The evening unfurled easily, mixing together long-time collaborators and strangers, farmers and urbanites, young and old. The tone was ceremonious, reflective, and unaffected. As the light changed, the attendees followed the artists’ presentations from a drawing exhibit in the hayloft to a performance of a short play in the greenhouse. One artist, with alluring music and poetry, led observers through the barn to the edge of the pasture. There was a song in the driveway, photocopied drawings handed out under the chestnut tree, and a frenetic movement piece involving almost all performers. And finally, a statement read by Hall. Backlit ...

Sophia Cleary, Chris Domenick, Alhena Katsof Hosted by The Shandaken Project Shandaken, NY Saturday August 31, 2013 7pm The Center for Experimental Lectures invites you to join us upstate for our annual Labor Day weekend event at The Shandaken Project for new lecture-performances by Sophia Cleary, Chris Domenick, and Alhena Katsof. Guests are welcome any time in the afternoon and to stay on after the lectures into the night or overnight for eating, drinking, and camping. Alhena’s presentation, provisionally titled “The Garden Is Overgrown”, will explore gardens and woodlands as an enchanted, darkly mnemonic device. Burials of various kinds and the occasional zebra crossing take ...