Kiowa Hammons + Said to be dreaming Book Launch

Thursday August 25, 2022 | 7:00pm

Please join us for a live performance by Kiowa Hammons. In musical dialogue with the mail art installation by Emily Dunne and her collaborators in the Said To Be Dreaming group exhibition, Kiowa will perform a set in response to the images.

To kick things off, Emily Dunne and Kosmo Vinyl will introduce their mail art practice. 

A limited edition of the Said To Be Dreaming book will be for sale. $35.

To learn more about the exhibition, click here. 

Emily Peterson Dunne is an artist, archivist, and librarian based in Queens, New York. She works with found materials and has a particular interest in their individual histories. Dunne returns life to lost items and found photographs by creating collages or objects that embrace their mysterious pasts. She also creates collaborative collages through the mail, with pieces continually evolving, creating an ephemeral and potentially ever-changing artwork. Her work is grounded in a collaborative ethos and an interrogation of the solidity of both authorship and ownership. She is also the founding member of the Queens CorresponDance School based on the ideas and artwork of Ray Johnson. The QCS is a growing network of visual artists collaborating through the mail. 

Kiowa Hammons is a musician living in Brooklyn, New York. As a mostly self-taught artist, he has focused on the tonal properties of the saxophone and analog electronics for over fifteen years, creating a style heavily influenced by improvisation, Ethiopian jazz, progressive rock, and minimalism. Kiowa is a collaborator in the multimedia collective Hot Hands as well as participating in several groupings of musicians within New York City.  

Kosmo Vinyl is a London born, New York City based artist, whose work includes collage, painting, assemblage and appropriation. Self-taught, Kosmo did not become an artist until after his time working with Ian Dury & The Blockheads and then The Clash. "Punk Rock and what happened after - that was my art school !" says Vinyl.