SOUND IN SPACE and More Set for MoMA's Events and Exhibitions, Nov 2013

The Museum of Modern Art has announced its exhibitions and events for November 2013. Details below!

MoMA Studio: Sound in Space
Through November 24
Thursdays, Saturdays, Sundays 1:00-5:00 p.m., Fridays 1:00-8:00 p.m.
The Lewis B. and Dorothy Cullman Education and Research Building, Mezzanine

Held in conjunction with the exhibition Soundings: A Contemporary Score, MoMA Studio: Sound in Space is an interactive space open to all ages that explores sound as a material and as a spatial, sensory, immersive experience. Visitors are not just viewers but also listeners, who activate their experience through awareness of the interplay between environment and sound. The Studio offers drop-in activities and workshops, talks with collaborating artists, and a range of interactive artists' projects that explore how the innovations of technology and the re-envisioning of our own physical ability to make sound change the way we communicate and find creative expression. Participating artists include Christine Sun Kim, Joe McKay, Angel Nevarez and Valerie Tevere, Carmen Papalia, and Scott Snibbe.

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Mike Kelley: Extracurricular Activity Projective Reconstruction #1
Through February 2, 2014
Projects Gallery, second floor

In conjunction with the retrospective exhibition on view at MoMA PS1, MoMA presents Mike Kelley's Extracurricular Activity Projective Reconstruction #1 (A Domestic Scene), a half-hour drama inspired by a photograph of a school play found in a high school yearbook. Written and directed by Kelley in 2000, this one-act melodrama explores the psychologically fraught relationship between two men as it unfolds in a room centered around a gas stove. This video was the inaugural installment of Kelley's monumental 36-part project, a series of performance works intended to fill in the blanks left by forgotten or repressed memories, with narratives of standardized abuse.

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Musée de la danse: Three Collective Gestures
TODAY, November 1-3, 12:00 p.m.-5:00 p.m.
The Donald B. and Catherine C. Marron Atrium, second floor

Musée de la danse: Three Collective Gestures is a three-week dance program in The Donald B. and Catherine C. Marron Atrium, conceived by French choreographer Boris Charmatz (b. 1973) in collaboration with his groundbreaking Musée de la danse. Flip Book (2008/2013) revisits David Vaughan's 1997 book Fifty Years, which charts Merce Cunningham's choreography over half a century. In the past, Charmatz invited different groups of dancers-from ex-members of Cunningham's company to amateur practitioners-to learn and perform Vaughan's images as a sped-up version of Cunningham's language, exploring contemporary movement, its reliance on information, and its complex histories. Inherent in this piece is an interest in documentation, archives, and scores, which is extremely relevant to today's performance landscape. For the MoMA edition, six dancers-including one ex-Cunningham dancer-start at 12:00 p.m. to warm up and rehearse in the Marron Atrium, interacting with the audience and performing the piece at 3:00 and 4:00 p.m.

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Modern Monday: An evening with OpenEndedGroup- Marc Downie, Shelley Eshkar, and Paul Kaiser
November 11, 7:00 p.m.
The Roy and Niuta Titus Theater 2

The three artists who comprise OpenEndedGroup join us to screen and discuss their pioneering works of experimental 3-D film. In a wide-ranging program featuring recent and new films, the artists present their advances in two broad areas. In dance, they conjure up the presence of longtime collaborator Merce Cunningham through the cat's-cradle movement of his motion-captured hands; in evocations of place, they transform a stretch of rural Iowa highway into a flickering film universe; haunt the galleries, corridors, and stairways of the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum; and track the city of Detroit through its fractured industrial ruins and the circular patterns of its outdated modernity. Screenings include Loops (2001-11); plant (2011); All Sides of the Road(2012); and All Day, Knight's Rest, and Circling Detroit (all 2013).

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PopRally: Body/Head with Kim Gordon and Bill Nace, featuring a DJ set by Kathleen Hanna
Thursday, November 21, 8:00-11:00 p.m.
Main lobby, first floor

PopRally is thrilled to present a special performance by electric-guitar duo Body/Head, the current project of legendary musician, visual artist, and Sonic Youth cofounder/bassist Kim Gordon and free-noise guitarist Bill Nace. Body/Head's sound builds on epic drones, feedback, and guitar riffs, paired with expressive vocals in a uniquely crafted take on improvisation. Staged against a backdrop of slow-motion film projections, the project comprises both a visual and musical experience, blurring the lines between mediums. Feminist punk icon Kathleen Hanna joins us for a DJ set, and the Museum's Contemporary Galleries will be open for an exclusive private viewing.

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Isa Genzken: Retrospective
November 23, 2013-March 10, 2014
The Joan and Preston Robert Tisch Exhibition Gallery, sixth floor
Press Preview: Wednesday, November 13, 10:00 a.m.-12:00 p.m.

This exhibition, the first comprehensive retrospective of Isa Genzken's (German, b. 1948) epically diverse body of work in an American museum, and the largest to date, encompasses Genzken's work in all mediums over the past 40 years. Although a New York art audience might be familiar with Genzken's more recent assemblage sculptures, the breadth of her achievement-which includes not only three-dimensional work but paintings, photographs, collages, drawings, artist's books, films, and public sculptures-is still largely unknown in this country. Many of the nearly 200 works in the exhibition will be on view in the United States for the first time.

Isaac Julien: Ten Thousand Waves
November 25, 2013-February 17, 2014
The Donald B. and Catherine C. Marron Atrium, second floor

Ten Thousand Waves (2010) is an immersive film installation projected onto nine double-sided screens arranged in a dynamic structure. Especially conceived for The Donald B. and Catherine C. Marron Atrium, the installation choreographs visitors' movement through the space. The original inspiration for the recently acquired, 50-minute moving image installation was the Morecambe Bay tragedy of 2004, in which more than 20 Chinese cockle pickers drowned on a flooded sandbank off the coast in northwest England.

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Modern Monday: An evening with Christoph Hochhäusler and Benjamin Heisenberg
November 25, 7:00 p.m.
The Roy and Niuta Titus Theater 2

In conjunction with the film exhibition Berlin School: Films from the Berliner Schule, filmmakers Christoph Hochhäusler and Benjamin Heisenberg talk about their influences, their work, and the difficulty of grouping a loose association of contemporary German auteurs under the rubric of the "Berlin School." Though varied in their preoccupations and strategies, the Berlin School filmmakers tend to be united by an interest in writing and criticism; Hochhäusler and Heisenberg discuss the publication Revolver, of which they are co-editors, and its role as a hub for conversation, discovery, and debate.

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Artwork: Isa Genzken. Disco Soon (Ground Zero). 2008. Synthetic polymer paint on plastic, cardboard, mirror, spray paint, metal, fabric, hose lights, mirror foil, printed sticker, wood blocks, fiberboard, and casters, 86 1/4 x 80 11/16 x 64 15/16" (219 x 205 x 165 cm). Carlos and Rosa de la Cruz Collection. Courtesy the artist and Galerie Buchholz, Cologne/Berlin © Isa Genzken.