Featured Events in Manhattan in November, 2024(January Updated)

A new work by 2024 Artist-in-Residence Hans, Night Creatures is a love letter to all the men I have coiled my body around, to a love-hate relationship with New York, and to a constant wrestling match with a flamenco practice. A vespertine rumination of sexuality – from moonrise to sunrise – and the hunger, yearning, and fear that comes with being in love and lust of other male bodies. The work is also a technical exploration, having spent the residency year learning how to compose music using electronic, MIDI, and digital audio workspaces – composed while commuting through the vascular undergrounds of the NYC subway. The work is cradled by flamenco, using musical modes, movements, rhythms, melodies, and ideas, but deconstructs them to reflect a lived experience as a queer, fat-femme boy from the lush tropical fever-dream of Miami, living in NYC’s sticky, grimy, urban, angsty landscape. What does it feel like to dance House por Bulerias, move to the Fandangos of the L Train, and sing Tangos de Bushwick? The performance will be followed by a conversation with Hans facilitated by leaders in the flamenco community on the nature of experimentation, orthodoxy, and framework of flamenco, and how it changes when it reflects non-Spanish folklore and experiences. ABOUT THE ARTIST Hans is a dancer and tattoo artist from Miami, FL with a practice focused on dance as visual art. They have shared work with audiences in Florida and held artistic residencies in New York City. Hans has also participated in projects by Katy Pyle’s Ballez, the Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Company, Okwui Okpokwasilii, and Peter Born. Hans describes himself and his work as the “gay lovechild of Frida Kahlo and Sailor Neptune’s lesbian love affair.” Information Source: CPR – Center for Performance Research | eventbrite

For Election Night 2024, CPR will open its doors to screen the election returns in its theater, providing a space to be in community as this historic and consequential presidential election unfolds. The evening will feature live political commentary from performance artist, viral ambush interviewer, and political dilettante Crackhead Barney. Additional performances and activations throughout the evening will punctuate the drone of the endless news cycle and offer space for hope, fear, humor, and care, with artists and special guests TBA. Free drinks while supplies last. Bring a pillow, some snacks, and camp out at CPR amongst artists and friends. ABOUT THE ARTISTS Crackhead Barneywas born in Jamaica, Queens to strict religious parents who immigrated to America from Northern Nigeria. She was raised in a one bedroom apartment with her siblings in an era before wokeness and identity politics ruled the cultural landscape and was always taunted for her immigrant African roots and dark complexion. She studied Fine Arts and Media at Hunter College and was told her artwork wasn't shit. Rejected from museums and galleries, she decided to take matters into her own hands and use the streets of NYC as her canvas, painting pictures with her body across the landscape without the need to satisfy the desires of the cultural institutions. Her street performances garnered attention and she began to go viral all over the internet with people reacting in confusion, laughter, anger, pity, concern, and all the other emotions available to humans. Rejecting any hierarchies that didn't feature her at the very pinnacle, she naturally was attracted to social media where she could form a universe centered on her performance art. She began a “Crackhead Barney and Friends” account on Instagram and TikTok where she’s developed a cult of personality supportive of her creative practice. Information Source: CPR – Center for Performance Research | eventbrite

NEW INC, an incubator for people working at the intersection of art, design, and technology, organizes an evening of work-in-progress from its interdisciplinary cohort of artists, designers, technologists, futurists, and creative entrepreneurs, with presentations by elekhlekha อีเหละเขละขละ, Johanna Flato, Avneesh Sarwate and Sumanth Srinivasan, and Trevor Van de Velde. This OPEN STUDIOS at CPR is an extension of NEW INC’s monthly Workshares program, where cohort members receive feedback, exchange knowledge, cross-pollinate ideas, and ask for help – and the first time the public is invited to engage in these gatherings. OPEN STUDIOS is a series of work-in-progress showings held regularly throughout the year, organized by guest curators, and serves as an incubator for new work, inviting the public into the artistic process. PROGRAM elekhlekha อีเหละเขละขละ: Networked Gong Gathering This collaborative sound-making workshop is inspired by a community gathering of gong ensembles throughout the SEA. While keeping the core of having rhythms distributed among participants, it focuses on collectively reconstructing sounds from different SEA sound cultures through networks using code. Johanna Flato: Spatial Articulations with Tangle AR Tangle AR App is an artist-built mobile tool for spatial annotation and poetic encounters. Currently in beta, it aims to inject critical friction into this accelerationalist AI/XR moment and seed our tech-mediated environments with a more civic, intentional, and playful dimension. Avneesh Sarwate and Sumanth Srinivasan: Creative Coding Test Kitchen Join Avneesh and Sumanth as they show off a new interactive audiovisual recipe! This talk/demo will show off an audiovisual work built with their new javascript libraries. They’ll explain what tooling gaps they’re trying to fill, and what new forms of art they hope enable for themselves and others. Trevor Van de Velde: Hacking Grains The universe is granular. Hacking Grains is a multidisciplinary performance project that reimagines the world being made of grains. This project explores the relationships between technology, ritual, and Asian futurity through amplified grains of rice. Individual grains become both sonic actuators and resonators. The sounds of rice dominate the space through custom-built synthesizers, speaker installations, and live performance. ABOUT THE ARTISTS elekhlekha อีเหละเขละขละ is a collaborative research-based group consisting of immigrant Bangkok-born, Brooklyn-based artists, Kengchakaj–เก่งฉกาจ and Nitcha–ณิชชา. The collective delves into subversive storytelling by exploring non-hegemonic sounds and visual archives, historical research–decoding, and unlearning biases. elekhlekha’s work spans performing documents, multimedia, and technology centers to interrogate, experiment, explore, and define decolonized possibilities. elekhlekha is a Thai word that means dispersedly, chaos, all over, and non-direction to break free our practices from being labeled through a Western lens. In 2022, they were awarded the Lumen Prize Gold Award. The artists have received grants and development funds from Rhizome, the Processing Foundation, and more for their projects. elekhlekha is Eyebeam Democracy Machine Fellows, 2023–2024 AIR at CultureHub, and the NEW INC Y10 Art & Code track member. Johanna Flato is a visual artist and creative technologist based in Brooklyn, NY and was born in San Antonio, TX. She investigates ways in which our sense of site — and in turn, locational belonging — is mediated and manipulated through language, technology, and gesture. She is the founder and developer of an augmented reality app called Tangle — a mobile tool for spatial annotation and poetic encounters. Tangle makes site-based, real-time, mixed-reality ideation and collaboration possible. It aims to inject critical friction into this accelerationalist AI/XR moment and seed our tech-mediated environments with a more civic, intentional, and playful dimension. As an ongoing research thread, Johanna coined and iteratively re-works the notion of a syn-site (a term updating Robert Smithson's site/non-site construct for our contemporary extended realities). Avneesh Sarwate and Sumanth Srinivasan, spurred by their own adventures and challenges with making and sharing software-based multimedia art, want to build browser-based tools and software libraries that allow artists to more easily design, collaborate on, and share digital work. Avneesh Sarwate is a programmer, musician, visual artist, and improviser. His work focuses on using real time computer systems to enhance the gestural and impulsive elements of the creative process. A guitarist since childhood, “jamming” with computers has been a goal of his from the minute he started making art with them. Sumanth Srinivasanis an engineer, visual artist, writer, and musician. His work thus far has centered around digitizing human imperfections and playfulness in art, and the presentation of noise and degradation as an aesthetic. Trevor Van de Velde is a composer, sound artist, instrument builder, and creative programmer based in NYC. Trevor's work focuses on exploring the relationship between technology, play, materiality, and hybridity through a combination of hacked electronics and live performance. NEW INC was conceived of as a not-for-profit platform for furthering the New Museum’s ongoing commitment to new art and new ideas. Now in Year 11, NEW INC’s membership model continues to support a diverse range of creative practitioners with a values-driven program and safe space for gathering and developing new creative projects and businesses. Information Source: CPR – Center for Performance Research | eventbrite

Doors at 8:30 PM and comedy show at 9:00 PM! Come see NYC's best standup comics at the coolest bar in Greenpoint. Benefit for the National Indigenous Women's Resource Center! Art sale by Acacia and Breck! Hosted by Juan Nicolon, Raven Hugs, and Breck Gordon Featuring: Daniel Vezza Dan Wickes Molly Kornfeld Meka Mo Billy Prinsell Shalewa Sharpe After the standup show, you can get on the mic! Karaoke till late! :) Information Source: Breck Gordon | eventbrite