Programming-in-Progress is a series of free public programs in conjunction with the exhibition,“Cosmic Shelter: Hélio Oiticica and Neville D’Almeida’s Private Cosmococas.”

See below for event programming. Click HERE to download a Programming-in-Progress flier.

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PAST EVENTS:

Installation view, Cosmic Shelter: Hélio Oiticica and Neville D’Almeida’s Private Cosmococas. Leubsdorf Gallery, Hunter College, October 12, 2023-March 30, 2024. Photo by Argenis Apolinario. 

SATURDAY, MARCH 23
Exhibition Tour with curator Daniela Mayer at 1:00-2:00PM
Curator Talk with Daniela Mayer at 2:30-3:30PM
Kossak Lecture Hall, Room 1527, 15th floor of Hunter North Building
695 Park Ave, New York, NY

Cosmic Shelter Curator Talk Recording

“COCAINE neither toxic nor water” : Reevaluating Cocaine’s role in Hélio Oiticica and Neville D’Almeida’s Cosmococas is a presentation by Cosmic Shelter curator Daniela Mayer. Analyzing the most controversial aspect of the Cosmococas. This presentation considers cocaine as a driving force in Brazilian artist Hélio Oiticica’s personal understanding of marginality as a revolutionary position. It will further explore the levels on which cocaine operates in the Cosmococas, from translating its effects into supra-sensorial art to acting as a vehicle for countercultural protest.

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WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 28, 6:30-8PM
Building the Cosmos of Cosmic Shelter: Curatorial Team Symposium by Thais Bignardi, Rowan Diaz-Toth, and Angelica Pomar
Kossak Lecture Hall, Room 1527, 15th floor of Hunter North Building
695 Park Ave, New York, NY

Building the Cosmos of Cosmic Shelter Curatorial Team Symposium Recording

A series of three presentations by the curatorial assistants of Cosmic Shelter, Thais Bignardi, Rowan Diaz-Toth, and Angelica Pomar. The presentations explore themes related to works presented in the exhibition in order to contextualize the world of Hélio Oiticica and Neville D’Almeida’s Cosmococas.

Presentations to include:

• “Marginality as Process: The South Bronx and Hélio Oiticica” by Angelica Pomar

• “A Plan for a Practice: Hélio Oiticica’s Experiments in New York at the Boundaries of Time-Based Media” by Rowan Diaz-Toth

• "Gardens, Wars, Politics, and Cinema: A Discussion on Neville D’Almeida’s Jardim de Guerra" by Thais Bignardi

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SATURDAY, MARCH 2, 12:00-1:00PM
Hélio Oiticica’s Private Poetics: Conversation with Dr. Rebecca Kosick, editor & translator of Hélio Oiticica’s Secret Poetics

A presentation by Dr. Rebecca Kosick, author of Hélio Oiticica: Secret Poetics. Followed by a moderated conversation with Cosmic Shelter curator Daniela Mayer, this program will discuss the poetic nature of Oiticica’s writing practice as it transforms from his early practice through the 1970s. A public Q&A will follow the discussion.

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SATURDAY, MARCH 16
Screening of Jardim de Guerra (1967) at 1PM
Screening of Mangue Bangue (1970) at 3PM
Spectacle Theater
124 S 3rd St, Brooklyn, NY
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A double screening of two feature-length films by Cosmococas co-creator Neville D’Almeida. Both screenings will be followed by a virtual discussion with D’Almeida, moderated by exhibition curator Daniela Mayer.

Donation suggested with proceeds to benefit the Spectacle non-prifit. Pre-registration will be available, but tickets are not required.

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