Image courtesy benedict nguyễn.

Tickets: Free with RSVP
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This event will take place virtually via Zoom.


Organized by benedict nguyễn, a dancer, writer, and curator, this Performance Philosophy Reading Group will center on the term #freelanceflailing, coined by nguyễn to describe their structurally precarious relationship to labor and all the ways employers and institutions want to be affiliated with benedict without providing benedict paid time off.

From Benedict:
"For this end-of-the-year PPRG, we're gonna connect on our favorite app (zoom) and if you aren't too burnt out, we'll make it worthwhile. Join us for a mini performance-lecture, tiny workshop, and petit group discourse facilitated by the best Benedict you know. As promised, we'll talk #freelanceflailing, flailing as an aesthetic more broadly, sagittarius szn, the apocalypse, and the kinds of quotidian internet & meatspace performances one might envision in the near future.

To prepare? Take care, rest up, consider reading Marwa Helal's poem "WHO REAL؟," and/or bookmark a YouTube clip, TikTok, Instagram clip, etc. that you've looped more than 5 times. But even if you do none of these things, feel free to come as you are. To performance! To flailing! To discourse!"

benedict nguyễn’s recent projects include their curatorial platform soft bodies in hard places, their Public Art Practice, CRINGE, and publishing the monthly-ish newsletter first quarter moon slush.

Closed captioning will be provided and ASL interpretation may be provided, upon request, and with at least two weeks’ advance notice, by emailing info@cprnyc.org.

In Performance Philosophy Reading Group we read exhilarating and thought-provoking texts as a springboard into generative discussion and thought-experimentation. Each gathering is hosted by a special guest, who engages the texts in whatever way seems most productive, and participants are encouraged to bring their own perspectives to the discussion.