Raki Malhotra

temporal movement, exchange, bridging, straddling, continuence, repetition, connection, transfer, continuence, suspension, relationship BETWEEN/THROUGH/ACROSS TWO EVENINGS OF PERFORMANCE: Tuesday, May 16 and Thursday, May 18. Both nights of performance are open to the public starting at 8pm, situating work by:

SIERRA ORTEGA
RAKI MALHOTRA
MELI SANFIORENZO
ABBEY OF MISRULE (Kubik, Behnam, X)
ANYA LIFTIG

This dual exhibition is also a collaboration between the ITINERANT Festival (May 16 is part of the 2017 Festival) and PERFORMANCY FORUM, two of NYC's longest-running platforms for performance art. This pair of evenings is organized by Esther Neff.

ITINERANT was created by artist Hector Canonge. The initiative was a small platform for Contemporary Performance Art, and had its origins in the monthly series A-Lab Forum that Canonge organized at Crossing Art Gallery in Flushing, Queens. Following the growing interest in Live Art, and the need to present performance in the borough, ITINERANT was launched in 2011 under the auspices of QMAD, Queens Media Arts Development. In 2012, ITINERANT was recognized by the City of New York as the first Performance Art festival taking place in the five boroughs (Queens, Manhattan, Bronx, Brooklyn and Staten Island) that make the metropolitan region. Following the large scale venture in NYC, Canonge journeyed through Europe and Latin America creating, in 2013, the Spanish edition of the festival and calling it Encuentro ITINERANTe with public presentations in various cities in the Southern Hemisphere. In 2015 the festival featured 30 artists from over ten countries with presentations at the Queens Museum, Bronx Museum of the Arts, Momenta Art, Glasshouse ArtLifeLab. The Atrium of PS 69 in Jackson Heights hosted the opening and closing nights of the festival. Public Interventions took place at 37th Rd. Pedestrian Plaz and at Manuel de Dios Unanue Triangle Plaza, Roosevelt Avenue and 83rd Street.

ITINERANT Web: http://www.itinerant.website/
ITINERANT Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/itinerantpafnyc

PERFORMANCY FORUM: http://www.performancyforum.net/

(header background image: Raki Malhotra)

FULL SCHEDULE: https://www.facebook.com/events/125380534476920/

Expanded-form relational performances and presentations bridging agendas "TO MOVE TOWARDS FLEXIBILITY AND MULTIPLICITY" with "TO CREATE SOMETHING I WANT TO BE A PART OF."

4pm Interactive public working group: to move towards multiplicity and flexibility, a self-creating agenda game.

4pm-11pm:
Adriana Disman
Raki Malhotra
Baxton Alexander
+
Angeli + Michael Sloan Warren: Song to Remind You of Yourself
+
DIVERSITY FELLOWS: Songs for a Queer Millennium: A Live Art Mixtape

@Panoply Performance Laboratory, beverages lovingly provided by Brooklyn Brewery.

+++++++++++++++++++++

PF: QUINQ is open to the public with a suggested donation of $10-20 to support/reimburse the artists

For the Full Schedule for PERFORMANCY FORUM QUINQUENNIAL: A Performance Conference October 8-25:
http://panoplylab.org/quinquennial/
https://www.facebook.com/events/125380534476920/

conference = a situation during which persons confer
conferance = a "con" like "comicon" for makers and fans
conference = a culmination of a period of labor
conference = states of being and becoming together