Music Pipe organ is a connective tissue throughout Kara-Lis Coverdale’s opus, underpinning her spectral understanding of sound and harmony. After a hiatus from the instrument for strict focus on electronic touring from 2016–2018, she began to explore solo pipe organ performance internationally. Underlying these works is a spectral sensitivity tempered with animism and weavings of ... Read more
DATES: Monday, February 16, 2026 12—8 pm Tuesday, February 17, 2026 12—8 pm Wednesday, February 18, 2026 12—8 pm Thursday, February 19, 2026 12—8 pm Friday, February 20, 2026 12—8 pm Saturday, February 21, 2026 12—8 pm Sunday, February 22, 2026 12—8 pm _______________________________ US premiere Visual Art / Installation / Film Free The Vivid ... Read more
Music Williams College ensembles perform music of transcendence in St. James Church. Raven Chacon’s Voiceless Mass is a large ensemble work to be performed in any gathering space of worship with high ceilings and pipe organ. Though ‘mass’ is referenced in the title, the piece contains no audible singing voices, instead using the openness of ... Read more
DATES: Monday, February 16, 2026 1:00 pm—8:00 pm Tuesday, February 17, 2026 1:00 pm—4:00 pm Wednesday, February 18, 2026 1:00 pm—8:00 pm Thursday, February 19, 2026 1:00 pm—3:00 pm Saturday, February 21, 2026 11:00 am—3:00 pm Sunday, February 22, 2026 11:00 am—6:00 pm ___________________________________ Immersive Experience / Theatre / Visual Art Every point in space ... Read more
Music Arone Dyer’s Dronechoir is a boundary-blurring, ever-evolving, highly interactive musical experience that aims to provide new or deeper connections between participants and audience members alike since 2015. A curated group of vocalists from diverse backgrounds perform an unrehearsed a capella piece in which musical cues and venue-specific movement directions are fed to them through ... Read more
World premiere Music / Community Participation Force of Nature (February) is a mobile, living sound sculpture performed by the audience participants, which roams the contours of PS21 as darkness falls, playing the music on cassette players, portable speakers, and cell phones. This night is February in full regalia, fierce and unflinching, beautiful in its icy ... Read more
Film with Live Score / Music / Visual Art Adapting the French name for contralight, Contre Jour is a project in evolution for more than thirty years, bringing together the artistic vision of Canadian photographer and multimedia artist Leah Singer with American composer, guitarist, and producer Lee Ranaldo, a founding member of Sonic Youth. Singer ... Read more
Unwind with a rejuvenating sauna session at the PS21 Pond, everyday from January 31—March 1 various times. Open Monday—Sunday, January 31—March 1 from 10 am to 7 pm for hour long sessions: 10:00—11:00 am, 11:20—12:20 pm, 12:40—1:40 pm, 2:00—3:00 pm, 3:20—4:20 pm, 4:40—5:40 pm, 6:00—7:00 pm Thursdays the saunas are available for private bookings, maximum ... Read more
DATES: Monday, February 16, 2026 11:00 am—5:00 pm Tuesday, February 17, 2026 11:00 am—5:00 pm Wednesday, February 18, 2026 11:00 am—5:00 pm Thursday, February 19, 2026 11:00 am—5:00 pm Friday, February 20, 2026 11:00 am—5:00 pm Saturday, February 21, 2026 11:00 am—5:00 pm Sunday, February 22, 2026 11:00 am—3:00 pm _____________________________________ Audio & visual experience ... Read more
DATES: Tuesday, February 17, 2026 11:00 am—5:00 pm Wednesday, February 18, 2026 11:00 am—5:00 pm Thursday, February 19, 2026 11:00 am—5:00 pm Friday, February 20, 2026 11:00 am—5:00 pm Saturday, February 21, 2026 11:00 am—3:00 pm _________________________________ Audio & reading experience / Theatre The Quiet Volume is a whispered, self-generated and ‘automatic’ performance for two ... Read more
DATES: Monday, February 16, 2026 11:00 am—7:00 pm Tuesday, February 17, 2026 11:00 am—7:00 pm Wednesday, February 18, 2026 11:00 am—4:30 pm Thursday, February 19, 2026 11:00 am—2:30 pm, 7:00—8:30 pm Friday, February 20, 2026 11:00 am—2:30 pm, 7:00—8:30 pm Saturday, February 21, 2026 11:00 am—2:30 pm, 7:00—8:30 pm Sunday, February 22, 2026 11:00 am—4:30 ... Read more
DATES: Tuesday, February 17, 2026 12:00—5:00 pm Wednesday, February 18, 2026 12:00—5:00 pm Thursday, February 19, 2026 12:00—5:00 pm Friday, February 20, 2026 12:00—5:00 pm Saturday, February 21, 2026 11:00 am—3:00 pm Sunday, February 22, 2026 11:00 am—3:00 pm _________________________________ US premiere Audio experience / Participation Not to Scale is a full-length ‘autoteatro’ performance which ... Read more
DATES: Tuesday, February 17, 2026 12:00—5:00 pm Wednesday, February 18, 2026 12:00—5:00 pm Thursday, February 19, 2026 12:00—5:00 pm Friday, February 20, 2026 12:00—5:00 pm Saturday, February 21, 2026 11:00 am—3:00 pm Sunday, February 22, 2026 11:00 am—3:00 pm _____________________________ Virtual Reality / Film ‘Shadowtime’ is a word drawn from a new lexicon for the ... Read more
DATES: Monday, February 16, 2026 12—8 pm Tuesday, February 17, 2026 12—8 pm Wednesday, February 18, 2026 12—8 pm Thursday, February 19, 2026 12—8 pm Friday, February 20, 2026 12—8 pm Saturday, February 21, 2026 12—8 pm Sunday, February 22, 2026 12—8 pm _______________________________ US premiere Visual Art / Installation / Film Free The Vivid ... Read more
DATES: Monday, February 16, 2026 1:00 pm—8:00 pm Tuesday, February 17, 2026 1:00 pm—4:00 pm Wednesday, February 18, 2026 1:00 pm—8:00 pm Thursday, February 19, 2026 1:00 pm—3:00 pm Saturday, February 21, 2026 11:00 am—3:00 pm Sunday, February 22, 2026 11:00 am—6:00 pm ___________________________________ Immersive Experience / Theatre / Visual Art Every point in space ... Read more
Music Prisoner’s Cinema is a collaboratively-composed and performed work by Sarah Hennies and Tristan Kasten-Krause for double bass, percussion, and a single candle flame. This piece explores the links between sight, hearing, and perception and is partly inspired by “trataka,” a style of yogi purification meditation that involves staring at a single point (such as ... Read more
DATES: Tuesday, February 17, 2026 6:30 pm Thursday, February 19, 2026 6:30 pm Friday, February 20, 2026 6:30 pm _______________________________ Theatre / Film / Performance Performance artist and filmmaker (and occasional amateur microbiologist) Sister Sylvester works with new technologies to make cross-species collaborations, essay films, and lecture performances. Using DNA extracted from a hat worn ... Read more
Music Kara-Lis Coverdale presents a program of solo piano works, A Series of Actions in a Sphere of Forever, in PS21’s Black Box Theater. Taken from her recent album of the same name, the works are in a way classic nocturnes (i.e. inspired by night), but also evoke tangential, abstract associations: an animation of melodic ... Read more
Film with Live Score / Music Robert Aiki Aubrey Lowe weaves together voice and modular synthesis for Nsenene, a live interpretation of the score to the film Grasshopper Republic. Filmed over three years in Uganda and directed by Daniel McCabe, this documentary follows a team of grasshopper trappers as they try ‘to catch the swarm.’ ... Read more
Music Ben LaMar Gay is a composer and cornetist who moves sound, color, and space through folkloric filters to produce electro-acoustic collages. A Chicago native, Ben’s true technique is giving life to an idea while exploring and expanding on the term ‘Americana.’ With his band, the Ben LaMar Gay Quartet, he will dive into the ... Read more