NICK KLEIN & REECE COX
“BRING THE FLOWERS POSER COLLAGES 1”
“BRING THE FLOWERS POSER COLLAGES 1”
NICK KLEIN
BRING THE FLOWERS
TO THE THEATRE
FEB 25-APR 1, 2023
BRING THE FLOWERS
TO THE THEATRE
FEB 25-APR 1, 2023
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.
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.
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
WITH
Sara Abruña
BASE CAMP BETACHANELLE ALLESANDRE
Bela
Jack Callahan
Domingo Castillo
Double black diamond
离离草Chinese Artists and Organizers (CAO) Collective
Audrey Chen
Reece Cox
Dust
DrumloopMax Eilbacher
Hugo Esquinca
Roxy Farman
Angelo Harmsworth
AMANDA HARVEY
Patricia Hernandez
JAMES K
Devin Kenny
Misha Khokhlov
Ben Kudler
Glyn Maier
MATTxIBARRA
montez press radio
Katy Mongeau
Itsï Ramirez
Andrew Ross
Julia Santoli
Theodore Cale Schafer
Rudy Shepherd
SHREDDED NERVE
Dylan ShirBEAM SPLITTER
Alex Suarez
V. Manuscript
VALISEYasna Voices
Jiyoung Wi
Jeff Wistcher
C. Spencer Yeh
+ More!
EXHIBITION
VIEW
VIEW
WEEK 1
Nick Klein + Julia Santoli
2/27/23 MON 7:30PM
Roxy Farman + Dylan Shir
3/04/23 SAT 12:00-7PM
Dust
WEEK 2
3/07/23 TUE 7:30PM
离离草Chinese Artists and Organizers (CAO) Collective x Julia Santoli
3/11/23 SAT 12:00-7PM
Dust
3/12/23 SUN 10AM-6PM
Domingo Castillo
3/12/23 SUN 7:30PM
Domingo Castillo + Patricia Hernandez + Nick Klein
WEEK 3
Shredded Nerve
3/15/23 WED 7:30PM
Ben Kudler
Rudy Shepherd
Chanelle Allesandre
3/18/23 SAT 12:00-7PM
Dust
WEEK 4
3/20/23 MON 10AM-6PM
“Assorted Audio Works”
︎︎︎ Drumloop
︎︎︎ Via App
︎︎︎ Jiyoung Wi
︎︎︎ Max Eilbacher
︎︎︎ Devin Kenny
︎︎︎ Bela
︎︎︎ MattXIbarra
︎︎︎ Via App
︎︎︎ Jiyoung Wi
︎︎︎ Max Eilbacher
︎︎︎ Devin Kenny
︎︎︎ Bela
︎︎︎ MattXIbarra
Mankind
BEAM SPLITTER
Angelo Harmsworth + Theodore Cale Schafer
3/25/23 SAT 12:00-8PM
Dust
WEEK 5
BEAM SPLITTER + Nick Klein
Bob Bellerue
Kanal Nula
Misha Khokhlov + Itsï Ramirez
Shaar
3/29/23 WED 7:30PM
Sara Abruña
IRL
James K
V. Manuscript
Reading
Mark Iosifescu
Early Shinada
Noise Nomads
Horoscope
Yasna Voices
Wilted Woman
