Caterina Barbieri, Eli Keszler, & Marie Davidson (DJ Set)

Tuesday, March 28, 7pm

Italian composer Caterina Barbieri—??Described by Fact Mag as "one of electronic music’s most interesting new voices”—comes to Pioneer Works for a live performance. Barbieri's music explores themes related to machine intelligence and object-oriented perception in sound, drawing severe, complex geometries in time and space. ?

The night will also see New York based artist, composer and percussionist (and PW Resident Alum) Eli Keszler and Montreal based musician and DJ Marie Davidson grace the stage.

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Scientific Controversies No. 26: Dogs

Tuesday, April 4, 7–10pm

Join our Director of Sciences, Janna Levin, as she hosts experts Brian Hare and Alexandra Horowitz in a discussion of the latest scientific research into dogs’ cognition, perception, and behavior, research that could profoundly transform our lives with our beloved canine companions.

Our Scientific Controversies series brings creative minds together to celebrate the passionate spirit of scientific curiosity. View Series

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Second Sundays: April 2023

Sunday, April 9, 12–7pm

Join us for the first Second Sundays of 2023! Get to know our exciting new resident cohort, bend your reality through Tin Drum’s Medusa, and engage with a series of interactive and thought-provoking activities for all ages.

Second Sundays is our signature event series that engages Pioneer Works disciplines through live music, food, artist open studios, and programs. Learn More

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False Harmonics #14: Clone Decay (feat. Mary Halvorson) and Symphony (feat. Peter Evans) vs. GNR8RZ (feat. Simon Hanes)

Tuesday, April 11, 7pm

False Harmonics, our signatures series exploring new alternative approaches to composition, improvisation, and performance, returns this April 18 with two mind-bending performances from Clone Decay (featuring Mary Halvorson) and SYMPHONY vs. GNR8RZ.

Clone Decay brings together Halvorson—“NYC’s least-predictable improviser"—and musicians Kalia Vandever & Weston Olencki. This night will also bring together the ensembles SYMPHONY and GNR8RZ for the first time for a joint performance.

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Kelly Moran Performances in Tin Drum: Medusa

Saturdays, April 1, April 8, & April 15

Acclaimed pianist and composer Kelly Moran will activate Tin Drum: Medusa through a live, durational performance series every Saturday through the exhibition's run. For this presentation of Medusa at Pioneer Works, the artist has written new music on a Yamaha Disklavier inspired by legendary composer Ryuichi Sakamoto.

Moran's work expands upon the score that Sakamoto originally composed for Medusa's first iteration, which spatialized and combined recordings of undersea drones. The performances will feature Moran improvising on the Disklavier piano as it plays back different layers of her composition.

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Sona Jobarteh

Sunday, April 23, 7pm

This April 23, kora virtuoso Sona Jobarteh comes to Pioneer Works. Hailing from The Gambia, Jobarteh is considered the first female kora virtuoso and comes from a prestigious West African Griot family with a musical lineage dating back over 700 years. Jobarteh blends traditional West African music with modern compositions, creating a unique sound that's earned her a global following.

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Tin Drum: Medusa

March 17–April 16

Pioneer Works is pleased to present Tin Drum: Medusa, an ambitious mixed reality experience developed by Tin Drum in collaboration with architect Sou Fujimoto and directed by Yoyo Munk. This marks Medusa’s North American premiere, following its debut at London’s Victoria & Albert Museum in 2021 during the London Design Festival.

Bridging art, science, music, and technology, Medusa comprises a unique and evolving mixed reality experience that envelops visitors within a new realm of physicality, visuality, and sound. The experience explores contrasts between individual and collective ways of being, and between non-human and human-made architectures, drawing inspiration from natural structures in the upper atmosphere and the deep sea.

Visitors are invited to experience the project using optically transparent glasses that overlay virtual architecture onto the real world, transporting them to a sensory realm unlike anything seen before.

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Aura Rosenberg: What Is Psychedelic

March 17–June 11

Aura Rosenberg: What Is Psychedelic, co-presented by Mishkin Gallery and Pioneer Works, marks the first institutional survey of the New York-born artist. This two-venue exhibition traces the artist’s trajectory from early paintings of the 1970s to her more recent endeavors in photography, film, sculpture, and installation.

Throughout her five decades long career in New York and Berlin, Rosenberg has moved through diverse styles, preferring to work thematically and serially while often returning to ideas from past projects.

The exhibition and accompanying publication chronicle the breadth of her multifaceted career, highlighting previously unseen works alongside others that include collaborations with artists such as Mary Heilmann, Mike Kelley and Haim Steinbach.

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Aura Rosenberg Inspired Cyanotypes with Rachel Stern 

April 8–15

Explore the work and practice of artist Aura Rosenberg with Visual Arts Alum Rachel Stern as we make cyanotypes inspired by her Astrological Ways print on view in our 3rd Floor Gallery as part of her exhibition, What Is Psychedelic, at Pioneer Works.
 
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Circle Weaving with Vandana Jain

May 2

Come learn the basics of weaving and experiment with color and texture with textile artist and Visual Arts Resident Vandana Jain. Working with household materials such as paper plates and cardboard, Jain will lead a workshop in how to make and warp a circular loom, how to execute basic weaves such as plain weave and twill, and how to execute rya knots and crochet chains for embellishments.

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Exploring Intuitive Sound Notations with Martha Skou

May 21

Visual Arts Resident Alum Martha Skou will lead participants through a performative workshop experiment using an intuitive notation system for voice performance. As a class, we will test and play with this system to explore how we can communicate sound in alternative ways and voice improvisation in a collective setting.
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Circle Weaving with Vandana Jain

June 6

Come learn the basics of weaving and experiment with color and texture with textile artist and Visual Arts Resident Vandana Jain. Working with household materials such as paper plates and cardboard, Jain will lead a workshop in how to make and warp a circular loom, how to execute basic weaves such as plain weave and twill, and how to execute rya knots and crochet chains for embellishments.

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The Best Day of My Life

by Lena Dunham

"My mother showed me I could be an artist, but Aura showed me that I had a subject—it wasn’t me, exactly, but I was in there, standing in front of the bathroom mirror, figuring out how to look like someone or something else."

In an excerpt from our brand new publication, Aura Rosenberg: What Is Psychedelic, writer and director Lena Dunham reflects on her childhood memory of being photographed as part of a series of works by Aura Rosenberg—and what it taught her about making art.

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Ende Tymes

Festival of Noise and Sonic Liberation

The Ende Tymes Festial of Noise and Sonic Liberation returns for its thirteenth iteration this year, featuring three days of performances at Trans Pecos and The First Unitarian Church of Brooklyn. 

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