Image courtesy of Will Farris, Estate of Gordon Matta-Clark and David Zwirner Gallery.

Energies: Reactivation of Gordon Matta-Clark’s Rosebush at St. Mark’s Church

Sunday, September 29 | 2–4PM

Admission: Free and open to the public

Co-hosted by The Poetry Project, Danspace Project, St. Mark’s Church, and Swiss Institute

In September 2024, Swiss Institute will present the international group exhibition Energies, which takes its starting point from a little-known piece of East Village history—the 1973 installation of a rooftop wind turbine by the inhabitants of a sweat-equity co-op at 519 E 11th Street. As a part of the larger Energies exhibition, The Poetry Project, Danspace Project, St. Mark’s Church, and Swiss Institute are pleased to celebrate the reactivation of Gordon Matta-Clark’s Rosebush.

Matta-Clark, who invested most of his artistic practice in social and community work, installed a rosebush sculpture in the garden of St. Mark’s Church in the 1970s. With support from SI, a new rosebush was planted in the Spring of 2024 and a plaque will be installed commemorating and marking Matta-Clark’s work. To celebrate the reactivation of Matta-Clark’s Rosebush, we will host a series of afternoon readings along with musical and dance performances by Lou Cornum, Jeannine Otis, Stacy Spence, and Kendra Sullivan. A reception in the West Yard of St. Mark’s Church will follow.

Please RSVP to rsvp@swissinstitute.net.

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Photo of Amelia Heintzelman by Maria Baranova | Photo of Elliot Reed by Annie Forrest

DraftWork: Amelia Heintzelman with Dorothy Carlos + Elliot Reed

Saturday, October 26 | 3PM

Danspace Project’s DraftWork series hosts free, informal showings of new works in varying stages of development. This afternoon features performances by two NYC-based artists: Amelia Heintzelman (with Dorothy Carlos) and Elliot Reed.

Showings are followed by a reception, conversation, and Q&A between the artists and DraftWork curator, Ishmael Houston-Jones.

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Amelia Heintzelman is a performer, choreographer, and teacher. Her work has been shown at Pageant, Movement Research at the Judson Church, Snug Harbor, Lubov Gallery, and University Settlement in NYC. Most recently, she has performed for Alexa West, Jesi Cook, Ayano Elson, and Deborah Hay. She teaches at Pageant and Movement Research. www.ameliakh.com

Dorothy Carlos is an experimental cellist and electronic musician working in improvised performance and multi-channel sound in New York City and Chicago. Her work utilizes randomized electronics and extended techniques to explore fragility and imaginaries.

Elliot Reed (he/they) is an artist working in performance, sculpture, and video. Their art starts from the body, making a choreographic language through objects, installation, and sound. Elliot is a 2023/4 participant in The Whitney Independent Study Program, a 2019 danceWEB scholar, and 2019–20 Artist in Residence at the Studio Museum in Harlem and part of the museum’s permanent collection. Reed was also the recipient of the 2019 Rema Hort Mann Emerging Artist Grant. Recent performances and exhibitions include Brown University (2024), Performance Space New York (2024), Anonymous Gallery (2023), Lucerne Festival with JACK Quartet (2022), Kunsthaus Glarus (2021), Metro Pictures (2021), MoMA PS1 (2020/21), OCD Chinatown (2021), The Getty Center (2018), Hammer Museum (2016), Dorothy Chandler Pavilion (2018), The Broad (2017), including performances in Tokyo, Osaka, London, Mexico City, Zürich, Vienna, and Hamburg. His text manifesto “Performance Art Is…” was printed in The Drama Review Vol. 64, Issue 4 (248) published by MIT Press.