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MIX NYC 30th - Sunday Night Showcase - Design of the Decades
Design of the Decades
Curated by: Flayr Poppins
The Design of the Decades showcase presents a stellar group of three mini-showcases by three epic and well-known guest curators who have also been pillars of the MIX leadership over the past three decades.
Sarah Schulman, who co-founded MIX in 1987 with Jim Hubbard, is a novelist, playwright, screenwriter, nonfiction writer, and AIDS historian. She is the author of 18 books, most recently The Cosmopolitans, which Publishers Weekly chose as one of the best American novels of 2016, and Conflict is Not Abuse, winner of the Publishing Triangle Nonfiction Prize. Sarah is currently collaborating with Icon Marianne Faithful on The Snow Queen, a stage play featuring 24 songs from Marianne's career. Sarah is on the advisory board of Jewish Voice for Peace, and Claudia Rankine's Racial Imaginary Institute. She is faculty advisor to Students for Justice in Palestine at the College of Staten Island where she a Distinguished Professor. With Matt Brim and Linda Villarosa, she is co-founder of the HIV/AIDS Studies Institute at the City University of New York.
In 2007, Rajendra Roy joined The Museum of Modern Art as The Celeste Bartos Chief Curator of Film, a role in which he leads the Museums year-round initiatives to exhibit and preserve works from its collection of about 27,000 titles. In collaboration with colleagues at MoMA and partner institutions, he has organized exhibitions including Pedro Almodovar (2016), Bruce LaBruce (2015), Wim Wenders (2015), The Berlin School: Films from the Berliner Schule (2013), Tim Burton (2011), and Mike Nichols (2009). For the Museums imprint, Mr. Roy authored (with Anke Leweke) The Berlin School: Films from the Berliner Schule (2013).
Stephen Winter is an award-winning filmmaker and artist whose new show Adventures in New America, an afro-futuristic sci-fi radio satire series, premieres Spring 2018 on the Night Vale Network. His 2015 feature film Jason and Shirley was called one of the years finest by Richard Brody in The New Yorker. His award-winning 1996 debut film Chocolate Babies premiered at the Berlin Film Festival and enjoyed a 2016 revival at New York's Anthology Film Archives and at the Los Angeles Hammer Museum in 2018. In 2004, Stephen was co-director of MIX NYC experimental queer film festival and produced Jonathan Caouettes landmark narci-cinema feature documentary Tarnation (A.O. Scott, New York Times) which premiered at Sundance, Cannes, LAIFF and NYFF. He has worked creatively with Lee Daniels on The Butler, The Paperboy and Precious, John Cameron Mitchell (Hedwig & The Angry Inch) and David France (The Death & Life Of Marsha P. Johnson and How To Survive A Plague).
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LocationThe Dreamhouse (View)
1022 Wyckoff Ave
Ridgewood, NY 11385
United States
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