A Little Bee Told Me … To Visit the DIA Hispanic Society on Tuesdays this Summer!
DIA Art Foundation presents “Tuesdays on the Terrace,” a series of outdoor events at the Hispanic Society of America‘s Audubon Terrace
If you visit tonight at 7pm, you can experience, “The Collection of Silence,” a project by Eileen Myles.
The Collection of Silence, a baroque site-specific work around the possibilities of silence as central to the syntax and punctuation of everyday life. A diverse group of poets will present short pieces at various locations on the outdoor plaza of Audubon Terrace, where they will be joined by a group of students from PS4. Also accompanied by dancers, Buddhists, an opera singer, and a life drawing class, this mute and active gathering will demonstrate and celebrate the collective power of silence and the capacity of an unvoiced poem to serve the communal purposes of public life. Participants include poets Charles Bernstein, Stephanie Gray, Tim Liu, Monica De la Torre, and Rachel Zolf, Christine Hou, and Julie Patton, dancer-choreographer Christine Elmo, The Village Zendo, and soprano Juliana Snapper. The silent texts will be available in a bilingual edition at the performance.
All will converge to sit, move, read and perform SILENTLY for one hour on the Hispanic Museum’s incredibly spacious and evocative Audubon Plaza. You as audience are invited to come up and stroll amongst this silent happening at your own genial pace. You’re urged to dress vividly & shamelessly as if you were attending a wedding or a renaissance fair or a nature hike, an art opening, poetry reading or to spray-paint things on your roof. At 8;15 the silence will end and morph into a decent party.
With: Jennifer Bartlett, Danny Snelson, CA Conrad, Frank Sherlock, Renato Gómez, Kim Rosenfield, Angela Jaeger, Jeremy Sigler, Tim Peterson, Lydia Cortes, Nathaniel Siegel, Paolo Javier, Mark Bibbins, Nicole Cooley, Linda Gregg, Jeffrey McDaniel, Lila Zemborain, Tonya Foster, Rachel Levitsky, Emily Beall
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On selected Tuesday evenings in June and July, Dia will present an outdoor series of diverse programs devised specifically for the Hispanic Society of America’s Audubon Terrace at Broadway between 155th and 156th streets, New York City. By subway take number 1 train to 157th and Broadway. Admission is free. Reservations are recommended 212 293 5582 or Tues...@diaart.org. All programs are outdoors; visit www.diaart.org for inclement weather updates.
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