March events

Join us this March at e-flux for a program that explores the frenetic vitality and existential malaise of 1970s New York; music that vacillates between cosmic impulses and analytical inclinations; haunting in eco-critical discourse; how gesture, noise, and interference shape human experience; viscosity as a way of thinking; the psychological edges of virtuality; and how meaning emerges through atmosphere, intuitive connections, and sonic precision rather than explanatory framing.

Featuring Adrian Rew with Bob Nickas, Jutta Koether with John Miller; Richard Hell; Tyler Friedman; Aki Onda with Zach Rowden; Juliane Rebentisch; Victoria Keddie; Lucy Beech; Soso Chikhaidze, Otar Iosseliani, Giorgi Koberidze; Selwa Abd; and Mary Helena Clark. 

Saturday, February 28, 2026
Art Sound & Song #3 presented by Bob Nickas and Adrian Rew with XXX Macarena
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Join us for a listening session and discussion about artists’ records with Adrian Rew and Bob Nickas in a live segment of their radio show Art Sound & Song hosted by Montez Press Radio. They will be exploring the twin poles of "sound" and "song" as categories of audio recordings made by artists who primarily work in the visual realm. The evening will include a special live set by XXX Macarena, the duo of artist-musicians Jutta Koether and John Miller. Read more here.

Tuesday, March 3, 2026
Godlike by Richard Hell
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Based on Arthur Rimbaud and Paul Verlaine’s notorious affair, but set in the epochal downtown poetry scene of 1970s New York, Godlike by Richard Hell is a tribute to poetry and the beauty and mess of art, desire, and New York City. The book takes us through Paul Vaughn’s 1997 hospital notebooks: diaries amidst poems and essays, most pertinently the poet’s third-person memoir-novelette of his youthful time with the now-famous R. T. Wode. Godlike is infused with evocations—and sometimes actual poems—of many New York poets of the era, from Ted Berrigan and Ron Padgett to Edwin Denby and James Schuyler. It achieves a lyricism both profane and profound as it conjures the frenetic vitality as well as the existential malaise of an era. It’s a searching meditation on art, life, love, and the impossibility of everything. Join us to celebrate the launch of Godlike, with a reading by Hell. Read more here.

Wednesday, March 4, 2026
Bar Laika presents Playback 0028 with Tyler Friedman
Join us  for the twenty-eighth edition of Playback with Tyler Friedman. Friedman’s music vacillates between cosmic impulses and analytical inclinations. Escaping the rift between post-club experimentalism and the theory-driven partition of contemporary art, his output spans numerous releases, soundtracks, installations, collaborations and performances and draws on an unwieldy arsenal of divergent references and tactics. Friedman’s solo output focuses on a lysergic strain of dubbed minimalism, equally indebted to late-00s techno and the downtown avant-garde. Created largely in a feedback loop with modular synthesizers and Max/MSP, his sequences and generative patterns are infused with an intuitive complexity and alchemical formalism. The artist will present his forthcoming album METLASR–a double LP of microtonal idiophones and fm synthesizer geometries–to be released March 27, 2026 on Radicant_Editions. Read more here.

Friday, March 6, 2026
Tracing Memories: Works by Aki Onda
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Join us at e-flux for a live performance by Aki Onda with Zach Rowden. Onda will present two pieces: Cassette Solo and Spirit Known and Unknown (Petit), followed by a discussion with e-flux Performance Curator Sanna Almajedi. Cassette Solo is an ongoing performance project based on Onda’s collection of thousands of cassette recordings amassed over the last three decades. By physically manipulating Walkmans and reconstructing the concrete sounds they hold, Onda stages a performative séance in which the tapes are attuned not just to the sonic but also to the mnemonic. Onda’s Spirits Known and Unknown is also an ongoing project featuring found brass bells that draws from different associations of bells throughout various cultures: as symbols of spirituality, peace, and even in some cases, war. Read more here.

Tuesday, March 10, 2026
Juliane Rebentisch, "The Reality of Ghosts: Haunted Landscapes in the Anthropocene"
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People often only recognize their fundamental relationships with nonhuman beings by observing their absence. However, the eerie feeling that there is “nothing where there should be something” (Mark Fisher) points to a loss that has not yet been fully realized as such. Against the backdrop of the sixth mass extinction of species, cultivating a sensitivity to the ghosts haunting the landscapes of the Anthropocene means confronting the reality of loss. In this talk, Juliane Rebentisch examines this realist twist on the motif of haunting in eco-critical discourse and discusses its consequences for a politics of mourning. Read more here.

Wednesday, March 11, 2026
Bar Laika presents Playback 0029 with Victoria Keddie
Join us at the twenty-ninth edition of Playback with Victoria Keddie. Keddie is an interdisciplinary artist whose work spans sound, video, installation, performance, and research. Her practice investigates the architectures of communication—acoustic, spatial, and technological—and explores how gesture, noise, and interference shape human experience. For over a decade, she co-directed E.S.P. TV, an international platform for hybrid media and broadcast-based performance. She currently teaches at the University of Pennsylvania, leading the course Listening Beyond Hearing alongside a spatial sound studio she designed for the program. She also directs the Spatial Sound Consortium in collaboration with Harvestworks, connecting studios internationally to develop new forms of access and collaboration. Read more here.

Monday, March 16, 2026
Lucy Beech: Viscosities
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Viscosity is a measure of resistance to flow. In Lucy Beech’s work, it becomes a way of thinking with substances that do not simply flow, but thicken, adhere, and, in that process, accumulate meaning. Beech’s films and videos track the infrastructural life of matter, how bodies and environments are managed through substances, and how that management produces residue that cannot be fully cleared, in writing as much as in industrial and ecological work. The program brings together Warm Decembers, A Map of the Pit, and excerpts from Hymnal, three collaborations that approach these concerns through different materials and forms. Read more here. 

Saturday, March 21, 2026
Georgian Polyphonics: screening and performance
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Georgian polyphonic song is one of the longest-tenured musical traditions across human history, with scholars placing its origin before the arrival of Christianity in Georgia in the 4th century CE. The practice consists of 15 regional choral variations, each made up of their own chemistry of staggered melodies, interlocking vocal threads, and folklore. Its lineage today travels even in a bottle launched “into the cosmic ocean,” with the chant Chakrulo having been included as one of the Voyager space craft’s 29 representative musical compositions selected for the contingency of extraterrestrial contact. Join us for a screening of Soso Chikhaidze's Old Georgian Hymns (1970) and Otar Iosseliani's Ancient Georgian Songs (1969) followed by the performance of Georgian composer Giorgi Koberidze. Read more here. 

Wednesday, March 25, 2026
Bar Laika presents Playback 0030 with Selwa Abd
Join us for the thirtieth edition of Playback with Selwa Abd. Abd is a Moroccan-born, New York–based interdisciplinary artist, composer, and design researcher working as Bergsonist. Her media, sound, and performance-based practice reconfigures archival and found materials into immersive environments. Drawing on electroacoustic and musique concrète traditions, she employs granular and spectral techniques to explore postcolonial identity, techno-futurism, and the psychological edges of virtuality. Read more here. 

Thursday, March 26, 2026
Mary Helena Clark: screening and discussion
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Working across film, video, and installation, Mary Helena Clark makes montage-driven works that expand the connotative possibilities of sound and image, producing a fragmentary viewing experience that resists conventional narrative assurance. Her films often operate through collage, citation, and carefully staged juxtapositions, where voices, objects, and environments feel both evidentiary and unreliable, and where meaning emerges through atmosphere, intuitive connections, and sonic precision rather than explanatory framing.  Join us for a screening followed by a discussion with the artist. Read more here.

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