The Pig

April 25, 2009 — August 09, 2009 4-40 44th Drive, Long Island City the PIG presents JIM DRAIN PAUL CHAN JEFF KOONS MARIO GRUBISIC PAOLA PIVI GELATIN SIMON MARTIN ROBERTO CUOGHI SCHUYLER MAEHL after being the loveliest show during art basel miami beach 08 last december MY FACE YOUR POPO YOUR FACE MY POPO RESTEFICK EUROINK PITTOSPORUM THE FRECKLED SHOW **OUR**WONDERFULL**SHOW** I SAY GOODBUY YOU SAY HELLO EVERLAND *MORE IS LESS MORE OR LESS* IN 80 TAGEN UM DIE WELT DIM SUM NEW CHINESE ART RUBBER AMERICARD YOUNGER BATS MUST BACK TO BED OLD FARTS CULATELLO MY ASS CONCORDE IS HERE NEVER FORGET A BILLION HAS 9 ZEROS ASS TO MOUTH AND BACK AGAIN will now open in new york city. a show made, curated and installed by all the artists involved, a colourful chaos of lovely details. a confusing show that will make you smile, feel light as a feather, bees in your belly, end of the world. a show that will make you come back an see it again, show it to your best friend and say yes. The PIG: Sunday School Summer Workshop and Performance Program Saturday June 20: MGMT KIDS video screening and release party. An immersive aural and visual presentation celebrating the release of MGMT's new music video, KIDS, featuring hand-made puppets and behind the scenes video and photographs from the shoot. DJ Simon O'Connor of Amazing Baby 8-11 pm, KIDS video premiere at 9pm Sunday June 21: Clarina Bezzola, Sewing and Drowning. Swiss Artist Clarina Bezzola gives a hands-on sewing lesson, demonstrating the relationship of sewing and painting. 5pm June 28th: Thu Tran and Bad Brilliance July 5th: Gianni Jetzer of the Swiss institute 5pm July 12th: Fractal lecture with Icelandic artist Ragnar Egilsson. July 19th: Q & A Session with Alan Vega, visual artist and member of the highly influential and perennially underground synthpunk duo, Suicide. 5pm July 26th: Dan Graham 5pm August 2nd: A discussion with Takeshi Murata on tweeked animation from the '70s and '80's 5pm August 9th: Trinie Dalton, Ben Jones, Dan Nadel. House Rules: Ben Jones and Dan Nadel Explain the Rules. A lecture on recent ideas in paper and computer zines, emphasizing being emotional and finding your human voice. Accompanied by a digital slide show and workshop. Trinie Dalton discussion of Bruno Munari's Original Xerographies and The Xerox Box, books seminal to the photocopy revolution in art as an addendum to 'zine making. 5pm