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This week only, we’re heavily discounting our #PWPress publications to make way for new projects. Find artist-created books for $5, $10, & $15—sales raised from the PW Store are reinvested into funding new, ambitious projects by emerging and underrepresented artists and writers.

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From November 28 through December 14, take 20% off products in the Gift Guide with code: ULTRAFESTIVE. 

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Building Closures Due to Flash Floods

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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CEO Announcement

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. 

We are grateful for your engagement and support of Pioneer Works over the last year. Now through December 31st, we’re fundraising to meet our end of year goal and close out 2024.

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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.

Early Closure 5/10/23

Due to programming, Pioneer Works will be closed to the public on Wednesday, May 10. We will be open from Thursday through Sunday for the remainder of the week. Learn more and plan your visit 

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Pioneer Works will close at 4 pm on Thursday, April 10th in preparation for the 

15th Annual Ende Tymes Festival of Noise and Sonic Liberation

Former Pioneer Works Tech Resident LaJuné McMillian discusses creating space for black bodies in her work.

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Password Protected is a new video series consisting of "studio visits" with artists through the use of desktop screen-sharing.

In the latest installment of Password Protected, artist Sam Lavigne takes us inside his computer to show us how he subverts and manipulates massive amounts of data to expose ICE agents, helps us visualize the scale of our broken healthcare system through GoFundMe best wishes, playfully composites every single New York apartment into one, and disrupts the utility of Zoom.

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Household objects eaten by blobs, and other permutations of the mundane-made-strange.

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Defying medium-specificity, multimedia artist Rachel Rossin combines image, object, and architecture into world-building environments.

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Allahyari discusses The Laughing Snake (2018) which is a hypertext-narrative in which Allahyari uses the reiminaging of “monstrous female and genderless queer figures” found in Middle Eastern folklore as a tool to analyze the status and mistreatment of women in a hetero-patriarchy. The Laughing Snake is part of a larger body of work she calls: She Who Sees the Unknown, a collection of remixed parables centering legendary figures that Allahyari examines through the lens of new technologies, specifically virtual reality and additive manufacturing.

Morehshin Allahyari

American Artist’s video, entitled 2015 (2019), is a response to the racially biased “predictive” policing practices used by today’s law enforcement. In the piece, audience are given a POV through the lens of a fictitious police dashboard camera, superimposed with an imagined, futuristic, and ominous crime “forecasting” display. The video’s narrative places viewers on a ride through the predominantly black neighborhood of East New York, while an unseen cop makes their rounds deterring “future crimes.” As Artist opts not to reproduce the violent imagery that sensationalizes black death in mass media, implied acts of deterrence happen off camera. In this intimate screen share with the artist, we are given a behind-the-scenes look at the various tools, datasets, and predictive policing policies currently employed across police departments, which inspired the video.

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