Pratt Performance + Performance Studies

The brilliant Lizbeth Miscles Rivera’s MFA thesis exhibition Femme (Text)ures is up in beautiful DeKalb Gallery from May 12-13, with an opening reception on May 12. Register at this link:
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/school-of-liberal-arts-and-sciences-femme-textures-tickets-326335116117

This multi-media exhibit disassembles and reinserts Mexican and q***r femmeinine cultural markers through engagement with textures of everyday life. The superimposition of
photography, archival images, video, poetry, and sculpture engages with multiplicity and contradictions of experience.
I unbend the corners of myself that have been compressed and flattened by code switching due to surviving colonial institutions and offer a portrayal of becoming in the liminal.

Femme (Text)ures: what the back of my throat knows

DeKalb Gallery, Pratt Institute, DeKalb Hall, 331 DeKalb Ave,
Brooklyn, NY 11205
RECEPTION: MAY 12, 7:00-10:00 PM.
EXHIBITION: MAY 12-13, 2022, 10:00 AM- 8:00 PM

We can’t wait for our fabulous MFA students’ thesis performances, Monday 4/11 and Tuesday 4/12, 7:30 PM !!! Register for your free tickets at dixonplace.org.
Pratt Institute's Performance + Performance Studies MFA Program Presents:

Between You and I,

MFA Thesis Show

PERFORMANCES BY RACHEL AUSTIN, KYM BERNAZKY,
LILA KLATZ, LIZBETH MISCLES RIVERA, AND STEPHANIE WOODS
Dixon Place, 161A Chrystie St, New York, NY 10002
Performances: APRIL 11-12, 2022, 7:30 PM
Reservations at dixonplace.org

INSTALLATION BY LIZBETH MISCLES RIVERA
DeKalb Gallery, Pratt Institute, DeKalb Hall, 331 DeKalb Ave, Brooklyn, NY 11205
RECEPTION: MAY 12, 7PM-10PM
EXHIBITION: MAY 12-13, 2022, 10AM- 8PM.

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You won't want to miss this!!

Pratt Institute's Performance + Performance Studies MFA Program Presents:

Between You and I,

MFA Thesis Show 2022

April 11th and April 12th, 7:30 PM, Dixon Place
Dixon Place, 161A Chrystie St, New York, NY 10002

Bad Light by Rachel Austin

The Blue Hour by Kym Bernazky

Whale Patterns by Lila Klatz

Femme (Text)ures: BLENDINGBLEEDINGBORDERS by Lizbeth Miscles Rivera

Breathing Lessons for People Who Hate Being Told How to Breathe by Stephanie Woods

May 12th and May 13th, DeKalb Gallery, Pratt Institute, DeKalb Hall, 331 DeKalb Ave, Brooklyn, NY 11205

Femme (Text)ures: What the Back of my Throat Knows by Lizbeth Miscles Rivera

We are delighted to invite you to Pratt Institute’s Performance and Performance Studies Program's 2022 MFA Thesis Festival:

Between You and I,

Five emerging artists from Pratt Institute’s MFA program in Performance and Performance Studies debut
work at experimental performance venue Dixon Place and Pratt Institute’s Dekalb Gallery.

BETWEEN YOU AND I,: MFA THESIS PERFORMANCES BY RACHEL AUSTIN, KYM BERNAZKY,
LILA KLATZ, LIZBETH MISCLES RIVERA, AND STEPHANIE WOODS

Dixon Place, 161A Chrystie St, New York, NY 10002
Performances: APRIL 11-12, 2022, 7:30 PM

INSTALLATION BY LIZBETH MISCLES RIVERA
DeKalb Gallery, Pratt Institute, DeKalb Hall, 331 DeKalb Ave, Brooklyn, NY 11205
RECEPTION: MAY 12, 7:00-10:00 PM.
EXHIBITION: MAY 12-13, 2022, 10:00 AM- 8:00 PM

Join us tonight for an artist’s talk by Cassils! 6PM via Zoom

Zoom link:
https://pratt.zoom.us/j/94794668738

We have a treat for you this Monday at 6pm at North Hall 210. Narcissister is coming to share about her work and process as part of our Visiting Artists Series. Don’t miss out!

Narcissister is a Brooklyn-based artist and performer. Masked and merkin-ed, she works at the intersection of dance, art, and activism in a range of media including live performance, film, video, collage, and sculpture. She presents work worldwide at festivals, nightclubs, museums, and galleries. She won “Best Use of a S*x Toy” at Good Vibrations Erotic Film Festival, a Bessie nomination for the theatrical performance “Organ Player”, Creative Capital and United States Artists Awards, and interested in troubling the popular entertainment and experimental art divide, she appeared on America’s Got Talent. Her first feature film “Narcissister Organ Player” premiered at Sundance 2018. Her activist short film "Narcissister Breast Work" premiered at Sundance 2020 and won a Grand Jury Prize for Best Documentary Short at Outfest 2021.

Photo credit: Alycia Kravitz

The last of our series of profiles for tomorrow evening’s show at the Chapel, featuring several musicians playing ‘ ceramic instruments:

Julia Elsas was born in Birmingham, Alabama and currently lives and works in Brooklyn, New York. Her visual art encompasses printmaking, ceramics, sculpture, installation, and performance.

Julia has been an artist-in-residence at the Scuola Internazionale di Grafica di Venezia, Venice, Italy; Gowanus Studio Space, Brooklyn, NY; Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, Amherst, VA; and Kala Art Institute, Berkeley, CA. She was a 2018/2019 New Jewish Culture Fellowship recipient and a 2019/2020 Keyholder Resident at the Lower East Side Print Shop.

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One of modern jazz’s most skilled navigators of the divide between inside and outside, freedom and swing," Cornetist and Composer Kirk Knuffke has “full command of his most demanding instrument” (All About Jazz).

Originally from Colorado, self-taught Knuffke began playing with Butch Morris after landing in NYC in 2005. This friendship resulted in 4 recordings and several European tours. Knuffke then joined the celebrated Matt Wilson Quartet in 2009, recording Gathering Call (Palmetto) featuring John Medeski. He also currently performs with Allison Miller’s Boom Tic Boom, Sifter with Mary Halvorson and Wilson, and groups led by Charlie Hunter, Ben Allison, Ray Anderson, Mark Helias, Bill Goodwin, Karl Berger, Michael Bisio and Ted Brown.

Accolades for Knuffke include NPR’s Best Jazz Album of the Year for 2017’s Cherryco (SteepleChase),winner of DownBeat Magazine’s “Rising Star” critics poll in 2015, and recipient of the Jerome Foundation Composers grant. In 2016, he placed 2nd in the European El Intruso Critics poll for trumpet.

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Kenny Wollesen has been a ubiquitous presence on the New York downtown music scene for over two decades, having played with everyone from Tom Waits to John Zorn, Bill Frisell to S*xmob, and David Byrne to Bebel Gilberto. Kenny has played on hundreds of recordings and builds his own one-of-a-kind musical instruments known as “Wollesonics.”

We’re privileged to host this live performance next Monday in the Chapel at Pratt:

SONICMUD, a collaboration between Julia Elsas and Kenny Wollesen, is a performance series which brings together ceramic sculptures and established musicians for one-night musical performances. Past performances have taken place at The Drawing Center, The New School, NARS Foundation, Pratt Art Institute, Ortega y Gasset, Cooler Gallery, BKLYN CLAY and the Brooklyn Conservatory of Music.

PERFORMERS:

Dalius Naujo
Eléonore Weill
Jessica Lurie
Julia Elsas
Kenny Wollesen
Kirk Knuffke

Stay tuned for further artist details…

We’re excited to invite you to join us next Monday at 7pm in the Pratt Chapel for a live performance.

SONICMUD is a collaboration between Julia Elsas and Kenny Wollesen, is a performance series which brings together ceramic sculptures and established musicians for one-night musical performances. Past performances have taken place at The Drawing Center, The New School, NARS Foundation, Pratt Art Institute, Ortega y Gasset, Cooler Gallery, BKLYN CLAY and the Brooklyn Conservatory of Music.

PERFORMERS:

Dalius Nojo
Eléonore Weill
Jessica Lurie
Julia Elsas
Kenny Wollesen
Kirk Knuffke

More info on this cast of performers to follow…

Congrats to these talented artists on a Thesis Weekend well done!

LESSONS IN Q***R DREAMING... with Jackie Rivera and storäe michele lessons in q***r dreamingPerformance and Performance Studies Online Thesis Showing April 11 @ 3:30 pm with post-show Artist Question and AnswerFeaturing...Tiny D**e; Van LifeWritten, crafted, and performed by Jackie RiveraTiny D**e; Van Life is a semi -autobiographical account of convertin...

Tickets are still available!

Jackie Rivera and storäe michele's showings last night were authentic, funny and singular. Come and see for yourself at 3:30 today. Online! So easy to get to.

here's the Eventbrite link:

lessons in q***r dreaming: Jackie Rivera & storäe michele Come join us for the new performance works of storäe michele and Jackie Rivera.