Blind Dates Recursive 08
Saturday, August 3, 2024, 2–3 pm, Dia Beacon
Event details
Saturday, August 3, 2024
2–3 pm
Dia Beacon
3 Beekman Street
Beacon, New York
Included with museum admission; registration is recommended.
Blind Dates Recursive 08
Question: When, where, and how are we?
The series’ final program is facilitated by Laurel Schwulst
Laurel Schwulst, born in 1988, is an artist, writer, and technologist. She is recognized for her experiential projects-as-worlds; expanded writing practice; creative direction leadership; websites; innovative learning materials and educational environments; and her ongoing collaborations. Her writing has taken the form of essays, perfume reviews, and interviews with other artists, and has been published by the New York Times, Creative Independent, and Art in America, among others. For over a decade, she has taught award-winning design classes and workshops at academic institutions including Yale University, New Haven, and Princeton University, New Jersey. She has presented her work internationally at cultural, academic, and internet-native institutions, including BBC Radio 4, Rhode Island School of Design, University of Seoul, Google, and Wikipedia. Schwulst serves as director of the gift shop at Are.na, a platform for networked curation, and is working towards a “PBS of the Internet.” She lives in New York.
About the program series
Blind Dates Recursive is a series of participatory public conversations held at Dia Beacon in conjunction with Rita McBride: Arena Momentum (on view through January 2025). These engagements take place on McBride’s Arena (1997), a modularly structured tribune that is activated by the presence of audiences and performers alike.
Inspired by the artist’s decision to make the digital design files of Arena freely available through a copyleft license, which allows for the public to access and reinterpret the work, Blind Dates Recursive provides an ongoing, open forum to consider and enact the shifting nature of authorship.
Each month, an invited facilitator poses a question and draws on their unique field of expertise to act as an instigator, listener, and moderator of the responses and conversation. Participants are encouraged to think out loud and in dialogue with each other during the hour-long session, at the end of which the facilitator will guide the group to collectively form a new question. The new question will be posed at the next session by a new facilitator. In this way, like a game of Telephone, Blind Dates Recursive generates iterative gatherings and an evolving public dialogue over the course of the exhibition.
More information on the full program series is available here.