I'm excited to announce the premiere of the single-channel version of Magic Thinking at Hauser & Wirth (443 W. 18th Street) on June 6th at 6:30 as part of a film series organized by Ridykeulous! The screening will be followed by a conversation with Jill Casid and Laine Rettmer. Add your name to the waitlist here.

Please come out and celebrate 20 years of PARTICIPANT INC. on Monday, June 26, at the legendary SoB’s. Tickets start at $150, and the lineup is fantastic!

For 20 years, PARTICIPANT INC has had a unique, radical program supporting highly influential artists. Let’s all come out and support and celebrate!

See you there!

Laura

PATHETIC HAPPENING is a read and performed version of the entirety of Pathetic Literature (edited by Eileen Myles) from Grove Press, a nearly 700 page volume of poets and fiction writers and playwrights and nonfiction from all over the world, and all eras. This event — conceived and curated by Tom Cole and Eileen Myles with ten guest curators: queer theorist Jack Halberstam, performer and poet Ama Birch, poet and curator Mary Reilly, the indelible poet Will Farris, British poet and memoirist Sophie Robinson, performer and curator Lucy Sexton, poet and birdist Marcella Durand, lead singer of Speedy Ortiz and poet Sadie Dupuis and dance curator Sangeeta Yesley along with choreographer Yoshiko Chuma — is an afternoon and evening devoted to enacting literature in all its dimensionality. I’ll be reading Moyra Davey’s essay early in the day.

Thrilled to be part of this celebration of the brilliant actor Jim Fletcher at Anthology Film Archives. See link for tickets. “His screen appearances encompass video experiments by theater artists such as Richard Maxwell and Tim Etchells (of U.K. theater group Forced Entertainment), documentaries like Shaun Irons's STANDING BY: GATZ BACKSTAGE, and collaborations with film and video artists including Laura Parnes, Ellen Cantor, Tony Oursler, and Zoe Beloff. Presented in conjunction with special screenings of two of Fletcher’s most recent moving-image projects – New Red Order’s NEVER SETTLE: THE PROGRAM and Adam Khalil, Bayley Sweitzer, and Anton Vidokle’s A I O U – this film series further reveals Fletcher’s Venn-diagram-like ability to draw together different constellations of artists, communities, and creative approaches.”

Blood and Guts in High School screens June 12 at 5:30. Tour Without End screens at June 12 at 7:30