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MALIK GAINES’ ERLKÖNIG

Marking the opening night of JOURNEYS WITH THE INITIATED, Nick Mauss, Pati Hertling, Ulrike Müller, and Ethan Philbrick will join Malik Gaines for a performance of Gaines’ ERLKÖNIG .

JOURNEYS WITH THE INITIATED—curated by Yesomi Umolu and Katja Rivera, with the participation of Evan Ifekoya, Grada Kilomba, Tiona Nekkia McClodden, and Virginia de Medeiros—is the New York section of the ongoing project Hubert Fichte—Love and Ethnology, and investigates Fichte’s book The Black City—Glosses through a series of texts, videos, photographs, sculpture, sound, and performance at Participant Inc and e-flux.

ERLKÖNIG

Sunday, December 2, at 6:30 pm.

e-flux, 311 East Broadway (at Grand Street), New York City.

 

TIONA NEKKIA MCCLODDEN and VIRGINIA DE MEDEIROS—

JOURNEYS WITH THE INITIATED

December 2, 2018 through January 13, 2019.

Participant Inc, 253 East Houston Street, #1, New York City.

e-flux, 311 East Broadway (at Grand Street), New York City.

See “Questions of Representation: Malik Gaines in conversation with Barlo Perry,” PARIS LA 16 (2018), 178–181.

Top: Tiona Nekkia McCloddenan offering six years a conjecture, 2018. Digital C-prints, two-channel video with sound, audio. Courtesy the artist.

Above image credit: Sternberg Press.

Below: Hubert Fichte with Dan-Maske, 1979. Photograph by Leonore Mau, Fichte’s partner.

NICK MAUSS — TRANSMISSIONS

TRANSMISSIONS, an exhibition by Nick Mauss “exploring the relationship between modernist ballet and the avant-garde visual arts in New York from the 1930s through ’50s” is up at the Whitney through mid-May.*

Works by Mauss—as well as archival photographs, drawings, sculptures, paintings, film, and video—are supplemented by daily dance performances in conversation with the show’s display.

NICK MAUSS—TRANSMISSIONS

Through May 14.

Whitney Museum of American Art

99 Gansevoort Street, New York City.

Top: Paul Cadmus, Reflections, 1944.

Above: George Platt Lynes, Tex Smutney, 1941.

Below: George Platt LynesFrederick Ashton with Maxwell Baird, Floyd Miller, and Billie Smith for Four Saints in Three Acts, 1934.

Image credit for Lynes photographs: George Platt Lynes EstateKinsey InstituteIndiana University.