June 24, 2020
Tomorrow at 1pm, Paul Pinto and I will present the second in our series of short motivational sessions on Zoom. In mid-July, thingNY will premiere A Series of Landscapes, a follow-up to our online piece SubtracTTTTTTTTT.
In May, Paul and I held our first motivational session, and I improvised with guitarist Carlos Cotallo Solares in the Open Improvisations: ONLINE edition Facebook group. SubtracTTTTTTTTT, viewable at thingNY.com, received a positive review in The Wire’s July edition, noting that “ThingNY make the virtual space their own.” Our opera …Patriots… was featured in the New York Times as part of a history of micro-operas. The World/Inferno Friendship Society premiered a video of our song Alibi in the Coping with Dystopia livestream series.
Tomorrow’s session includes guided group meditation with song, mind-clearing and mind-filling exercises, a mantra, and an inspirational video. Registration opens at 12:55pm; register in advance at thingny.com/motivators for the Zoom link.
On July 10–11, thingNY premieres A Series of Landscapes, a new online opera-theatre work presented through HERE Arts Center’s #StillHERE series, exploring anxiety and serenity during social distancing.