occasions and other occurrences
June 24–July 17, 2016
Reservations for occasions and other occurrences hosted by Isabel Lewis at Dia Art Foundation open to the public on Monday, May 2, 2016. Lewis will realize her signature occasions over four consecutive weekends between Friday, June 24, and Sunday, July 17, 2016. Commissioned by Dia, Lewis’s occasions will be hosted on Friday evenings at Dia:Chelsea in New York City and will continue to unfold on Saturday and Sunday afternoons at Scenic Hudson’s Long Dock Park located adjacent to Dia:Beacon in Beacon, New York.
Lewis’s occasions offer an open duration and format, during which visitors may freely enter, leave, and revisit a space composed by the artist that engages the entire human sensorium. As host, Lewis’s dramaturgy is specific to the site, the guests, and their energies, encompassing food and drink, dance, music, and scent, as well as spoken address on topics such as conceptions of love to the philosophy of gardening.
Event schedule
Friday, June 24, doors open at 6pm: Dia:Chelsea, New York City
Saturday, June 25, 12–5pm: Scenic Hudson’s Long Dock Park, Beacon, New York
Sunday, June 26, 12–5pm: Scenic Hudson’s Long Dock Park, Beacon, New York
Friday, July 1, doors open at 6pm: Dia:Chelsea, New York City
Saturday, July 2, 12–5pm: Scenic Hudson’s Long Dock Park, Beacon, New York
Sunday, July 3, 12–5pm: Scenic Hudson’s Long Dock Park, Beacon, New York
Friday, July 8, doors open at 6pm: Dia:Chelsea, New York City
Saturday, July 9, 12–5pm: Scenic Hudson’s Long Dock Park, Beacon, New York
Sunday, July 10, 12–5pm: Scenic Hudson’s Long Dock Park, Beacon, New York
Friday, July 15, doors open at 6pm: Dia:Chelsea, New York City
Saturday, July 16, 12–5pm: Scenic Hudson’s Long Dock Park, Beacon, New York
Sunday, July 17, 12–5pm: Scenic Hudson’s Long Dock Park, Beacon, New York
Reservations
Admission is free.
Reservations are recommended and will be accepted starting Monday, May 2, 2016. Reservations are also available at the door, subject to availability. For more information and to make a reservation, visit www.diaart.org/isabellewis.
Isabel Lewis
Lewis is of American and Dominican origin and was raised in Florida. From 2004 to 2009 she lived in New York City and presented commissioned dance work at the Dance Theater Workshop, Danspace Project at St. Mark’s Church, the Kitchen, Movement Research at Judson Church, the New Museum, and Performance Space 122. In 2009 she moved to Berlin and has since explored a practice that negotiates different contexts and formats. Drawing from her background in choreography, dance, and literary criticism, Lewis’s current work takes the form of hosted occasions, which have taken place at the Centre d’Art Contemporain Genève, Switzerland; Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Turin, Italy; Frieze London; Göteborg International Biennial for Contemporary Art, Sweden; Institute of Contemporary Arts, London; Kunsthalle Basel; Liverpool Biennial, UK; and Tanz im August, Berlin.
Funding
This program is supported in part by Dia’s Director’s Council and the New York State Council on the Arts, a State agency.
Dia Art Foundation
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