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

FOMO : DIPTYCH at Chocolate Factory Theatre | May 19, 20, 21

Thrilled to have joined this wild bunch as dramaturg and hope you will go check out the way it is DONE! This work is sincerely dreamy, deeply absurd, and necessary for all. GO GO GO!

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Notes on the show BELOW

Performances will take place at The Chocolate Factory Theater, 38-33 24th Street, Long Island City.

View the show program.

The chameleon’s eyes move independently of one another, offering an almost 360 view of its surroundings. Even when both eyes focus on the same object, they do so independently, making the chameleon’s vision a naturally occurring diptych. This remarkable ocular duet is the basis for Berg’s new work FOMO:DIPTYCH. A densely layered performance installation to study the diptych: as a form, a way of viewing, listening, feeling, and consuming. A place where missing something is guaranteed (and ok).

FOMO:DIPTYCH asks if performance – as an inherently ephemeral experience – can help us recognize our capacity to hold multiple perspectives at once, and when considered collectively, reveals the cacophonous jumble of inputs we piece together to make meaning. Our eyes move independently of the eyes of our neighbor, each of our brains collecting only the objects we choose to let in. And where we sit affects what we encounter.

FOMO:DIPTYCH invites the audience to observe the performance from two distinct vantage points: a white box art gallery (with bubbles and conceptual canapes) or a seat at the sports bar (with cheap beer and celebrity bartenders) both within the Chocolate Factory Theater’s new raw space.

created by Laurie Berg in collaboration with Matt Romein (technical design); Madison Krekel and Omar Zubair (sound); Jodi Bender, Ayano Elson, Marion Spencer, Laurie Berg and more (performance); Charlie Welch (sports bar); jess pretty (creative consultant); Shana Crawford (lighting); Shomit Barua (technical associate); and Myssi Robinson (trainview designer).