| GAF 2024 | Student Leadership Team | Artists | Events | Installation Views |
Monday, 15 April
Opening Night | 6:00 – 9:00 PM at The Jerry H. Labowitz Theatre for the Performing Arts and The Gallatin Galleries
Join us for the opening ceremony of the 2024 Gallatin Arts Festival! Meet the curators and producers from the Student Leadership Team as they share more about the exciting performances happening all week long at Gallatin. Opening Night will feature live performances by Alene Lautenschlager and Navaneeth Unnikrishnan.
Tuesday, 16 April
Art, Technology, and Intimacy | 6:00 – 9:00 PM at The Jerry H. Labowitz Theatre for the Performing Arts
We are constantly seeing how technology is being incorporated into the arts. Many artists have found ways to use technological advancements to enhance their artistic visions. The GAF producing team invites you to a night centering the intersections between art and technology, seen through movement and projections, film, and a live performance incorporating AI. The performances will be followed by a discussion panel on technology in the arts with the evening’s artists. Artists featured include: Gracelyn Beal, Olivia Kick and Micah Dominguez-Schatz, Breton Tyner-Bryan, Elliot Wright and Eka Savajol.
Feed | 8:00 – 9:00 PM at The Gallatin Student Lounge, Room 522
Feed is an enactment of a slide presentation of other people’s family photos. Captured on 35mm color-positive film, each of these slides is a moment chemically preserved in a format meant to be shared with others. Using an analog projector, the artist, Gary Whitt, will guide participants through a reel of slides as a collective act of viewership, mending the distance that now exists between social engagement and social photography. In our age of highly mediated algorithmically-driven image culture, social interaction has become largely removed from the way we engage with photos. Feed invites participants to come together over a meal and share in these moments captured by strangers.
Wednesday, 17 April
Biomaterials in Art | 1:00 – 2:00 PM at The Jerry H. Labowitz Theatre for the Performing Arts
The GAF team invites you to learn more about biomaterials from Maria Abdelazim and Caroline Chou, two artists developing work in this new medium. Maria is currently developing work in bioplastic and textiles, and Caroline explores how mycelium can be a medium for design. This will manifest as a presentation on the artists development in their work, how they discovered bio design, and how you can too! Maria and Caroline will be discussing and sharing resources for people interested in working with biomaterial.
Gaza: Arts and Activism in a Time of Censorship | 3:30 – 5:00 PM at The Jerry H. Labowitz Theatre for the Performing Arts
Open to NYU ID holders. Seating is limited and RSVP is required.
The GAF Student Leadership Team invites you to a discussion about Gaza and arts activism in a time of ongoing speech suppression and censorship. We will be joined by a range of Gallatin students, artists, and faculty for a discussion followed by time for questions and comments from the community.
A Celebration of Interdisciplinarity | 7:30 – 8:30 PM at The Jerry H. Labowitz Theatre for the Performing Arts
Music, dance, performance, film, and poetry — Yiwei Lu, Navaneeth Unnikrishnan, Miya Sheker, Em Ingram, and Adison Gamradt come together from across disciplines in the Jerry H. Labowitz Theatre for the Performing Arts to bring you a night of communal celebration here at Gallatin. Each art form is an invitation to discover the world in a new light, through a unique kaleidoscope of interdisciplinary perspective.
Thursday, 18 April
Dove’s Live Set | 11:00 -11:45 AM at The Gallatin Student Lounge, Room 522
Raw and packed with immediacy, the music of Dove Bardin is as urgent as it is spare. With just an acoustic guitar and her voice, Dove vividly narrates her present as a college-age, trans New Yorker. Jokes and speculations, as if told between friends, are interspersed with poetic lines and references of downtown, coming together to tell a story about the now, about this age, and about New York. For this performance, Dove invites you to have coffee in the student lounge and listen to her music.
Park and Crochet | 2:00 – 3:00 PM at Washington Square Park
Join Molly and friends to crochet and knit in the springtime sun! We will meet outside Gallatin at 1:45 and head over together.
Meet your Muse: GAF Speed Dating | 3:30 – 5:00 PM at The Jerry H. Labowitz Theatre for the Performing Arts
Open to Gallatin students only
Get ready to live, laugh and love! We invite all Gallatin students—single, taken, or otherwise—to Meet Your Muse, the GAF exclusive speed dating event. Whether this means meeting future collaborators, friends, lovers, or all of the above, this is a space for you to interact with artists from the festival and meet new minxes at Gallatin to gab about life, love, and art. There will be students, artists, and festival organizers present to stir the pot and spread the love, so pull up and who knows…maybe you’ll meet your next muse?
Identity and Diaspora: Two Short Films | 6:30 – 7:00 PM at The Jerry H. Labowitz Theatre for the Performing Arts
Join us for a screening of two short films by Gallatin students Zhuoer Chen and Sawyer Gouw Ranzetta that each consider questions of identity and the ways in which our environment is key in shaping us.
Identity and Diaspora: Tropopause, a staged reading | 7:30 – 9:00 PM at The Jerry H. Labowitz Theatre for the Performing Arts
We’re at the nine-year mark since the end of the One Child Policy, a brutal violation against reproductive rights of women in China that lasted more than 30 years. Tropopause, a new play by Dejing Eloise Wang, lives in the shadow of this blood-stained policy and the commercialized adoption pipeline behind it. The protagonists, a young couple who are both Chinese adoptees, travel back to their birthplace and encounter an unexpected revelation of their first families. Using linguistics as a dramaturgical baseline, Tropopause investigates the dynamics of syntactical and cultural code-switching of a bilingual story in a monolingual society. Performance in Mandarin Chinese and English. Partial supertitle provided.
Friday, 19 April
Arts at Gallatin | 12:00 – 1:15 PM at The Jerry H. Labowitz Theatre for the Performing Arts
Open to Gallatin students only
Are you a first- or second-year student interested in the arts, but unsure where to start? Are you looking for opportunities to connect with juniors and seniors and hear more about structuring your own artistic path at Gallatin? Arts at Gallatin is a discussion panel and Q&A with current Gallatin student-artists pursuing a range of creative disciplines. This conversation will cover topics such as how to navigate the arts at Gallatin, class recommendations, internship opportunities, clubs, and more!
There will be a 30-minute meet-and-greet in The Gallatin Galleries between sessions from 1:15 – 1:45 PM
Arts after Gallatin | 1:45 – 3:00 PM at The Jerry H. Labowitz Theatre for the Performing Arts
Open to Gallatin students only
Pursuing a career in the arts can be a daunting experience, especially without any guidance. Arts After Gallatin is a discussion panel and Q&A where Gallatin alumni working in the arts (visual arts, performing arts, film/TV) will share personal experiences and advice on their professional trajectories.
Two Graduate Dance Projects | 7:00 – 8:00 at The Jerry H. Labowitz Theatre for the Performing Arts
Join us for a captivating evening of dance on film as well as a live performance featuring the work of graduating MA students Justine Kaneda, and Reyna Carillo. A panel will follow the screenings and performance featuring the choreographers.