Space is limited; all programs are first-come, first-served unless otherwise noted.

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Abat-Jour
Sunday, March 23 7 pm
NORTH HALL
Ackermann and Snow host a gypsy-themed feast, in which food, drink, and decoration—as well as the guests themselves—become materials in the work of art. A play on the French word for lampshade, Abat-Jour refers to bajour, a traditional gypsy confidence game. Using bartering and chance as a central themes, Ackermann and Snow explore issues related to gender, community, and celebration. Due to the astounding number of immediate responses, this event is now closed. Courtesy Dom Perignon, Javier Peres, and Randy Slifka

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After the Ends and Before the Beginning: Yet Another 24 Hour Cold War Slumber Party (1959–1989), 2006-08
Saturday, March 15 6 pm – Sunday, March 16 6 pm
COMPANY ROOMS F AND G
As a continuation of his 24 Hour Armaggeddon: A Cold War Slumber Party (2006), Beshty hosts a twenty-fourhour film event, offering simultaneous screening programs in adjacent rooms. One program investigates “the end” through apocalypse films; the other examines “the beginning” with films about young revolutionaries. Courtesy Nancy and Howard Marks

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All Together Now, 2008
Digital video, color, sound; 26 min.
Monday, March 17 7 pm
4TH FLOOR SCREENING ROOM
Re-imagining Los Angeles as a post-disaster zone, Dodge and Kahn depict a collapsed world with a radically restructured social order, where wildlife and clans of survivors roam the near barren and abandoned landscape.

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A Room of One’s Own: Women and Power in the New America, 2006-
Friday, March 21 7 pm
Saturday, March 22 7 pm
COMPANY ROOM F
Fusco explores the expanding role of women in the military, specifically as interrogators in the war on terror. Referring to Virginia Woolf’s assertion that every woman needs a room of her own, Fusco raises issues related to sexuality, power, and gender. Courtesy Christian Haye

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Untitled
Sunday, March 9 9 pm
COMPANY ROOM H
Layering dense tonal collage and luscious, echoing vocals, Gang Gang Dance challenges expectations implicit in rock music. Here, as the audience faces a mirror being painted, a projection of the band playing live behind the mirror is gradually revealed.

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T.S.O.Y.W.
Thursday, March 13 7 pm–midnight
4TH FLOOR SCREENING ROOM
A musical performance featuring Granat, Jutta Koether, and Stefan Tcherepnin accompanies a screening of Granat and Heitzler’s T.S.O.Y.W. (2008). The largely improvised score includes musical instruments, audience noise, and spoken words from Goethe’s The Sorrows of Young Werther (on which T.S.O.Y.W. is loosely based). A recording of this performance becomes the film’s new soundtrack, and is added to film’s screening at the Museum. Courtesy Joan and Marc Sherman

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Sundown Schoolhouse: Animal Drills
Saturday, March 22 2-4pm
DRILL HALL
Haeg collaborates with professional dancers, leading an audience of children and adults in choreographed animal movements based on the twelve animals represented in his Museum Sculpture Court installation, Animal Estates 1.0: New York, New York. Participants of all skill levels follow the movement of the dancers, recalling the Armory’s original purpose as a location for drill practices.

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100 Biennial Visitors Immortalized
Saturday, March 8–Sunday, March 9 12–7:40 pm
Wednesday, March 12–Friday, March 14 4–7:40 pm
Saturday, March 15–Sunday, March 16 12–7:40 pm
SOUTH HALL
Harvey makes fifteen-minute portraits for one hundred visitors, which are then hung on a grid as they are completed. In exchange for the artist’s services, visitors are asked to complete a questionnaire rating the success or failure of the rendering. Encouraging participants to reflect on notions of artistic skill as well as self-perception, Harvey presents portraiture as a formal interaction between artist and sitter. At the conclusion of the exhibition, the original portraits are documented and mailed to each participant. All sessions have been booked.

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PRESENTS WILDERNESS

Great Campaign on Hubbert's Peak
Monday, March 10 9 pm
MAIN STAIRWELL
Long’s artists’ collective “Curious Notch” collaborates with Baltimore-based indie-rock band Wilderness in a multimedia performance. The band’s post-punk sound, featuring James Johnson’s chant-like vocals, is complemented by large-scale ambient projections throughout three flights of the central staircase.

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Make a Baby, 2005 -
Tuesday, March 11 7 pm
DRILL HALL
Luke Fischbeck invites guest musicians and audience members to participate in Lucky Dragons, his communal music experiment linking sound to video, dance, and interactive technology. In Make a Baby, skin-to-skin contact generates sound and visual material using a system of conductive sensors activated by participants’ physical interactions. Fischbeck interprets these emissions into a series of digital feedback loops and colorful animated patterns. Organizing participants into small groups, he creates pockets of self-generating sounds and images, which together create a unified network of human interaction.

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WITH RAMI FARAH

We will live to see these things, or, five pictures of what may come to pass, 2007
Video projection, color, sound; 47 min.
Not yet titled, 2008 Video projection, color, sound; 10 min.
Friday, March 7 7 pm
4TH FLOOR SCREENING ROOM
Meltzer and Thorne chronicle, among other things, a long-delayed building project in downtown Damascus, an interview with a dissident intellectual, and in the artists’ words, “an imagining of the world made anew.” The artists also show film clips featuring Rami Farah, a Syrian performer, filmmaker, and long-time collaborator who will be present for a Q & A following the screening.

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WITH PEGGY AHWESH

Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms
Saturday, March 22 7-10 pm
4TH FLOOR SCREENING ROOM
Drawing viewers into an immersive environment, Montgomery, longtime collaborator Ahwesh, and a cast of hired performers explore the military origins of the Armory and its relationship to firearms, alcohol, and tobacco. Showing on small screens throughout the room are films exploring, as the artists state, “luxury, the military, and the aristocracy.” Dressed in historical costumes, performers read contemporaneous texts.

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Untitled
Wednesday, March 19 8 pm
NORTH HALL
Since the late 1970s, Mullican has used hypnosis to explore the experience of the subjective. For this rare performance, Mullican acts under hypnosis as “that person,” treating his psyche as a found object and distancing the ego from the creative self.

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Actresstocracy
Friday, March 14 8 pm
DRILL HALL
The Voluptuous Horror of Karen Black, Pfahler’s theatrical rock group named in honor of cult horror film heroine Karen Black, performs a musical extravaganza complete with campy glamour, catwalks, and heavybottomed punk-metal songs. This performance includes an onstage wedding ceremony and celebration. Courtesy Jeffrey Deitch

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Slumber Party, 2008
Saturday, March 22–Sunday, March 23 10 pm–10 am
COMPANY ROOM L
DJ Olive hosts an all-night sleepover, presenting his Sleeping Pill series in the room containing his ongoing installation, which he describes as “a balm for troubled times” or “radical anxiety termination.” Visitors are encouraged to bring blankets, pillows, and snacks. Courtesy James P. Healy Trust. This event will unfortunately no longer take place. We apologize for the inconvenience.

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Untitled Left, 2006
16mm film, color, sound; 12 min.
Untitled Right, 2006
16mm film, color, sound; 12 min.
Monday, March 17 8 pm
4TH FLOOR SCREENING ROOM
Price uses appropriation and redistribution to examine issues of access to information. Untitled Right includes an easily obtainable sequence purchased from an online distributor of “multi-use video backgrounds.” Untitled Left shows the artist’s earlier work now held in private collections and no longer publicly available.

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The Second Sentence of Everything I Read Is You
Tuesday, March 18 7pm
2ND FLOOR HALLWAY
Playing an acoustic guitar, a baby grand piano, and singing, Prina performs pop songs about love, sex, and death.

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Teenage Lontano
Saturday, March 8 8 pm
DRILL HALL
Marina will invite approximately 40 teenagers to engage in a musical performance.  Under a speaker installation suspended overhead in the vast Drill hall, each teenager wears a set of headphones and mp3 player containing an original vocal score, derived from Gyorgy Ligeti's 1967 piece Lontano for orchestra.  As the choir performs Rosenfeld's "cover version" of the Ligeti work, electronic sounds sweep in circles around the architecture of the drill hall from a single horn rotating, like a turntable, at 33 1/3 r.p.m.

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Salon Aleman
Sunday, March 9 10 pm–1 am
Tuesday, March 11 10 pm–1 am
Friday, March 14 10 pm–1 am
FIELD AND STAFF ROOM
Sarabia constructs a working bar open on certain nights throughout the exhibition. Serving homemade tequila and other beverages, he celebrates collaborative dialogue and community. When the bar is closed, visitors can view it as a sculpture.

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A Day with Mike
Saturday, March 8 3 pm
Sunday, March 23 3 pm
COMPANY ROOM F
Carol Smith Mitchell, docent
Cameron A. Lawson, assistant
Smith inhabits at least one of his alter egos, “Mike,” in portrayals of a man struggling to succeed in a technologically sophisticated world. In the performance, Smith also works with a docent who presents Mike’s work to the audience, thus eradicating the line between reality and fiction.

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Stamina: Gloria et Patria
Sunday, March 9 11 am–11 pm
NON-COMPANY STAFF ROOM
Monday, March 10 11 am–11 pm
DRILL HALL
Tuesday, March 11 11 am–11 pm
NON-COMPANY STAFF ROOM
Wednesday, March 12 11 am–11 pm
COMPANY ROOM G
Thursday, March 13 11 am–11 pm
COMPANY ROOM F
Friday, March 14 11 am–11 pm
NON-COMPANY STAFF ROOM
Saturday, March 15 11 am-Sunday, March 16 11 am
DRILL HALL
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Snow holds daily dance sessions throughout the Armory over the course of a week, culminating in a twentyfour- hour dance marathon in the Drill Hall. Visitors are issued time cards to record their participation, and at the end of the week the winner—whoever has danced the longest—is announced. Time cards are available at the Armory Information Desk and at the Information Desk in the Museum Lobby. DJ booth courtesy of Christian Wassman. Courtesy Adidas and Randy Slifka and James Fuentes LLC

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Peggy and Fred in Hell: At the Armory, 1984-2008
16mm film, 16mm film transferred to video, and video, black-and-white, sound; 90 min.
Thursday, March 20 7 pm
4TH FLOOR SCREENING ROOM
Including new footage shot at the Armory, Thornton’s ongoing series of films and videos maps a quasiapocalyptic world in which two children are corrupted by popular culture and entertainment in a violent and traumatic time.

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The Scarface Museum Panel
Thursday, March 13 12-6 pm
VETERAN'S ROOM
Ybarra leads a discussion panel on the 1983 Brian De Palma film, Scarface, in the context of his installation The Scarface Museum. Courtesy Creative Link for the Arts.