NICK KLEIN
BRING THE FLOWERS
TO THE THEATRE

      For our inaugural program, I am delighted to announce five weeks of art, music and lectures culled together by Nick Klein. Bring The Flowers To The Theatre honors the collaborative spirit of SARA’S, a new exhibition and project space.

     Throughout these five weeks, more than twenty artists will be showcased, with works spanning noise, performance art, lectures and artist’s talks—exemplifying an overall commitment to independent artistic communities and creating exciting new directions within the walls of the space.

     “Bring The Flowers to the Theatre” is an exhibition that roots itself as a site of production and exchange, with Nick Klein negotiating roles as maker, organizer, and collaborator. Centered around a stage-as-sculpture, the gallery operates as an invitational space for performance, lectures, radio, and collaborations. Conceptually orbiting around aurality as an access point and a grounding thematic of ecstatic potential, Klein’s stage is a catalyst for a generative flow of indeterminate variables of communal making. While the stage operates as an impetus, billboards act as an index of remnants, providing a non-linear chronology of the five-week collaborative excursion.

     Early in Klein’s practice, sculpture and performance were key tenets of his obsessive interest in creative cultures and the acts of making and facilitating. In Miami, and later New York City, Klein observed the barriers that formalized art modalities burdened both the maker and the viewer with. This observation led Klein to delve further into the more accessible and democratic subcultures of noise and club-oriented sound cultures in the United States and abroad. With a long history of organizing and hosting artists, domestic and international touring, and curating a music label for expansive art practices, Klein’s kinship is with makers who are constantly modulating roles and formal stances. This modulation is both a survival tactic (in current-stage capitalism a maker is not so easily granted compartmentalization of practice), as well as a soft indictment on the need to brand and define.

    With “Bring The Flowers to the Theatre,” Klein mobilizes a host of makers with interstitial identities as makers to draw not only new dots and connections between practices and methodologies, but to draw around and past them.

NICK KLEIN
WITH

2/25/23 ^{SAT 7:30PM}

VALISE
Nick Klein + Julia Santoli 

Opening Performance
Opening Performance

2/27/23 ^{MON 7:30PM}

Roxy Farman + Dylan Shir

3/01/23 ^WED

Roots Unbound

3/03/23 ^FRI

Kathleen Klein + Nick Klein

3/04/23 ^{SAT 12:00-7PM}

Dust

︎︎︎ 13:00  MJX ^(Live)
︎︎︎ 14:00  Yaki
︎︎︎ 15:00  Decent Rescue
︎︎︎ 16:00  Nick Klein ^(Live)
︎︎︎ 17:00  DJ Valentimes
︎︎︎ 18:00  Shawn O’Sullivan

^{︎︎︎ Day Archive}

3/06/23 ^{MON 7:30PM}

Nick Klein + Montez Press Radio

3/07/23 ^{TUE 7:30PM}

离离草Chinese Artists and Organizers (CAO) Collective x Julia Santoli

[呼吸hu-u-u-xi-i-i, be with, breathe]

3/08/23 ^{WED 7:30PM}

C. Spencer Yeh

“Amplified Violin Performances”

3/09/23 ^{THU 7:30PM}

Reece Cox

3/10/23 ^{FRI 7:30PM}

Reece Cox

3/11/23 ^{SAT 12:00-7PM}

Dust

︎︎︎ 12:00  Pent ^(Live) 
︎︎︎ 13:00  Ex Wiish ^(Live)
︎︎︎ 14:00  Spiderwrap
︎︎︎ 15:00  Spiral Instinct 
︎︎︎ 16:00  HARZES PORZELLAN
︎︎︎ 17:00  Madness Of 
︎︎︎ 18:00  Kelsey Kennedy 

^{︎︎︎ Day Archive}

3/12/23 ^{SUN 10AM-6PM}

Domingo Castillo

^Screening
︎︎︎ “Surface Image: Prologue: Oranges, w/ Tropical Malaise” ^{OST by Wilted Woman}
︎︎︎ “Surface Image: Epilogue:”
︎︎︎ “Public Display of Professionalism - CISMA/SCHISM”
︎︎︎ “Tropical Malaise: Prologue”
︎︎︎ “Surface Image: Post Script”

3/12/23 ^{SUN 7:30PM}

Domingo Castillo + Patricia Hernandez + Nick Klein

3/13/23 ^{MON 7:30PM}

Hugo Esquinca + Nick Klein

“H.E. + N.K. ACTION #1” ^{Studio Day}

3/14/23 ^{TUE 7:30PM}

Hugo Esquinca

“Notes on Public/Execution” ^Lecture

Shredded Nerve

3/15/23 ^{WED 7:30PM}

Ben Kudler

3/16/23 ^{THU 7:30PM}

Ben Kudler

︎︎︎ Rudy Shepherd's Healing Music for a Troubled World ^Performance
︎︎︎ Cohen/Kudler duo ^Performance
︎︎︎ “Political Education on plans for "Feminist" Jail in Manhattan” ^Lecture

3/17/23 ^{FRI 7:30PM}

Glyn Maier

3/17/23 ^{FRI 7:30PM}

Alene Marie

Performance

Chanelle Allesandre

Performance

3/18/23 ^{SAT 12:00-7PM}

Dust

︎︎︎ 12:00  Negation ^(Live)
︎︎︎ 13:00  LEYA  ^(Live)
︎︎︎ 14:00  Two Weeks
︎︎︎ 15:00  Gris Du Mont  ^(Live)
︎︎︎ 16:00  Solpara
︎︎︎ 17:00  Svavillya ^(Live)
︎︎︎ 18:00  Club Amnesia
︎︎︎ 19:00  Wheelbite

^{︎︎︎ Day Archive}

3/20/23 ^{MON 10AM-6PM}

“Assorted Audio Works”

︎︎︎ Drumloop
︎︎︎ Via App
︎︎︎ Jiyoung Wi
︎︎︎ Max Eilbacher
︎︎︎ Devin Kenny
︎︎︎ Bela
︎︎︎ MattXIbarra

3/21/23 ^{TUE 7:30PM}

Alex Suarez

“Anastrophe In the Second Decade of the 21st Century” ^Performance

3/22/23 ^{WED 7:30PM}

Andrew Ross + Nick Klein

3/23/23 ^{THU 7:30PM}

Julia Santoli
Mankind
BEAM SPLITTER

Performance
Performance
Performance

3/24/23 ^{FRI 7:30PM}

Angelo Harmsworth + Theodore Cale Schafer
Jack Callahan + Jeff Witscher

Performance
Performance

3/25/23 ^{SAT 12:00-8PM}

Dust

︎︎︎ 12:00  Itsï Ramirez ^(Live)
︎︎︎ 12:30  MK ^(Live)
︎︎︎ 13:00  Schema 7 & Pública ^(Live)
︎︎︎ 14:00  Cube
︎︎︎ 15:00  Zach Rowden ^(Live)
︎︎︎ 16:00  RF
︎︎︎ 17:00  BEAU WANZER
︎︎︎ 18:00  Emma DJ
︎︎︎ 19:00  Angelo Harmsworth

^{︎︎︎ Day Archive}

3/26/23 ^{SUN 2:00PM}

Base Camp Beta

“The End Of Music” ^Lecture

3/27/23 ^{MON 7:30PM}

Audrey Chen
BEAM SPLITTER + Nick Klein
Bob Bellerue

Lecture Demonstration
Performance
Performance

3/28/23 ^{TUE 7:30PM}

Misha Khokhlov + Itsï Ramirez
Itsï Ramirez
Kanal Nula

“MK:IR” ^Performance
“Surrealism:Profane Illumination” ^Lecture
Performance

3/29/23 ^{WED 7:30PM}

Sara Abruña

“Voices Less Often Heard - A Focus On Femmes In Underground Music” ^Lecture

James K

Performance

Amanda Harvey

Performance

3/30/23 ^{THU 7:30PM}

Katy Mongeau
V. Manuscript
Early Shinada
Mark Iosifescu

Reading

Noise Nomads

Performance

3/31/23 ^{FRI 7:30PM}

Double Black Diamond
Yasna Voices
Horoscope
Wilted Woman

Closing Performance

4/01/23 ^{SAT 12:00-7PM}

Dust

︎︎︎ 12:00  Jackson Pratt
︎︎︎ 13:00  “Heaven Tonight Erotica Reading (Live)^{” by Micaela Durand} 
︎︎︎ 14:00  Rachelle Rahme
︎︎︎ 15:00  Terrestrial Paradise ^(Live)
︎︎︎ 16:00  Sausha
︎︎︎ 17:00  Designated Hitter
︎︎︎ 18:00  Cities Aviv