(a Prosodic Body* Event)  

Following their residencies with Movement Research and the LMCC Swing Space Grant Program Daria Fain and Robert Kocik will present works based on Commoning**. The presentation will include a performance by the Phoneme Choir, an exhibition,  talks, and a screening by Iki Nakagawa. 

11AM: door opens 

Exhibition (on display all day): drawings and documentation concerning commoning and the Prosodic Body

1PM-3PM: Talks and Discussion with feminist activist, teacher, communalist historian Silvia Federici and the visionary socialist, writer, composer, bandleader, baritone saxophonist Fred Ho, moderated by Robert Kocik. 

Silvia Federici: IN PRAISE OF THE DANCING BODY: while recapitulating the techniques capitalism has deployed to reduce the body to a machine, Federici will speak of practices by which we have resisted its mechanization, and the power of dance to articulate this resistance. More on Sylvia Federici

3PM-4PM: Performance of the Commons Choir (conceived and directed by Daria Fain and Robert Kocik). 

With Aretha Aoki, Margot Basset, Chung-chen Chang , Stephen Cooper, Levi Gonzalez, Hazuki Homma, Masumi Kishimoto, Dora Koimtzi, Athena Kokoronis, Martin Lanz,  Mina Nishimura, Peter Sciscioli, Kensaku Shinohara and Samita Sinha.

4PM-5PM: Screening of Collecting Collective Phase I:  Filmic interpretations of commoning directed by Iki Nakagawa with contributions from Caterina Verde, Douglas Manson, Mike Taylor, David Thompson, Daria Faïn and Robert Kocik

5PM: Q&A

 

11AM: Door opens——Commons Exhibition and continuous screening of Collecting Collective Phase I on loop. 

2PM: Talk and discussion with poet Eric Gelsinger. 

3PM-4PM: Performance of the Commons Choir (conceived and directed by Daria Fain and Robert Kocik) 

With Aretha Aoki, Margot Basset, Chung-chen Chang , Stephen Cooper, Levi Gonzalez, Hazuki Homma, Masumi Kishimoto, Dora Koimtzi, Athena Kokoronis, Martin Lanz,  Mina Nishimura, Peter Sciscioli, Kensaku Shinohara and Samita Sinha.

5PM: Q&A

*Commoning is a group of poets, performers and persons working together toward the common good. Their foci: history of the enclosure of the commons leading directly to today's privateering, wage stagnation and material inequity; inner and somatic practices as the basis of fairness; the ways in which laws become the means for maintaining imbalance; hypertrophy of the financial sector; language as hegemonic force of globalization; and private determination of public space by 'business' that has always approached 'public' as inimical to its interests.

 

 

The ferry to Governors Island departs regularly from the Battery Maritime Building, Manhattan and Fulton Ferry, Brooklyn. LMCC space will be well-indicated at the ferry dock.