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November 4 to December 4, 2022

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Activations: Johann Diedrick at Chelsea Recreation Center

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

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Activations: Stella Zhong at the Chelsea Recreation Center

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

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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.

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