AUNTS Archive at Governors Island June 10-22 | Welcome to the BARchive

 
The AUNTS BARCHIVE is a public facing community-centered hub for the collection, organization, and creation of an archive for AUNTS! 

Past AUNTS artists, organizers and new visitors participate in the archive by contributing materials, images, oral histories, or by witnessing. Collectively assembling an archive at our triangular sports bar in the style of Judy Chicago’s “The Dinner Party,” the BARCHIVE at LMCC’s Art Center on Governors Island will be open throughout June where visitors can visit the bar to view and participate in the archive-in-progress. Look at photos and videos from past events, attend live performances, talks, and join us for a drink at the bar.

RIVER TO RIVER Happy Hour events at the BARCHIVE

Sat 6.10 4-7pm OPENING  A night of Toasts, Hosted by Stephanie Acosta

Sun 6.11 2-5pm SOUND at AUNTS, Hosted by Rena Anakwe

Tues 6.13 4-7pm MESSES at AUNTS, Hosted by Cara Francis

Thurs 6.15 4-7pm WRITING and GLOSSARY at AUNTS, Hosted by Mariana Valencia

Fri 6.16 4-7pm ROVING at AUNTS, Hosted by Leyya Mona Tawil

Sat 6.17 4-7pm REFLECTIONS from the Personal Archive, Hosted by jess pretty

Sun 6.18 2-5pm AUNTIE-INSTITUTIONAL, Hosted by Travis Chamberlain

Additional events June 20-27 to be announced soon! 

AUNTS experimental archivist: Stephanie Acosta

Oral Histories project: Biba Bell

June 1, 2023 - June 30, 2023 All Day Event LMCC Arts Center on Governors Island 110 Andes Rd, New York, 10004, Free

Sunday Service with Jess Pretty | 03.04.2018 (Queens, NY)

To kick off the spring season of Sunday Service, curator Jess Pretty invites artists to respond to the notion of critical desire and the exploration of radical thriving as a methodology for taking up spaces we claim to reside in. Featuring artists Trinity Dawn Bobo, Taylor Crichton, DJ JCLEF, Amanda Krische, and Evelyn Sanchez

Sunday, March 4th, 2018 | 7:00pm | RSVP on fb HERE

Jess Pretty states, “i’m interested in rigorously interrogating pleasure as a way of living past survival, seeking other worlds and times and spaces for art. other possibilities for our delicate bodies to be present in performance. questioning how are we constantly evaluating the stakes involved in our work-making process. the labor of being unapologetic. i desire work rooted in the fantastic that helps formulate how to queer our own possibilities and modes of migration.”

About Sunday Service
Taking place the first Sunday of each month, a guest curator is invited to organize a salon style evening of cross-disciplinary performances and presentations that brings together a multiplicity of views around a singular prompt, such as a question, theme, or formal structure. Sunday Service centers works in progress, interdisciplinary endeavors, and diversity in format showcased in a lo-fi environment to foster the testing of ideas and critical discourse amongst peers.

Sunday Service is programmed by Stephanie Acosta and Alexis Wilkinson, Knockdown Center’s Director of Exhibitions and Live Art.