Category: Upcoming

On April 1st, 2014, PS122 will be participating in Bruce Andrews 25 Hour Twitter Project, an experimental performance piece from poet Bruce Andrews.

“The Bruce Andrews 25 hour piece is meant to use Twitter as sculptural documentation, becoming a real time archive of Bruce Andrews’s current poetic writing and the responses it elicits in real time. Using a social media platform as an exhibition space, Maria Chavez will tweet a Bruce Andrews language text, every 5 minutes for 25 hours. That’s the 300 parts of a new poetic sequence, ‘Improper’, designed and edited for this occasion.

Each twitter post will also have a link leading to a Soundcloud web page made specifically for the piece, with audio recordings of Andrews, performing each tweeted ‘poem’ individually.”

Follow the project @BruceAndrews25h, and watch @ps122 for our retweets.

The New York Times and InfiniteBody both blogged about Ant Hampton and Tim Etchells yesterday.

“It effortlessly lifts you right out of your immediate location into awareness of the space and your reading partner and the students around you.”
-Eva Yaa Asantewaa, InfiniteBody

“The act of reading was transformed into a strange — and sometimes very loud — drama of turning pages, pointing fingers and eerily drifting thoughts”
-Jennifer Schuessler, The New York Times.

Also our amazing intern Eleanor and volunteer Chuck are the subjects in the New York Times photo.

Don’t blink or you’ll miss it: our much-anticipated pair of shows by Ant Hampton are opening next week and close on May 5. The Quiet Volume, by Ant Hampton and Tim Etchells exposes the strange magic at the heart of the reading experience, while Cue China (Elsewhere, Offshore) merges the audience’s identities with a Chinese factory worker through a glass teleprompter. The runs are short and tickets are very limited so get yours now. Ticket can be booked in pairs or individually.

Exploring a new type of automatic performance, an audience of exactly two people perform the pieces themselves and for each other through listening to whispered instructions via headphones, iPods and teleprompters. No actors, no audience members, just the two participants themselves. The Quiet Volume was created by Ant Hampton and Tim Etchells, Cue China was created by Ant Hampton.

Don’t miss PS122’s longest running series, on loan to Abrons Art Center:

AVANT-GARDE-ARAMA: NEW MOON
A tribute to the late downtown luminary performance artist Tom Murrin, aka Alien Comic, in celebration of his 27 years of performing in Avant-Garde-Arama.

Performances: April 12 + 13, 8pm | Tickets: $15
At the Abrons Playhouse at Abrons Arts Center, 466 Grand Street, New York City
New York, NY – Curated by Salley May, Avant-Garde-Arama: New Moon is a tribute to the late downtown mentor and luminary performance artist Tom Murrin, who anchored the show for 27 years. This, the first Avant-Garde-Arama variety show since Tom’s death, will feature a stellar lineup of performances and video, featuring different artists each night!

Continue reading “This Weekend: Avant-Garde-Arama!”

AVANT-GARDE-ARAMA: NEW MOON
A tribute to the late downtown luminary performance artist Tom Murrin, aka Alien Comic, in celebration of his 27 years of performing in Avant-Garde-Arama.

Performances: April 12 + 13, 8pm | Tickets: $15
At the Abrons Playhouse at Abrons Arts Center, 466 Grand Street, New York City
New York, NY – Curated by Salley May, Avant-Garde-Arama: New Moon is a tribute to the late downtown mentor and luminary performance artist Tom Murrin, who anchored the show for 27 years. This, the first Avant-Garde-Arama variety show since Tom’s death, will feature a stellar lineup of performances and video, featuring different artists each night!

Continue reading “Avant Garde Arama New Moon Lineup Announced”