CONVERSATION SERIES: INTERROGATIONS OF FORM PERSON PLACE THING
Sunday, November 19, 2017 at 3:00pm Board of Officers Room Thompson Arts Center at Park Avenue Armory Featuring:
Daniel Alexander Jones Paula Vogel Hosted by Randy Cohen Musical guest Samora Abayomi Pinderhughes
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Support for Park Avenue Armory’s artistic season has been generously provided by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the Altman Foundation, The Harold and Mimi Steinberg Charitable Trust, the Achelis and Bodman Foundation, the Fan Fox and Leslie R. Samuels Foundation, the Horace W. Goldsmith Foundation, The Shubert Foundation, The Emma and Georgina Bloomberg Foundation, the Marc Haas Foundation, The Kaplen Brothers Fund, the Juliet Lea Hillman Simonds Foundation, the Leon Levy Foundation, the May and Samuel Rudin Family Foundation, and the Isak and Rose Weinman Foundation. Cover image: James Ewing
MEET THE PARTICIPANTS DANIEL ALEXANDER JONES RANDY COHEN Daniel Alexander Jones (performance artist, writer and Randy Cohen is a five time Emmy award-winning writer and educator) makes live performance. His wildflower body of work continues to grow in dialogue with a wide range of collaborators and audiences. Duat premiered at Soho Rep in 2016 to critical acclaim. His other performances and plays include Radiate, Phoenix Fabrik, Blood:Shock:Boogie, and Bel Canto; the musical Bright Now Beyond, written with composer Bobby Halvorson; and a multi-chapter series of solo autobiographical performances, The Book of Daniel, made with musician Walter Kitundu and director Tea Alagic. His alter-ego Jomama Jones has released four albums; her show “Black Light” will be at the Public Theater in early 2018. Daniel was named a 2015 Doris Duke Artist, in recognition of his risk-taking practice.
PAULA VOGEL Paula Vogel teaches playwriting workshops throughout the United States and abroad. Her play, How I Learned to Drive, received the Pulitzer Prize, Lortel Prize, Drama Desk, Outer Critics Circle, and New York Drama Critics Awards for Best Play, and her second OBIE. Other plays include The Long Christmas Ride Home, The Mineola Twins, The Baltimore Waltz, Hot ‘N’ Throbbing, Desdemona, And Baby Makes Seven, The Oldest Profession, A Civil War Christmas, and Don Juan Comes Home From Iraq. Her play Indecent opened at The Cort Theatre in New York City in April 2017 and is available on Broadway HD. TCG has published four books of Vogel’s work.
humorist for newspapers and magazines (The New Yorker, Harpers, The Atlantic, Young Love Comics). His first television work was writing for Late Night with David Letterman for which he won three Emmy awards. His fourth Emmy was for his work on Michael Moore’s TV Nation. For twelve years he wrote “The Ethicist,” a weekly column for the The New York Times Magazine. His most recent book is Be Good: How to Navigate the Ethics of Everything. Cohen is the host of the public radio program and podcast, Person Place Thing.
SAMORA ABOYAMI PINDERHUGHES Samora Pinderhughes is a 25-year-old composer and pianist,
known for large multidisciplinary projects and for his use of music to examine sociopolitical issues. Pinderhughes has performed in venues including Carnegie Hall, the White House, MoMA, the Sundance Film Festival, and Monterey Jazz Festival, and has toured internationally with artists including Branford Marsalis, Christian Scott, and Emily King. He is the creator and composer of The Transformations Suite. He has written music for artists including Herbie Hancock, Kenny Barron, Lalah Hathaway, and Common; and is the composer for the film Whose Streets?. He is also a member of Blackout for Human Rights, and was musical director for their 2016 #MLKNow and #JusticeForFlint events.
NEXT IN THE SERIES A ROOM IN INDIA: ARTIST TALK Friday, December 8 at 6:00pm
Director Ariane Mnouchkine is joined by Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Tony Kushner and editor of The New Yorker David Remnick to discuss the creative process behind the development of this epic new work.
CARRIE MAE WEEMS: THE SHAPE OF THINGS Sunday, December 17 from 12:00pm to 10:0pm
Armory artist-in-residence Carrie Mae Weems curates this day-long convening that critiques the history of violence and questions the shape of things to come in the context of our current political state. She has assembled like-minded contemporary artists, writers, poets, musicians, and social theorists to join her to critique our tumultuous political and social climate through a series of readings, performances, conversations, and other artistic responses.
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