Exhibition Dates:
Saturday, May 10-Sunday, June 1, 2014
Opening weekend reception:
Saturday, May 10, 3-7PM
Sunday, May 11, 3-7PM
Sunday, May 11
4:30 PM
Dance performance by Elke Rindfleisch
5PM
The Mound Speaks, confessional musical performance by a mound of dirt, with Alexandra Tatarsky
6PM
Robert Walser: Nature and the City
a reading and commentary with Susan Bernofsky and Mina Pam Dick
Tuesday, May 13
6:30PM
All This Can Happen, a film by Siobhan Davies and David Hinton, courtesy of the filmmakers and presented by Susan Bernofsky:
WHERE: Room 674, 721 Broadway [at Waverley Place]
FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC
Thursday, May 15
5PM
Ben Russell
AT SUNDOWN
Deviant by Panagiotis Mavridis, Sebastian Mekas and Dalius Naujokaitis (also taking place Thurs May 29 at sundown)
Saturday, May 17
4:30PM
Dance performance by Elke Rindfleisch
5:30PM
Ariane Anthony and Jeffrey Bauer
Sunday, May 18
12:30PM
Wayne Adams reading from Walser’s A Schoolboy’s Diary, translated by Damion Searls
2PM
Rock ‘n’ Roll Therapist and original songs by Paul McMahon
5PM
Wayne Adams reading from Walser’s A Schoolboy’s Diary, translated by Damion Searls
Thursday, May 22
AT SUNDOWN
Raha Raissnia & Panagiotis Mavridis
Litany: A performance for homemade drone instruments and film loops
Saturday, May 24
3PM and 4PM
Caroline Copeland and Friends
5PM
Musical performance by Ben Russell
Sunday, May 25
3:30PM Dance performance by Tamara Riewe, from Trisha Brown Dance Company
Monday, May 26
7PM
Last Minutes of the Robert Walser Society of Western Massachusetts
Mysteries by Masha Tupitsyn, Lanny Jordan Jackson, Jane Carver, Kylie Gilchrist & Giorgio Agamben (as Cooper Francis)
With loose pages from Dana Ward and Anne Boyer
Thursday, May 29
5:30PM
Musical performance by Ben Russell
AT SUNDOWN
Deviant, a musical performance on handmade instruments by Panagiotis Mavridis, Sebastian Mekas and Dalius Naujokaitis
Followed by Litany, a performance for homemade drone instruments and film loops by Raha Raissnia and Panagiotis Mavridis
Saturday, May 31
3PM
HESSISMORE:
Myheadisaballroom / Whoneedsapalaceanyway
Somewhat unplugged 9 piece ensemble playing live music in the sun.
Previous collaborations and performances include The Royal Danish Ballet, Copenhagen Jazzfestival, The Kennedy Center in Washington, MoMA PS1, Highline Ballroom New York, Babylon Istanbul, Troyka Multispace Moscow, Nova Festival Sao Paulo, Montreal Jazz Festival, Nublu New York, Museum of Natural History New York…
Hessismore Live:
Pavel Kogan – Guitar
Matt Parker – Saxophone and SH101
David Mason – Electric Drums
Rasmus Bille Bahncke – SH101
Martin Vejerano – Percussion
Meagan Gillis – Xylophone
Nikolaj Hess – Wurlitzer
Andrew Raposo – 6 stringed instrument
Mikkel Hess – Drums & Vocal
Sunday, June 1
3PM Rachel Devorah Trapp singing the musical score of collage works by Lisa Blas
6:15PM Such a facade, madame, is odd. New Translations of Robert Walser by Damion Searls
6:45PM Im Gras, dance performance by Elke Rindfleisch
7:15PM I gasp for breath already, a reading and sound collage with Serra Sabuncuoglu and Roland Andrijauskas
7:30PM Jane Carver, a piece for accordion and voice
All events and performances to take place in the garden unless otherwise noted.
A Particular Kind of Solitude: An exhibition inspired by the writings of Robert Walser 