nyc performance events PICKS | APRIL 15-16, 2016

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Estonian group NonGrata ignites the NYC Anarchist Art Festival, feminist porn artist, Madison Young, presents a new performance at Grace Exhibition Space, previously featured artist PREACH R. SUN premieres a new performance video AND MORE! An incredible weekend for performance art. - QUINN DUKES

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FRIDAY, APRIL 15, 2016

MADISON YOUNG | 21st Suffragettes at Grace Exhibition Space 
840 Broadway, Brooklyn, New York
9pm Door, 9:30 Performance
$10 Donation
Madison Young (CA) is an author, filmmaker, and body based performance artist dedicated to creating space for radical love. Young’s work spans from documenting our sexual culture in her 44 Internationally screened and award-winning feminist erotic films to curating over 500 performance art and visual art exhibitions through out the country in the past decade including exhibitions at San Francisco’s Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, Highways Theater in Santa Monica, and The Body Archive in New York City. 

AnarkoArtLab, NYC Anarchist Art Festival
Judson Memorial Church | 55 Washington Sq S, New York, New York 10012
7pm-3am
AnarkoArtLab in celebrating the 10th year of the NYC Anarchist Art Festival, to be held in conjunction with the 10th NYC Anarchist Book Fair and Film Festival, at the Judson Memorial Church, in Manhattan, NYC. This year’s Anarchist Arts Festival concept is OUTLAW ART.

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SATURDAY, APRIL  16, 2016

LIVEART.US
Queens Museum | New York City Building, Flushing Meadows Corona Park, Queens, New York
4:30pm-7:30pm
LiVEART.US features works where the body, as main instrument for artistic creation and expression, is the catalyst for sensorial experiences, cultural interpretation, and critical reflection. This month’s artists have been invited to participate in the program with new works that explore Corporeal Boundaries in their relation with circumscribed familiar and remote geographies. Participating Artists: Lital Dotan (Israel), Joseph Ravens (United States), Kuldeep Singh (India), Alejandro Chêllet (Mexico), Nao Nishihara (Japan), and Kledia Spiro (Albania). Organized and curated by Hector Canonge.

PREACH R. SUN
THE WAKE: Reclamation of the Black Fist | VIDEO PREMIERE
1:30pm
​On February 19th in Detroit at the site of the Joe Louis fist Preach R. Sun performed my latest guerrilla action. The action, entitled THE WAKE: Reclamation of the Black Fist, is the first action in the current phase/series of the ONE-MAN project, Amerikkkan Spirits [Minor Acts]. This Saturday he will be posting the video of this action on ​this Facebook event page.

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SUNDAY, APRIL 17, 2016

PULSAR & INCIDENT MAGAZINE PRESENT: Trouble Performing 
A performance art podcast & potluck
1717 Broadway, 2nd floor, Brooklyn, NY
4pm-7pm
Join PULSAR & INCIDENT MAGAZINE for their 3rd monthly podcast discussion of performance art followed by a potluck.