, Walther, and many of their peers employed industrial materials and processes, a reduced geometric vocabulary, the serial repetition of forms, and an emphasis on embodied relationships to sculpture. However, the work of these German artists can also be distinguished in various ways from US Minimalism, which has traditionally been understood through the abstract theoretical discourse of phenomenology. Expanding beyond simple morphological comparison, this symposium considers defining features of Knoebel, Posenenske, and Walther’s practices that depart from United States models. A panel of art historians and practicing artists will discuss an alternative historical view on German art of the 1960s and a new understanding of its relevance to artistic practices today. Speakers include Gordon Hall, Hanna B. Hölling, Colin Lang, Gregor Quack, Michael Sanchez, and Sung Tieu, with moderator Ian Wallace, 2020–21 Andrew M. Mellon Curatorial Fellow at Dia Art Foundation. Participants Gordon Hall is an artist based in New York. Hall has exhibited and performed at, among others, Art in General, Brooklyn Museum, Movement Research, Socrates Sculpture Park, Drawing Center, and Whitney Museum of American Art, New York. Hanna B. Hölling is associate professor of the history of art at University College London and research professor at Bern University of the Arts, Switzerland. Her research, publications, and teaching focus mainly on the philosophy and theory of conservation and art and material culture since the 1960s. Colin Lang is an art historian, critic, and editor living in Berlin. He received his PhD in art history from Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut in 2010. Gregor Quack is an art critic, curator, and PhD candidate at Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut. His dissertation in progress focuses on the work of Franz Erhard Walther. Michael Sanchez is an art historian living in New York. He received his PhD in art history from Columbia University, New York in 2016. Sung Tieu is an artist based in Berlin. Her work has been exhibited at international venues including Haus Der Kunst, Munich, Nottingham Contemporary, Nottingham, and Galerie für Zeitgenössische Kunst, Leipzig, and is currently on view at Kunstmuseum Bonn. Ian Wallace is a writer, curator, and art historian based in New York. He received his PhD in 2021 from the Graduate Center of the City University of New York, where his dissertation addressed the institutional “rediscovery” of Charlotte Posenenske. Wallace was the 2020–21 Andrew W. Mellon Curatorial Fellow at Dia Art Foundation. Schedule 12:30–12:40 pm Welcome and introductory remarks Ian Wallace 12:40–12:50 pm Gregor Quack 12:50–1 pm Hanna B. Hölling 1–1:10 pm Gordon Hall 1:10–1:20 pm Colin Lang 1:20–1:30 pm Break 1:30–1:40 pm Michael Sanchez 1:40–1:50 pm Sung Tieu 1:50–2:30 pm Discussion and Q&A Moderated by Ian Wallace

Poetry Reading

Poetry &: Worker Writers School

Saturday, November 13, 2021, 2 pm
Dia Beacon

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Saturday, November 13, 2 pm, Dia BeaconSaturday, November 20, 2 pm, Fish & Chikzz, New Windsor, New York Free. Register for the November 13th event here.Register for the November 20th event here. Building on nearly thirty-five years of poetry programs at Dia Art Foundation and curated by José Olivarez, Poetry & is a new series that invites poets to reimagine their work and its public presentation. In conversation with other artists and art forms, each event offers new encounters with poetry at and beyond Dia. For Poetry &’s inaugural event, members of the Worker Writers School, an organization that promotes poetry by working-class, unionized writers, will intervene in Dia Beacon’s galleries. From November 12 to 15, a poem in neon by Christina Yvette Lewis from the recent collection Coronavirus Haiku will be displayed in the museum. On Saturday, November 13, at 2 pm, poets Lorraine Garnett and Christine Yvette Lewis will read and join a conversation with the school’s founder Mark Nowak. After the Dia engagement, Hudson Valley residents can continue to experience the neon as it will be installed in local storefronts. This includes the site of the reading on Saturday, November 20, at 2 pm at Fish & Chikzz in New Windsor, New York, where poets Alando McIntyre and Kelebohile Nkhereanye will read their work. The installation will then go on long-term view at the Worker Justice Center in Kingston, New York. About the curator and artists Lorraine Garnett is a nanny in Brooklyn. She has previously worked as a preschool teacher, after-school supervisor, and summer camp activities director. Her poems are published in forthcoming anthologies including Good Cop/Bad Cop (Flowersong Press) and I Can’t Breathe: Poetic Anthology of Fresh Air (Kistrech Poetry). She has read her poems at, among others, the Workers Unite Film Festival, Berl’s Brooklyn Poetry Shop, and the Crush Reading Series at Woodbine collective. Born and raised in Jamaica, Garnett lives in Brooklyn. Alando McIntyre joined the Worker Writers School while working as a cashier at Golden Krust Bakery. After earning his BA in accounting from CUNY Baruch College, New York, he now works as a humanities teacher at Success Academy, New York. McIntyre has read his poems at, among others, the Nuyorican Poets Cafe and PEN World Voices Festival. Born in Kingston, Jamaica, he resides in Brooklyn. Kelebohile “Kele” Nkhereanye is a food street vendor, food justice activist, community chef, and community leader in East New York. She is an immigrant from Lesotho in southern Africa, where she learned the value of street vending as an opportunity for economic empowerment. Nkhereanye is a retired station agent for the New York City Transit Authority; Brooklyn Community Board 5 board member and cochair of Parks, Sanitation, and Environment; and founder of Soil Afrika Global. She is a committed member of the Street Vendor Project. Nkhereanye has earned an associate’s degree in hospitality management from New York College of Technology, degrees in sociology and women’s studies from Hunter College, and a masters in public administration from the Metropolitan College of New York. She has read at the PEN World Voices Festival, Nuyorican Poet Café, Union Square farmer’s market, and Berl’s Brooklyn Poetry Shop. Mark Nowak is a poet, cultural critic, playwright, and essayist from Buffalo, New York. Nowak is the author of three poetry collections: Revenants (2000), Shut Up Shut Down (2004), and Coal Mountain Elementary (2009). A portion of his critical book, Social Poetics (2020), chronicles his work with the Worker Writers School. José Olivarez is the son of Mexican immigrants. His debut book of poems, Citizen Illegal (2018), was a finalist for the PEN/Jean Stein Award, a winner of the 2018 Chicago Review of Books Poetry Prize, and named a top book of 2018 by NPR and the New York Public Library. He is coeditor of the anthology The Breakbeat Poets Vol. 4: LatiNext (2020) and cohost of the poetry podcast The Poetry Gods. His work has been featured in the New York Times and Paris Review. Christine Yvette Lewis is a leader, organizer, and secretary/cultural outreach coordinator with Domestic Workers United (DWU), where she encourages culture and art as strongholds in the work for social justice and domestic workers’ rights. As a worker-leader and multidisciplinary performance artist, Lewis has pulled from her Calypsonian roots and skills as a steel-drum player, spoken-word artist, and poet to get her message out and build power. She has spoken out on initiatives like the Domestic Workers’ Bill of Rights at venues such as The Colbert Report. For eight years, she has helped organize a partnership between DWU members and the Public Theater’s Public Works productions of Shakespeare in the Park. She has been an active member of the Worker Writers School since its inception in 2011.

Dia Talks

eagles with eyes closed for the sun tunnels

November 17, 2021, 6 pm
Dia Chelsea

Artists on Artists Lecture Series

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Event DetailsWednesday, November 17, 2021, 6 pm (launch event) Further ScreeningsThursday, November 18, 2021, 12–6 pmFriday, November 19, 2021, 12–6 pmSaturday, November 20, 2021, 12–6 pm Dia Chelsea537 West 22nd StreetNew York, New York Free. Register for the launch event here. eagles with eyes closed is a musical project consisting of Tobias Linklater (Alutiiq/Omaskêko Cree), and Duane Linklater (Omaskêko Cree), which explores the generative experience of watching films together as intergenerational collaborators, as father and son, and as two Indigenous artists. Their methodology of simultaneous watching and playing back to the image with various instrumentations and processes, improvisations, and a careful non-diegetic Indigenous positionality results in complex propositions to the selected films and images and to the audience itself. eagles with eyes closed is an articulation of their love (indifference) for art, film, and music. eagles with eyes closed are two generationsssss listening at the past present and future. eagles with eyes closed will be presenting a new video / score / drawing for Nancy Holt’s seminal film Sun Tunnels (1978). Tobias Linklater (Alutiiq/Omaskêko Cree) was born in 2004 and lives in North Bay, Ontario. He is a senior student at West Ferris Secondary School in North Bay, Ontario. His short films have been included in exhibitions at Trinity Square Video, Toronto (2020); All My Relation Arts, Minneapolis, Minnesota (2017); and 80WSE Gallery, New York (2016–17). His video Origin of the Hero (2016) is in the permanent collection of the Tate Modern, London. Duane Linklater (Omaskêko Ininiwak from Moose Cree First Nation) was born in 1976 and lives in North Bay, Ontario. His practice explores the physical and theoretical structures of the museum in relation to the current and historical conditions of Indigenous peoples, their objects, and approaches to materials. He articulates his explorations through sculpture, photography, film and video, installation, and text works. He has presented solo exhibitions at the Frye Museum, Seattle (2021); Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum at Michigan State University, Lansing, (2017); 80WSE Gallery, New York (2016–17); Mercer Union, Toronto (2016); Utah Museum of Fine Arts, Salt Lake City (2015); and Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia (2015). Linklater has been featured in group exhibitions, most recently at SFMOMA, San Francisco (2019); Artists Space, New York (2019); and Taipei Biennial (2019). The Artists on Artists Lecture Series is organized by Matilde Guidelli-Guidi, associate curator at Dia, with Theodora Bocanegra Lang, curatorial assistant.

Learning Program

Saturday Studio on the Farm

Saturday, November 20, 2021, 10:30 am
Common Ground Farm

Saturday Studio

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Event DetailsSaturday, November 20, 2021, 10:30 am–12 pm Common Ground Farm79 Farmstead LaneWappingers Falls, New York Join practicing artists for free outdoor art and exploration workshops 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 five 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 21, 2021, 10:30 am–12 pm. In consideration of everyone’s safety, space is limited and reservations are required. Reservations open on Monday, November 15, 2021, at 9 am. For those that are not able to attend the program, artist-designed exercises for the home will be available through the Saturday Studio mailing list. Program Guidelines: Families attending Saturday Studio must include at least one adult caretaker. Groups should be no larger than six people. The program will take place outdoors with social distancing. Families will have individual stations and materials. Programs may involve walking and exploring the grounds of the farm. Face coverings are required throughout the duration of the program except when families are seated at their individual stations. Advanced reservations are required. No walk-ins will 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 beaconprogram@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.

Poetry Reading

Poetry &: Worker Writers School

Saturday, November 20, 2021, 2 pm
Offsite

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Saturday, November 20, 2 pm, Fish & Chikzz, New Windsor, New York Free. Register here. Building on nearly thirty-five years of poetry programs at Dia Art Foundation and curated by José Olivarez, Poetry & is a new series that invites poets to reimagine their work and its public presentation. In conversation with other artists and art forms, each event offers new encounters with poetry at and beyond Dia. For Poetry &’s inaugural event, members of the Worker Writers School, an organization that promotes poetry by working-class, unionized writers, intervened in Dia Beacon’s galleries. From November 12 to 15, a poem in neon by Christina Yvette Lewis from the recent collection Coronavirus Haiku was displayed in the museum. On Saturday, November 13, at 2 pm, poets Lorraine Garnett and Christine Yvette Lewis read and joined a conversation with the school’s founder Mark Nowak. After the Dia engagement, Hudson Valley residents can continue to experience the neon as it will be installed in local storefronts. This includes the site of the reading on Saturday, November 20, at 2 pm at Fish & Chikzz in New Windsor, New York, where poets Alando McIntyre and Kelebohile Nkhereanye will read their work. The installation will then go on long-term view at the Worker Justice Center in Kingston, New York. About the curator and artists Lorraine Garnett is a nanny in Brooklyn. She has previously worked as a preschool teacher, after-school supervisor, and summer camp activities director. Her poems are published in forthcoming anthologies including Good Cop/Bad Cop (Flowersong Press) and I Can’t Breathe: Poetic Anthology of Fresh Air (Kistrech Poetry). She has read her poems at, among others, the Workers Unite Film Festival, Berl’s Brooklyn Poetry Shop, and the Crush Reading Series at Woodbine collective. Born and raised in Jamaica, Garnett lives in Brooklyn. Alando McIntyre joined the Worker Writers School while working as a cashier at Golden Krust Bakery. After earning his BA in accounting from CUNY Baruch College, New York, he now works as a humanities teacher at Success Academy, New York. McIntyre has read his poems at, among others, the Nuyorican Poets Cafe and PEN World Voices Festival. Born in Kingston, Jamaica, he resides in Brooklyn. Kelebohile “Kele” Nkhereanye is a food street vendor, food justice activist, community chef, and community leader in East New York. She is an immigrant from Lesotho in southern Africa, where she learned the value of street vending as an opportunity for economic empowerment. Nkhereanye is a retired station agent for the New York City Transit Authority; Brooklyn Community Board 5 board member and cochair of Parks, Sanitation, and Environment; and founder of Soil Afrika Global. She is a committed member of the Street Vendor Project. Nkhereanye has earned an associate’s degree in hospitality management from New York College of Technology, degrees in sociology and women’s studies from Hunter College, and a masters in public administration from the Metropolitan College of New York. She has read at the PEN World Voices Festival, Nuyorican Poet Café, Union Square farmer’s market, and Berl’s Brooklyn Poetry Shop. Mark Nowak is a poet, cultural critic, playwright, and essayist from Buffalo, New York. Nowak is the author of three poetry collections: Revenants (2000), Shut Up Shut Down (2004), and Coal Mountain Elementary (2009). A portion of his critical book, Social Poetics (2020), chronicles his work with the Worker Writers School. José Olivarez is the son of Mexican immigrants. His debut book of poems, Citizen Illegal (2018), was a finalist for the PEN/Jean Stein Award, a winner of the 2018 Chicago Review of Books Poetry Prize, and named a top book of 2018 by NPR and the New York Public Library. He is coeditor of the anthology The Breakbeat Poets Vol. 4: LatiNext (2020) and cohost of the poetry podcast The Poetry Gods. His work has been featured in the New York Times and Paris Review. Christine Yvette Lewis is a leader, organizer, and secretary/cultural outreach coordinator with Domestic Workers United (DWU), where she encourages culture and art as strongholds in the work for social justice and domestic workers’ rights. As a worker-leader and multidisciplinary performance artist, Lewis has pulled from her Calypsonian roots and skills as a steel-drum player, spoken-word artist, and poet to get her message out and build power. She has spoken out on initiatives like the Domestic Workers’ Bill of Rights at venues such as The Colbert Report. For eight years, she has helped organize a partnership between DWU members and the Public Theater’s Public Works productions of Shakespeare in the Park. She has been an active member of the Worker Writers School since its inception in 2011.

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