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April 18 to May 18, 2022

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Dia Talks

#makelovegoviral with Naj Austin

April 21, 2022, 6 pm
Dia Chelsea

Event Details Thursday, April 21, 2022, 6–8 pm Dia Chelsea537 West 22nd StreetNew York, New York Dreaming Care into Being is free and open to the public. Space is limited and reservations are required. Register for individual or multiple sessions here. Session DescriptionKamra Sadia Hakim and Naj Austin discuss love and invite participants to define love for themselves.

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Listening Session: May amnesia never kiss us on the mouth

Friday, April 22, 2022, 4 pm
Dia Chelsea

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Event DetailsFriday, April 22, 4–6 pm Dia Chelsea 537 West 22nd Street New York, New York Free. Register for the in-person event here. New York University’s Hagop Kevorkian Center for Near Eastern Studies is hosting an in-person, two-day conference from April 21–22 to conclude its Global Uprising series that began in fall 2020. The conference closes with a listening session hosted by Dia Art Foundation that explores the intersections between sound, performance, and uprising. In conversation with Fred Moten and Alia al-Sabi, Basel Abbas and Ruanne Abou-Rahme will present a series of collected recordings, performances, and sound compositions from their project May amnesia never kiss us on the mouth (2020– ), co-commissioned by Dia and the Museum of Modern Art, New York. The online project launched on December 10, 2020, with Postscript: after everything is extracted, a reflection on the act of mourning. Part II of the project, which launched on March 5, 2022, is an expansion of the digital platform and features the artists’ extensive collection of online recordings of people singing and dancing in communal spaces in Iraq, Palestine, and Syria. These are layered with new performances created with dancer Rima Baransi and electronic musicians Haykal, Julmud, and Makimakkuk, from Palestine. Casting its gaze on the insurrectionary decade between 2011 and 2021, the listening session invites us to think through the destruction of bodies and the erasure of images and the conditions under which these same bodies and images might once again reappear, materially and digitally. What is the rhythm of uprising and its various afterlives? How does this rhythm live on in the performative body? How do certain rituals of voice and dance testify at once to both a collective dispossession and endurance, even in the absence of a clear collective? Alia al-Sabi is a PhD candidate in the department of performance studies at New York University's Tisch School of the Arts. Fred Moten is a cultural theorist, poet, and professor in the department of performance studies at New York University's Tisch School of the Arts. Basel Abbas and Ruanne Abou-Rahme Basel Abbas was born in Nicosia, Cyprus, in 1983. Ruanne Abou-Rahme was born in Boston in 1983. They have exhibited internationally, most recently at the Art Institute of Chicago (2021); the Centraal Museum, Utrecht, Netherlands (2020); Proyectos Ultravioleta, Guatemala City (2019); and Disjecta, Portland, Oregon (2019). Their work has additionally been featured in solo exhibitions at the Kunstverein Hamburg (2018); Alt Bomontiada, Istanbul (2017); the Office for Contemporary Art, Oslo (2015); the Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia (2014); Akademie der Künste der Welt, Cologne (2014); and the Delfina Foundation, London (2009). In 2015 their work was included in the Sharjah Biennial, where they were awarded the Sharjah Biennial Prize. Abbas and Abou-Rahme live in New York City and Ramallah. About Artist Web Projects The Artist Web Projects series was inaugurated in 1995 and remains the longest-running program of its kind in the United States. Dia commissions artists to create original projects for the internet that explore the aesthetic and conceptual potential of the medium. Dia’s archive of Artist Web Projects is accessible online here. May amnesia never kiss us on the mouth is co-commissioned by Dia Art Foundation, New York, and the Museum of Modern Art, New York. May amnesia never kiss us on the mouth is made possible by support from the Khalid Shoman Foundation-Darat al Funun and by the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature.

Special Event

Hudson Valley Free Day

Sunday, April 24, 2022, 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.

Dia Talks

Consenting Constellations with Meenadchi

April 28, 2022, 6 pm
Dia Chelsea

Dreaming Care into Being

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Event Details Thursday, April 28, 2022, 6–8 pm Dia Chelsea537 West 22nd StreetNew York, New York Dreaming Care into Being is free and open to the public. Space is limited and reservations are required. Register for individual or multiple sessions here. Session DescriptionFocused on themes of consent, participants engage in a family constellation, a therapeutic approach to healing designed to help reveal the hidden dynamics in a family or relationship and to address stressors impacting such relationships.

Poetry Reading

Poetry &: Basic Needs with Vanessa Jimenez Gabb and Misha Tyutyunik

Saturday, April 30, 2022, 6 pm
Dia Chelsea

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A Conversation on Imi Knoebel with Donna De Salvo, Toby Kamps, and Hamza Walker

Thursday, May 5, 2022, 1:00 pm
Dia Online

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Event DetailsThursday, May 5, 1 pm          Live on zoom. RSVP and receive a Zoom link here. This conversation between Donna De Salvo, Toby Kamps, and Hamza Walker will explore Imi Knoebel’s practice as well as the artist’s work currently on view at Dia Beacon, revealing the ways in which he carved a unique path through postwar abstraction and his work’s relevance to art making today. Toby Kamps is director of external projects at White Cube in London and an editor at large at the Brooklyn Rail, where he has written on Imi Knoebel’s work and career. For over twenty-five years, Kamps was a curator of contemporary art in various museums in the United States, most recently in Houston, where he was director and chief curator of the Blaffer Art Museum, curator of modern and contemporary art at the Menil Collection, and senior curator at the Contemporary Arts Museum.  Hamza Walker is director of LAXART, Los Angeles, and an adjunct professor at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Prior to joining LAXART in 2016, he was director of education and associate curator at the Renaissance Society, Chicago. Recent exhibitions at LAXART include The Absolute Right to Exclude: Reflections on and Implications of Cheryl Harris’ “Whiteness as Property” with Cassandra Press (2021) and Some Reach While Others Clap with Postcommodity (2020).  Donna De Salvo is Dia’s senior adjunct curator of special projects. She recently organized Imi Knoebel’s exhibition at Dia Beacon, which is on view from May 28, 2021–May 14, 2023.

Dia Talks

Cripping Care with Mae Eskenazi

May 5, 2022, 6 pm
Dia Chelsea

Dreaming Care into Being

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Event Details Thursday, May 5, 2022, 6–8 pm Dia Chelsea537 West 22nd StreetNew York, New York Dreaming Care into Being is free and open to the public. Space is limited and reservations are required. Register for individual or multiple sessions here. Session Description Kamra Sadia Hakim and Mae Eskenazi engage in a dialogue around receiving care as disabled artists.

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Transformation Body with angel shanel edwards and Selomé Samuel

May 7, 2022, 12 pm
Offsite

Dreaming Care into Being

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Event Details Saturday, May 7, 2022, 12–2 pm Judson Memorial Church55 Washington Square SNew York, New York Dreaming Care into Being is free and open to the public. Space is limited and reservations are required. Register for individual or multiple sessions here. Session Description Explore embodied transformation through a group dance with eyes covered. angel shanel edwards facilitates a visual deprivation trance dance, while DJ Selomé Samuel spins distinguished records.

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Precious Okoyomon with Gio Escobar on Walter De Maria

May 11, 2022, 6 pm
Dia Chelsea

Artists on Artists Lecture Series

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Event DetailsWednesday, May 11, 2022, 6 pm Dia Chelsea537 West 22nd StreetNew York, New York Free. Register for the event here. Precious Okoyomon was born in London in 1993. They are an artist, poet, chef, and founding member of the cooking collective Spiral Theory Test Kitchen. Okoyomon’s installations, which often incorporate lush plants and soil along with poetry, music, and sculpture, have been exhibited internationally at venues including the Aspen Art Museum, Colorado; Luma Foundation, Arles, France; and Performance Space, New York. Their work is currently on view at the 59th Venice Biennale. They are the author of Ajebota (2016) and But Did U Die (2020), and they have performed their poetry at venues including Club Wonder at Ace Hotel Brooklyn; the Palais de Tokyo, Paris; and Poetry Project, New York. Okoyomon lives in Brooklyn. Gio Escobar was born in Brooklyn in 1995. He is a jazz composer, musician, radio host, and member of the Standing on the Corner ensemble. Escobar has collaborated with Okoyomon on several projects, most recently at the Aspen Art Museum, Colorado, and Luma Foundation, Arles, France. He lives in Brooklyn. The Artists on Artists Lecture Series is organized by Matilde Guidelli-Guidi, associate curator at Dia, with Theodora Bocanegra Lang, curatorial assistant.

Poetry Reading

Poetry &: Lineage and Remembrance with Elisabet Velasquez and Jive Poetic

May 12, 2022, 6–7 pm
Dia Chelsea

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Event DetailsThursday, May 12, 2022, 6–7 pm Dia Chelsea537 West 22nd StreetNew York, New York Free. Register for the event here. Poet Elisabet Velasquez will collaborate with poet and DJ Jive Poetic to throw a party that celebrates love, grief, and the written and spoken word. This event will feature interactive altars to honor the poets and ancestors who guide us from the other side. We offer this event as testament to our continued fight for justice and joy and as a ritual to honor all the love and struggle that makes us possible. About the artists Born in Bushwick, Brooklyn, Elisabet Velasquez is a Boricua writer. Her work has been featured in Muzzle Magazine, Winter Tangerine, Latina, We Are Mitú, Tidal, and more. Her debut novel, When We Make It (2021), was named as a Indie Next selection and a New York Times book to watch for. Jive Poetic is a Brooklyn-based writer, organizer, and educator. He received his BA in media studies from the State University of New York at Buffalo and his MFA in writing and activism from the Pratt Institute, Brooklyn. Jive Poetic is the founder of Insurgent Poets Society and Carnival Slam: Cultural Exchange and a co-founder of the Brooklyn Poetry Slam. In 2017 he became the first recipient of the John Morning Award for Art and Service. He curates and hosts the Friday Night Slam at the Nuyorican Poets Café.

Learning Program

Saturday Studio on the Farm

Saturday, May 14, 2022, 10:30 am
Common Ground Farm

Saturday Studio

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Event DetailsSaturday, May 14, 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, May 15, from 10:30 am–12 pm. Space is limited and reservations are required. Reservations open on Friday, May 6, 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 outdoors is optional; however, wearing a mask over your nose and mouth is required when indoors 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 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.

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