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Count Your Chickens, Kim Gordon's solo exhibition at Amant, is on view through August, and this week's Friday schedule makes it an easy pairing: Klein opens Rack It! in the same building at 6, Dave Adewumi and Isaac Levien play Fort Hamilton Distillery in Sunset Park from 7:30. Saturday is maker-heavy: Machine Yearning at NYC Resistor, the Brooklyn Metal Works 15th anniversary opening at night. The Mini Ball returns to Pioneer Works on Sunday for Pride. I'd anchor to Friday and Saturday. |
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This Week |
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| 1. Kim Gordon: Count Your Chickens at AmantOn view through Aug 16Kim Gordon's solo exhibition Count Your Chickens is on view at Amant through August 16. It brings together film, object, and installation work that puts her visual practice in the foreground. The AZ Gallery at 315 Maujer is in East Williamsburg; the Klein opening happens in the same building Friday night, which makes the two easy to combine. |
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| 2. Machine Yearning at NYC ResistorSat Jun 13Machine Yearning is NYC Resistor's 16th annual member art show. The work is built by the hackerspace's members using the shop's tools as the material of the practice. The pieces tend to look like they're about technology and turn out to be about something else. |
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| 3. Here, There, and Everywhere at Brooklyn Metal WorksSat Jun 13, 7–9pBrooklyn Metal Works turns fifteen this year, and Here, There, and Everywhere is the anniversary show. It's a juried group exhibition featuring 34 artists from the studio community, opening Saturday night at 640 Dean Street in Gowanus. The show runs through August 30. |
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| 4. Dave Adewumi & Isaac Levien at Fort Hamilton DistilleryFri Jun 12, 7:30–10pDave Adewumi plays trumpet and Isaac Levien plays bass at Fort Hamilton Distillery in Sunset Park. Cocktails and mocktails are included. This is the kind of Friday night that doesn't need a premise beyond two musicians in a room. |
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| 5. Klein: Rack It! at AmantFri Jun 12, 6–9pKlein opens Rack It! at Amant's AZ Gallery Friday night with a book launch and a DJ set by YATTA. The London-born producer straddles club music and contemporary art without quite committing to either, which is the interesting part. |
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| 6. The $500 Mini Ball at Pioneer WorksSun Jun 14, 4–7pThis month's Second Sundays at Pioneer Works doubles as a Pride kickoff. It's a ballroom mini ball organized by Michael Roberson Maison-Margiela, with a live DJ set from Byrell the Great, eight voguing competition categories, workshops, author talks, and open studios. The whole thing runs 4 to 7 in Red Hook. |
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| 7. Tristen & Eliza Edens at Public RecordsThu Jun 11, 7pTristen and Eliza Edens perform Thursday evening in the Public Records Sound Room at 233 Butler Street in Gowanus. A quieter bill than most of what the room books, which suits it. |
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e-flux launches journal issue #163 Thursday night at 172 Classon Ave. Guest editor McKenzie Wark is in conversation with Matt Seybold on the theme 'Intellectuals.' Starts at 7. Cammi Climaco runs the advanced glaze intensive at BKLYN CLAY on Saturday. We featured the beginner version last week. Runs 10 to 3. Palosanto boards the boat Saturday at 7, music runs 8 to midnight on the water. |
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Kim Gordon |
Kim Gordon moved to New York to be a visual artist. The bass guitar and Sonic Youth came later, but the visual practice never stopped. Guitar has always been as much a sculptural act as a sonic one in her work: the body in the room, the instrument as object, the performance as material. Her writing, her art, and her music have always been harder to separate than the categories suggest. That's exactly why Count Your Chickens at Amant lands differently than a musician's gallery show usually does. It reads like it was made by someone who never stopped thinking about images. |
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