Happy #InternationalWomensDay! Everyday we celebrate the women who make Mana happen. #ADayWithoutWomen #WomensHistoryMonth

Enjoy this mesmerizing video of artist Matthias Brown’s (@traceloops) live performance during the opening reception of SURFACE. 

On January 12, 6–8PM, Mana will be hosting a special viewing of Textile – Territory – Text, featuring live arabic music played by the New York Arabic Orchestra, accompanied by a Sama سَمَاع  (“listening”), a traditional Sufi whirling ceremony. RSVP online.

Need a break from 2016? Come lie on John Chamberlain's foam couch sculpture, on view in our John Chamberlain: Photographs exhibition, and surround yourself by the legendary artist's kinetic series of photographs shot with his swing-lens Widelux between 1989 and 2002. 

Join our tours, Monday–Friday at 11AM and 3PM. 

Photo: John Berens.

This Saturday–Tuesday, November 19–22, Mana Contemporary’s Theater will be transformed by Whitney Biennial artists Kate Gilmore and Heather Rowe to present Virtually There, a performance inspired by Oskar Schlemmer’s Triadic Ballet (1922). Buy tickets now online.

Video excerpt from Margarete Hastings’s reconstruction of Tridiac Ballet, 1970.

Introducing Accordion Man, the second character from Virtually There, a performance inspired by Oskar Schlemmer’s Triadic Ballet (1922), which explored the impact that machine culture and the industrial revolution had on society at the time. 

Performances are this week! Buy tickets now online.

Virtually There was directed by curators Mafalda Millies and Roya Sachs, featuring choreography by iconic “punk ballerina” Karole Armitage; costumes by the renowned Brazilian designers the Campana Brothers; staging by Whitney Biennial artists Kate Gilmore and Heather Rowe; music by underground French composer Charles Derenne; and creative production by technology innovators MATTE Projects. 

“Nothing heals me of a sore and angry heart like a walk through the very city I often feel denying me. To see in the street the fifty different ways people struggle to remain human until the very last minute—the variety and inventiveness of survival technique—is to feel the pressure relieved, the overflow draining off. I join the anxiety. I share the condition.” —Vivian Gornick, “Approaching Eye Level,” Beacon Press, 1996. 

Painting by Mana Resident Alex Kwartler from his first solo exhibition, Pain Quotidien, on view now at Magenta Plains.

Alex Da Corte’s first museum survey, Free Roses, is currently on view at @massmoca, featuring a selection of works made over the last ten years. This excerpt is from Da Corte’s groundbreaking video installation, Easternsports (2014)—made in collaboration with artist Jayson Musson for the @icaphiladelphia—which is also on view at @whitneymuseum as part of Dreamlands. The work envelops viewers in a vibrant, surreal, visually ordered, but psychologically messy world, in which the video’s archetypal protagonists “perform their desired lifestyles.”

Introducing Crystal Woman, the first character from Virtually There, a performance inspired by Oskar Schlemmer’s Triadic Ballet (1922), hosted by the Performa Visionaries and presented by Mana Contemporary in Jersey City.

The original Triadic Ballet explored the impact that machine culture and the industrial revolution had on society at the time. 

Get tickets to the performance at Mana Contemporary on November 21 and November 22, directed by Mafalda Millies and Roya Sachs, featuring choreography by iconic “punk ballerina” Karole Armitage; costumes by the renowned Brazilian designers the Campana Brothers; staging by Whitney Biennial artists Kate Gilmore and Heather Rowe; music by underground French composer Charles Derenne; and creative production by technology innovators MATTE Projects. 

On view now at Tanya Bonakdar Gallery is a series of new sculptures by Ernesto Neto titled The Serpent’s Energy Gave Birth To Humanity. The show draws on ideas of interactivity and spirituality and is inspired in part by the artist’s collaborations with the indigenous Huni Kuin community of the Brazilian Amazon.

Learn more at www.tanyabonakdargallery.com.

Just announced! Mana Contemporary is pleased to present Virtually There, a unique performance inspired by Oskar Schlemmer’s Triadic Ballet. Co-curated and directed by Mafalda Millies and Roya Sachs, hosted by the Performa Visionaries. Public performances will take place on Nov 21 and 22. Get your tickets at manacontemporary.com/virtually-there. Image by Eliza Soros.

“I love the idea that rugs are basically gardens that can move across space.” Mana artist-in-residence, Martin Roth talks to CNN about his latest installation at the Korean Cultural Center, UK, where he's brought a number of ancient Persian carpets to life through the cultivation of grass. Read the interview.

The Underground Museum in LA is a collaboration with MOCA that realizes exhibitions developed by the late artist Noah Davis. The current exhibition, Non Fiction, pulls together works of art that investigate, either explicitly or implicitly, the culture of violence perpetrated on black citizens.

http://theunderground-museum.org/ http://www.moca.org/exhibition/the-underground-museum-2

Who else is watching the presidential debate tonight? 🇺🇸

From our @icphoto exhibition on Mana’s 6th floor—Cornell Capa, [The fourth and last of the Kennedy-Nixon debates (held in New York City), as seen on the television of a bar, New York], October 21, 1960. Learn more.

Co-founded by artists John Rubin and Dawn Weleski, Conflict Kitchen is a take out style restaurant in Pittsburgh that only serves cuisine from countries with which the US is in conflict, rotating identities every 6 months in relation to current geopolitical events.  The food is wrapped in beautifully designed paper packaging printed with statements on topics ranging from food to religion, work, and politics.

Operating seven days a week in the city center, Conflict Kitchen reformats the preexisting social relations of food and economic exchange to engage the general public in discussions about countries, cultures, and people that they might know little about outside of the polarizing rhetoric of U.S. politics and the narrow lens of media headlines.  

http://conflictkitchen.org/about/