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October 19 to November 18, 2023

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Learning Program

Saturday Studio on the Farm

Saturday, October 28, 2023, 10:30 am–12 pm
Common Ground Farm

Event DetailsSaturday, October 28, 202310:30 am–12 pm Common Ground Farm79 Farmstead LaneWappingers Falls, New York Free. Spaces are limited; register for the event here. Join a practicing artist for an outdoor workshop of art-making, material experimentation, and play, 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 be rescheduled for spring 2024. Registration opens on Friday, November 10, at 9 am. For more information, please contact 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.

Special Event

Hudson Valley Free Day

Sunday, October 29, 2023, 10 am–5 pm
Dia Beacon

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Event DetailsSunday, October 29, 2023, 10 am–5 pm Dia Beacon3 BeekmanBeacon, New York 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. To get tickets for Hudson Valley Free Day please fill out our Free Admission Request. Hudson Valley Free Days at Dia Beacon are made possible by Charlie Pohlad.

Poetry Reading

It Goes, It Goes:
James Schuyler Centenary Celebration

Saturday, November 4, 2023, 5 pm
Dia Chelsea

Poetry &

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Event DetailsSaturday, November 4, 20235 pm Dia Chelsea 537 West 22nd Street New York, New York Free. Register for the event here. In an untitled poem from 1972, James Schuyler writes, “This / beauty that collects / dry leaves in pools / and pockets and goes / freezingly, just able / still to swiftly flow / it goes, it goes.” As part of the centenary celebration of Schuyler's work and legacy, please join the Poetry Project and Dia—the latter of which hosted Schuyler’s legendary first reading in 1988—for an evening in praise of the beloved poet. This event features readings by Wayne Koestenbaum, Chad Morgan, Eileen Myles, Funto Omojola, Teline Trần, and others to be announced. It Goes, It Goes is presented as part of a three-day celebration of James Schuyler’s birthday with events at New York University, Dia, and the Poetry Project. Wayne Koestenbaum was born in San Jose, California, in 1958. A poet, critic, fiction writer, artist, filmmaker, and performer, he has published 22 books, including, most recently, Ultramarine (2022). He has received a fellowship from John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation for poetry, an American Academy of Arts and Letters Award in Literature, and a Whiting Award. He is a Distinguished Professor of English, French, and comparative literature at the City University of New York Graduate Center. Chad Morgan was born in Evansville, Indiana. Their work is concerned with the intersection of mass media and personal identity. They are the author of Chad Morgan & Other Poems (2022) and the poetry chapbook, What Slaughter in the Garden of Beauty—! (2023). They live in Chicago. Eileen Myles was born in Cambridge, Massachusetts, in 1949. They are a poet, novelist, and art journalist, and their practice of vernacular first-person writing has made them one of the most recognized authors of their generation. Recent titles include Pathetic Literature (2022), which they edited, and a “Working Life” (2023). They are the recipient of numerous awards, including those from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, Foundation for Contemporary Art, and John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. They live in New York and Marfa, Texas. Funto Omojola was born in Ilorin, Nigeria. A poet, performer, and visual artist, they have done projects with the Poetry Project, New York; Silver Eye Center for Photography, Pittsburgh; and Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, and their work has been supported by A.I.R Gallery, Brooklyn; Cave Canem Foundation, Brooklyn; Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art, North Adams; Millay Arts, Austerlitz, New York; and the Poetry Project. Omojola’s first book is forthcoming from Nightboat Books in 2024. They live in New York. Teline Trần was born in Orange, California (Gabrieleño/Tongva land), in 1997. In their work, they explore ideas of home and interstitial faith through fiction, poetry, film, and ultimately the browser. Trần is the membership and community engagement coordinator and a former fellow at Wendy’s Subway, Brooklyn. They also work as development coordinator at Mekong NYC, a Southeast-Asian grassroots organization in the Bronx. Trần’s first chapbook is Ad-Học (2023). They live along the Hudson River (Muhheakantuck).

Learning Program

Saturday Studio at Dia Beacon

Saturday, November 11, 2023, 10:30 am–12 pm
Dia Beacon

Saturday Studio

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Event DetailsSaturday, November 11, 202310:30 am–12 pm Dia Beacon Learning Lab3 Beekman StreetBeacon, New York Free. Spaces are limited; register for the event here. Join a practicing artist for a workshop of art-making, material experimentation, and play at Dia Beacon. 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 Dia Beacon. Registrations opens on Friday, October 6, at 9 am. For more information, please contact learning@diaart.org.

Dia Talks

Jonathas De Andrade on Sol LeWitt

Wednesday, November 15, 2023, 6:30 pm
Dia Chelsea

Artists on Artists Lecture Series

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Event DetailsWednesday, November 15, 20236:30 pm Dia Chelsea537 West 22nd StreetNew York, New York Free. Register for the event here. Jonathas De Andrade was born in Maceió, Brazil, in 1982. In his cross-disciplinary practice he uses installation, photography, and video to reconstruct and personify historical narratives. Solo exhibitions of his work have been held at Museu de Arte Contemporânea da Universidade de São Paulo; New Museum, New York; and Kunsthalle Lissabon, Lisbon. He has participated in group exhibitions at Museum of Modern Art, New York; Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York; and Walker Art Center, Minneapolis. He lives in Recife, Brazil.

Performance

Juni One Set:
Boy mother / faceless bloom

Thursday–Saturday, November 16–18, 2023, 7:30 pm
Offsite

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Event DetailsCo-presented by Dia Art Foundation and New York Live ArtsPerforma Biennial 2023 Thursday–Saturday, November 16–18, 20237:30 pm nightly New York Live Arts219 West 19th StreetNew York, New York Purchase tickets here. Dia and New York Live Arts present the New York premiere of Boy mother / faceless bloom, a stage work by Juni One Set, a collaboration of Senga Nengudi, eddy kwon, and Haruko Crow Nishimura and Joshua Kohl of Degenerate Art Ensemble. The work is presented in conjunction with the long-term exhibition of Nengudi’s work on view at Dia Beacon, as part of Performa Biennial 2023. Threading mythology and autobiography, while drawing from the diverse lineages of queer, anti-colonial, and care-based artistic practices, Boy mother / faceless bloom is an interdisciplinary performance work. Dance, music, poetry, ritual, and sculptural installation converge to tell a story of transformation, transgression, and the formation of new trancestral lines. The piece premiered at the Fine Arts Center at Colorado College, Colorado Springs, on February 24, 2022. Juni One Set is the most recent iteration of Nengudi’s collaborative method. Collaboration has been a defining aspect of the artist’s work throughout her career. Her creative partnerships have included the Los Angeles collective Studio Z (with artists Franklin Parker, Houston Conwill, Greg Edwards, David Hammons, and Barbara McCullough, among others); an unofficial quartet with Conwill, Maren Hassinger, and Parker; the Rudy Perez Dance Troupe; and avant-garde dancers and musicians Cheryl Banks-Smith, Blondell Cummings, Lawrence “Butch” Morris, Yasunao Tone, and Kaylynn Sullivan Twotrees, among others. Originally trained as a dancer, since the 1970s Nengudi has developed a distinct body of performance work spanning interactions with her sculptures, score-based actions, and choreographed events to be variously staged in interstitial urban spaces, dancehalls, or traditional theaters. She also creates stage and costume designs for the intergenerational, multidisciplinary cast with whom she collaborates, as is the case for Boy mother / faceless bloom. Degenerate Art Ensemble (DAE) was founded in Seattle in 1999 by dancer Haruko Crow Nishimura and sound designer Joshua Kohl. Through their concerts, dance and theater projects, and experimentations with public spaces, DAE reinvigorates and transforms the relationship between performer and audience, and challenges perceptions of music, theater, and dance. The ensemble has performed throughout the United States and Europe, including at the Frye Art Museum, Seattle; Yerba Buena Arts Center, San Francisco; and Festival of Contemporary Dance, Mexico City. They are recipients of the Artist Trust’s 2020 Arts Innovator Award and have received support from Creative Capital, MAP Fund, and New Music USA. DAE is based in Seattle. eddy kwon was born in Minnesota in 1989. She is a violinist, vocalist, and performance artist whose practice combines composition, improvisation, movement, and ritual to produce spaces of transformation and transgression. kwon has performed internationally, including at the Kennedy Center, Washington, D.C.; Big Ears Festival, Knoxville, Tennessee; SESC Pompéia Factory, São Paulo; Barbican Centre, London; and more. She has received numerous awards and recognitions, including the Foundation for Contemporary Arts Robert Rauschenberg Award in Music/Sound, Arts Fellow at Princeton University’s Lewis Center for the Arts, and Andrew W. Mellon Artist-in-Residence at the Fine Arts Center at Colorado College, Colorado Springs. kwon lives in Brooklyn. Senga Nengudi was born in Chicago in 1943. Her work spans sculpture, performance, photography, drawing, and poetry. She completed a BA in fine arts with a minor in dance in 1966 and an MFA in sculpture in 1971, both at California State University, Los Angeles, and spent the year between her undergraduate and graduate studies enrolled at Waseda University, Tokyo. Her foundational training in dance included classes in the Horton technique in Los Angeles and in Kabuki theater in Tokyo. While a student, Nengudi served as an educator at the Watts Towers Art Center with artist Noah Purifoy and at the Pasadena Museum of Art (now Norton Simon Museum), where early Happenings took place. In 1977, Nengudi’s first solo exhibition was presented at Just Above Midtown gallery, New York. In 2019–21, a retrospective of her work was co-organized by the Lenbachhaus, Munich, and Museu de Arte de São Paulo, and traveled to the Denver Art Museum and Philadelphia Museum of Art. She was awarded the Nasher Prize in 2023. Dia’s engagement with Nengudi began in 2017 with an invitation to participate in the institution’s long-running Artists on Artists Lecture Series and continues with a long-term presentation of her work at Dia Beacon, which opened in February 2023. Nengudi lives in Colorado Springs.

Learning Program

Saturday Studio on the Farm

Saturday, November 18, 2023, 10:30 am–12 pm
Common Ground Farm

Saturday Studio

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Event DetailsSaturday, November 18, 202310:30 am–12 pm Common Ground Farm79 Farmstead LaneWappingers Falls, New York Free. Spaces are limited; register for the event here. Join a practicing artist for an outdoor workshop of art-making, material experimentation, and play, 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 be rescheduled for spring 2024. Registration opens on Friday, November 10, at 9 am. For more information, please contact 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.

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