SUNDAY SERVICE Season 4 ANNOUNCED!

Join us this fall for the return of Sunday Service, a free monthly series of live work across mediums in our bar, the Ready Room. The fall 2018 season curators include: Miguel Gutierrez, Pamela Liou, Zavé Martohardjono, and Julia Santoli. Each month’s artist lineup to be announced soon! 

Sunday Service Fall 2018 Schedule:
September 16, 7pm: Curator Pamela Liou
October 7, 7pm: Julia Santoli
November 4, 7pm: Zavé Martohardjono
December 9, 7pm: Curator Miguel Gutierrez

Sunday Service is programmed by myself and partner in curatorial-experiments Alexis Wilkinson. 

Sunday Service with Janani Balasubramanian | 05.06.2018 (Queens, NY)

Balasubramanian brings together artists, astronomers, and artist-astronomers to show and tell stories of transformation. The evening becomes a great deal of magical fun. Featuring JP Ventura, Ellianan Schwab, Sophia Mak + Bex Kwan, Mark Popinchalk and Moiya McTier. A dataset becomes music; a telescope reading becomes Art Deco; dust becomes a system; a shift in planetary motion becomes a folk tale; a rock becomes a family.

Sunday, May 6, 2018 | 7:00pm RSVP on fb HERE 

“We were peering into this darkness, crisscrossed with voices, when the change took place: the only real, great change I’ve ever happened to witness, and compared to it the rest is nothing.”
—Italo Calvino, Cosmicomics

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. 

Sunday Service with Rena Anakwe | 04.08.2018 (Queens, NY)

The third season of Sunday Service returns curated by artist Rena Anakwe!  Tackling her interest in the ways we manifest healing, she brings us Sharon De La Cruz, Johann Diedrick, Delphine Fawundu, GENG, and Pamela Liou!  This Sunday Service offers a glimpse into the ways that five artists evoke their own healing and discovery through various forms of media, storytelling and ritual.

Sunday, April 8, 2018 | 7:00pm | RSVP on fb HERE

In order to rise
From its own ashes
A phoenix
First
Must
Burn.

EARTHSEED: THE BOOKS OF THE LIVING, Octavia Butler’s “Parable of the Sower”

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. 

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. 

Sunday Service Series is BACK - Season 3

This killer line up can't be beat!  We are so thrilled to be back with another season of mad creators brining vibes and modes of engagement together for our performance/discourse series. This work is only made possible by the efforts of my Co-Founder/Programmer Alexis Wilkinson and the gang over at Knockdown Center.  See you SUNDAY!!

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

Spring Schedule 2018
March 4 | 7pm: Curator Jess Pretty
April 8 | 7pm: Rena Anakwe 
May 6 | 7pm: Curator Janani Balasubramanian
June 3 | Curator Mariana Valencia 

Sunday Service with SAME AS SISTER | 07.02.2017 (Queens)

This month's Sunday Service is bringing longtime loves Same As Sister on as curators.  Titled Pairings in Horror: The Visceral + The Visual Impact, the evening will feature live and digital performances by Lamy Istrefi Jr. with Leo Genovese + Mersiha Mesihovic/CircuitDebris,Stacy Grossfield Dance Projects + Gil Sperling, plus a special reading by Rie Yamaguchi-Borden. Each pair will utilize live and digital elements to emphasize the sensory pleasure that best represents their collaboration between disciplines. Set in a haunted house, the artists’ unique interpretations of the shared text will become rooms into their uncanny and unpredictable imaginations, perhaps even nightmares.

About Sunday Service
Sunday Service is a curated series of short-form live performances across mediums. Taking place the first Sunday of each month in the Ready Room, a guest curator is invited to organize a salon style evening of in-progress works, performances, and presentations, anchored by a framing principle such as a question, proposition, theme, or formal structure. Sunday Service encourages works in progress and interdisciplinary endeavors showcased in a lo-fi environment to foster experimentation and critical discourse amongst peers.

Sunday Service with Andrea Arrubla + BABZ Fair | 06.04.2017

So ready for upcoming Sunday Service hosted by Andrea Arrubla as part of BABZ FAIR 2017 and the line up is killer!!! The evening will reflect and celebrate the legacy of the seminal poet Essex Hemphill established among contemporary literary and visual artists with Tiona Nekkia McClodden, James Allister Sprang, Peter BD, and Karmenife X.


The 5th annualBABZ FAIR 2017 presented by Blonde Art Books is a weekend long event that features small press art and poetry publishers, and individual artist projects, alongside a program of performance, readings, and workshops. BABZ Fair will be taking place Friday, June 2 through Sunday, June 4, 2017.

Over the years the BABZ Fair has grown dramatically and this year the fair will feature art books and zines by over 100 publishers and artists from across the country. This year we are collaborating with artist Andrea Arrubla to produce the weekend programming. The full program schedule, including a new expanded program series, and workshop series, will be announced shortly.

Sunday Service is a curated series of short-form live performances across mediums. Taking place the first Sunday of each month in the Ready Room, a guest curator is invited to organize a salon style evening of in-progress works, performances, and presentations, anchored by a framing principle such as a question, proposition, theme, or formal structure. Sunday Service encourages works in progress and interdisciplinary endeavors showcased in a lo-fi environment to foster experimentation and critical discourse amongst peers.

Sunday Service - A Raging Grace with Caitlin Baucom | 05.07.2017

NEXT WEEK we are BACK with the raging Sunday Service: Caitlin Baucom presents... An Only Child, Orlando Estrada, Greem Jellyfish, PAUL (Angelina Dreem),QUALIATIK, & Lorelei Ramirez. 
The evening, titled 'A Raging Grace,' will gather artists across disciplines who are lit from within by a burning well, and rather than combust use its fuels to go higher and brighter. 

‘It’s like having a sickness that gets more fierce as it passes on to wellness. We don’t have to view that period as an invitation to despair, but as a sign of potential transformation… whatever pain we are experiencing…’ –bell hooks

Working across performative disciplines, they are each also active as organizers and participants in their broader communities, acknowledging that the roots of rage go beyond the merely personal and its power can feed the world. Together ‘we admit that we don’t want to see the world blown up; we are for the human species.’ 
–Andrea Juno & V. Vale, Angry Women.

Sunday Service is a curated series of short-form live performances across mediums. Taking place the first Sunday of each month in the Ready Room, a guest curator is invited to organize a salon style evening of in-progress works, performances, and presentations, anchored by a framing principle such as a question, proposition, theme, or formal structure. Sunday Service encourages works in progress and interdisciplinary endeavors showcased in a lo-fi environment to foster experimentation and critical discourse amongst peers.
 

Sunday Service "Slumber Party" with Buzz Slutzky | 04.02.2017 (Queens)

Our rad ass series Sunday Service is back this week at the Knockdown Center with Buzz Slutzky presiding!  Brining in the awesome Jes Fan, Trace Peterson, and Catalina Schliebener to hash it out on the mic and screen taking on "Slumber Party" vibes relating to trans aesthetics and childhood.  We will be snacking on popcorn, magical color candy eggs, and covering our nails in glitter while we hash out the fun, mad, sweet, stuff. Sunday Service keeps rolling, finding ways to take on HOW we discourse, making frames, taking up space.  So proud of this series and can't wait to keep bringing more to Knockdown Center and YOU! See you there!    RSVP on fb HERE

UPDATE - Watch the full video HERE shot by James Tate from Intrinsic Grey

About Sunday Service
Sunday Service is a curated series of short-form live performances across mediums. Taking place the first Sunday of each month in the Ready Room, a guest curator is invited to organize a salon style evening of in-progress works, performances, and presentations, anchored by a framing principle such as a question, proposition, theme, or formal structure. Sunday Service encourages works in progress and interdisciplinary endeavors showcased in a lo-fi environment to foster experimentation and critical discourse amongst peers.

NEW SERIES - Sunday Service with MAMI | 02.12.2016 (Queens)

I am psyched to be opening the year right with a new series created with Alexis Wilkinson at the Knockdown Center titled SUNDAY SERVICE! I've been thinking about the ways we can communicate about subjects, how discourse might look as performance, how sharing helps create dynamic conversations, how making is speaking.  

For the premier of Sunday Service, Knockdown Center invites MAMIcurators Ali Rosa-Salas and Dyani Douze who in turn have invited Alexandra Bell, NIC Kay, Isabel Flower, Marcel Rosa-Salas, and YATTA to share projects in development across movement, writing, visual art, and sonic practices. With an insistence on collective care, we’ll process what we’ve witnessed together in a dialogue over drinks.

UPDATE - Watch the full video HERE 

Sunday Service is a curated series of short-form live performances across mediums. Taking place the first Sunday of each month in the Ready Room, a guest curator is invited to organize a salon style evening of in-progress works, performances, and presentations, anchored by a framing principle such as a question, proposition, theme, or formal structure. Sunday Service encourages works in progress and interdisciplinary endeavors showcased in a lo-fi environment to foster experimentation and critical discourse amongst peers.