NADA New York Announces Partnership With Kickstarter, 3/2-5

The New Art Dealers Alliance (NADA) is proud to present a partnership with Kickstarter for the 6th edition of NADA New York, which will take place March 2-5 at Skylight Clarkson North (572 Washington St). Kickstarter will serve as the lead partner for NADA Presents, an interdisciplinary program of performances and conversations from exhibitors, artists, and cultural partners. This will be the program's third year.

"The collective missions of both Kickstarter and New Art Dealers Alliance (NADA) align perfectly - both organizations are committed to supporting new and emerging artists, curators, and gallerists," says Victoria Rogers, Director of Arts at Kickstarter. "Since our founding in 2009, we have been eager to cultivate new opportunities for the public to engage more meaningfully with contemporary art. We're especially proud to partner on the upcoming program for NADA Presents. We believe in the importance of fostering dialogue across disparate parts of the arts world, and championing new voices in the field."

"We're thrilled to be partnering with Kickstarter, which, like NADA, has been so dedicated to cultivating new voices and endeavors in the arts," said NADA Executive Director Heather Hubbs. "NADA Presents is a critical part of NADA New York, and we're so thankful for the support Kickstarter has provided to continue this innovative, exciting slate of programming"

FULL PROGRAM BELOW:

THURSDAY, MARCH 2

6PM Sissy Joker
Performance artists FlucT combine channel-changing dance with socio-political concepts, linking dogs, women, alienation, labor, and capitalism. Each physical organization flips through the semiotics of contemporary social conspiracy. Presented with the Knockdown Center.

7PM Contemporary Drag
A revue with performances by La'fem Ladosha, Severely Mame, Chris of Hur, David Mramor, and Sasha Velour, curated by Gordon Robichaux.

FRIDAY, MARCH 3

12PM Free Arts Education: A Poetic Act
Join Bruce High Quality Foundation University faculty members Jesse Chun and Ana Boži?evi? for a conversation about tuition-free arts exchange and the poetics of collaboration, partnership, and exchange that are embedded in some of the collective's recent projects. A series of poetry readings by students, faculty, and residents will follow, bridging the public sphere and the intimacy of classroom experimentation.

1PM Common Equities: Corporate Models and Collaborations
Maayan Strauss, artist and founder of the Container Artist Residency will present an overview of her project and a prompt for a panel discussion with participants Natasha Bunten, Jennie Lamensdorf, and artist Wong Kit Yi, facilitated by independent curator Ian Cofre. They will discuss innovative and timely funding models in art, from the corporate and institutional scale to the individual artist's practice.

2PM Contemporary Drag in Conversation Stonewall was a Riot:
A talk on drag as a radical form of art, theater, and politics with Lady Bunny and Horrorchata, moderated by David Yarritu.

3PM LOSS
Paul McMahon will sing songs of love to and from the goddess and back again and again and still. He has a beautiful voice and his lyrics are endearing and provocative, tracing the trails of a life in the arts and spirit. Paul is also the Rock'n'Roll Therapist and will gladly make up a song on the spot to cure what ails you. Linda Montano will be there in person or in Skype.

4PM Wide Rainbow Workshop w/ Elizabeth Jaeger
Wide Rainbow is a contemporary art after school program and 501c3 non-profit partnering with contemporary artists and serving low-income neighborhoods with limited or no access to the arts/arts education.

5PM New Material
Stand-up comedy from Jennifer Sullivan, presented with 247365

Secret Service
Performance by Jacques Louis Vidal, presented with 247365

Untitled
Performance by Brian Belott, presented with 247365

6PM Special Guest presented with Night Gallery

SATURDAY, MARCH 4

12PM Spy in the Wild; Allocution and discussion
Ana María Montenegro's performance explores the relationship between politics and mass populists sport events within the context of the ongoing peace process in Colombia. The speech is a collage made using language that politicians and sportsmen use when addressing the public. Presented with CARNE Gallery.

1PM Contemporary Drag: The Drag Explosion with Linda Simpson
A narrated slideshow of Simpson's photographs documenting NYC's drag-queen scene from the late 1980's through the mid 1990's. Followed by book signing at the NADA Shop.

3PM Anhedonia: Jacky Connolly in conversation with Chrissie Iles
Artist Jacky Connolly in conversation with Chriss Iles, the Anne and Joel Ehrenkranz curator at the Whitney Museum of American Art, introduced by David Gryn of Daata Editions.

4PM Power Ballad, a performance by Kristen Jensen
"Power Ballad" is a durational performance examining the interplay between cultural femininity in the female role of Catherine-the protagonist of Pippin-and Jensen's mimic of this song. Singing at intervals of ten minutes for an hour straight, Jensen's rendition, sung almost 50 years later, displaces the identity of the song's original context, and questions the role of a female identity now. This rendition of the original song gives a darkly humorous view on what it means to be a "certain" kind of women within historical trajectory. Presented with Abrons Arts Center.

5PM Acoustic Sound Blankets, a performance by Baseera Khan
Nested underneath sound blankets, Abrons Art Center Artist in Resident Baseera Khan and another female performer hum and dance together to compose music while photo documentation and screen printed ephemera display the relationship between her own body and the body of a fellow female performing at another time. This documentation of past performance, and sounds created while performing, locates them in a historical motif, while the choreography creates a new plural history we share.

5:30PM Bagomancy: Predicting the Future with Josie the Bag
What do you want to know about the coming year? What's in the cards for you personally? The bag will tell all. Melissa Brown, channeling Josie and the collective power of imagination, will become an oracle who sees the future in the contents of her purse. Presented with Essex Flowers.

6PM Reconstruction, a performance by Phoebe Berglund
This is a reconstruction of a dance floor that was built 12 months ago. Choregraphed and performed by Phoebe Berglund, with stormy budwig, Jessica Cook, and Nikima Jagudajev.

SUNDAY, MARCH 4

11AM RISO SESSION with EFA Robert Blackburn Printmaking Workshop
A risographic printer is somewhere between a silkscreen process and an early Xerox. Artists have used its unique palette and off registration to combine stencils, drawing, and photographic layers to mass produce posters, books, comics, and zines. Drop by to learn more about the process and make your own prints with artist/instructor Paul John. Participants are encouraged to bring along drawings or photographs that they wish to print with the risograph. Colors available include blue, red, and black.

1PM Investing in Futures with More&More Unlimited (Marina Zurkow and Sarah Rothberg)
This world-building workshop will ask you to imagine radically different possibilities for what the future could look like. Participants will choose randomly from a deck of cards containing parameters that could describe a society, such as government, food availability, and working conditions. Then, they'll work together to conceptualize, diagram, and craft artifacts from worlds that could meet these constraints - alternate realities that will perhaps spark solutions for our current one.

2:30PM Reinventing Museums
A conversation with Alex Kalman of Mmuseumm, Ayodamola Okunseinde and Salome Asega of the Iyapo Repository, and Nico Wheadon of The Studio Museum in Harlem, moderated by Willa Köerner, Director of Curation for Kickstarter.

The museum community is in the midst of a vast and destabilizing transformation. As many institutions expand - both literally and metaphorically - others are being downsized or facing funding cuts. At the same time, the role of the traditional museum is being interrogated, and new, highly inventive museum models are springing up. As we look to the future, we ask: what role do museum collections and artifacts play in shaping our collective future? How will museums be tested over the next ten years? If traditional museum models falter, should they be saved? And, importantly, how can museums reinvent themselves to mean more to more people?

3:30PM Contemporary Drag: BABY TEA
Tyler Ashley aka The Dauphine of Bushwick and Wise Men present Baby Tea including a conversation on Post Drag with Theda Hammel and performances by Matt Savitsky, Merrie Cherry, and Patti Spliff. Baby Tea is a monthly party fusing activism with the tradition of the gay tea dance.

ONGOING:
Contemporary Drag Video
Daily screenings curated by Gordon Robichaux, presented with Electronic Arts Intermix (EAI)

NADA New York 2017

Admission
$40 Run of Show
$20 Single Day
$10 Senior / Student
Tickets available here.

VIP Preview by Invitation:
Thursday, March 2, 12-2pm

Opening Preview by Invitation:
Thursday, March 2, 2-4pm

Open to the Public:
Thursday, March 2, 4-8pm
Friday, March 3, 11am-7pm
Saturday, March 4, 11am-7pm
Sunday, March 5, 11am-5pm

Skylight Clarkson North
572 Washington St.
New York, NY 10014

About NADA
Founded in 2002, New Art Dealers Alliance (NADA) is a not-for-profit 501c(6) collective of professionals working with contemporary art. Its mission is to create an open flow of information, support, and collaboration within the arts field and to develop a stronger sense of community among its constituency. Through support and encouragement, NADA facilitates strong and meaningful relationships between its members working with new contemporary and emerging art. In addition NADA hosts two fairs a year: NADA New York and NADA Miami Beach.

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