PROGRAMMING

POWERPLAY invites the viewer to question the value system of power and how it is interpreted within the American psyche. The exhibition confronts the dualities between natural and man-made energy, as well as being a part of a global community versus an ethnocentric one. The themes explored are alternative energy, science, space exploration, food, holistic practices, technology, spirituality, sexuality, wealth, beauty, ritual and human interaction.  POWERPLAY is a sculpture of experiences curated by Molly Morgan Weiss and The City Firm.

JULY 14TH, ONE DAY ONLY: CHOOSE YOUR OWN EXPERIENCE

PROGRAMMING

Noon – 1pm | Blue Hut | Yoga with Eric Pettigrew

Originally from Quebec, Eric began his career as a professional dancer and continues to pursue his passion for movement and healing through yoga, massage and homeopathy.
Mats will be provided. www.holisticlifeworks.com

Noon – 5pm | Art Room | Hayground Art Workshops

In collaboration with the Hayground School, visitors will engage in art-making workshops with the Hayground Summer Camp and its community. www.hayground.org

1:30pm – 3:30pm | Healing Tent | Reiki Qui Gong, Energy Healing
Conducted by Tim Chambers, Jen Cronley and Jessi Brooks

Tim Chambers will offer a Qi Gong meditative exercise demonstration, of which the public is invited to take part in. This will be followed by Five Element Based Interactive mini healing sessions in the Bamboo Glade at the art park. You are invited to experience Qi Gong Healing!

2pm – 3pm | Classroom Center | Panel Discussion on POWERPLAY

Eric Ernst, Artist, Long Island; Alice Hope, Artist and Educator, New York City; Kimberly Goff, Artist & Gallery Owner; Long Island; Nathan Slate Joseph, Artist, Long Island and Willamsburg, Brooklyn; Laura O’Reilly, Director and Founder of The City Firm, Artist and POWERPLAY Curator, New York City; Tatyana Okshteyn, Founder and Director of Black & White Gallery, Willamsburg, Brooklyn; Sasha Okshteyn, co-curator of POWERPLAY, Manager of Programming & Sponsorship for PULSE Contemporary Art Fair; Jesse Pasca, Artist and Educator, New York City; Molly Morgan Weiss, POWERPLAY Head Curator and Artist, Long Island and New York City; Pamela Willoughby (MODERATOR), Chief Art Advisor at The City Firm, Long Island and New York City.

PERFORMANCES

12-5pm | Velveteen & Guillermo Riveros | SandBox 1 | Sun Tanning Performance

Velveteen & Guillermo conduct an interactive performance piece in which participants rent time slots to lay in the sun for 20 minute intervals. http://www.youtube.com/user/beepbeepvelveteen/videos

1pm-1:30pm | The Woolworth Building | David Maddy

Performance piece, a reading from Andrew Carnegie’s Gospel Of Wealth http://www.davidmaddy.com/

3:30pm | Starting at Teepees ending in Classroom | Matt Stone, Go! Push Pops, and Prayer Town 

Xithinix Pangea is a performative outdoor sculpture by Matt Stone in collaboration with Go! Push Pops. Clad in scraps of Stone’s astro-psychedelic aesthetic, the neo-tribal clan of three will engage in ritualistic behaviors with paint blasters around a wooden structure as ‘Totem.’ From primal impulse to futuristic galactica, Xithinix Pangea speaks to notions of territory, belonging and clan within the collective psychic  terrain of a ‘New Age’ artist economy. The performance will conclude with a music set by the thrash core ensemble Prayer Town inside of Matt Stone’s classroom sculpture installation. http://mattstoneart.com/  http://gopushpops.blogspot.com/ http://www.myspace.com/prayertownmusic

4pm | Main Field | Joy Tomasko | Words, Words, Words

Words, Words, Words, twists dance, text and living sculpture into an interactive piece that will invite the audience to get caught up in and unravel the experience. The performer will guide the movement as she winds and speaks amidst unspooling string across the grounds of Hayground School. The writer will hang fragmented dialogue cards from the string, arranging and rearranging order, to create and destroy story, inspired by interviews with participants. The audience will play between the roles of dancer, actor, writer, observer and muse. http://joytomasko.com/

5pm | The Round | Jessi Brooks

Singer, songwriter

5:30pm | The Round | Andrina Smith

Spoken Word

6:00pm | The Round | Maria Pessino

Traditional Cuban Boleros

7:30pm – 9pm | Main Field | Dan Bailey Tribe 

As the sunsets over Hayground, East End native and drummer Dan Bailey and friends will take over the Main Field with the sounds of drums and fire dancers. http://danbaileymusic.com/epk.html

ALL DAY INSTALLATIONS

12-8pm | Santina Amato | Classroom | Video Installation 

Santina Amato is a video installation artist combing performance, video, sculpture and site-specific contexts to explore femininity and the female identity.
http://momaps1.org/studio-visit/artist/santina-amato-0

12-6pm | Beth Fiore | Pool | Wearable Art Dive

Beth Fiore’s work is constructed out of painted wood, rope and clay which has been fashioned into necklaces made of silk string. The necklaces will be tied to gold rocks and placed in a concentrated area at the bottom of the pool where people may swim to claim their treasure. There will also be a carriage strung by magnetic fishing wire attached to either end of one side of the pool. There with the use of magnets the player tries to reign in their prize- which they can keep if the carriage does not fall, the game is a test of balance and focus. http://bethfiore.wordpress.com/

12-8pm | Hayden Fowler | Classroom | Video Projection

Hayden Fowler’s hedonistic environments numb our senses and challenge the art-historical notion of the Gaze in a post-apocalyptic dimension. Void of any timeline, Fowler’s hermetic world decontextualizes art-historical imagery and ideas within a Sci-Fi narrative. www.haydenfowler.net

12-8pm |Jeanette Hayes | Computer Lab | Media Takeover

Jeanette Hayes is a painter/digital artist based out of NYC, originally from Chicago who received a BFA from Pratt Institute last spring. Her work addresses the traditional preservation of non-traditional technological imagery through her painting, photoshop work and internet collages. Hayes’ interests include cultural phenomena and the confrontation of conventionality and subject matter. Jeanette Hayes is taking over the computer lab with art that will be displayed via projection and on an array of monitors. twitter.com/jeanettehayes

12-6pm | Walker Fee | Classroom | Live Tape Creation 

Painter & tape artist Walker Fee will be creating live all day in his classroom installation making works entirely out of an extensive array of tape. Past work will be exhibited along with the pieces created live throughout the day. www.walkerfee.com

12-8pm | Miz Metro | The Path | Sound Lane 

Miz Metro manipulates raw sound samples and explores the infinite possibilities of the human voice with the use of a 3 track looping pedal and microphone. In our age of endless media saturation and over connection, Miz Metro’s music/sound art explores the endless loop of visual and audio haze through sampling and layered vocals. Eight sound pieces will be displayed from her forthcoming project “Sound Sketches Volume 1”.  www.mizmetro.com

12-8pm | NewVillager | Gymnasium | Installation and Performance

Brooklyn Based collective NewVillager will transform the Hayground Gym into an unfamiliar maze of sound and space that will challenge the senses and perception. www.newvillager.com