NASTY WOMEN Exhibition at Knockdown CenterNASTY WOMEN Exhibition at Knockdown Center

NASTY WOMEN Exhibition

Jan 15, 2017

Opening Reception: Thursday, January 12, 2017, 7-10pm Accompanying Programs: Friday, January 13 – Sunday, January 15, 2017 cropped-nasty-women-square-logo Knockdown Center is pleased to announce NASTY WOMEN, a group exhibition that serves to demonstrate solidarity among artists who identify with being a Nasty Woman in the face of recent and ongoing threats to women’s rights. NASTY WOMEN aims to act as a catalyst for conversation, organization, and action preceding the Presidential Inauguration on January 20, 2016. Opening on Thursday, January 12 from 7:00-10:00pm and on view through January 15, 2017, the exhibition invites self-identifying Nasty Women to contribute artwork to be sold for $100 or less, with all proceeds given to Planned Parenthood. Full press release here.
STAY NASTY Line-up A series of music, performances, and workshops accompanying NASTY WOMEN exhibition. Proceeds in benefit of select organizations working towards women’s reproductive health and community health initiatives. Friday's ticket sales will benefit Callen-Lorde Community Health Center and the New York Immigration Coalition and Saturday's ticket sales will benefit Girls for Gender Equity and SisterSong.
Media Sponsor: Bust Magazine THURSDAY  1/12 Evening (Free) 7:00pm - 10:00pm Opening Reception 9:00pm - late Afterparty with DJ Belinda Becker and Lauren Flax 9:00pm - late Antwan Duncan and Flex Lang DJ the Ready Room FRIDAY  1/13 Evening ($20 All Access Pass starting at 8pm // tickets here)
RESONATE x CHASM An evening of art, music, performance, and activism. A panel discussion focused on social and political engagement in Trump’s America will be followed by live music and DJs.
RESONATE
presented by Solidarity in Action Aurora Halal Bergsonist (live)
Ontal Motiv-A Heidi Sabertooth Projected Screening of Masha Tupitsyn - Love Sounds
 
Educational forum featuring talks by Frankie Decaiza Hutchinson (Discwoman), Kunal Gupta (Babycastles) and New York Immigration Coalition
 
CHASM
curated by Julia Sinelnikova
COLLAPSING SCENERY (live)
Celestial Trax
Richard Kennedy
Plǝbeian
Malory
JJ Brine
Sandra Cordero
Metagasm
Alfredo Salazar-Caro
Margaret Velvet
Laura Duvall
 
9:00pm - late HD and Friends FRIDAY THE THIRTEENTH marathon featuring Ahsh Eff, Eartheater, FlucT, LIVE with DJ sets by JUBILEE, BEARCAT, Nire, Katie Rex, Night Doll, Mister Vacation, DJ Rivera & Vee
More TBA SATURDAY  1/14 Day (Free) 12:00pm - 7:00pm Information Fair featuring organizations working towards women's reproductive health and community health initiatives. Come find out how you can get involved! Participants include: Planned Parenthood, Callen-Lorde Community Health Center, Doula Project NY, Tiny House Project, National Women's Liberation, Lady Parts Justice, New York Immigration Coalition, non/studio, Immigrant Defense Project.
12:00pm - 7:00pm Nasty Protest Material Workshop Nasty Women + Newark Printshop collaborate for one day at Knockdown Center to assist the community in the production of flags, banners and signs - just in time for the Women's March on Washington on January 21st. 12:00pm-2:00pm Animamus Art Salon:  Nasty Women Edition Facilitated by Ventiko To further demonstrate solidarity among exhibiting artists, Ventiko, founder of Animamus Art Salon, will facilitate a salon style discussion with participating artists and the public.
12:00 - 6:00pm LOUD & UNAPOLOGETIC: Setting the Tone for 2017 and Beyond Join Tom Tom Magazine and the Oral History of Female Drummers for 10 min sets of loud and unapologetic drumming by female and gender non-conforming drummers. With performances at 12:00pm, 2:00pm, 3:50pm and 5:50pm. 12:00pm - 8:00pm HOLÉ - a collaboration between Amanda Wachob and Mary Ellen Carroll Even this hole that we are in post-election can be filled. If you have an actual hole that needs to be filled you can also support Planned Parenthood and the exhibition Nasty Women when it is made permanent as a tattoo. https://squareup.com/appointments/book/B8A2QG3HEY18P/hole 1:00pm in the Ready Room Is it a Glass Ceiling? Panel Discussion This panel brings together a group of women working in arts, business, and publishing will discuss the meaning of the term “glass ceiling” and how we as a generation are redefining the concept in our current cultural and political climate, following the election results.
2:00pm Power Share/Power Surge: A Panel Discussion on Activism, Aging, Art,  Black Lives Matter, Civil Rights, Intersectional Feminisms, Sexuality, Trans Rights, and more. What can we do? Where do we connect? How can we share power? Curated and donated by Christen Clifford Moderated by Stephanie Acosta Panelists: Ashton Applewhite, Ayana Evans, Buzz Slutzky and Pamela Sneed
4:00pm - 5:00pm Artists and Activists respond to Zoe Leonard's "I want a president," 1992 5:00pm - 6:00pm S/team: neutrality and antagonism Workshop facilitated by nonstudio Holding onto toxic feelings? Feeling ready to purge yourself from the cosmic chaos of yesteryear? Release your hot air. Hydrate anew. Perhaps a productive counterpart to anger is dialogue, taking time and making space. We believe in the radical re-imagination of our world, and with that we have to radically reimagine care for our bodies. Using basic elements; air earth water fire, we will explore the therapeutic and cathartic potentialities of steam healing. Several types of steam vapor will made available for use, and participants will learn how to make steam for future use and wild applications. 6:00pm - 6:30pm Harsh Crowd Performance by Brooklyn-based all-girl teen alt-rock band Evening ($20 All Access Pass starting at 8pm // tickets here) 7:00pm - 11:00pm (le) poisson rouge presents ROUSE Emily Wells Christina Courtin w/ Allison Miller, Jesse Hume, and Maeve Gilchrist Julia Easterlin 8:00pm - 9:30pm in the Ready Room "A Night of Nasty Women" Comedy hosted by Lorelei Ramirez Ana Fabrega, Jen Goma, Patti Harrison, Amy Zimmer, Nicole Silverberg, Marcia Belsky 10:00pm - late AdHoc Presents... Machine Girl Diamond Terrifier Cipher (Feat. Miho Hatori, Don Devore, Michael Beharie) Deli Girls Bonnie Baxter (Shadowbox/Kill Alters) + Hisham A. Bharoocha (Kill Alters/Soft Circle) duo Sloppy Jane +++ special guests !!! 10:00pm - 11:00pm Psychic TV's Genesis P-Orridge and Edley ODowd DJs the Ready Room
11:30 - Late Styles Upon Styles DJ the Ready Room 1:30am abyss X in the Ready Room
More TBA SUNDAY  1/15 Evening 2:00pm - 5:00pm NOISE LOVE THICK Towanda Protruders Mean Siders
2:00pm - 6:00pm HOLÉ - a collaboration between Amanda Wachob and Mary Ellen Carroll Even this hole that we are in post-election can be filled. If you have an actual hole that needs to be filled you can also support Planned Parenthood and the exhibition Nasty Women when it is made permanent as a tattoo. https://squareup.com/appointments/book/B8A2QG3HEY18P/hole
7:00-10:00pm Maria Chavez DJs the Ready Room More TBA [gallery ids="9414,9415,9416,9417,9418,9419,9420,9421"]
Image:  Installation View, NASTY WOMEN Exhibition at Knockdown Center, 2017. Photo by EPW Studio/Maris Hutchinson, 2017.
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