Our third print issue features Catherine Lacey on worthless pictures; Elif Batuman on Miranda July; Chris Kraus on girlhood; the drawings of Daniel Johnston; poems by Ariana Reines and Eileen Myles; and dispatches on undersea rifts, baby-making on Mars, and climbing Stone Mountain. 

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Due to weather conditions, Pioneer Works is suspending open gallery hours for Friday, September 29. MHYSA's performance has been rescheduled for Sunday, October 1, with all tickets being transferred to the new date.

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Just Announced: Pioneer Works Names Mara Manus Chief Executive Officer

The Board of Directors of Pioneer Works is pleased to announce that Mara Manus, former Executive Director for New York State Council on the Arts (NYSCA), has been appointed as the organization’s new Chief Executive Officer. 

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We're pleased to announce the first major renovation of Pioneer Works! To accommodate the first phase of our construction, we're temporarily relocating to 133 Imlay Street opening in Spring 2022.

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The Separate Sundays Review explores performances, residencies and other happenings within our creative community at Pioneer Works. Tune in with our hosts, Director of Music, Justin Frye, and Head of Residencies and Classes, Christina Daniels.

In the April edition of Separate Sundays, Marisa Michelson of Constellation Chor and videographer Miriam Parker discuss 

, a new film project they made during their March Music Residency at Pioneer Works; Margaretha Haughwout discusses the performative gestures of guerilla grafting; acclaimed author and physicist Alan Lightman is in conversation with artist Smriti Keshari, creator of a chilling new Pioneer Works exhibition, the bomb; and resident astrologer Joey Frank toasts to Aries with readings from famous Aries creatives and philosophers.

April 2021

Separate Sundays: April 2021

In the March edition of Separate Sundays, tech resident 

 leads us on a tour of her in progress web project, Night Moth, A Mythology of Escape; hear music recorded during 

 residency in February 2021 at Pioneer Works; listen to an excerpt from the titular film that will take physical form within Smriti Keshari and Eric Schlosser: the bomb, opening on March 19; consider how me might transform our economy in order to address the climate crisis with Dr. Ayana Elizabeth Johnson, journalist and activist Naomi Klein, and finance expert Régine Clément; and join resident astrologer Joey Frank in a toast to Pisces with readings from famous Pisces creatives and philosophers.

March 2021

Separate Sundays: March 2021

In the February edition of Separate Sundays, JP Brammer reads from his animated essay about forbidden first love and escaping the physical and mental confines of the Midwest; January Music Resident 

 shares music recorded during his residence and talks to Justin Frye about his inspiration and process; we revisit Four Simultaneous Soloists, a four-part performance series staged within Anthony McCall’s Solid Light Works exhibition three years ago; Marisa Prefer, our Manager of Sustainability, talks with the creator of Tree of 40 Fruit: New York Apples, Sam Van Aken, who has turned tree-grafting into a living art form; and Tech Resident 

 talks about one of her favorite rocks and why it’s so important to to your day-to-day life.

February 2021

Separate Sundays: February 2021

In the January edition of Separate Sundays, Director of Sciences, Janna Levin, discusses science vs. fiction with novelist Jonathan Lethem; art critic Wendy Vogel reads for her latest article on the Broadcast, “Let it Light You Up”; Director of Technology, Tommy Martinez, speaks with tech resident alum Luba Drozd about the Mimosa Pudica; Justin Frye speaks with December music resident Chloe Alexandra Thompson about what she uncovered during her residency; and our resident astrologer, Joey Frank, toasts to Capricorn with readings from famous Capricorn creatives and philosophers.

January 2021

Separate Sundays: January 2021

For the December edition of Separate Sundays features visual arts resident Jude Gabriel discusses his first foray into animation, theoretical physicist Sean Carroll considers time travel, alumni visual arts resident Kenya (Robinson) in conversations with cartoonist Gary Panter and musician Counterfeit Madison about her latest animation project TOONSKIN, and resident astrologer Joey Frank toasts to Sagittarius with readings from famous Sagittarius creatives and philosophers.

December 2020

Separate Sundays: December 2020

For the November edition of Separate Sundays visual arts resident Christie Neptune reads from Liminal Spaces:Migration and Women of the Guyanese Diaspora, October music residents Saint Abdullah share journal excerpts and new tracks, tech residents Yang Wang and Zhenzhen Qi guide us through How To Not Be Looped, a handbook, toolkit, and web experiences to probe an increasingly constructed way of living, and more.

November 2020

Separate Sundays: November 2020

The October edition of Separate Sundays includes a studio visit and Q&A with visual arts resident Ilana Harris-Babou, a discussion around systemic racism in the arts with music residents Amirtha Kidambi and Shayna Dunkelman, Opera as Sculpture with visual arts resident Xenia Bond and Pippa Dodd, Horoscope Toasts with Joey Frank, and more.

October 2020

Separate Sundays: October 2020

The August edition of Separate Sundays features a preview of Anonymous Aardvark Collective’s Dial-a-poem 2.0 2.0 project, excerpts from the bomb at 75 with artist Smriti Keshari, a quarantine check-in and listening session with July music residents LEYA, and excerpts from Scientific Controversies: Animal Consciousness from the Pioneer Works archive.

August 2020

Separate Sundays: August 2020

The July edition of Separate Sundays features a quarantine check-in and listening session with music resident Jeremiah Cymerman, a conversation between visual arts resident Erin Johnson and Christina Daniels on Unnamed for Decades, a recording from the Pioneer Works archive with astronaut Leland Melvin discussing his book Chasing Space, and a S4AD preview with Onyx Ashanti in conversation with Tommy Martinez.

July 2020

Separate Sundays: July 2020

The May edition of Separate Sundays features a quarantine check-in with our would-be May music resident YATTA, excerpts from Scientific Controversies: Event Horizon featuring Janna Levin, Shepherd Doeleman, and Andrew Strominger, a field recording of Birds of Fedex field by Johann Diedrick, and a special Mother’s Day selection of music and excerpts from the Pioneer Works audio archive.

May 2020

Separate Sundays: May 2020

The April edition of Separate Sundays features a conversation and performance with April music residents Constellation Chor; the Latent Tapestries playlist from visual arts resident Nate Lewis; Survival by Elizabeth Hénaff, Heather Parrish, and Léonard Roussel; Brian Greene in Conversation with Janna Levin on his latest book Until the End of Time; and excerpts from Recent Field Recordings from tech resident Johann Diedrick.