Second Sundays: February 2019

Second Sundays is a free event series that engages Pioneer Works disciplines through live music, food, artists’ open studios, and interactive programs.

Food and drinks by Grasshopper and Pioneer Works Bar

Second Sundays Commissions are made possible by Facebook’s Artist in Residence Program (FB AIR).

On View

Maria Antelman: Disassembler

2nd Floor Gallery

In Disassembler, Maria Antelman presents eight installation works across three floors of the Pioneer Works building. Antelman creates collage-like videos that pull from a well of sources, including scenarios about rewilding the American West, ideas of techno-animism, and early reconnaissance images from outer space. Crafted from unexpected juxtapositions, her often foreboding filmic compositions decode what it means to exist in a networks system.

In the third floor gallery, Antelman will debut the namesake video installation Disassembler, newly commissioned by Pioneer Works...Read more

Open Studios

Jaimie Warren
Baseera Khan
Jen Liu
Nicholas Oh
Kameelah Janan Rasheed
MV Carbon
Taeyoon Choi
Matthew Gantt and Lindsey Drury
Sophie Kahn

Programs

Second Sundays Commission: Printing, Riffing, and Improvising with Kameelah Janan Rasheed

5-6pm

Collectively riff on templates, patterns, and designs with resident Kameelah Janan Rasheed using risographs and simple xerox machines. Second Sundays Commissions are made possible by Facebook’s Artist in Residence Program (FB AIR).

Second Sundays Commission: Primitive Hypertext Lab Curated by Kameelah Janan Rasheed

4-7:30pm

Browse archives of Black printed matter and vernacular photographs from resident Kameelah Janan Rasheed’s research into Black traditions of publishing and self-determination. Rasheed will walkthrough the materials from 6-7:30pm. Second Sundays Commissions are made possible by Facebook’s Artist in Residence Program (FB AIR).

Genetic Love Tests with GenSpace

4-7:30pm

What do our genes tell us about love? Join GenSpace in our Science Studios and test your DNA for the “cuddle chemical”–a protein associated with affection. Trade in your horoscope for a cheek swab.

Isomorphs and Droste

6:30-7pm

Isomorphs and Droste is an electronic sound and movement performance staged across virtual and embodied space. The performance explores choreography and the poetics of technological mediation as it echoes between the virtual and the real.

8 Ball Radio

4-7:30pm

Award-winning online radio station 8 Ball Radio is taking over our Media Lab where you can join them to watch live recordings of DJ sets. At 7:30pm, 8 Ball will livestream the Sunwatchers concert in the North Hall. Listen live at www.8ballradio.nyc

Linked Stories

4-7:30pm

Synthesize image and text materials from the Primitive Hypertext Lab to create new visual compositions, collages, and narrative forms.

Music

Sunwatchers

8-9pm

Sunwatchers are a New York-based ensemble (featuring current & former members of NYMPH, Dark Meat, Chris Forsyth’s Solar Motel Band & Arthur Doyle’s New Quiet Screamers) that blur the lines between avant-jazz, punk, psychedelia, Ethio-jazz and desert blues, creating joyous, chaotic, mystical elegies to modern sound. Their eponymous 2016 album was released on Castle Face Records in 2016, followed by their Trouble In Mind debut, “II” in 2018. The band will release their third album “Illegal Moves” on February 22nd, 2019

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