6+ day, 13+ hour ago  (586+ words) Since 2013, Pioneer Works has hosted Second Sundays, a free monthly open house. Highlighting our programs, artists-in-residence, and Red Hook community members, Second Sundays features open studios, exhibitions, workshops, live music, and food'with programming across all three floors and in our…...

1+ week, 11+ hour ago  (131+ words) As part of Dripping Festival in 2025, PW Resident alum Colin Self performed in the Main Hall alongside Sun Ra Arkestra, Young Boy Dancing Group, and Cel Genesis. Colin Self is a multidisciplinary artist working across music and performance, creating work…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago  (199+ words) The New York Theremin Society and Pioneer Works invite musicians of all skill levels, instrumentation, and genres to explore motion and music while learning the technical aspects of the theremin. Invented in 1919, it was the first electronic instrument, generating sound…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago  (246+ words) Join new media artist, Olive Yu, for Gestural Listening! This hands-on workshop explores sound as a product of gesture, touch, and embodied interaction, rather than traditional instruments or notation. Drawing conceptual inspiration from Ash Fure's exhibition in the Pioneer Works…...

2+ week, 2+ day ago  (1217+ words) Madlib Finds the Heart Pioneer Works Madlib Finds the Heart Madlib in Germany, 2003. Marcus J. Moore is a music journalist, editor, event curator, professor, and author of The Butterfly Effect: How Kendrick Lamar Ignited the Soul of Black America and High…...

4+ week, 10+ hour ago  (1185+ words) transforms the gallery into a sensory-intensive environment that renders the body a conduit for sound. Conceived by artist and composer Ash Fure in collaboration with architect Xavi L. Aguirre (stock-a-studio), the installation riffs on the spatial and behavioral logics of gyms,…...

4+ week, 2+ day ago  (295+ words) The following essay was first published in the catalog that accompanies the exhibition, Overexposed: Art, Technology, and the Body, at the Museum of the Moving Image, which runs until January 3, 2027. The book is available for purchase at Mo MI's shop,…...

1+ mon, 1+ day ago  (186+ words) Monday, May 18 at 10 AM ET For the 27th iteration of False Harmonics, Pioneer Works is excited to present an evening of A/V performances by Dean Hurley and C. Lavender. Dean Hurley is an American film sound designer and musician best known…...

1+ mon, 3+ day ago  (1247+ words) This evening takes the body as its premise'not as metaphor, but as material. What happens to a performer at the threshold of physical endurance? What does sustained, extreme sound do to the body that produces it, and the body that…...

1+ mon, 1+ week ago  (597+ words) Since 2021, Khajistan, the archive and publishing platform founded by filmmaker and archivist Saad Khan, has preserved and digitized censored, banned, and underrepresented media from a geography spanning North Africa to South Asia. Khajistan reveals what modern knowledge systems leave out....