Special Events
Off-site performances, collaborations with artists, cotton candy disasters, et al.
Book Launch for Oobah Butler: “Let’s Wallow in Success”
A live reading and pool party celebrated the publication of How to Bullsh*t Your Way to Number One. Litterati-themed pool floats optional.
Where/Wolf: in the round
In the second iteration of our wildly popular parlor session, a very small gathering of upstanding characters played a simple party game with dangerous implications.
Cotton Candy Competition at SculptureCenter
In 1897, a dentist named William Morrison invented a small mechanical centrifuge that would melt and extrude sugar as tiny filaments of “floss.” Millions of cavities later, we continue to relish cotton candy in all its simplicity: sugar and food coloring, flung in circles and gathered on a paper cone, amidst a whirlwind of carnival sounds, disorienting rides, and what may be best described as a cornucopia of debauchery. Our booth at SculptureCenter’s LIC Block Party is a paean to these simple pleasures of summer.
Where presents… at the Jewish Museum
Featured in a special evening of performances as part of the "Unorthodox" exhibition at the Jewish Museum. Art Historian Lucy Hunter (PhD candidate, Yale University) and Composer Raphael Amadeus Frankenstien (Juilliard, Vienna, Miami) join forces for a delightful rendition of recent research into mid-century management theory and being your most creative self, that you can be.
Eye in the Sky Hold’em at NADA
Melissa Brown restaged her surveillance-assisted tournament-style poker lounge inside a rented RV in the parking lot of NADA NYC. Fairgoers were encouraged to meddle via satellite TV stations inside the convention center.
David Horvitz’s “Cigarette Beetle (Lasioderma serricorne)”
Horvitz worked around the clock for three days to compile an editioned group show in the form of archival boxes filled with works from two dozen international artists. These “valises” were mailed as unsolicited donations to 31 museum libraries around the world .
Eye in the Sky Hold’em at Where Container
Melissa Brown transformed Where’s shipping container into a tournament-style poker lounge, where players wagered artwork. Our webcam became a portal for spies and accomplices, with strangers calling in tips and sabotage.
Where/Wolf
It was created deep within academia during the twilight years of the USSR, a doomed attempt to reveal the golden ratio for the elimination of hidden threats. The experiment comprised a short set of provocative instructions administered to a small group of test subjects. However, what started as research into the mathematics of suspicion quickly morphed into a viral party game and a global phenomenon that spread with a rapidity rare for pre-Internet memes. By the mid-’90s,