Among intriguing talks and presentations coming up in NYC this week, we're looking forward to the occult art of LeonoraCarrington, a lecture-performance in praise of noise, and a Scientific Controversies exploration of regenerative science and the boundaries of humanity.
MONDAY, JUNE 29
Visualize attending a Morbid Anatomy online talk on Jung, Eternal Aion, and the Dawn of the New Age, led by religious studies scholar Dr. Hereward Tilton.
TUESDAY, JUNE 30
Throw down for a Lectures on Tap shining a light on the grit and glam of The Women of Pro-Wrestling: Untold Story, Vital History.
The G7 summit serves as an entry point for a salon exploring a transitioning world, "more fragmented, more technologically advanced, more climate-stressed, and more morally contested than anything before it." Join a conversation that takes a macroscopic view of the geopolitical inversions of the last year.
Artist Leonora Carrington (1917–2011) developed a singular visual language rooted in alchemy, mythology, Celtic folklore, and the occult. In conjunction with current L'Space gallery show "Shape of Dreams," delve into the roots of her visionary art.
Are bioengineered hearts viable? Lab-grown blood cells? As the demands for regenerative science grow, join Pioneer Works Director of Sciences Janna Levin and two experts in biological architecture for a look at what it means to be human.
WEDNESDAY, JULY 1
Catch an emergent lecture-performance exploring the radical potential of noise. Artist and critic Kameelah Janan Rasheed leads a session looking at what exceeds the signal and the “turn toward error as method.”
Photo credit: Tsuneo Koga.
Catch a night of music, film, and food celebrating the premiere of Bloodlines, a new documentary. A screening traces the arc of a music project that uses cultural exchange and personal history as a springboard for the creation of new sounds. National Sawdust.
THURSDAY, JULY 2
Not a ghost tour, but real history in Lower Manhattan, exploring the area's centuries-long legacy of burial grounds, executions, epidemics, public unrest, and forgotten dead. Join Purefinder New York for an early-evening-into-dusk tour through the city’s oldest streets.
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