Full Schedule 2019

Audio art installations (detailed below) will be exhibited throughout the museum all day.
Live performances will take place outside on the Plaza unless otherwise noted.
Small group workshops will meet at the welcome table just inside the museum's rotating door.

Saturday June 29

10am Performance (Plaza)
Henry Lowman
-Ambient soundscapes for electric balalaika, harp guitar and electric violin.

10am -12pm Workshop (Plaza)
Instrument Petting Zoo
-Try a trombone, bow a cello and any other instrument you've always wanted to play. All-ages welcome! Facilitators will be on-hand to assist. Made possible by support from the National Symphony Orchestra.

10am-12pm Workshop
(Ring Theater, indoors)
Oral History Collaborative
-Head downstairs to the oral history collaborative's pop-up studio to record an oral history of your own or interview a friend (facilitators on-site will assist).

10:30 Workshop (Welcome Table)
Sonic Meditation
-Meet at the welcome table inside and then head out with facilitator Layne Garrett for a sonic meditation inspired by the work of Pauline Oliveros.

11am Workshop
OnRaé LaTeal, Hand Games Project

12pm Performance (Plaza)
Amplified Percussion Ensemble
-Enjoy a musical improvisation exploring the wide range of timbres and resonances obtainable through the medium of amplified percussion. Artists include: Layne Garrett, Amanda Huron, Nik Francis and friends.

12pm-5pm Audio Screening
(Ring Theater, indoors)
DC Listening Lounge: Selected Works 2019
-Head downstairs to the Ring Theater for an audio screening of selected sound pieces by DC Listening Lounge audio collective members.  This 20 minute program repeats throughout the day.

1pm Performance (Plaza)
Urban Artistry Dance

2pm Performance (Plaza)
Sandford & Gosti: Suspended Rocks
-80 stones, 80 jars
Made possible by support from the Italian Cultural Institute in Washington D.C.

3pm Performance (Plaza)
ARTLAB+School of Hip Hop
Top students from ARTLAB (a radically inclusive digital arts space for teens located in the Hirshhorn Sculpture Garden) will perform excerpts from their forthcoming School of Hip Hop 2019 mixtape.

4pm Performance (Plaza)
Errant Movement Dance
Mariana C. Barros, Kaya Harrison, Emilia Kawashima, Blair Galiber, Stephanie Lamoreau, Ellen Rolfes, Julia Tomanovich, Rachel Turner

Saturday Night After (dance) Party:
International Beats:  hosted by WPFW
(Location and Timing Details Coming)

Sunday June 30

10am Performance (Plaza)
Sandford & Gosti: Suspended Rocks
-80 stones, 80 jars
Made possible by support from the Italian Cultural Institute in Washington D.C.


10am Performance (2nd Floor, indoors)
David Schulman Violin
-How do you hear visual art? Join violinist and composer David Schulman for this exploration of the works of Italian artist Enrico David: Gradations of Slow Release exhibited inside on the 2nd floor. Made possible by support from the Italian Cultural Institute in Washington D.C.

10am-12pm Workshop
(Ring Theater, indoors)
Oral History Collaborative
-Head downstairs to the oral history collaborative's pop-up studio to record an oral history of your own or interview a friend (facilitators on-site will assist).

11am Performance (Plaza)
Carolina Mayorga + Pink Piano
- The pink artist and instrument contrast with the audio excerpts played on the wired upright piano. This performance art work gives voice to the unheard living in poverty and abandonment. The stereotypes and connotations of the color pink are re-mixed with music and personal stories to create awareness of the dissonance of our global migration challenges.

12pm Performance (Plaza)
Sifu Sun
-How does the soul move and how does it sound?  This performance explores both questions through a live sound and movement piece amplifying wishes and zeroing in on vibrations.

12pm-1pm Audio Screening
(Ring Theater, indoors)
DF Tram presents: History Listen 
- Listeners are invited to head downstairs to the Ring Theater for this audio (only) screening of a "history listen." Featuring actual sounds from the times including music, news reports, first-responder transmissions, and political addresses, this piece takes audiences on an audio journey that begins with the attack on 9/11 and continues forward to the election of President Donald Trump. (This work contains powerful content that may not be suitable for all-ages)

1pm-2pm Audio Screening
(Ring Theater, indoors)
DC Listening Lounge Presents:
Selected Works 2019
-Head downstairs to the Ring Theater for an audio screening of selected sound art and narrative pieces by DC Listening Lounge audio collective members.  This 20 minute program repeats until 2pm.

1pm Performance (Plaza)
Urban Artistry Dance

2pm Performance (Plaza)
Juan Zamora:  The Coliform Project, Performing Water Pollution
This performance is made possible with support from SPAIN arts & culture

2pm-3pm Film Screening
and Director's Talk
(Ring Theater, indoors)
Punk the Capitol, with James Schneider
-This documentary celebrates D.C.'s punk heritage and follows the local evolution beginning in the 1970s and continuing through the hardcore era of the 1980s and beyond. Please stay for a discussion with director James Schneider after the film.

3pm Performance (Plaza)
ARTLAB+School of Hip Hop
Top students from ARTLAB (a radically inclusive digital arts space for teens located in the Hirshhorn Sculpture Garden) will perform excerpts from their forthcoming School of Hip Hop 2019 mixtape.

4pm Performance (Plaza)
Errant Movement Dance
Mariana C. Barros, Kaya Harrison, Emilia Kawashima, Blair Galiber, Stephanie Lamoreau, Ellen Rolfes, Julia Tomanovich, Rachel Turner

Interactive Audio Installations and locations
(10-5pm Saturday and Sunday)
Lower level: Reverberation Station by Stel Klein.
- Construct, play and amplify vibrations new and old.

Lower level: MenWomenSexMoneyPower
by Bardia Saeedi
-Interactive sculptures help audiences explore the intersection of gender, power and permission.

Elevator: Elevator Songs by Amanda Holmes

3rd floor: Fingerprint music by Amanda Holmes
- Compose music through your fingerprints with artists and facilitators to guide your digit-based orchestra.

3rd floor: Zazen VR by Kiwaiko & ANDAND
-  Through this individual VR artwork participants explore the mental and emotional experience of Zazen (sitting meditation) surrounded by the smoke, mental chatters within a sonic interior world.

3rd Floor, Barry Schmetter, Electricity Orchestra
- Make the invisible audible! Activate and amplify the electronic sounds that exist all around.

2nd floor: #whichsideareyouon/Sackler Treatment by John Ryan Brubaker and Mamone
- #whichsideareyouon' is a text-based manifesto that recasts Zoe Leonard's 'I Want a Dyke for President' in the context of contemporary Appalachia and the ongoing opioid epidemic. It is paired with work from Brubaker's 'Sackler Treatment' a collection of pills made from crushed West Virginia coal which visualizes the direct connection between coal-mining communities and opioid addiction. This combination of works encourages consideration of the role that Purdue Pharma and the Sackler family has played in the current opioid epidemic and the role of ill-gotten money in the contemporary art world.

2nd Floor: Seashells by Elizabeth Collins
- Nature's amplification tools await you. What do you hear within? What can the natural world teach us?
 
Plaza:  Great Grandpa Jones Radio by Roger Cutler
-Listen to radio like your great grandfather might have through crystal radios.

Plaza: Radio Power Tower by Roger Cutler

Plaza: Xylosaurus by Roger Cutler
-When is the last time you and a dinosaur got together to make music?

Plaza: DIY Wind Chimes by Community Forklift
-Build (AND KEEP!) your own wind chime made from recycled materials and help amplify the music of the wind with your beautiful original artwork on the plaza.