Guggenheim and Agathe Snow Stage 24-Hour Dance Party as Part of Storylines

Guggenheim and Agathe Snow Stage 24-Hour Film Premiere and Dance Party as Part of Storylines

Final Weeks of Exhibition Also Include Screenings of the CREMASTER Cycle and Monday Night Performances of Gerard & Kelly’s Timelining

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(NEW YORK, NY—August 4, 2015)—Exploring the redemptive power of community and social exchange, Agathe Snow stages Stamina, a 24-hour film premiere and dance party at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum on August 20–21. Featuring live music by Donald Cumming, I.U.D., Onyx Collective, QTY, TV Baby, and more, the event will premiere Snow’s film Stamina (2015), which documents a clandestine 24-hour party hosted by the artist ten years ago in downtown New York. Stamina is one of over a hundred works presented in Storylines: Contemporary Art at the Guggenheim, an exhibition that celebrates storytelling and narrative in the visual arts. The final weeks of Storylines will also include ongoing Monday night performances of artist duo Gerard & Kelly’s Timelining (2014), and two screenings of Matthew Barney’s CREMASTER cycle (1994–2002) in its entirety.
Agathe Snow: Stamina
Thursday, August 20–Friday, August 21; Doors open at 6 pm on Thursday
Rotunda Floor
Combining live music, film, and movement, Stamina continues Agathe Snow’s exploration of social interactions, rebellion, and the redemptive power of human ingenuity and community. In 2005, looking to capture the shared moments of the post-September 11 downtown scene, Snow planned and filmed a dance party with her friends and fellow artists in a loft on dusty Ann Street in Lower Manhattan. A decade later, on the occasion of Storylines, the footage has been made into a 24-hour film, revealing never-before-seen material celebrating the resilience of underground culture.
Premiering in the museum’s rotunda and serving as the center of another 24-hour event, Stamina will be accompanied by live music by Donald Cumming, QTY, TV Baby (formerly A.R.E. Weapons), Dev Hynes (of Blood Orange) performing with the Onyx Collective, and I.U.D. (Lizzi Bougatsos and Spencer Sweeney), along with music selected by DJs Eric Duncan and Ben Ruhe.
Cash bar and light fare, 6 pm–4 am
Breakfast and juice bar, 4 am–8 am
Tickets are available at the door starting at 6 pm on August 20 and include access to the party that night and museum admission on August 21. $25, $18 students, free for members. More information available at guggenheim.org/stamina.
Gerard & Kelly: Timelining
Mondays, Through September 7, 5:45–9 pm
The duo Gerard & Kelly explores issues of identity and queerness through a performance-based practice. Recently acquired by the Guggenheim, Timelining features a series of paired performers involved in close relationships—romantic, familial, or otherwise. Moving through space in circular patterns, each couple takes turns reciting fragments of their personal histories from the present moment backward. On the evenings of these performances, admission after 6 pm is Pay What You Wish (limited areas of the museum will be open). More information available at guggenheim.org/calendar.
Matthew Barney: The CREMASTER Cycle
Saturdays, August 8 and September 5, 10:30 am–7:40 pm
Peter B. Lewis Theater
Matthew Barney’s epic CREMASTER cycle is a series of visually extravagant films offering a contemporary creation myth. For these day-long screenings, all five films are presented in order of their production, revealing the development of Barney’s unique approach to narrative and how he relates performance and film as intertwined mediums. Free with museum admission. More information available at guggenheim.org/filmscreenings.
FINAL WEEKS
Storylines: Contemporary Art at the Guggenheim
Through September 9
Bringing together over one hundred works from the Guggenheim’s contemporary collection, Storylines examines the diverse ways in which artists today engage narrative through installation, painting, photography, sculpture, video, and performance. In projects created through extensive research, acts of appropriation, or performance, the artists in Storylines uncover layers of meaning, turning to individual experience as a means of conveying shared stories, whether real or fictional. The exhibition is enhanced by the contributions of thirty novelists and poets, who were invited to reflect on individual artworks as points of departure for their own creative work.
The exhibition is organized by a curatorial team composed of Katherine Brinson, Curator, Contemporary Art; Carmen Hermo, Assistant Curator, Collections; Nancy Spector, Deputy Director and Jennifer and David Stockman Chief Curator; Nat Trotman, Associate Curator; and Joan Young, Director, Curatorial Affairs.
This exhibition is supported in part by Culture.pl and the Juliet Lea Hillman Simonds Foundation.
The Leadership Committee for Storylines: Contemporary Art at the Guggenheim is gratefully acknowledged for its support, with special thanks to Rachel and Jean-Pierre Lehmann and Chair Roberta Amon as well as to Stefan Edlis and Gael Neeson, Katherine Farley and Jerry I. Speyer, Gladstone Gallery, Greene Naftali Gallery, Michael S. Lee, Nancy and Woody Ostrow, Sarah Arison, Denise LeFrak Calicchio and John Calicchio, Linda and Gregory Fischbach, and Courtney and Scott Taylor.
Additional funding is provided by the New York State Council on the Arts and The Polish Cultural Institute New York.
ALSO ON VIEW
Current exhibitions include Doris Salcedo, on view through October 12, and works by Vasily Kandinsky, on view until Spring 2016.
VISITOR INFORMATION
Admission: Adults $25, students/seniors (65+) $18, members and children under 12 free. Available with admission or by download to personal devices, the Guggenheim’s free app offers an enhanced visitor experience. The app features content on special exhibitions, access to more than 1,600 works in the Guggenheim’s permanent collection, and information about the museum’s landmark building. Verbal imaging guides for select exhibitions are also included for visitors who are blind or have low vision. The Guggenheim app is supported by Bloomberg Philanthropies.

Museum Hours: Sun–Wed, 10 am–5:45 pm; Fri, 10 am–5:45 pm; Sat, 10 am–7:45 pm; closed Thurs. On Saturdays, beginning at 5:45 pm, the museum hosts Pay What You Wish. For general information, call 212 423 3500 or visit the museum online at: guggenheim.org
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