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Second Sundays

Food by Grasshopper and Vegan Choice Catering and Beverage by PW Bar.

October '17

Second Sundays is a free event series that engages Pioneer Works disciplines through live music, food, artists’ open studios, and interactive programs.

After you’re done, comprising works by Sarah Sudhoff and Jo Broughton, is an exhibition curated by Macushla Robinson and Andrea Klabanova which peeks behind-the-scenes at the sets, props, and devices of the sex industry.

Sudhoff’s Wired series depicts an archive of arousal. Devoid of human bodies, these photographs of devices from the Kinsey Institute (Indiana University) sit at the intersection of research and play. While some of these devices are used in scientific research into human sexuality and do not exist in the porn industry, many of them might also find a home in our most intimate spaces. Their meaning changes according to the context in which we find them: a dildo reads very differently when left behind on a porn set, than when photographed within a sexual research institute.

Broughton’s photographs of vacant porn sets were taken while she worked as a cleaner at a porn studio. Shot in the aftermath of frenetic energy, these abandoned scenes are historical documents that refrain from moral judgement. They are funny, theatrical, and yet tinged with melancholy.

Shifting the focus from the body to the sites and objects associated with mediated sexuality, these artists play with the tensions between technology, sensation, and emotion. On a material basis, both sexual devices and porn sets are prosthetics that elicit bodily sensations. Yet the material cultures of sex play a central role in our psychological states, fantasies, and sexual identities. After you’re done explores our relationship to pleasure in two distinct contexts.

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Tables of Content catalogs five years of Pioneer Works programming through the lens of its print materials, highlights of which augment an alphabetical index of all events, classes, interventions, exhibitions, and residencies since the organization’s founding in 2012. Composed of cards, posters, pamphlets, and programs, this archive is presented alongside the entire library of Pioneer Works publications, which are available for viewers to read.

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Genesis Belanger is a Brooklyn-based sculptor. She is currently working in ceramics hand building handsome jokes about the absurdity of the patriarchy in a material that lasts forever. The work engages in a conversation about the present and its relationship to the past, a past that most of us would not have had the privilege to shape. Belanger received her BFA from the school of the art institute of Chicago and her MFA at CUNY, Hunter College. Selected exhibitions include “Scarlet Street,” Lucien Terras, NY; “Frida Smoked,” Invisible-Exports, NY; and “Happiness and Other Forms of Self-Delusion,” Pioneer Works, NY, all 2016. Belanger was a recipient of a 2016 Rema Hort Mann Emerging Artist Grant.

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Working across multiple mediums, materials, and photography, Brooklyn-based artist Tahir Karmali’s interests lie in manipulating materials that perpetuate colonialism. He draws from his own experiences as a well-traveled Kenyan citizen to structure narratives around migratory identity. Karmali received his Masters of Digital Photography from the School of Visual Arts, New York. Selected exhibitions include “Jua Kali,” a part of “Making Africa,” High Museum of Art, Atlanta (2017), Kunsthal Rotterdam, Netherlands (2016), and Guggenheim, Bilbao, Spain (2015), among other venues; “My Collection,” MoCADA, Brooklyn (2017); and “PAPER:Work,” Art Africa Fair, Cape Town, and Pioneer Works, Brooklyn, both 2017.

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Kristin Lucas explores the contingencies, issues, and poetics of digital technologies through conceptual, performative, social, and collaborative frameworks. She reinvents the familiar in uncanny circuitous works that lie somewhere between reality and “reality”. Her current project entitled "Dance with flARmingos" reimagines kinship between humans and flamingos from the ethical distance of a Mixed Reality experience and involves partnership with international flamingo researchers. The project is one of five projects  selected out of hundreds for <a href="https://www.engadget.com/2017/08/18/the-grantees-of-engadget-s-500-000-immersive-arts-program/">Engadget's 2017 Alternative Realities grant</a>.

Lucas lives between Queens and Austin where she serves as an assistant professor of Studio Art for University of Texas at Austin. She is the recent recipient of residencies at Oregon Story Board, Harvestworks Digital Media Arts Center, Yafo Creative/Print Screen Festival, and the Bau Institute. She earned a BFA from The Cooper Union School of Art and an MFA in Art Practice from Stanford University.

Kristin Lucas

Nate Lewis is a Washington DC-based artist originally from Beaver Falls, PA. Working within portraiture and figuration, Lewis’ current focus has been on creating sculpted paper photo works that combine elements of drawing, sculpture, etching, embroidery and fabric. In these works he sculpts out unseen tensions on bodies, representing them with an array of textures and patterns to reveal hidden layers of empathy. He graduated from Virginia Commonwealth University with a Bachelor of Science in Nursing, and has a background in critical care. He has exhibited his work throughout Washington DC, Baltimore, Miami, New York, Houston, San Francisco, and Los Angeles.

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Mario Navarro is a Mexican American artist based in New York City. Issues of perception, the combination of language and spatial elements, the sculptural properties of language, and matter/materials and their representations are lines of research Navarro has been investigating lately. The relations between architectures and forms, and more specifically, the decomposition of architectural paradigms (balance, symmetry, organization of units and the figure of the architect) are of constant interest and are explored in Navarro's ongoing and never final propositions. Selected exhibition include “A Landscape of Events,” SCAD Museum of Art, Savannah, GA (2017); “Veil / Unveil,” Proyecto Paralelo, Mexico City (2017); “Mi Casa, Tu Casa,” Johannes Vogt Gallery, New York (2016); and “Forms of otherness,” organized by Bard College, International Studio and Curatorial Program (ISCP), Brooklyn (2015).

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Oral histories from Mexican and Native peoples, post-colonial historical texts, and spaces that are safe and inclusive for people of color are the cosmologies that surround Mexican-American artist Carlos Rosales-Silva’s work. His most recent output reclaims the colors and forms that have long been (ab)used to create oppressive stereotypes of Mexican and Native American peoples. Draining direct references, symbols, and figures have allowed him a freedom to study the color and form of his identity. Rosales-Silva’s central intellectual and artistic project is de-centering his white, hetero, Euro-centric western education. He has exhibited throughout Texas, and in Los Angeles, Miami, Minneapolis, Chicago, Kansas City, and Brooklyn.

Carlos Rosales-Silva

Zulu P is a rap group hailing from all corners of New York City. Comprised of T-Rock, Sweetness Adreina, and Lil E.B., they began working on their eclectic and lively sound out of a day center in SoHo. They are now working on their next record, to be released on Astro Nautico, out of Trans-Pecos, a music venue and community space in Ridgewood, Queens.

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The filtration process in paper making is the core concept of Tahir Karmali&#8217;s project PAPERwork, which addresses notions around borders, migration, and authenticity. Through his sound installation, Karmali amplifies the filtration process and turns this action into a performance. The sound collected will be filtered and modified itself to mirror the treatment of the paper.

PAPERwork in Process

Explore urban ecology with Biobus, a research-grabe mobile microscope lab.

Biobus

Drew Pettifer makes work that explore the homoerotic male gaze. In Cake Boys, the public is invited to eat cakes that have erotic photographs of men printed on them, served within our second floor exhibition, After you’re done.

Cake Boys

An octophonic sound installation setup by Daniel Nuemann, where selected sound artists are able to explore and generate work in a unique spatial sound environment.

CT::SWaM Studio for Spatial Sound::

Humorous and serious as well as contemplative and introspective, this public art project invites you to consider the agency of blame.

Fact Craft: The Office of Blame Accountability

Make zines with found images and text from the Reanimation Library as you learn more about the project housed across the street at Pioneer Books.

Reanimation Library: Zine Making

Virtual reality, augmented reality, machine learning, and more with our tech residents on the third floor.

Tech & Virtual Environments Lab Open Studios

Music resident Tarana will be in the music studio recording all day.

Tarana in Studios

Tell Congress how you really feel and leave a message for your representative.

Hope Floats Kiosk

Space Needle Mystery is a live-music take on a Choose Your Own Adventure paperback set to the tune of 80&#8217;s quasi-futurist synth tones, and inventive story rhymes. A spitball of goofy hip-hop, blow-by-blow audience interaction, and endearing low poly animations by John Karel, audience members will collectively determine the fate of a middle school-aged protagonist.

Gavin Riley Smoke Machine Presents: The Space Needle Mystery

Join the Amateur Astronomers Association of NY in the garden for an interactive look into the sky.

Solar and Star Gazing

Amateur Astronomy Association of New York

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, comprising works by Sarah Sudhoff and Jo Broughton, is an exhibition curated by Macushla Robinson and Andrea Klabanova which peeks behind-the-scenes at the sets, props, and devices of the sex industry.

 series depicts an archive of arousal. Devoid of human bodies, these photographs of devices from the Kinsey Institute (Indiana University) sit at the intersection of research and play. While some of these devices are used in scientific research into human sexuality and do not exist in the porn industry, many of them might also find a home in our most intimate spaces. Their meaning changes according to the context in which we find them: a dildo reads very differently when left behind on a porn set, than when photographed within a sexual research institute.

Broughton’s photographs of vacant porn sets were taken while she worked as a cleaner at a porn studio. Shot in the aftermath of frenetic energy, these abandoned scenes are historical documents that refrain from moral judgement. They are funny, theatrical, and yet tinged with melancholy.

Shifting the focus from the body to the sites and objects associated with mediated sexuality, these artists play with the tensions between technology, sensation, and emotion. On a material basis, both sexual devices and porn sets are prosthetics that elicit bodily sensations. Yet the material cultures of sex play a central role in our psychological states, fantasies, and sexual identities. 

 explores our relationship to pleasure in two distinct contexts.

After you’re done, comprising works by Sarah Sudhoff and Jo Broughton, is an exhibition curated by Macushla Robinson and Andrea Klabanova which peeks behind-the-scenes at the sets, props, and devices of the sex industry.
Sudhoff’s Wired series depicts an archive of arousal. Devoid of human bodies, these photographs of devices from the Kinsey Institute (Indiana University) sit at the intersection of research and play. While some of these devices are used in scientific research into human sexuality and do not exist in the porn industry, many of them might also find a home in our most intimate spaces. Their meaning changes according to the context in which we find them: a dildo reads very differently when left behind on a porn set, than when photographed within a sexual research institute.
Broughton’s photographs of vacant porn sets were taken while she worked as a cleaner at a porn studio. Shot in the aftermath of frenetic energy, these abandoned scenes are historical documents that refrain from moral judgement. They are funny, theatrical, and yet tinged with melancholy.
Shifting the focus from the body to the sites and objects associated with mediated sexuality, these artists play with the tensions between technology, sensation, and emotion. On a material basis, both sexual devices and porn sets are prosthetics that elicit bodily sensations. Yet the material cultures of sex play a central role in our psychological states, fantasies, and sexual identities. After you’re done explores our relationship to pleasure in two distinct contexts.

Jo Broughton

Sarah Sudhoff

Andrea Klabanova

Macushla Robinson

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After you&#8217;re done

 catalogs five years of Pioneer Works programming through the lens of its print materials, highlights of which augment an alphabetical index of all events, classes, interventions, exhibitions, and residencies since the organization’s founding in 2012. Composed of cards, posters, pamphlets, and programs, this archive is presented alongside the entire library of Pioneer Works publications, which are available for viewers to read.

Tables of Content catalogs five years of Pioneer Works programming through the lens of its print materials, highlights of which augment an alphabetical index of all events, classes, interventions, exhibitions, and residencies since the organization’s founding in 2012. Composed of cards, posters, pamphlets, and programs, this archive is presented alongside the entire library of Pioneer Works publications, which are available for viewers to read.

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Genesis Belanger is a Brooklyn-based sculptor. She is currently working in ceramics hand building handsome jokes about the absurdity of the patriarchy in a material that lasts forever. The work engages in a conversation about the present and its relationship to the past, a past that most of us would not have had the privilege to shape. Belanger received her BFA from the school of the art institute of Chicago and her MFA at CUNY, Hunter College. Selected exhibitions include “Scarlet Street,” Lucien Terras, NY; “Frida Smoked,” Invisible-Exports, NY; and “Happiness and Other Forms of Self-Delusion,” Pioneer Works, NY, all 2016. Belanger was a recipient of a 2016 Rema Hort Mann Emerging Artist Grant.

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Working across multiple mediums, materials, and photography, Brooklyn-based artist Tahir Karmali’s interests lie in manipulating materials that perpetuate colonialism. He draws from his own experiences as a well-traveled Kenyan citizen to structure narratives around migratory identity. Karmali received his Masters of Digital Photography from the School of Visual Arts, New York. Selected exhibitions include “Jua Kali,” a part of “Making Africa,” High Museum of Art, Atlanta (2017), Kunsthal Rotterdam, Netherlands (2016), and Guggenheim, Bilbao, Spain (2015), among other venues; “My Collection,” MoCADA, Brooklyn (2017); and “PAPER:Work,” Art Africa Fair, Cape Town, and Pioneer Works, Brooklyn, both 2017.

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Kristin Lucas explores the contingencies, issues, and poetics of digital technologies through conceptual, performative, social, and collaborative frameworks. She reinvents the familiar in uncanny circuitous works that lie somewhere between reality and “reality”. Her current project entitled “Dance with flARmingos” reimagines kinship between humans and flamingos from the ethical distance of a Mixed Reality experience and involves partnership with international flamingo researchers. The project is one of five projects selected out of hundreds for 

Engadget’s 2017 Alternative Realities grant

Lucas lives between Queens and Austin where she serves as an assistant professor of Studio Art for University of Texas at Austin. She is the recent recipient of residencies at Oregon Story Board, Harvestworks Digital Media Arts Center, Yafo Creative/Print Screen Festival, and the Bau Institute. She earned a BFA from The Cooper Union School of Art and an MFA in Art Practice from Stanford University.

Kristin Lucas explores the contingencies, issues, and poetics of digital technologies through conceptual, performative, social, and collaborative frameworks. She reinvents the familiar in uncanny circuitous works that lie somewhere between reality and “reality”. Her current project entitled &#8220;Dance with flARmingos&#8221; reimagines kinship between humans and flamingos from the ethical distance of a Mixed Reality experience and involves partnership with international flamingo researchers. The project is one of five projects  selected out of hundreds for <a href="https://www.engadget.com/2017/08/18/the-grantees-of-engadget-s-500-000-immersive-arts-program/">Engadget&#8217;s 2017 Alternative Realities grant</a>.
Lucas lives between Queens and Austin where she serves as an assistant professor of Studio Art for University of Texas at Austin. She is the recent recipient of residencies at Oregon Story Board, Harvestworks Digital Media Arts Center, Yafo Creative/Print Screen Festival, and the Bau Institute. She earned a BFA from The Cooper Union School of Art and an MFA in Art Practice from Stanford University.

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Nate Lewis is a Washington DC-based artist originally from Beaver Falls, PA. Working within portraiture and figuration, Lewis’ current focus has been on creating sculpted paper photo works that combine elements of drawing, sculpture, etching, embroidery and fabric. In these works he sculpts out unseen tensions on bodies, representing them with an array of textures and patterns to reveal hidden layers of empathy. He graduated from Virginia Commonwealth University with a Bachelor of Science in Nursing, and has a background in critical care. He has exhibited his work throughout Washington DC, Baltimore, Miami, New York, Houston, San Francisco, and Los Angeles.

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Mario Navarro is a Mexican American artist based in New York City. Issues of perception, the combination of language and spatial elements, the sculptural properties of language, and matter/materials and their representations are lines of research Navarro has been investigating lately. The relations between architectures and forms, and more specifically, the decomposition of architectural paradigms (balance, symmetry, organization of units and the figure of the architect) are of constant interest and are explored in Navarro’s ongoing and never final propositions. Selected exhibition include “A Landscape of Events,” SCAD Museum of Art, Savannah, GA (2017); “Veil / Unveil,” Proyecto Paralelo, Mexico City (2017); “Mi Casa, Tu Casa,” Johannes Vogt Gallery, New York (2016); and “Forms of otherness,” organized by Bard College, International Studio and Curatorial Program (ISCP), Brooklyn (2015).

Mario Navarro is a Mexican American artist based in New York City. Issues of perception, the combination of language and spatial elements, the sculptural properties of language, and matter/materials and their representations are lines of research Navarro has been investigating lately. The relations between architectures and forms, and more specifically, the decomposition of architectural paradigms (balance, symmetry, organization of units and the figure of the architect) are of constant interest and are explored in Navarro&#8217;s ongoing and never final propositions. Selected exhibition include “A Landscape of Events,” SCAD Museum of Art, Savannah, GA (2017); “Veil / Unveil,” Proyecto Paralelo, Mexico City (2017); “Mi Casa, Tu Casa,” Johannes Vogt Gallery, New York (2016); and “Forms of otherness,” organized by Bard College, International Studio and Curatorial Program (ISCP), Brooklyn (2015).
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Oral histories from Mexican and Native peoples, post-colonial historical texts, and spaces that are safe and inclusive for people of color are the cosmologies that surround Mexican-American artist Carlos Rosales-Silva’s work. His most recent output reclaims the colors and forms that have long been (ab)used to create oppressive stereotypes of Mexican and Native American peoples. Draining direct references, symbols, and figures have allowed him a freedom to study the color and form of his identity. Rosales-Silva’s central intellectual and artistic project is de-centering his white, hetero, Euro-centric western education. He has exhibited throughout Texas, and in Los Angeles, Miami, Minneapolis, Chicago, Kansas City, and Brooklyn.