Truth or Dare with Laura Albert

Submitted by gjd2122 on Tue, 14 Jan 2025, 5:06pm

The hosts of the Celebrity Book Club with Steven & Lily podcast, Steven Phillips-Horst and Lily Marotta, are joined by Laura Albert, the author behind the J.T. LeRoy phenomenon, to discuss self-destruction vs. self-acceptance, how to challenge the literary status quo, and her forthcoming memoir. A special introduction by artist Leigh Ledare.

The Right to Pee

Submitted by gjd2122 on Tue, 14 Jan 2025, 5:02pm

Where to go when you’ve got to go? Bathrooms are a place for business, pleasure, and unsurveilled breaks—little wonder, then, that our access to toilets is so restricted. A conversation about the right to public bathrooms with Lux, Hell Gate, and New York Review of Architecture.

Listening with Topos Press

Submitted by gjd2122 on Tue, 14 Jan 2025, 5:00pm

Topos Press hosts a listening session of Sonifying the Sun: The Mass Emergence of Brood XIII and XIX Periodical Cicadas, Volume 1, in which sound artist Patrick Quinn captures the rare sounds of periodical cicadas emerging after 13 and 17 years underground

Reading with Wendy's Subway

Submitted by gjd2122 on Tue, 14 Jan 2025, 4:55pm

Wendy’s Subway presents a reading of Dafne Phono, artist Nour Mobarak's experimental translation and reimagining of the first opera, Dafne, composed and written in 1598—a story of unrequited love, patriarchal possession, conquest, and transformation, inspired by the myth of Daphne and Apollo from Ovid’s Metamorphoses.

How Language is Always Late

Submitted by gjd2122 on Tue, 14 Jan 2025, 4:44pm

Playing selections from their upcoming album (via Bayonet Records), Kinlaw will disclose the process behind making selected tracks, getting stuck and unstuck, and how her thinking around performance and choreography helps the artist get closer to words.

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