Name: Second Sundays: May 2018
Start: 2018-05-13
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Second Sundays is a free event series that engages Pioneer Works disciplines through live music, food, artists’ open studios, and interactive programs.

Pioneer Works, the astronomers of Columbia University, and the Amateur Astronomers Association of New York host various stargazing events. We welcomed thousands of New Yorkers into our garden for The Great American Eclipse and regularly bring our telescopes out for public viewing, including most Second Sundays.



Astronomy in the Pioneer Works Garden

A Ballast Flora Garden: Pioneer Works is one of three gardens that are part of Maria Thereza Alves&#8217; Seeds of Change: New York&#8211; A Botany of Colonization.

A Ballast Flora Garden: Pioneer Works 

Mary Helena Clark is an artist working in film, video, and installation. Her work uses the language of collage to explore dissociative states through cinema, bringing together disparate subjects and styles that suggest an exterior logic or code. Using the conventions of narrative, language, and genre, her films explore shifting subjectivities and the limits of the embodied camera. Clark’s work has recently been exhibited at DOCUMENT, Chicago; Künstlerhaus, Stuttgart, Germany; JOAN, Los Angeles; and the 2017 Whitney Biennial, New York; and at festivals including the International Film Festival Rotterdam, the New York Film Festival, the Toronto International Film Festival, and the Hong Kong International Film Festival.

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Gözde İlkin lives and works in Istanbul, Turkey. She studied painting at the Fine Arts Faculty of Mimar Sinan University and is pursuing a master’s degree at Marmara University in Istanbul. Using mainly stitching, drawing, and painting as well as video and sound installations, İlkin constructs forms of confrontational interactions within the motifs of found domestic fabrics. In the process, she refers to social and political relationships/manipulation, borders, power issues, gender attitudes, and urban transformation. 

Selected solo exhibitions include: The Trap, Gypsum Gallery, Cairo (2016); Stained Estate at Françoise Heitsch Gallery, Munich (2015); and Please Clear the Dance Floor, artSümer Gallery, Istanbul (2010). Selected group exhibitions include the 15th Istanbul Biennale, A Good Neighbour (2017); Spaceliner, Arter, Istanbul (2015); and No one belongs here more than you, 54th October Salon, Belgrade (2013). Between 2006 and 2013, she worked with Gülcin Aksoy and Yasemin Nur Erkalır as a collective called AtılKunst.

Gözde İlkin’s residency is sponsored by the Saha Foundation, Turkey.

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Louis Fratino lives and works in Brooklyn, NY. He is currently making paintings and drawings that focus on homoerotic love. Figures and interiors are generated by mixing art historical references in an attempt to conjure feelings of intimacy. 

Fratino attended the Maryland Institute College of Art, graduating in 2015 with a degree in painting. He also attended the Yale Norfolk Summer School of Art and was awarded a Fulbright Research Fellowship to Berlin in 2016. He recently had a solo exhibition at Antoine Levi, Paris. Other exhibitions include Matisse + Fratino, Cabinet Printemps, Düsseldorf (2018); So I've got you, Thierry Goldberg, New York (2017); and Practice in Leisure, Galería Mascota, Mexico DF, (2017).

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NIC Kay is from the Bronx. 

They currently occupy several liminal spaces. 

They are a person who makes performances and creates/organizes performative spaces. 

They are obsessed with the act and process of moving, the change of place, production of space, position, and the meaning gleaned from the shifting of perspective. 

Their current trans disciplinary projects explore movement as a place of reclamation. 

NIC has performed and shown work internationally and in The United States.

NIC Kay

Autumn Knight is an interdisciplinary artist working with performance, installation and text. Her work primarily addresses conventions of racial and gender identity, psychotherapy, and art access. She attended the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture and holds an M.A. in Drama Therapy from New York University. Her performance work has been in exhibitions at various institutions including: DiverseWorks, Project Row Houses, and Blaffer Art Museum, all in Houston; Crystal Bridges Museum, Bentonville, Arkansas; Skowhegan Space, New York; The New Museum, New York; The Contemporary Art Museum, Houston; and most recently The Studio Museum in Harlem. Knight is from Houston, Texas, and is currently based in New York, NY.

Autumn Knight

A mainstay of the Chicago jazz scene and recent active addition to the New York scene, Jaimie Branch is an avant-garde trumpeter known for her “ghostly sounds," says The New York Times, and for "sucker punching" crowds straight from the jump off, says Time Out. Her classical training and “unique voice capable of transforming every ensemble of which she is a part” (Jazz Right Now) has contributed to a wide range of projects not only in jazz but also punk, noise, indie rock, electronic and hip-hop. Branch’s prolific as-of-yet underexposed work as a composer and a producer, as well as a sideman for the likes of William Parker, Matana Roberts, TV on the Radio and Spoon, is all on display in her debut record Fly or Die – a dynamic 35-minute ride that dares listeners to open their minds to music that knows no genre, no gender, no limits.

Jaimie Branch

Experience the work of our spring tech residents Vanessa Rosa and David Huerta. Rosa discusses culturally responsive computation and exhibits experiments in pattern abrasion with fiber optic fabric. Huerta helps visitors take their first steps towards online privacy and security with members of CryptoParty NYC.

Tech Lab Open Studios

Tech resident Morehshin Allahyari discusses her newest work, She Who Sees the Unknown, focusing on catastrophe and a Jinn called The Laughing Snake.

Virtual Environments Lab Open Studio: Morehshin Allahyari

Learn more about the multi-disciplinary performance art group, Trouble, through a retrospective of their work. Trouble will perform in the Main Hall at 7pm.

Trouble Retrospective

Kick back and check out our library of science related magazines and books.

Little Science Library & Bar

Join Pioneer Works Press to launch Dorothea Lasky’s fifth full-length poetry collection, MILK (Wave Books). Lasky will apply her signature word-music and invention of new language to motherhood and the production of new life. As much a personal document as it is an occult text, MILK investigates paradigms of what it means to be a creator in all its horrors horrors and joys. Lasky will be joined by performances from M. Lamar, Dara Wier, and Timothy Donnelly.

Dorothea Lasky: MILK

Trouble, an artist group featuring Laura Paris and Sam Hilmer will present &#8220;Stood Maze&#8221;, a long-form performance installation that integrates geography, music, performance art, and society.

"Stood Maze" by Trouble

Join the Amateur Astronomers Association of NY in the garden for an interactive look into the sky.

Solar and Star Gazing with Amateur Astronomers Association

Performing within Trouble&#8217;s Stood Maze, Felt &#038; Known is a collaboration between producer Joey Desktop and Turtle, of the Flex Dance Movement.

Felt & Known

Performing as a musical element in Trouble&#8217;s Stood Maze, Diamond Terrifier Cipher is a band led by Sam Hilmer, featuring a collaboration with Don Devore.

Diamond Terrifier Cipher

Performing in conjunction with Trouble, AceMo (Adrian Mojica) creates visceral, dystopian techno that reflects the deep thrum of the city.

AceMo (DJ Set) 

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Mary Helena Clark is an artist working in film, video, and installation. Her work uses the language of collage to explore dissociative states through cinema, bringing together disparate subjects and styles that suggest an exterior logic or code. Using the conventions of narrative, language, and genre, her films explore shifting subjectivities and the limits of the embodied camera. Clark’s work has recently been exhibited at DOCUMENT, Chicago; Künstlerhaus, Stuttgart, Germany; JOAN, Los Angeles; and the 2017 Whitney Biennial, New York; and at festivals including the International Film Festival Rotterdam, the New York Film Festival, the Toronto International Film Festival, and the Hong Kong International Film Festival.

Mary Helena Clark is an artist working in film, video, and installation. Her work uses the language of collage to explore dissociative states through cinema, bringing together disparate subjects and styles that suggest an exterior logic or code. Using the conventions of narrative, language, and genre, her films explore shifting subjectivities and the limits of the embodied camera. Clark’s work has recently been exhibited at DOCUMENT, Chicago; Künstlerhaus, Stuttgart, Germany; JOAN, Los Angeles; and the 2017 Whitney Biennial, New York; and at festivals including the International Film Festival Rotterdam, the New York Film Festival, the Toronto International Film Festival, and the Hong Kong International Film Festival.
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Gözde İlkin lives and works in Istanbul, Turkey. She studied painting at the Fine Arts Faculty of Mimar Sinan University and is pursuing a master’s degree at Marmara University in Istanbul. Using mainly stitching, drawing, and painting as well as video and sound installations, İlkin constructs forms of confrontational interactions within the motifs of found domestic fabrics. In the process, she refers to social and political relationships/manipulation, borders, power issues, gender attitudes, and urban transformation.

 at Françoise Heitsch Gallery, Munich (2015); and 

, artSümer Gallery, Istanbul (2010). Selected group exhibitions include the 15th Istanbul Biennale, 

, 54th October Salon, Belgrade (2013). Between 2006 and 2013, she worked with Gülcin Aksoy and Yasemin Nur Erkalır as a collective called AtılKunst.

Gözde İlkin’s residency is sponsored by the Saha Foundation, Turkey.

Gözde İlkin lives and works in Istanbul, Turkey. She studied painting at the Fine Arts Faculty of Mimar Sinan University and is pursuing a master’s degree at Marmara University in Istanbul. Using mainly stitching, drawing, and painting as well as video and sound installations, İlkin constructs forms of confrontational interactions within the motifs of found domestic fabrics. In the process, she refers to social and political relationships/manipulation, borders, power issues, gender attitudes, and urban transformation. 
Selected solo exhibitions include: The Trap, Gypsum Gallery, Cairo (2016); Stained Estate at Françoise Heitsch Gallery, Munich (2015); and Please Clear the Dance Floor, artSümer Gallery, Istanbul (2010). Selected group exhibitions include the 15th Istanbul Biennale, A Good Neighbour (2017); Spaceliner, Arter, Istanbul (2015); and No one belongs here more than you, 54th October Salon, Belgrade (2013). Between 2006 and 2013, she worked with Gülcin Aksoy and Yasemin Nur Erkalır as a collective called AtılKunst.
Gözde İlkin’s residency is sponsored by the Saha Foundation, Turkey.
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Gözde İlkin lives and works in Istanbul, Turkey. She studied painting at the Fine Arts Faculty of Mimar Sinan University and is pursuing a master’s degree at Marmara University in Istanbul. Using mainly stitching, drawing, and painting as well as video and sound installations, İlkin constructs forms of confrontational interactions within the motifs of found domestic fabrics. In the process, she refers to social and political relationships/manipulation, borders, power issues, gender attitudes, and urban transformation. 
Selected solo exhibitions include: The Trap, Gypsum Gallery, Cairo (2016); Stained Estate at Françoise Heitsch Gallery, Munich (2015); and Please Clear the Dance Floor, artSümer Gallery, Istanbul (2010). Selected group exhibitions include the 15th Istanbul Biennale, A Good Neighbour (2017); Spaceliner, Arter, Istanbul (2015); and No one belongs here more than you, 54th October Salon, Belgrade (2013). Between 2006 and 2013, she worked with Gülcin Aksoy and Yasemin Nur Erkalır as a collective called AtılKunst.
Gözde İlkin’s residency is sponsored by the Saha Foundation, Turkey.
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Louis Fratino lives and works in Brooklyn, NY. He is currently making paintings and drawings that focus on homoerotic love. Figures and interiors are generated by mixing art historical references in an attempt to conjure feelings of intimacy.

Fratino attended the Maryland Institute College of Art, graduating in 2015 with a degree in painting. He also attended the Yale Norfolk Summer School of Art and was awarded a Fulbright Research Fellowship to Berlin in 2016. He recently had a solo exhibition at Antoine Levi, Paris. Other exhibitions include 

, Cabinet Printemps, Düsseldorf (2018); 

Louis Fratino lives and works in Brooklyn, NY. He is currently making paintings and drawings that focus on homoerotic love. Figures and interiors are generated by mixing art historical references in an attempt to conjure feelings of intimacy. 
Fratino attended the Maryland Institute College of Art, graduating in 2015 with a degree in painting. He also attended the Yale Norfolk Summer School of Art and was awarded a Fulbright Research Fellowship to Berlin in 2016. He recently had a solo exhibition at Antoine Levi, Paris. Other exhibitions include Matisse + Fratino, Cabinet Printemps, Düsseldorf (2018); So I&#8217;ve got you, Thierry Goldberg, New York (2017); and Practice in Leisure, Galería Mascota, Mexico DF, (2017).

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They currently occupy several liminal spaces.

They are a person who makes performances and creates/organizes performative spaces.

They are obsessed with the act and process of moving, the change of place, production of space, position, and the meaning gleaned from the shifting of perspective.

Their current trans disciplinary projects explore movement as a place of reclamation.

NIC has performed and shown work internationally and in The United States.

NIC Kay is from the Bronx. 
They currently occupy several liminal spaces. 
They are a person who makes performances and creates/organizes performative spaces. 
They are obsessed with the act and process of moving, the change of place, production of space, position, and the meaning gleaned from the shifting of perspective. 
Their current trans disciplinary projects explore movement as a place of reclamation. 
NIC has performed and shown work internationally and in The United States.

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Autumn Knight is an interdisciplinary artist working with performance, installation and text. Her work primarily addresses conventions of racial and gender identity, psychotherapy, and art access. She attended the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture and holds an M.A. in Drama Therapy from New York University. Her performance work has been in exhibitions at various institutions including: DiverseWorks, Project Row Houses, and Blaffer Art Museum, all in Houston; Crystal Bridges Museum, Bentonville, Arkansas; Skowhegan Space, New York; The New Museum, New York; The Contemporary Art Museum, Houston; and most recently The Studio Museum in Harlem. Knight is from Houston, Texas, and is currently based in New York, NY.

Autumn Knight is an interdisciplinary artist working with performance, installation and text. Her work primarily addresses conventions of racial and gender identity, psychotherapy, and art access. She attended the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture and holds an M.A. in Drama Therapy from New York University. Her performance work has been in exhibitions at various institutions including: DiverseWorks, Project Row Houses, and Blaffer Art Museum, all in Houston; Crystal Bridges Museum, Bentonville, Arkansas; Skowhegan Space, New York; The New Museum, New York; The Contemporary Art Museum, Houston; and most recently The Studio Museum in Harlem. Knight is from Houston, Texas, and is currently based in New York, NY.

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A mainstay of the Chicago jazz scene and recent active addition to the New York scene, Jaimie Branch is an avant-garde trumpeter known for her “ghostly sounds,” says 

, and for “sucker punching” crowds straight from the jump off, says 

. Her classical training and “unique voice capable of transforming every ensemble of which she is a part” (

) has contributed to a wide range of projects not only in jazz but also punk, noise, indie rock, electronic and hip-hop. Branch’s prolific as-of-yet underexposed work as a composer and a producer, as well as a sideman for the likes of William Parker, Matana Roberts, TV on the Radio and Spoon, is all on display in her debut record 

 – a dynamic 35-minute ride that dares listeners to open their minds to music that knows no genre, no gender, no limits.

A mainstay of the Chicago jazz scene and recent active addition to the New York scene, Jaimie Branch is an avant-garde trumpeter known for her “ghostly sounds,&#8221; says The New York Times, and for &#8220;sucker punching&#8221; crowds straight from the jump off, says Time Out. Her classical training and “unique voice capable of transforming every ensemble of which she is a part” (Jazz Right Now) has contributed to a wide range of projects not only in jazz but also punk, noise, indie rock, electronic and hip-hop. Branch’s prolific as-of-yet underexposed work as a composer and a producer, as well as a sideman for the likes of William Parker, Matana Roberts, TV on the Radio and Spoon, is all on display in her debut record Fly or Die – a dynamic 35-minute ride that dares listeners to open their minds to music that knows no genre, no gender, no limits.