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Friday, September 12, 2025, from 7–9 PM

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Since 2013, Pioneer Works has hosted Second Sundays, a free monthly open house. Highlighting our programs, artists-in-residence, and Red Hook community members, Second Sundays features open studios, exhibitions, workshops, live music, and food—with programming across all three floors and in our garden.

On August Second Sundays, join us in celebrating the release of the Director of Publishing and 

Daylight Come: Harry Belafonte and The World He Made. 

Throughout the day, we'll host a conversation between Jelly-Schapiro and 

on the life and legacy of the late Jamaican calypso singer, actor,

and activist, a book signing, and a performance from the 

. Sunday also marks the closing day of our summer exhibitions: 

. Read on below to see the full schedule of events.

Second Sundays at Pioneer Works is supported in part by the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in Partnership with the City Council and the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature. 

Second Sundays is funded in part by a grant from the New York City Tourism Foundation, and additional support for Second Sundays is provided by the Emma & Georgina Bloomberg Foundation and the Robert Lehman Foundation.

Open Studios at Second Sundays is supported in part by the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts and public funds from the National Endowment for the Arts.

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, the archive and publishing platform founded by filmmaker and archivist Saad Khan, has preserved and digitized censored, banned, and underrepresented media from a geography spanning North Africa to South Asia. Khajistan reveals what modern knowledge systems leave out.

 takes its name from the U.S. government agency founded during World War II to manage public perceptions of the war through news, films, posters, and leaflets, at home and abroad. In this installation, that machinery of messaging is reimagined as an office in decay: printers continually produce copies of American military propaganda leaflets distributed across Afghanistan, Iraq, and Libya between 1990 and 2022. Computer terminals invite visitors to explore a digital archive of these leaflets and their translations. Extending back into history, the exhibition traces the enduring military actions enacted by the United States against foreign nations.

Outside this office recreation, a selection of original US war propaganda ephemera including leaflets dropped over Japan during World War II is displayed, linking contemporary conflicts to earlier campaigns of psychological warfare. Shifts in graphic style and rhetoric become visible in the installation, yet an underlying logic remains constant: wars are framed as reluctantly waged, necessary, and even humane. Operating as both a bureaucratic machine and an archive, 

 shows how language and design are used to justify war in advance.

Khajistan: O.W.I. is designed by Joey Chriqui, curated by Saad Khan, with technology support by Amad Ansari and curatorial support by Herbert A. Friedman and Ray Camp.The exhibition is supported, in part by the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts and by public funds from New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in Partnership with the City Council and the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature.

Office of War Information (O.W.I.) 

DUE TO OCCASIONAL PROGRAMMING, THIS EXHIBITION WILL BE CLOSED ON THE FOLLOWING DATES:

Khajistan: Office of War Information (O.W.I.)

 is a solo exhibition by New York–based artist 

 that uses baseball, a sport long mythologized as “America’s pastime,” to examine ideas of team, identity, and belonging in contemporary American culture. Since the late 1990s, Eagles has explored the aesthetic power and ethical stakes of blood as a material across installation, sculpture, photography, and painting, using it to probe embodiment, spirituality, and social norms.

A lifelong New York Mets fan, Eagles was struck by the slogan printed on T‑shirts given to blood donors at Citi Field: “The Mets are in our blood.” While his love of the team was inherited from his family, he himself is barred from participating in these blood drives by policies that discriminate against gay men. The phrase became a prompt for him. What is in our blood, and who is allowed to belong: to a team, a family, a nation?

, Eagles sourced these giveaway T‑shirts, cropped them, and splattered each with blood drawn from an HIV‑positive gay man, confronting ongoing prejudice against queer bodies and sexual practices. Grouped by color in formations that echo offensive and defensive lines on a baseball diamond, the shirts also evoke the division of the United States into “red” and “blue” camps, underscoring how seemingly neutral fandom is entangled with politics and identity.

The exhibition further considers how baseball and queer cultures share a charged language of bodies and roles. Euphemisms like “first base” and “second base” frame early sexual experience through the sport, while positions such as pitcher and catcher double as metaphors for sexual roles. Eagles’s work threads these associations into a broader narrative of identity formation, desire, and stigma, asking how metaphors shape who is marked as inside or outside the norm.

Surrounding the shirts is a series of resin works cast in the shape of home plate, embedding family ephemera and medical detritus: black nitrile gloves, baby‑blue scrubs, and face guards that recall an umpire’s gear; childhood photographs of Eagles in Mets apparel with his father; and vials of blood drawn from the artist, his father, and a friend. Large, wall‑mounted reproductions of 

 covers extend these themes into the realm of popular media, reframing sensational headlines about Mets star Mike Piazza’s sexuality and intercity baseball rivalries as part of a broader culture of speculation, spectacle, and bias. In bringing together the intimate and the institutional, 

 exposes the blood, labor, and prejudice beneath the polished image of team sports.

(b. 1977) is an artist who has been exploring the aesthetics and ethics of blood as an artistic medium since the late 1990s. His works are held in numerous private and public collections, including the Addison Gallery of American Art, Everson Museum of Art, Peabody Essex Museum, Princeton University Art Museum, University of Michigan Museum of Art, and Wellcome Collection. Based in New York, Eagles has presented exhibitions, installations, and public programs at institutions that include the Getty (Los Angeles, CA), High Museum of Art (Atlanta, GA), The Andy Warhol Museum (Pittsburgh, PA), Birmingham Civil Rights Institute (Alabama), The High Line (New York, NY), and Hammer Museum (Los Angeles, CA). The artist also collaborated with the NYC Department of Health and Mental Hygiene on NYC Blood Sure and—in partnership with GMHC and FCB Health—is a co-founder of Blood Equality.

 is curated by Gabriel Florenz. The exhibition is made possible with generous support from R. Martin Chavez, Jon Stryker & Slobodan Randjelović, and Donald Capoccia & Tommie Pegues. The exhibition is also supported, in part, by the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts and by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council, and the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State. 

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Jordan Eagles: Bases Loaded

 generates a sensory-intensive environment that renders the body a conduit for sound. Conceived by artist and composer 

), the installation riffs on the spatial and behavioral logics of gyms, reimagining athletic equipment as a series of sonic sculptures activated through friction, pressure, and movement.

Over the past decade, Fure has developed a practice that foregrounds the physical force of sound, creating visceral installation-performances that challenge conventional notions of music. In 

 amplified frequencies and spatialized audio circulate through steel-clad structures that invite viewers to press, lean, lift, loiter, and observe. Shifting fields of light move in sync with the sound—from total saturation to near darkness, from seismic bass to the edge of silence—exercising perception to its limits. These moves activate a body-borne form of listening, one that situates sound not as a passive backdrop, but as a dynamic experience that unfolds through the body itself.

At the core of the project is an interest in forms of collective experience organized through shared sensation rather than speech. “The gym and the club are two of the only cultural containers I know that invite a kind of private/public, alone/together intensity,” Fure notes. “No pressure to perform the self through words; just the body and its edges, the energy and its limits, each on their own adrenaline ride.”

First commissioned by the Yale Schwarzman Center in 2023, 

 is part of an ongoing, shifting project that includes performances, an album recording, and future site-specific installations, including an upcoming expansion presented by The Industry in Los Angeles in late 2026. To adapt across these contexts, Aguirre designs the built environment as a change-ready system, a scalable kit-of-parts construction intended for movement, disassembly, and reconfiguration. "I treated the architecture itself as a form of portable equipment in service of the body, ready to adapt to new contexts without losing material value or social intensity," he writes. Across its many forms, 

 asks how sound can ignite the body’s capacity to sense, endure, and connect.

’s full-bodied sonic experiences work on the senses in startling ways. Called “purely visceral” and “staggeringly original” by 

, the artist’s live performances and total installations mobilize the elemental force of sound, the social muscle of listening and our animal capacity to sense. Winner of a 2025 Creative Capital Grant, she has also received two Lincoln Center Emerging Artists Awards, a Guggenheim Fellowship, a Rome Prize in Music Composition, a DAAD Artists-in-Berlin Prize, an FCA Grant for Artists, a Fulbright Fellowship to France, a Stuttgart Composition Prize, a Darmstadt Kranichsteiner Musikpreis, and a Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowship from Columbia University. Fure holds a PhD in Music Composition from Harvard University, is Professor of Sonic Arts at Dartmouth College, and served as co-artistic director of The Industry LA from 2021 to 2024.

 is an Associate Professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Department of Architecture, as well as the Founder and Director of the award-winning architectural design practice 

, where his work focuses on deisgn at the moment of undoing. Through built projects and research he considers our relationship to material and commodity circulations, both technically as well as culturally. Aguirre was one of the representatives for the US Pavilion at the 2023 Venice Architecture Biennale, the recipient of the 2022 Architectural League Prize, and the 2018 Muschenheim Design Fellowship, among other awards.

 is supported, in part, by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council, The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, as well as the New York State Council on the Arts with support from the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature, and by Creative Capital Foundation and the Neukom Institute for Computational Sciences.

Organizer: Adam Shore
Producer: Julia Simpson
Audio Engineer: Daniel Neumann
Lighting Designer: Barbara Samuels
Associate Lighting Designer: Bev Fremin
Interactive Hardware and Software Design: Matthew Ostrowski
Technical Director: Bob Bellerue
Associate Technical Director: Logan Miley
Lighting Supervisor: Gabi Vanek
Lead A/V Installation: Stefan Cvitanic
A/V Installation: Keenan DuBois, Tony Guarino, Jade Guterman, Horacio Lopez, Tim Pickerill, Michael Reyes & Riley Stevens
Head of Installation: Julian Townley
Installation & Fabrication: Dilan Cheavacci, Jebediah Long, Tony McDonald & Josh Pavlick
Graphic Design: Daniel Kent & Son Gong
Curatorial Associate: Magdalena Ramos Mullane
Architectural Assistants: Cheung Qin, Nia Rich, and the Kits for Life course students at MIT Department of Architecture

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The galleries and garden will be closed on Friday, July 3.

Alex Strada is a New York-based interdisciplinary artist. Her research-driven, socially engaged projects reimagine systems of power and create platforms for collectivity and civic transformation. Since 2022, she has served as Public Artist-in-Residence with NYC’s Department of Homeless Services and Department of Cultural Affairs. Recent solo exhibitions and commissions include Storefront for Art and Architecture, New York; Queens Museum, New York; Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco; Project Row Houses, Houston; Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, Connecticut; and Times Square Arts, New York. Select group exhibitions and screenings include Aurora Biennial, Dallas, Texas; Anthology Film Archives, Fashion Institute of Technology Art and Design Gallery, Museum of the Moving Image, Socrates Sculpture Park, and UnionDocs, all in New York; Fondazione Antonio Ratti, Italy; Centro Fotográfico Manuel Álvarez Bravo, Mexico; Listasafn Árnesinga Museum, Iceland; and MuseumsQuartier, Vienna. Strada’s projects have been featured in the 

Alex Strada

DJ Haram is a multi-disciplinary propagandist in Brooklyn, NY. Stylistically versatile, DJ Haram is known for her eclectic production, antiformat DJing, and layman’s poetics. Her sound is an easily recognizable world of its own, spanning from abrasive analog synthesis to speaker-knocking abstract boom-bap and club music to deteriorated Middle Eastern musical tradition. DJ Haram and Moor Mother together make up 700 Bliss, releasing 

(2022). Among a longer list of collaborators, DJ Haram has made notable work with Armand Hammer, including their Billboard charting 

 (2023). In 2025, DJ Haram released her debut solo album 

 on Hyperdub Records, and is partway through a live world tour of the project.

DJ Haram

Jen DeLuna is a painter exploring moments of vulnerability that are confessed through figures and animals. She received her BFA from Carnegie Mellon University in 2021. Her most recent exhibitions include solo shows at Storage Gallery, New York, and Laisun Keane, Boston. She has been included in group exhibitions at Xxijrah Hii, London; The Hole, Los Angeles; IRL, New York, NY), and Storage Gallery at NADA Miami. Her work has been reviewed in publications such as 

Jen DeLuna

Julian Chehirian is a Philadelphia- and Sofia-based multimedia artist and PhD Candidate in the History of Science at Princeton. His installations tune objects and spaces to surface their latent histories. He represented the Bulgarian Pavilion at the 2024 Venice Art Biennale.

D. Graham Burnett is a New York City-based scholar, writer, and maker. A longstanding editor at 

 magazine, he teaches at Princeton and was recently a visiting artist at the Academy of Fine Arts, Helsinki.

This residency is organized in collaboration with the

Julian Chehirian & D. Graham Burnett

LaJuné McMillian is a multidisciplinary artist and educator creating art that integrates performance, extended reality, and physical computing to question our contemporary forms of communication. They are passionate about discovering, learning, manifesting, and stewarding spaces for liberated Black Realities and the Black Imagination. McMillian has had the opportunity to show and speak about their work at National Sawdust, Tribeca Film Festival, Times Square, and the Guggenheim Museum. They were previously the Director of Skating at Figure Skating in Harlem, where they integrated STEAM and figure skating to teach girls of color about movement and technology. They have continued their research on Blackness, movement, and technology during residencies and fellowships at the Jerome Hill Artist Fellowship, Eyebeam, Pioneer Works, NYU ITP, Onassis ONX, NEW INC, and Barnard College.

This residency is organized in partnership with 

 LaJuné McMillian

Matt McCorkle is an Emmy-nominated digital artist and systems thinker working at the intersection of sound, immersive technology, ecology, and human experience. His current practice focuses on building large-scale XR and AI-driven storyworlds.

Matt McCorkle

Memo Akten and Katie Hofstadter are Southern California based interdisciplinary artists and researchers, whose work investigates the entanglements of technology, embodiment, consciousness, and culture. Merging backgrounds in dance, writing, poetry, drawing, sculpture, computer science, artificial intelligence, computational art, and public practice, they create speculative simulations, data dramatizations, immersive installations, and narrative experiments that probe the human condition in an age of artificial intelligence and accelerating transformation.

Together, their collaborative research and practice explore how emerging technologies—particularly AI and data systems—interact with the embodied, emotional, and ecological dimensions of human experience.

Memo Akten & Katie Hofstadter

Mickey Aloisio is an artist and educator originally from Long Island, NY, and currently based in Brooklyn, NY. He holds degrees from Suffolk County Community College, the Fashion Institute of Technology, and Yale University. His practice spans photography, sculpture, video, and installation, using analog processes and constructed display systems to explore counter-navigation, mediated forms of communication, and familial and social histories. Aloisio has received numerous awards and grants, including the FST StudioProjects Fund and Café Royal Cultural Foundation, and has participated in the Core Fellowship at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, the AIM program at the Bronx Museum, and residencies at Yaddo and Skowhegan. Exhibitions include solo shows at Marlborough Gallery, NY (2024) and Ptolemy Gallery, Queens, NY (forthcoming 2026).

Mickey Aloisio

Natalia Mejía Murillo is a visual artist exploring territory, trace, and time through correspondences between cartography and archaeology. She holds an MFA from Virginia Commonwealth University and an MA and BFA from the National University of Colombia.Recent exhibitions include Atlanta Contemporary, Atlanta, GA; Antioquia and Medellín Art Biennial, Medellin, Colombia; Carrillo Gil Museum, Mexico City; Fire Station, Doha; DDDD Gallery, The Print Center, and Revolver Galeria, all in New York; Architecture and Design Museum, Los Angeles; Casa de Velázquez, Madrid; and Kunstmuseum Reutlingen, Reutlingen, Germany. Mejía has received awards from the Folger Shakespeare Library, The Print Center, Kunstmuseum Reutlingen, and Colombia’s Ministry of Culture. She has held residencies at the John Michael Kohler Arts Center, Radio 28, MASS MoCA, Ellis-Beauregard Foundation, Fundació Miró Mallorca, and Strzemioski Academy, among others.

Natalia Mejía Murillo

Simon Benjamin is a Jamaican multi-disciplinary artist and filmmaker based in New York. His practice considers how the past ripples into the present in unexpected ways. Using the sea and coastal space as frameworks, his current body of work explores how lesser-known histories and colonial legacies impact on our present and contribute to an interconnected future.