Pace Live

We're thrilled to announce our inaugural program for Pace Live—a new  multidisciplinary initiative encompassing music, dance, film, performance, and conversation, programmed specifically for Pace’s new global headquarters on 540 West 25th Street. The inaugural season was curated by Andria Hickey, Senior Director and Curator at Pace, in collaboration with Mark Beasley, who recently joined the gallery from the Hirshhorn Museum to spearhead Pace Live going forward. It will feature: a week-long screening of video works and films that document leading conceptual artist Song Dong’s ongoing performance work; Cinémathèque de Tanger, a film club night curated by multidisciplinary artist Yto Barrada, who founded the eponymous independent cinema in Tangier, Morocco; an installation and performance by Torkwase Dyson that explores the relationship between infrastructure, geography, and architecture, presented in collaboration with the Performa 19 Biennial; and a musical performance produced by pioneering French composer Éliane Radigue, co-presented with (opens in a new window) Blank Forms.

“The idea for Pace Live is like everything at Pace, a response to the way we see artists working today. In developing this program, we wanted to provide a space for artists to experiment, collaborate in unexpected ways, and work across different media. We wanted to create a space where the public could learn what artists are thinking about and why. Pace Live will feature established and emerging voices, boundary-breaking artists, and seek to cultivate the fundamental histories and new directions in dance, film, sound, music, and other developing forms.”—Andria Hickey, Senior Director and Curator.

“Pace Live continues the gallery’s broader mission to keep step with the concerns of artists combining painting and sculpture, from theater through dance to music and literature. Performance art has long been a testing ground for the exploration of new form, and as such Pace Live is an adaptive and uniquely positioned program drawing upon pop culture and the history of the avant-garde in order to support artists in realizing those works of art that the future demands. In an age of mediated engagement and a world experienced via the cell-phone and computer-screen, Pace Live addresses the increasing desire of the audience for first-hand experience and unique encounters.”—Mark Beasley, Curatorial Director, Pace Live.

Beginning in November 2019, Pace Live—occupying a 150-seat multi-use space on the gallery’s 7th floor—will give artists, scholars, and other critical forces in the field the opportunity and flexibility to experiment across a range of disciplines and connect with the public in new ways. Additional information on the inaugural season of Pace Live follows below. Further information on scheduling to be shared in the coming weeks.