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 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.