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Blind Dates Recursive

Select Saturdays, 2–3 pm, November 2023–August 2024, Dia Beacon

Blind Dates Recursive 03, facilitated by Salome Asega, Dia Beacon, New York, February 3, 2024

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.

The public is encouraged to participate on a recurring basis.

Free with museum admission. Registration is recommended.

Blind Dates Recursive 01
Saturday, November 11, 2023, 2–3 pm

Blind Dates Recursive 02
Saturday, December 9, 2023, 2–3 pm

Blind Dates Recursive 03
Saturday, February 3, 2024, 2–3 pm

Blind Dates Recursive 04
Saturday, March 9, 2024, 2–3 pm

Blind Dates Recursive 05
Saturday, April 13, 2024, 2–3 pm

Blind Dates Recursive 06
Saturday, June 8, 2024, 2–3 pm

Blind Dates Recursive 07
Saturday, July 13, 2024, 2–3 pm

Blind Dates Recursive 08
Saturday, August 3, 2024, 2–3 pm

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