Thirst and Quenching: A Dinosaur Annex Music Ensemble Performance

Dinosaur Annex Music Ensemble, in collaboration with curator Arlinda Shtuni, presents a unique salon experience inspired by her new exhibit, Reservoir: What the Water Knows on view at the Metropolitan Waterworks Museum. Showcasing new and rendered artworks by six noted artists, the exhibit probes our complicated relationship with water and looks deeply into how climate warming is impacting each of us–from the outside in and the inside out,– and invites us to consider: how are our watery bodies registering and responding to these shifts?  

The Thirst and Quenching Salon offers a program of musical compositions and poetry that explore these aqueous quotidian needs and deeper longings. Drawn from diverse experimental traditions, the musical pieces vividly evoke an array of sonic manifestations and evocations of water. Containing notated and open-ended elements, the works reflect the unpredictability of water’s meandering ways. While renowned poet Dara Barrois/Dixon’s verse render palpable the perpetual process of change in and around us, the yearning of connection, and the debt we owe to the world’s continuing beauty.

Featuring:

Dara Barrois/Dixon

Kati Agócs – Thirst and Quenching

Marcos Balter – Evens

Ros Zimmerman – Continued Disturbances

Julien Malaussena – 8 Mins after Boiling

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improvisations incorporating machines, drawing inspiration from the Waterworks Museum

TICKETS

This event is donation-based. Dino Annex is providing suggested sliding scales here, but please pay as you wish!

$10-15: suggested donation with entry

$20-25: additional support for this program

$25+: sustain Dino Annex Music Ensemble’s future seasons

Doors open at 7pm.