Join PARTICIPANT INC founder/director Lia Gangitano and artist Julie Tolentino for a conversation responding to, riffing on, and annotating the previous night’s performance of THE SKY REMAINS THE SAME: Archiving Lovett/Codagnone’s CLOSER 1999, 2005 in 2025 (Group). The pair will discuss the histories and resonances of Lovett/Codagnone’s interdisciplinary art practice, which used photography, performance, video, sound, and installation to address issues of collective identity and relations of power in social structures, focusing on the absorption of underground tactics of resistance. The two also reflect on their ongoing commitments and approaches to queer performance archives as radical acts of care—from Tolentino’s ongoing project The Sky Remains the Same to PARTICIPANT INC’s estate-building work.
ACCESS NOTES:
Entry: Doors open 15 minutes prior to the conversation. Please arrive on time to ensure smooth check-in. Late entry is not guaranteed. There is an ADA accessible entrance via elevator in the lobby at 55 Bethune St. There is entry via stairwell through a steep spiral staircase leading directly into the basement space. Seating: There will be scattered seating throughout the space. Visitors are welcome to sit or stand during the duration of the conversation. Duration: The program run-time is about 1 hour and 30 minutes total.
Photo: Courtesy of the artist.