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36 free things to do in New York City (NYC) on Friday, March 13, 2020
All events are free unless otherwise noted.Editor's Picks
Conference | !!!CANCELLED!!! The Border Is Everywhere: The Crisis of the Immigration Enforcement Regime !!!CANCELLED!!!
The border is everywhere intentionally signals the encroachment of immigration control and boundary making ... more >> across multiple spaces of civic life. The two-day conference will examine the unfolding human rights violations suffered by immigrants seeking asylum and those seeking the opportunity to build and maintain their lives in the United States. Since 2014, immigration enforcement agencies have steadily increased the use of draconian measures to exacerbate the politically charged 'border crisis' as people from Latin America, the Caribbean, and other countries seek to enter the United States. This conference aims to bridge the gaps between academia, policy and street level organizing through the linking up of scholars, students, policy makers and organizers. Experts invited will include lawyers, advocates, and scholars that are expert on the laws and human rights conventions that govern immigration in the United States. Confirmed speakers include Nina Glick Schiller, Laura Briggs, Naomi Pak, Joseph Heyman, NYC Councilmember Francisco Moya.
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Tour | 13 Tours, All City Neighborhoods, Any Time Of The Day, Choose One Tour Or Many
These free tours take place at various times during the day, all day long. You can make reservations ... more >> for as many tours as your schedule allows.
SoHo, Little Italy and Chinatown
Brooklyn Bridge, Brooklyn Heights + DUMBO
3 Hour Lower Manhattan
Harlem
Chelsea and the High Line
6 Hour Downtown Combined
Greenwich Village
Central Park
Lower Manhattan
Midtown Manhattan
Grand Central Terminal
Graffiti and Street Art Tours
World Trade Center
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10:00 am
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Classical Music | Bach at Noon
The organ works of J.S. Bach (1685-1750) offered in 30-minute meditations. Johann Sebastian Bach was ... more >> a German composer and musician of the Baroque period. He is known for instrumental compositions such as the Brandenburg Concertos and the Goldberg Variations as well as for vocal music such as the St. Matthew Passion and the Mass in B minor. Since the 19th-century Bach has been generally regarded as one of the greatest composers of all time. "The term 'baroque' has been widely used since the 19th century to describe the period in Western European art music from about 1600 to 1750... Many famous composers from the first part of the baroque period came from Italy and have a link with Venice, including Claudio Monteverdi and Antonio Vivaldi. Monteverdi was born in Cremona, but moved to Venice where he was 'maestro di capella' at the San Marco basilica. Vivaldi was born in Venice and was one of the greatest baroque composers. It is thanks to these strong musical traditions of Venice that we have today's music. Without Venetian church music and Monteverdi's advances with polyphony, the great traditions of choral music in England, France, and Germany would never have developed. Without the operas written by Monteverdi, Cavalli and Vivaldi, not only would the later styles of opera never have been invented. There would be no basis for the American Musical or the German and Viennese Operetta, the Spanish Zarzuela, and even rock, pop, and contemporary music as we know it." The Venice Insider Bach at Noon concerts take place every Tuesdays through Fridays, from September 10, 2019 to May 20, 2020.
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12:20 pm
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Tour | Grand Central and Its Neighborhood Tour
Discover architecture and social history of Grand Central neighborhood; learn secrets of Whispering Gallery ... more >> in Grand Central Terminal; gaze upon hubcaps and roadsters on side of Chrysler Building; discover favorite Midtown Manhattan hangout of Mercury, Hercules, and Minerva; learn why Pershing Square isn’t really square; visit original Lincoln Memorial by Daniel Chester French. Award-winning tour led by urban historians Peter Laskowich and Madeleine Levi. This tour takes place every Friday.
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12:30 pm
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Book Club | !!!CANCELLED!!! Open Book Hour: Revolutionary Women !!!CANCELLED!!!
At this event you can share a book you loved reading or a book you plan to read! What to expect at ... more >> an Open Book Hour book social: 1. Introduce your book with its title, author, publication date and genre (mystery, memoir, play, etc.). One book per person. 2. Tell what it's about and why you loved it in 2 minutes or less. 3. The aim is to have fun, so no negative criticism please. 4. Learn about titles of books that you may enjoy and share with your friends. Theme of the month is Revolutionary Women.
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Workshop | !!!CANCELLED!!! E-file Tax Assistance !!!CANCELLED!!!
You can prepare and file your tax return electronically with some help from a tax assistant...all for ... more >> free. To participate in this free program, you must: Have a valid e-mail address and basic computer skills Bring all necessary documentation and information
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Film | !!!CANCELLED!!! Lawrence Kasdan's The Accidental Tourist (1988): Oscar Winning Drama With William Hurt And Geena Davis !!!CANCELLED!!!
An emotionally distant writer of travel guides must carry on with his life after his son is killed and ... more >> his marriage crumbles. 121 min. Director: Lawrence Kasdan. Starring William Hurt, Kathleen Turner, Geena Davis. The Accidental Tourist was nominated for four Oscars at the 61st Academy Awards, including Best Picture, Best Adapted Screenplay, Best Original Score, and Best Supporting Actress for Davis, which she won.
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Film | !!!CANCELLED!!! Tarantino's Once Upon a Time ... in Hollywood (2019): Comedy Drama With Leonardo DiCaprio, Brad Pitt And Margot Robbie !!!CANCELLED!!!
A faded television actor and his stunt double strive to achieve fame and success in the film industry ... more >> during the final years of Hollywood's Golden Age in 1969 Los Angeles. 161 min. Director: Quentin Tarantino. Starring Leonardo DiCaprio, Brad Pitt, Margot Robbie.
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Film | !!!CANCELLED!!! Strange But True (2019): Noir Thriller With Amy Ryan And Greg Kinnear !!!CANCELLED!!!
A woman surprises the family of her deceased boyfriend by telling them she's pregnant with his child. ... more >> 96 min. Director: Rowan Athale. Starring Nick Robinson, Amy Ryan, Greg Kinnear.
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Symposium | CANCELLED***Taking Shape: New Perspectives on Arab Abstraction***CANCELLED
***THIS EVENT HAS BEEN CANCELLED*** Among questions to be considered are: Why did modern artists from ... more >> these regions choose to create nonfigurative works? How can we approach Arab abstraction without falling back on borrowed methodologies? Until the late 1960s, 20th-century art from North Africa and the Middle East was greatly understudied. Yet by the turn of the millennium, scholars were actively engaged in creating a global art history. Among questions to be considered are: Why did modern artists from these regions choose to create nonfigurative works? How can we approach Arab abstraction without falling back on borrowed methodologies? Speakers are Iftikhar Dadi, Associate Professor of History of Art and Visual Studies, Cornell University; Hannah Feldman, Associate Professor of Art History, Northwestern University; Sultan Sooud Al Qassemi, Founder, Barjeel Art Foundation, Sharjah, UAE; Alex Dika Seggerman, Assistant Professor of Islamic Art History, Rutgers University Newark; Nada Shabout, Professor of Art History, University of North Texas; and Suheyla Takesh, Curator, Barjeel Art Foundation, and co-curator of the exhibition.
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Workshop | Lunchtime Meditation
Take a mid-day pause to refresh your mind and re-establish your center in the midst of bustling city ... more >> life. Meditation is a powerful tool to eliminate stress, to heal the body, mind, and brain, and to enhance your personal well-being and positive relationship with the world.
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1:00 pm
$10 suggested donation
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Film | !!!CANCELLED!!! Harriet (2019): Two Time Oscar Nominated Biographical Movie On The Legendary Abolitionist !!!CANCELLED!!!
The extraordinary tale of Harriet Tubman's escape from slavery and transformation into one of America's ... more >> greatest heroes, whose courage, ingenuity, and tenacity freed hundreds of slaves and changed the course of history. 125 min. Director: Kasi Lemmons. Starring Cynthia Erivo, Leslie Odom Jr., Joe Alwyn. Harriet got two Academy Award nominations for Best Original Song and Best Actress.
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Film | !!!CANCELLED!!! Tarantino's Once Upon a Time ... in Hollywood (2019): Comedy Drama With Leonardo DiCaprio, Brad Pitt And Margot Robbie! !!CANCELLED!!!
A faded television actor and his stunt double strive to achieve fame and success in the film industry ... more >> during the final years of Hollywood's Golden Age in 1969 Los Angeles. 161 min. Director: Quentin Tarantino. Starring Leonardo DiCaprio, Brad Pitt, Margot Robbie.
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2:00 pm
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Film | !!!CANCELLED!!! Documentary: Marianne & Leonard: Words of Love (2019): Leonard Cohen And His Muse !!!CANCELLED!!!
An in-depth look at the relationship between the late legendary musician Leonard Cohen and his Norwegian ... more >> muse Marianne Ihlen. Director: Nick Broomfield. With Nick Broomfield, Marianne Ihlen, Leonard Cohen. Marianne Ihlen was the inspiration behind the songs "So Long, Marianne", "Hey, That's No Way to Say Goodbye" and "Bird on the Wire."
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Film | !!!CANCELLED!!! Big Hero 6 (2014): Oscar Winning Animantion !!!CANCELLED!!!
The special bond that develops between plus-sized inflatable robot Baymax, and prodigy Hiro Hamada, who ... more >> team up with a group of friends to form a band of high-tech heroes. 102 min. Directors: Don Hall, Chris Williams. Starring Ryan Potter, Scott Adsit, Jamie Chung. Big Hero 6 won the Academy Award for Best Animated Feature. The movie earned $222.5 million in North America and $435.3 million in other territories for a worldwide estimated total of $657.8 million. Wireless listening device is needed to hear the film. Please go a few minutes early to borrow one with your library card or State/City identification card. You may use your own headphone.
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2:00 pm
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Workshop | Video Skills: Recording Techniques with iPhone
Capture your best video right from your iPhone. Learn recording techniques and how to control exposure, ... more >> set focus, and more. Get hands-on with the latest iPhone in this session or bring your own. Recommended for beginners.
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2:30 pm
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Reading | Nonfiction and Poetry Reading
Lewis Hyde is a poet, essayist, translator, and cultural critic with a particular interest in the public ... more >> life of the imagination. His 1983 book, The Gift, illuminates and defends the non-commercial portion of artistic practice. Trickster Makes This World (1998) uses a group of ancient myths to argue for the disruptive intelligence that all cultures need if they are to remain lively and open to change. Ed Pavlić is the author of the novel Another Kind of Madness. Widely published as a poet, he is the author of the collection Visiting Hours at the Color Line, winner of the 2013 National Poetry Series, as well as several others, including Live at the Bitter End: A Trial by Opera, Let’s Let That Are Not Yet: Inferno, and Let It Be Broke (forthcoming in 2020).
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Concert | 3 Folk Music Acts
5:30 pm Jocelyn Mackenzie - Intimate folk pop 6:05 pm Saraswathi Jones - Vocalist, composer, storyteller ... more >> 6:40 pm Thurston Ray - Groovy and soulful baritone
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Opening Reception | Ecstatic Views of Nature: Painting and Sculpture
Phyllis Rosser's paintings of gardens are utopian versions of the constructed landscape found in various ... more >> places in the world. Flowers and plants are depicted as living sculptures. Her paintings seduce us into examining their natural forms and colors close up. Their brilliant and dynamic use of color and precise lines invite the viewer to walk inside the blossoms.
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6:00 pm
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Opening Reception | fastness, slowness and Monstrous Beauty: Art in Context
From artist Nancy Shaver: "In front of, in back of, to the side and around and through. These are the ... more >> facts of being 'someplace.' Context defines. Can context shift sideways as well as up and down? In my 50 years of art making, this has been my primary concern. Context need not be narrowing. There are a billion threads. Billions of objects, billions of thoughts, I am a part of it all. I will be showing new work, made over the last year. Work based on the many years of being an artist, knowledge gained bit by bit."
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Opening Reception | Museum as Muse: Faculty Art
An exhibition of paintings by faculty members Leigh Behnke and Peter Hristoff and Joe Fig.
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Opening Reception | Richard Rezac: Floor, Wall, and Ceiling Sculptures
A solo exhibition of new and recent work by sculptor Richard Rezac. On view at the gallery’s Chelsea ... more >> location will be a selection of works that demonstrate the breadth of Rezac’s sculptural practice including floor, wall, and ceiling pieces. Recalling familiar forms, the works engage our memory and inspire material associations, while eluding easy recognition. This will be the artist’s first exhibition in New York in over a decade.
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6:00 pm
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Film | The Harder They Come (1972): Reggae Singer's Struggle
Wishing to become a successful Reggae singer, a young Jamaican man finds himself tied to corrupt record ... more >> producers and drug pushers. Director: Perry Henzell Stars: Jimmy Cliff, Janet Bartley, Carl Bradshaw 120 min. Free popcorn will be served, and a discussion will follow the screening.
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6:00 pm
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Gallery Talk | Artist Talk: Moon Jar/Longing for Home
Internationally acclaimed artist Ik-Joong Kang's new site-specific installation “Floating Dreams to ... more >> the Moon” premieres. This solo exhibition will feature several new paintings by the artist as well as an installation of objects and over 6,000 drawings from Korean refugees. Kang's artistic practice provides a platform for humanity's aspirations for achieving what appears to be impossible. Just as Korean moon-jars are made from two precarious halves united to form a whole, Kang's paintings emphasizes how moon jars represent the potential of the Korean peninsula to reunite. Orchestrating the collection, replication, and display of Korean refugee drawings, Kang transforms these individual works to form his sculptures that polishes another facet of this cultural longing for home, accomplishing personal as well as political reunions. Born in Cheongju and raised in Seoul, Kang moved to New York in 1984 where he lives today while working internationally. Kang was awarded a special Merit Prize in the Venice Biennale and his work is held in major public and private collections world-wide.
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Discussion | Genius: Redefining Intelligence
For more than a century, the basis of intelligence was considered to be synonymous with IQ. In recent ... more >> years, the definition of intelligence has increasingly expanded in recognition of many different types of exceptional abilities.
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Screening | Countering Erasures: Short Films and Discussion
This event will consider the role of place, or belonging, in how individuals and communities experience ... more >> and resist structural violence and systemic erasure. The program is inspired by the resilience and creativity of the independent, community-driven artist initiatives encountered in Dakar, Senegal. 6:30-7:00 Reception with refeshments 7:00-7:30 Films by Tourmaline and Howardena Pindell. The evening begins with a screening of two films by artist, filmmaker, and activist Tourmaline: Salacia (2019), a fictional narrative built around Mary Jones, a Black transgender sex worker and outlaw in New York City in 1836, and Atlantic is a Sea of Bones (2017), a short starring Egyptt LaBeija and Fatima Jamal, who offer performance and self-expression as a form of resistance to the systematic violence perpetrated against Black queer and trans people. These will be followed by Howardena Pindell's pivotal work Free, White and 21 (1980), a performance video in which Pindell speaks directly to the camera describing the racism she experiences in professional, educational, and personal settings. 7:30-8:30 Conversation with Tourmaline, Howardena Pindell, and Ayesha Williams; moderated by Siona Wilson. Following the screening, art historian Siona Wilson, whose research probes issues of sexual difference, race and sexuality at the intersection of art and politics in the twentieth century, will moderate a discussion with Tourmaline, Howardena Pindell, and Ayesha Williams, Deputy Director of The Laundromat Project. The conversation will reflect on the films' treatment of structural power and self-determination, as well as how multigenerational, multiracial community networks -- like The Laundromat Project -- can be effective agents of social change.
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6:30 pm
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Play | !!!CANCELLED!!! Spell No 7: Meditations in a St. Louis Bar !!!CANCELLED!!!
This striking choreopoem is set in St. Louis in a bar frequented by Black artists and musicians. It is ... more >> another meditation on the irony of being Black in a white world. The artists bare their souls in soliloquies, many of them illustrated by in the mood dances. Written by Ntozake Shange.
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7:00 pm
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Staged Reading | Mike Pence Sex Dream: A Romantic Travesty
In the aftermath of the 2016 election, newlyweds Gary and Ben find their marriage put to the test. Ben ... more >> wants to fight the power. Gary wants to climb the corporate ladder to comfort and safety. When an unscrupulous client makes him an irresistible offer, Gary sets down a path of violent delights that will lead to violent ends. Mike Pence Sex Dream is a romantic travesty about bringing home the bacon and f**king a pig. Written by Dan Giles.
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Author Reading | CANCELLED***Unfinished Business: Notes of a Chronic Re-reader***CANCELLED
***THIS EVENT HAS BEEN CANCELLED*** Unfinished Business: Notes of a Chronic Re-reader is Vivian Gornick's ... more >> celebration of passionate reading, of returning again and again to the books that have shaped her at crucial points in her life. In nine essays that traverse literary criticism, memoir, and biography, one of our most celebrated critics writes about the importance of reading-and re-reading-as life progresses.
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7:00 pm
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Screening | CANCELLED***Ruff Cuts 5: Student Films***CANCELLED
***THIS EVENT HAS BEEN CANCELLED*** Produced by graduate students in the School of Media Studies, this ... more >> is a series of screening sessions for undergraduate and graduate Media Studies students to exhibit and discuss their media works in progress.
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Comedy Club | No Name Comedy/Variety Show
With: Ophira Eisenberg, Charles McBee, Omar Olusion. Music provided by The Summer Replacements.
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7:00 pm
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Classical Music | Two Violinists Recital
Megan Atchley, violin; Aimee Niemann, violin. Megan Atchley is a violinist dedicated to creating musical ... more >> experiences that resonate with her audiences aesthetically, politically and bodily. As a solo recitalist, chamber and orchestral musician, she performs a wide array of styles from classical to jazz in venues such as Lincoln Center, the Bowery Ballroom and Le Poisson Rouge. Violinist Aimee Niemann has collaborated with composers Aleksandra Vrebalov, Anthony Coleman, Alvin Lucier, Christian Wolff, Emily Praetorious, Paul Elwood, and Steven Long. She has toured internationally and has performed at Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center, National Sawdust, (Le) Poisson Rouge, and Roulette Intermedium.
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Classical Music | Works By Brahms , Clara Schumann And Robert Schumann For Piano
This concert features a set of variations by Clara Schumann and Brahms as well as short pieces by Robert ... more >> Schumann performed by pianist Lynn Rice-See. About The Performer Since her 1982 Carnegie Recital Hall debut, pianist Lynn Rice-See has appeared as recitalist, concerto soloist, and chamber musician in the United States and in Europe. She has appeared three times with the Janacek Philharmonic Orchestra in Ostrava, Czech Republic. In the United States she has appeared as soloist with the Gulf Coast Symphony, the Huntsville Symphony, the Johnson City Symphony, among others.
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7:00 pm
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Classical Music | Works From The Baroque To The 20th Century For Violin: Bach, Berio, Ysaye And More
Akiko Kobayashi, violin. Violinist Akiko Kobayashi performs both solo and chamber music. She has appeared ... more >> as a soloist with the West Islip Symphony Orchestra, Yonkers Philharmonic Orchestra, Tokyo Suginami Kokaido Chamber Orchestra. Her recital appearances include Carnegie Hall's Weill Recital Hall, Steinway Hall, Cathedral of St. John among others. No intermission.
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Classical Music | Works By J.S. Bach, Mozart, Handel And More
An evening of Bach, Mozart, Handel more sung by soloists and friends of the Schiller Institute NYC Chorus, ... more >> plus the full chorus singing Nathaniel Dett's "Listen to the Lambs." Reception to follow.
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Performance | Already Dead. Feedback Loops of Despair: Performance Art
Polish performer and intermedia artist Kuba Falk describes the ideas behind his performance: "This performance ... more >> is a mourning for loss. An action to embody something as abstract as issue of climate change. It is a lamentation. To acknowledge feelings of grief and despair. They need to be experienced in order to move on, to transform, heal, change - within spiritual frame." Falk studied in Krakow at the Intermedia Department of the Academy of Fine Arts; Stage Directing and Stage Acting at the Academy of Theatre Arts and Comparative Religion Studies at the Jagiellonian University. He creates body-based works built out of personal rituals and spiritual practice with strong presence of themes of healing through facing shadows and inconvenient truths of self delusion. His poetry, video and sound works are often incorporated into his performances creating complex actions.
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