SIMONE WHITE
CALLS THIS
GYM CLASS
Buy tickets on the links below
(Part 1 is sold out)
CALLS THIS
GYM CLASS
Buy tickets on the links below
(Part 1 is sold out)
Saturday,
February 1, 2025
Part 1: GYM
11am - 1pm
Part 2: CLASS
2pm - 5pm
with:
ASMITE
Jace Clayton
Adrienne Edwards
Benjamin Krusling
Alexis Kyle Mitchell
Michael Watkins
Limited Capacity
February 1, 2025
Part 1: GYM
11am - 1pm
Part 2: CLASS
2pm - 5pm
with:
ASMITE
Jace Clayton
Adrienne Edwards
Benjamin Krusling
Alexis Kyle Mitchell
Michael Watkins
Limited Capacity
Simone White enlists a group of friends and collaborators to compose a day-long experiment in connectivity that includes a strength-training intensive (gym) and a seminar (class).
This is a collective performance where you are the participants.
We are going to go fast and heat up.
In the end, we generate a sonic display, both analog and digital.
We are going to go fast and heat up.
In the end, we generate a sonic display, both analog and digital.
GYM (Part 1):
10:30am:
Doors open
11am:
Alexis Kyle Mitchell leads a strength-training session (we ❤️ kettlebells).
While all levels are welcome to join the strength training session, full participation requires the ability to lift twenty pounds.
12pm:
GYM participants refuel with a home-cooked lunch prepared by Adrienne Edwards and Simone White.
1pm:
Break
Only 20 tickets are available for GYM (Part 1).
The GYM ticket includes admission to CLASS, since GYM participants are requested to remain for CLASS.
PART 1 IS AT CAPACITY.
TO JOIN THE WAITLIST, PLEASE EMAIL INFO@GIORNOPOETRYSYSTEMS.ORG
10:30am:
Doors open
11am:
Alexis Kyle Mitchell leads a strength-training session (we ❤️ kettlebells).
While all levels are welcome to join the strength training session, full participation requires the ability to lift twenty pounds.
12pm:
GYM participants refuel with a home-cooked lunch prepared by Adrienne Edwards and Simone White.
1pm:
Break
Only 20 tickets are available for GYM (Part 1).
The GYM ticket includes admission to CLASS, since GYM participants are requested to remain for CLASS.
PART 1 IS AT CAPACITY.
TO JOIN THE WAITLIST, PLEASE EMAIL INFO@GIORNOPOETRYSYSTEMS.ORG
CLASS (Part 2):
1:45pm:
Doors open
2pm:
Simone White conducts a spiral of a seminar with Gayl Jones’ The Healing at its center (her fool, her unfitness and health), moving through Ralph Waldo Emerson’s way of quitting, Deleuze & Guattari’s man of war and Deleuze’s thoughts on modulation (about which Michael Watkins has more to say).
While CLASS participants are expected to read the seminar texts, especially The Healing, the discussion assumes that we are absolute beginners in study of these materials and seeks to include as many voices as possible. A link to the readings is provided to all ticket-buyers.
4pm:
Immediately following the seminar, Jace Clayton presents a live performance of a totally new multimedia work for modular synthesizer. Benjamin Krusling closes us out with a DJ set.
Floral design for our sub rosa gathering by ASMITE.
1:45pm:
Doors open
2pm:
Simone White conducts a spiral of a seminar with Gayl Jones’ The Healing at its center (her fool, her unfitness and health), moving through Ralph Waldo Emerson’s way of quitting, Deleuze & Guattari’s man of war and Deleuze’s thoughts on modulation (about which Michael Watkins has more to say).
While CLASS participants are expected to read the seminar texts, especially The Healing, the discussion assumes that we are absolute beginners in study of these materials and seeks to include as many voices as possible. A link to the readings is provided to all ticket-buyers.
4pm:
Immediately following the seminar, Jace Clayton presents a live performance of a totally new multimedia work for modular synthesizer. Benjamin Krusling closes us out with a DJ set.
Floral design for our sub rosa gathering by ASMITE.
ASMITE is a Brooklyn-based floral design studio founded by Asmite Gherezgiher. Inspired by her Eritrean father, a topiarist, her designs celebrate spirited, freeform compositions that reflect her unique heritage and artistic vision.
Jace Clayton is an artist and writer, also known for his work as DJ /rupture. He is Assistant Professor of Studio Art and Director of Graduate Studies at the Milton Avery Graduate School of the Arts at Bard College. Clayton is the author of Uproot: Travels in 21st Century Music and Digital Culture (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2016) and the forthcoming Behold the Monkey. As an artist, Clayton’s interdisciplinary approach focuses on how sound, memory, and public space interact, with an emphasis on low-income communities and non-Western geographies.
Adrienne Edwards is a curator, scholar, and writer with a focus on artists of the African diaspora and the global South. She is the Engell Speyer Family Curator and Curator of Performance at the Whitney Museum of American Art, and she was the co-curator of the 2022 Whitney Biennial with David Breslin.
Benjamin Krusling is a writer, poet and multidisciplinary artist. They are the author of two chapbooks of poetry, most recently It got so dark (UDP, 2022), and a full-length collection, Glaring (Wendy’s Subway, 2020). They have screened video and performed sound work at Montez Press Radio, Storefront for Art and Architecture, and other venues. Recent writing and multimedia work has appeared in Screen Slate, e-flux journal, Changes, and Triple Canopy. They are a PhD graduate student in English at the Graduate Center and live in Brooklyn.
Jace Clayton is an artist and writer, also known for his work as DJ /rupture. He is Assistant Professor of Studio Art and Director of Graduate Studies at the Milton Avery Graduate School of the Arts at Bard College. Clayton is the author of Uproot: Travels in 21st Century Music and Digital Culture (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2016) and the forthcoming Behold the Monkey. As an artist, Clayton’s interdisciplinary approach focuses on how sound, memory, and public space interact, with an emphasis on low-income communities and non-Western geographies.
Adrienne Edwards is a curator, scholar, and writer with a focus on artists of the African diaspora and the global South. She is the Engell Speyer Family Curator and Curator of Performance at the Whitney Museum of American Art, and she was the co-curator of the 2022 Whitney Biennial with David Breslin.
Benjamin Krusling is a writer, poet and multidisciplinary artist. They are the author of two chapbooks of poetry, most recently It got so dark (UDP, 2022), and a full-length collection, Glaring (Wendy’s Subway, 2020). They have screened video and performed sound work at Montez Press Radio, Storefront for Art and Architecture, and other venues. Recent writing and multimedia work has appeared in Screen Slate, e-flux journal, Changes, and Triple Canopy. They are a PhD graduate student in English at the Graduate Center and live in Brooklyn.
Alexis Kyle Mitchell is an artist, scholar and movement practitioner based between New York and Glasgow. Her work has been included in exhibitions at the Henry Art Gallery, Seattle; Kunstverein Munich; and Mercer Union, Toronto; in screenings at International Film Festival Rotterdam; Art of the Real, New York; and IndieLisboa International Film Festival, Lisbon; and she has given lecture-performances at University of Toronto and the New School, New York. Mitchell was a postdoctoral fellow at New York University in the Center for Disability Studies and is currently a visiting scholar in the Center for the Study of Gender and Sexuality.
Michael Watkins is a poet from Pennsylvania. Under the pseudonym Ricky Salmonhunter, he has published two chapbooks: Underbellies of the Ancient Cube Trick (Spiral Editions, 2023) and PASTORALLLL (2022). Also a PhD candidate at University of Pennsylvania, his work investigates the relationship between modern language and sciences of complexity, as well as the shared dynamics among poetry, music, and exercise.
Simone White is the author of 5 books of poetry and prose including, most recently, Warring (forthcoming from Duke University Press) an essay regarding the poethical effects of contemporary rap music. She is Associate Professor of English and Associate Faculty Director of Kelly Writers House at the University of Pennsylvania and also serves on the writing faculty at Bard College's Milton Avery Graduate School of the Arts.
Michael Watkins is a poet from Pennsylvania. Under the pseudonym Ricky Salmonhunter, he has published two chapbooks: Underbellies of the Ancient Cube Trick (Spiral Editions, 2023) and PASTORALLLL (2022). Also a PhD candidate at University of Pennsylvania, his work investigates the relationship between modern language and sciences of complexity, as well as the shared dynamics among poetry, music, and exercise.
Simone White is the author of 5 books of poetry and prose including, most recently, Warring (forthcoming from Duke University Press) an essay regarding the poethical effects of contemporary rap music. She is Associate Professor of English and Associate Faculty Director of Kelly Writers House at the University of Pennsylvania and also serves on the writing faculty at Bard College's Milton Avery Graduate School of the Arts.
Due to the age and character of the building, the space is not optimized for ADA accessibility and is located up a single flight of 20 stairs with handrails. If you have questions about access, please contact us in advance of the event, and we will make every effort to accommodate you.
