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February 24 to March 26, 2021

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Gallery Talks: Dorothea Rockburne


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25/02/2021 12:00 25/02/2021 12:30 America/New_York Gallery Talks: Dorothea Rockburne Event DetailsThursday, February 25, 2021, 12–12:30 pmLive on Zoom RSVP and receive a Zoom link here. Join Dia educators on Thursdays at 12 pm for engaging conversations around one artist’s practice or work on view at Dia Beacon. On February 25, Dia educators will discuss the work of artist Dorothea Rockburne. Dia Online FALSE DD/MM/YYYY Gallery Talks: Dorothea Rockburne

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25/02/2021 18:00 25/02/2021 23:45 America/New_York A Conversation on Mario Merz at the Walker Art Center with Vincenzo de Bellis and Matilde Guidelli-Guidi Event DetailsThursday, February 25, 2021, 6 pm Live on Zoom  RSVP and receive a Zoom link here.  Copresented by Dia Art Foundation and the Walker Art Center.   Curators Vincenzo de Bellis and Matilde Guidelli-Guidi discuss Mario Merz’s exhibition history at the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, where the artist had his first solo show in the United States in 1972. The talk will be accompanied by rarely seen materials from the Walker’s archives, including preparatory drawings, installation views, and footage from a 1972 Event by the Merce Cunningham Dance Company staged around Merz’s sculptures. This conversation is in conjunction with Merz’s presentation on long-term view at Dia Beacon and the restoration of Senza titolo (Untitled, 1996–97), a site-specific work created by the artist for the Minneapolis Sculpture Garden.    Vincenzo de Bellis is curator and associate director of programs, visual arts, at the Walker Art Center, where he most recently supervised the restoration of Mario Merz’s Senza titolo (Untitled, 1996–97).  Matilde Guidelli-Guidi is Dia’s associate curator. She recently organized Mario Merz’s exhibition at Dia Beacon, which opened for long-term view on November 20, 2020.  Dia Online FALSE DD/MM/YYYY A Conversation on Mario Merz at the Walker Art Center with Vincenzo de Bellis and Matilde Guidelli-Guidi

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Recreational Meeting: Moving Image with Eduardo Williams


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26/02/2021 15:00 26/02/2021 16:15 America/New_York Recreational Meeting: Moving Image with Eduardo Williams Event Details Friday, February 26, 2021, 3–4:15 pmLive on Zoom Hosted live on Zoom, each session is free and open to the public. Space is limited, and reservations are required. Register for this individual event and upcoming sessions here. Session Description Recreational Meeting: Moving Image with Eduardo Williams Developed in collaboration with filmmaker Eduardo “Teddy” Williams, this walking session explores the relationship between movement, the camera, and our environment.    Program Description Fridays, February 5–March 12, 2021, 3–4:15 pm, Dia Online  Facilitated by artist and Dia educator Stephen Kwok in collaboration with a series of guest artists, these workshops invite participants to reimagine digital platforms and the social formats that they prescribe through experimental and experiential exercises. In practice, these sessions explore how distance may enable, rather than limit, engagement with our surroundings, ourselves, and each other.    Stephen Kwok makes experimental events that incorporate sculpture, live performance, digital media, and text. He holds an MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and a BA in business administration from the University of Southern California, Los Angeles. He was an artist-in-residence at Delfina Foundation’s Performance as Process program in London. Kwok has exhibited at Seoul Museum of Art; Surplus Space, Wuhan; Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin; Center for Performance Research, Brooklyn; Julius Caesar Gallery, Chicago; Contemporary Arts Center, New Orleans; and Lawndale Art Center, Houston.  Eduardo Williams was born in 1987 in Argentina. He studied at the Universidad del Cine in Buenos Aires before joining Le Fresnoy – Studio national des arts contemporains in Tourcoing, France, in 2012. Williams’s short films Pude ver un puma (2011) and Que je tombe tout le temps? (2013) premiered at Cannes Film Festival, and Tôi quên rồi! (2014) at FID Marseille. His first feature, El auge del humano (2016), won the Golden Leopard award at the 2016 Locarno Film Festival. His most recent short film, Parsi (2018), premiered at the TK date Berlinale, and has since been shown at Tate Modern, London; Lincoln Center, New York City; and other festivals and museums.     Dia Online FALSE DD/MM/YYYY Recreational Meeting: Moving Image with Eduardo Williams

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Sound Drawing Session 4: Collaboration


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28/02/2021 10:30 28/02/2021 11:15 America/New_York Sound Drawing Session 4: Collaboration Event DetailsSunday, February 28, 2021, 10:30–11:15 amLive on Zoom Session DescriptionFor this session, families will create collaborative sound drawings through an online platform, using listening skills, notation, and instruments found at home to build a communal space of making while maintaining a distance.   Hosted on Zoom by artist and educator Audra Wolowiec, each session is free and recommended for families with children ages 5 and up. Space is limited and reservations are required. Reservations open two weeks prior to the program; to register for this free session, please click here.  At-Home MaterialsIn addition to a device that can join a Zoom video call, you will need the following materials at home: Paper or drawing surfaces. This could be anything that you have at home to draw on, such as a sketchbook, used cardboard, paper bags, etc. Mark-making or drawing materials like pencils, colored pencils, crayons, pens, markers, or chalk. Recommended materials (not necessary): Collage materials like colorful paper, old magazines, scissors, and glue stick. Instruments or objects that make sound, from quiet to loud. Participants may request materials in the reservation form for the program. Audra Wolowiec is an artist and educator whose work oscillates between sculpture, installation, text, and performance with an emphasis on sound and the material qualities of language. She is interested in how sound can create spaces of listening and connection. She teaches at Parsons School of Design and runs an independent publishing platform called Gravel Projects. Dia Online FALSE DD/MM/YYYY Sound Drawing Session 4: Collaboration

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Gallery Talks: Lee Ufan


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04/03/2021 12:00 04/03/2021 12:30 America/New_York Gallery Talks: Lee Ufan Event DetailsThursday, March 4, 2021, 12–12:30 pmLive on Zoom RSVP and receive a Zoom link here. Join Dia educators on Thursdays at 12 pm for engaging conversations around one artist’s practice or work on view at Dia Beacon. On March 4, Dia educators will discuss the work of artist Lee Ufan. Dia Online FALSE DD/MM/YYYY Gallery Talks: Lee Ufan

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Recreational Meeting: Movement with Savannah Knoop


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05/03/2021 15:00 05/03/2021 16:15 America/New_York Recreational Meeting: Movement with Savannah Knoop Event Details Friday, March 5, 2021, 3–4:15 pmLive on Zoom Hosted live on Zoom, each session is free and open to the public. Space is limited, and reservations are required. Register for individual or multiple sessions in the Recreational Meetings series here. Session Description Recreational Meeting: Movement with Savannah Knoop Developed in collaboration with artist Savannah Knoop, this session explores the relationship between the body and the screen, utilizing movement to uncover the emotional dimension of digital space and build intimacy within it.   Program Description Fridays, February 5–March 12, 2021, 3–4:15 pm  Facilitated by artist and educator Stephen Kwok in collaboration with a series of guest artists, these workshops invite participants to reimagine digital platforms and the social formats through experimental and experiential exercises. These sessions explore how distance may enable, rather than limit, engagement with our surroundings, ourselves, and each other.    Stephen Kwok makes experimental events that incorporate sculpture, live performance, digital media, and text. He holds an MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and a BA in business administration from the University of Southern California, Los Angeles. He was an artist-in-residence at Delfina Foundation’s Performance as Process program in London. Kwok has exhibited at Seoul Museum of Art; Surplus Space, Wuhan; Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin; Center for Performance Research, Brooklyn; Julius Caesar Gallery, Chicago; Contemporary Arts Center, New Orleans; and Lawndale Art Center, Houston.  Savannah Knoop is New York City–based artist and educator working in film, sculpture, writing, and performance. Knoop has studied dance and martial arts for over twenty years; movement and choreography are at the core of their practice. They have exhibited their work and performed at venues including the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; Museum of Modern Art, New York; ICA Philadelphia; and Leslie-Lohman Museum of Art, New York. Their memoir Girl Boy Girl: How I Became JT LeRoy (Seven Stories Press) was published in 2007 and subsequently adapted it into a screenplay, which in 2019 became a feature-length film that they coproduced titled JT Leroy. Knoop has written essays for the Los Angeles Review of Books, Dazed and Confused Magazine, BOMB, Critical Correspondence, and Cultured.  Dia Online FALSE DD/MM/YYYY Recreational Meeting: Movement with Savannah Knoop

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Jill Magid in Conversation with Nicholas Fox Weber


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09/03/2021 12:00 09/03/2021 23:45 America/New_York Jill Magid in Conversation with Nicholas Fox Weber Event DetailsTuesday, March 9, 2021, 12 pm Live on Zoom  Copresented by Dia Art Foundation and the Josef and Anni Albers Foundation RSVP and receive a Zoom link here.  The artist Jill Magid will be in conversation with Nicholas Fox Weber, writer and director of the Josef and Anni Albers Foundation, about her current exhibition at Dia Bridgehampton. The display features the series Homage CMYK (2019): eleven screenprints on linen that take two unlicensed works by Josef Albers as the departure point for a prismatic investigation of authorship.  Jill Magid was born in Bridgeport, Connecticut, in 1973. She is an artist, writer, and filmmaker. Solo presentations of her work have been held at, among others, the Berkeley Art Museum; Museo Universitario de Arte Contemporáneo in Mexico City; San Francisco Art Institute; Security and Intelligence Agency of the Netherlands; Tate Modern in London; and the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York City. She has participated in Manifesta as well as the Bucharest, Gothenburg, Incheon, Liverpool, Oslo, Performa, Singapore, and Ural Biennials. She is the author of four novellas and her documentary, The Proposal, premiered at the 2018 Tribeca Film Festival. Magid is an associate faculty member in the Art, Design, and the Public Domain program at the Graduate School of Design, Harvard University, in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and an adjunct teacher at Cooper Union in New York. In December 2019, Magid delivered a performative lecture on Belgian filmmaker and writer, Chantal Akerman as part of Dia Art Foundation’s Artists on Artists lecture series. Magid lives in Brooklyn and Amagansett, New York.  Nicholas Fox Weber is a cultural historian and author and has been the executive director of the Josef and Anni Albers Foundation for the past four decades. He has written extensively on the Alberses, and recently completed the visual biography Anni & Josef Albers: Equal and Unequal (2020). He is currently writing a new biography of the artist Piet Mondrian. Fox Weber also spearheads Le Korsa, a nonprofit organization he founded in 2005 to assist with medical care and education in Senegal. Dia Online FALSE DD/MM/YYYY Jill Magid in Conversation with Nicholas Fox Weber

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Gallery Talks: Michael Heizer


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11/03/2021 12:00 11/03/2021 12:30 America/New_York Gallery Talks: Michael Heizer Event DetailsThursday, March 11, 2021, 12–12:30 pmLive on Zoom RSVP and receive a Zoom link here. Join Dia educators on Thursdays at 12 pm for engaging conversations around one artist’s practice or work on view at Dia Beacon. On March 11, Dia educators will discuss the work of artist Michael Heizer. Dia Online FALSE DD/MM/YYYY Gallery Talks: Michael Heizer

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Recreational Meeting: Screens with Robin Deacon


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12/03/2021 15:00 12/03/2021 16:15 America/New_York Recreational Meeting: Screens with Robin Deacon Event Details Friday, March 12, 2021, 3–4:15 pmLive on Zoom Hosted live on Zoom, each session is free and open to the public. Space is limited, and reservations are required. Register for individual or multiple sessions in the Recreational Meetings series here. Session Description Recreational Meeting: Screens with Robin Deacon Developed in collaboration with artist Robin Deacon, this session will explore the screen as notion, surface, and frame for play and performance.  Program Description Fridays, February 5–March 12, 2021, 3–4:15 pm  Facilitated by artist and educator Stephen Kwok in collaboration with a series of guest artists, these workshops invite participants to reimagine digital platforms and the social formats through experimental and experiential exercises. These sessions explore how distance may enable, rather than limit, engagement with our surroundings, ourselves, and each other.    Stephen Kwok makes experimental events that incorporate sculpture, live performance, digital media, and text. He holds an MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and a BA in business administration from the University of Southern California, Los Angeles. He was an artist-in-residence at Delfina Foundation’s Performance as Process program in London. Kwok has exhibited at Seoul Museum of Art; Surplus Space, Wuhan; Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin; Center for Performance Research, Brooklyn; Julius Caesar Gallery, Chicago; Contemporary Arts Center, New Orleans; and Lawndale Art Center, Houston.  Robin Deacon is a British artist, writer, filmmaker, and educator. His work explores questions of identity, memory, absence, and fiction through a constant reconfiguration of his role as an artist. His research encompasses histories of video recording and outmoded media formats, as well as the practice and ethics of performance reenactment. Deacon’s work has been presented throughout Europe, the United States, and Asia. He is a professor of performance at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.  Dia Online FALSE DD/MM/YYYY Recreational Meeting: Screens with Robin Deacon

Poetry Reading

Tribute to Norma Cole


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Readings in Contemporary Poetry

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16/03/2021 18:00 16/03/2021 23:45 America/New_York Tribute to Norma Cole Event Details Tuesday, March 16, 6 pm Live on Zoom  RSVP and receive a Zoom link here.  Dia is pleased to announce the upcoming events in its Readings in Contemporary Poetry series. This season, instead of pairing two poets for an evening, curator Vincent Katz has chosen a format that pays tribute to five exemplary poets. For each event, a small group of readers will pay homage to one of the featured poets, followed by a reading by that poet. The featured poet for this event is Norma Cole.  The tribute readers for this event will be Kazim Ali, Brenda Hillman, Maya Phillips, and Cedar Sigo. Norma Cole’s forms of expression are ambitious. Her poems often (though not always) take small forms; they are made of short lines, in small stanzas, so that the space of the page starts to play an active role in the reading of them. Subtly, surreptitiously, these small packages explode in delicate, or sometimes not so delicate, arrays of color and attitude. Norma is famous for her empathic connections to people, artists and others, living and dead. Many of her poems carry dedications. She builds community as part of her poetic practice. On the other hand, she reserves a razor-sharp and ice-cold anger for the abuses of power and depradations of the morally corrupt as she observes them in the halls of power, here and around the world. The world is always calling in these poems; sometimes it is being called away, as we are made to look, through Norma’s poems, from the perspective of the universe. It is then that the human quality really shines through. Norma is a visual artist, in addition to being a writer, and has often worked in collaboration with other artists. Not just the look of her poems, but the images she shows us in them, will carry us a long way.                         Vincent Katz, March 16 2021 Norma Cole was born in Toronto in 1945. She is a poet, painter, and translator. Her most recent books of poetry include Fate News (2018), Win These Posters and Other Unrelated Prizes Inside (2012), Where Shadows Will: Selected Poems, 1988–2008 (2009), and Spinoza in Her Youth (2002). Cole has also published the volumes To be at Music: Essays & Talks (2010) and Actualities (2015), a collaboration with painter Marina Adams. Her translations from French include Danielle Collobert’s It Then (1989) and Jean Daive’s A Woman with Several Lives (2009). Additionally, Cole edited and translated Crosscut Universe: Writing on Writing from France (2000).   Cole has received awards from the Creative Work Fund, Foundation for Contemporary Arts, Fund for Poetry, Wallace Alexander Gerbode Foundation, and Gertrude Stein Awards for Innovative Poetry. She has taught at, among others, the University of San Francisco; Saint Mary’s College in Moraga, California; and San Francisco State University. Cole was also a regents’ lecturer at the University of California, Berkeley.  Dia Online FALSE DD/MM/YYYY Tribute to Norma Cole

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Gallery Talks: Charles Gaines


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18/03/2021 12:00 18/03/2021 12:30 America/New_York Gallery Talks: Charles Gaines Event DetailsThursday, March 18, 12–12:30 pmLive on Zoom RSVP and receive a Zoom link here. Join Dia educators on Thursdays at 12 pm for engaging conversations around one artist’s practice or work on view at Dia Beacon. On March 18, Dia educators will discuss the work of artist Charles Gaines. Dia Online FALSE DD/MM/YYYY Gallery Talks: Charles Gaines

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Gallery Talks: Michelle Stuart


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25/03/2021 12:00 25/03/2021 12:30 America/New_York Gallery Talks: Michelle Stuart Event DetailsThursday, March 25, 12–12:30 pmLive on Zoom RSVP and receive a Zoom link here. Join Dia educators on Thursdays at 12 pm for engaging conversations around one artist’s practice or work on view at Dia Beacon. On March 25, Dia educators will discuss the work of artist Michelle Stuart. Dia Online FALSE DD/MM/YYYY Gallery Talks: Michelle Stuart

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25/03/2021 18:00 25/03/2021 23:45 America/New_York A Conversation on Mario and Marisa Merz with Teresa Kittler and Matilde Guidelli-Guidi Event DetailsThursday, March 25, 6 pm Live on Zoom  RSVP and receive a Zoom link here. Copresented by Dia Art Foundation and Magazzino Italian Art.  This conversation between Teresa Kittler, 2020–21 scholar-in-residence at Magazzino Italian Art in Cold Spring, New York, and Dia’s associate curator Matilde Guidelli-Guidi, will focus on the performative azioni (actions) of Mario and Marisa Merz. Supported by archival material and original research, the discussion will shed light on a lesser-known aspect of the artists’ practice and  situate their actions within a broader history of performance.  Teresa Kittler is the 2020–21 scholar-in-residence at Magazzino Italian Art, Cold Spring, New York, and a lecturer in modern and contemporary art at University of York, England. She received her PhD at University College London in 2014. Kittler’s research focuses on artistic practices from 1945 to the present day, with a special interest in Italian postwar art and the work of artists Marisa Merz and Carla Accardi. Her most recent essays include “Marisa Merz: Actions, Interactions, and Performative Sculpture,” in Entrare nell’opera (2019) and “Reimagining the Family Album: Carla Lonzi’s Autoritratto (1969),” in Feminism and Art in Postwar Italy: The Legacy of Carla Lonzi (2020). Her current book project, Habitats: Art and the Environment Italy, 1945–1975, examines artistic practice in Italy through the lens of habitat in the three decades following World War II.  Matilde Guidelli-Guidi is Dia’s associate curator. She recently organized Mario Merz’s exhibition at Dia Beacon, which opened for long-term view on November 20, 2020.    Dia Online FALSE DD/MM/YYYY A Conversation on Mario and Marisa Merz with Teresa Kittler and Matilde Guidelli-Guidi

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