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Yves Laris Cohen // Seth

June 1, 2013 from 8pm to 9:30pm – The Kitchen Yve Laris Cohen Seth, 2013 In a new site-specific performance, Yve Laris Cohen meditates on the unused and unseen spaces of The Kitchen, responding to the history of the institution, the neighborhood… Organized by | Type: performance in an installation
SOAK // Moeno Wakamatsu / Study of a Weak Body

June 1, 2013 from 8pm to 9:15pm – CAVE Godly Matter, Earthly Will A duality exists between our ‘body of matter’ and ‘body of will’. Matter is true to it’s own properties, and to the desires of time and space. If we identify with ‘mat… Organized by | Type: butoh performance

SOAK // Yuko Kaseki / Unspelled

May 31, 2013 from 8pm to 9:15pm – CAVE order of language spilling spelled and unspelled voice spine, fingernails, shadow broken apart and puzzled landscape in the body breathing the air between observer, the past, I and spelling Unspelle… Organized by | Type: butoh performance

William Leavitt // Habitat

May 24, 2013 at 8pm to May 25, 2013 at 10pm – The Kitchen Habitat takes place between two groups of neighbors in the adjoining backyards of a small mid-western town. While these people sometimes speak of what divides them, the real tragedy here arises in th… Organized by | Type: suburban neighbors, existential midwestern crisis

Yarn/Wire + Peter Evans + Tyondai Braxton

May 23, 2013 from 8pm to 10pm – 22 Boerum Place Yarn/Wire plays new pieces for percussion and piano quartet by two of NYC's most exciting musicians, composer/multi-instrumentalist Tyondai Braxton and trumpeter/composer Peter Evans. The evening wil… Organized by | Type: sound performance, music improvisation, video and music improvisation
Karen Finley // Sext Me if You Can

May 23, 2013 from 6pm to 9pm – New Museum “Sext Me if You Can” is an interactive performance installation taking place in the New Museum Lobby in full view of Museum visitors. For this performance, Karen Finley creates a limited edition of p… Organized by | Type: performance installation, nea 4 in residence

Jean-Baptiste Sastre // Phèdre les oiseaux

May 21, 2013 at 7:30pm to May 29, 2013 at 9:30pm – Baryshnikov Arts Center N.Y. Premiere May 21 - 24 + 28 - 29, 2013 Text by Frédéric BoyerEnglish Translation by Cole SwensenDirected by Jean-Baptiste SastreDramaturgy by Ellen HammerFeaturing Hiam Abbass and Ntare Guma Mbaho… Organized by | Type: chorus performance, theater performance

ADRIÁN VILLAR ROJAS IN CONVERSATION WITH KLAUS BIESENBACH

May 18, 2013 from 3pm to 6pm – MoMA PS1 Known for his monumental clay sculptures, Adrián Villar Rojas represented Argentina at the 2011 Venice Biennale. Klaus Biesenbach is director of MoMA PS1 and Chief Curator-at-Large at The Museum of M… Organized by | Type: museum discussion, expo1

Object Collection // ACTUA 1

May 17, 2013 at 8pm to May 18, 2013 at 9:30pm – Invisible Dog Arts Center ACTUA 1 constructs an event that both happened and did not. An exercise in futility and concentration, the piece is named after Actua One, a lost film from the May ’68 uprisings. Performers pace res… Organized by | Type: slogans for a missing revolution, may 1968
Performa Presents: Loudspeaker // A Concert/Symposium for Extra-Normal Vocals

May 17, 2013 from 4pm to 6:30pm – Cooper Union / Frederick P Rose Auditorium An Experimental Event on the voice in contemporary performance featuring artists and musicians Joan La Barbara, Jace Clayton, Florian Hecker, and Alex Waterman. Free admission with reservation, rsvp… Organized by | Type: performa presents, vocal performances, experimental event

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