A Dream You Dream Together: A Symposium Celebrating Yoko Ono
Where: The Park Avenue Armory
643 Park Ave.
212-616-3930 Price: $35/day (plus fees)
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Explore the multidisciplinary career of trailblazing artist Yoko Ono and her enduring legacy of arts activism for peace and creativity in this two-day symposium, presented in tandem with Wish Tree. This convening assembles a host of scholars, artists, writers, and activists for a series of panels and performances that explore and highlight Ono’s message and highlight Ono’s influence and impact on the art world and the world at-large.
Topics of discussion include Ono’s impact on rock music, her film and art from the 1950s to today, the process of documenting the avant garde, the history of performance art and peace activism, and more.
Symposium participants include: arts-based social justice researcher and artist Marc Arthur; Guggenheim fellow and Andy Warhol Foundation Arts Writer Grant recipient Claire Bishop; MacArthur award recipient, singer-songwriter, and actor Justin Vivian Bond; art historian and critic Julia Bryan Wilson; multimedia artist Peter Cramer; art critic and professor Jennifer Doyle; award-winning gender and sexuality scholar Jack Halberstam; pioneering musician and multidisciplinary artist Nona Hendryx; NYU professor André T. Lepecki; leading performance studies scholar Joshua Takano Chambers Leston; environmental, architectural, and memorial artist Maya Lin; Co-Founder and Executive Director of Culture Push Clarinda Mac Low; Asia Society Museum Director Yasufumi Nakamori; NYU historical musicologist Brigid Cohen; NPR Music critic and correspondent Ann Powers; Yin Qi of Red Canary Song; curator, writer, and archivist Sur Rodney (Sur); scholar and critic Kyla Wazana Tompkins; Filipino-American cultural critic, writer and queer studies scholar Karen Tongson; New York-based artist Michael Wang; visual artist, film maker, writer, media artist, choreographer and performer Jack Waters; and art historian and gallery director Midori Yoshimoto.
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