Queer Conscience: A Week of To-Dos!
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Queer Conscience, a week-long series at Greenpoint’s Center for Performance Research will “showcase contemporary cultural productions, activism, and academic writing that offer the promise of queering the future.” Event producer and scene maker Earl Dax, has curated these events and they are beyond forward-looking. These clever artists, creatives and media mavens use thought provoking music, dance, art, and the written word to peer into a queerer time. The location is perfect: a nearby view of the breezy river and of New York’s gorgeous skyline – at 361 Manhattan Avenue there is a feeling anything can happen. Join Queer Conscience as it moves from the C.P.R. to Public Assembly and then to Joe's Pub. Queerespondence has the breakdown of events and varying performers and personalities.
5.3|Monday
NEW NORMAL
An installation/presentation/performance by Jeff Hnilicka
The talented provocateur of FEAST (Funding Emerging Art with Sustainable Tactics) is a collector of ideas; the event will dialogue, sweat, and ooze all sorts of media(s).
Center for Performance Research
Suggested $5-$10
5.4|Tuesday
Dirty Dirty Nigga:
Songs of Rebellion Rebirth and Resistance
M. Lamar is a singer and an artist. The performance of M.Lamar’s hour-long song cycle will feature this rare and new talent way of blues, gospel, and dance traditions. The performance art piece will begin at 8pm.
Center for Performance Research
Tickets $10
5.5|Wednesday
Marga Gomez is Proud & Bothered
A performance by Marga Gomez
GLAAD Award winner, comic, and activist Marga Gomez shares her trails and her trials. Join her as she workshops her winning piece before re-opening in S.F later this month with a run at the New Conservatory Theater Center. This exclusive opportunity to see a performer reintroduce original work they are proud, and in this case bothered by, is a positive and exciting happening.
8:00 pm
Center for Performance Research
Tickets $10
5.6|Thursday
WRITTEN WITH THE BODY
Featuring Kyle Abraham, Miguel Gutierrez and Richard and Mikki
Creators Kyle Abraham and Miguel Gutierrez present a new solo show on a shared bill. The evening of dance includes costumes by Machine Dazzle.
8:00 pm
Center for Performance Research
Tickets $10
5.7|Friday
AVATARS OF QUEER FUTURITY
Jose Esteban Muñoz
NYU Professor of Performance Studies Jose Esteban Muñoz will hold a discussion about his recent book Cruising Utopia. He will screen relative material, take questions, and sign copies.
8:00 pm
Center for Performance Research
FREE
5.8|Saturday
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Screening with SF Filmmaker Andy Bydalek
Followed by a Conversation with Max Steele
A sneak peak at the new film followed by a talk with the films director Andy Bydalek and with Brooklyn-based performer and writer Max Steele.
8:00 pm
Center for Performance Research
Tickets $10 (includes free admission to INTERLACE NYC)
LATER
INTERLACE will hit nearby Loft (above Public Assembly) and is the only place to be. San Francisco Art Collective HomoChic and New York’s SPANK close up the week of Brooklyn happenings by hosting this shame free night of dance, music, performance and chaos. DJ Peeplay (aka Jacob Sperber and Sean B and Will Automagic of SPANK spin to the tightly packed loft. S.F friends and Brooklyn folks alike share this space and this rare meeting of the minds queer, alternative, gender ambiguous, and everybody else. Show up anytime between 10pm and 4am for $8 at the door or $5 if you RSVP and just dance.
10:00 pm – 4:00 am
The Loft (above Public Assembly)
70 N. 6th Street, Brooklyn, NY
5.9|SUNDAY
THE FANCY
With special guests Corey Dargel & Cornelius Dufallo
Queer Conscience ends its week of exploration and investigation at Joe’s Pub in the city. Brooklyn-based chamber pop group The Fancy (Clara Latham, Seth Garrison, Amy Cimini, Katherine Young) created by classically trained Latham and Garrison make sweet, hopeful and all together danceable hits.Corey Dargel and Cornelius Dufallo open.
Look out for a sit down Q&A with Seth Garrison later this week!
7:00 pm
Joe's Pub
Tickets $15
