The Drawing Center Announces Lineup For Performance Series in September

This September, The Drawing Center will present a special public program series comprised of five evening events.

Of these, three will be performances at the intersection of music and performance art by Ka Baird; Aki Onda; and the trio of Leila Bordreuil, Julia Santoli, and Tamio Shiraishi. Organized by Rosario Güiraldes, Assistant Curator.

Two others-a performance and a panel discussion-are presented as part of the Open Sessions Active Line public programs. Co-organized with Open Sessions 2018-2020 artists, Active Line brings together artists and audiences in a responsive conversation addressing drawing as a practice both concrete and metaphorical, a space for assertion, conjecture, and digression.

Open Sessions is a two year artist program of interdisciplinary events and exhibitions focused on drawing, organized by Rosario Güiraldes and Lisa Sigal.

Monday, September 10
Active Line: 72 Heads
6:30pm | RSVP for this FREE event via Eventbrite here.
Note: Monday, September 17 there will be a panel discussion with Dennis Redmoon Darkeem, Native Art Department International, and Jeffrey Gibson. Moderated by Johanna Burton.

Open Sessions artist Dennis Redmoon Darkeem will present a performance that celebrates transformation by blending cultural rituals and contemporary expressions. Inspired by indigenous Native American and Urban adornment culture, this performance will create connections between music, radical drawing, and head shaving traditions, to create an energetic space. Performing with sage and eagle feathers, blades, shavers, drawing, sound, and death rituals, Darkeem reflects on the connection between inner spirit and outer beauty.

Thursday, September 13
Leila Bordreuil, Julia Santoli, and Tamio Shiraishi
6:30pm | Tickets $10 via Eventbrite here.

Cellist Leila Bordreuil, sound-artist Julia Santoli, and alto-saxophonist Tamio Shiraishi are longtime collaborators in duo and trio forms, pushing the boundaries of compositional structure and the sonic possibilities arising from voice, cello, and saxophone. Driven by a fierce interest in pure tone, inherent timbre, and the relationship between sound and space, the trio will deliver a piece in constant motion and in which musicality is founded upon architecture.

Monday, September 17
Active Line Talk: 72 Heads
6:30pm | RSVP for this FREE event via Eventbrite here.

Following the performance 72 Heads, on September 10, by Open Sessions artist Dennis Redmoon Darkeem, Open Sessions curators Rosario Güiraldes and Lisa Sigal have gathered a panel discussion of contemporary artists, whose work reflects on the place of heritage in contemporary art and culture at large, including Dennis Redmoon Darkeem, Native Art Department International (Maria Hupfield and Jason Lujan), and Jeffrey Gibson. Moderated by Johanna Burton, Keith Haring Director and Curator of Education and Public Engagement at the New Museum in New York, the talk will likely touch on drawing, heritage, indigenous art, and radical mark-making.

Thursday, September 20
Aki Onda: Space Studies (Reflections and Repercussions)
6:30pm | Tickets $10 via Eventbrite here

New York-based artist and composer Aki Onda will present a multi-media performance exploring the interplay between acoustic, architectural, and emotional relationships within the space. Performing with various types of lightning equipment, mirrors, rubber strings, glass containers, and analogue audio equipment, Onda arranges and rearranges the tools and objects, composing the visual and aural as a total environment.

Thursday, September 27
Ka Baird: Audible Lines
6:30pm | Tickets $10 via Eventbrite here

Multi-instrumentalist and vocalist Ka Baird will present a program that aligns sound with movement to create audible lines of pure energy potential. Utilizing extended vocal technique, rhythm, flute, tone, and gesture, along with corresponding bodily gestures, the performance will be an exercise in presence, hyper-actualization, and ritual.

At The Drawing Center

October 12, 2018 - February 3, 2019
For Opacity: Elijah Burgher, Toyin Ojih Odutola, Nathaniel Mary Quinn
Jennifer Wynne Reeves: All Right for Now

a ... is alter(ed): Open Sessions 12
Joeun Aatchim, Kenseth Armstead, Ludovica Carbotta, Billy and Steven Dufala, LaMont Hamilton, and Ester Partegàs
October 12 - December 2, 2018

Open Sessions 13
Alex Callender, Liz Collins, Dennis Redmoon Darkeem, Zatara McIntyre, Johanna Unzueta, Cosmo Whyte
December 14, 2018 - February 3, 2019

Winter Term: Center for Urban Pedagogy
February 15 - March 17, 2019

Neo Rauch: Aus dem Boden / From the Floor
April 11 - August 4, 2019

Open Sessions 14
April 11 - June 2019

INSTALLATIONS

Susan York: Foundation in the Lab Corridor
February 2019

Inka Essenhigh: Manhattanhenge in the Stairwell
Through August 2019

The Drawing Center, a museum in Manhattan's SoHo district, explores the medium of drawing as primary, dynamic, and relevant to contemporary culture, the future of art and creative thought. Its activities, which are both multidisciplinary and broadly historical, include exhibitions; Open Sessions, a curated artist program encouraging community and collaboration; the Drawing Papers publication series; and education and public programs.

Location: 35 Wooster Street (btwn Broome and Grand St) in SoHo, New York.

Hours: Wednesday-Sunday: 12pm-6pm; Thursday: 12pm-8pm.

Tickets: Adults: $5; Students & Seniors: $3; Children under 12: Free
Thursdays 6-8pm free admission for all visitors.

The Drawing Center is wheelchair accessible.