On Feb 7th, for my 40th Bday 🎂, I’m planning to meditate on the relentless flow of time with my friends in the way I most enjoy: an overly complicated series of micro-events throughout the city.

It will begin at sunrise in Lower Manhattan 🌅 and end in Bushwick after midnight 🌒. I’m scheming a performance at each location, some form of activity for transit, some food & bev stops, etc.

I’m not expecting anyone except myself to come for more than a single segment — although if you’re ambitious… 🌀

Vision 👁️ @reel

Posters 🗞️ @post

Highlights 💡

6:30–7:30am
- ☕️ Cacao ceremony at sunrise - watch
- 📖 Reading (by me) about meditation

8:00–9:00am
- 🥞 Breakfast at Pearl Diner - watch
- Collecting “Advice from the Past” on cassette for a performance later in the day

9:00–10:00am
- 🚶‍♂️ Walking tour of the Two Bridges neighborhood in Lower Manhattan
- The life of Alfred E. Smith (Governor of New York State in 1928, born there)
- 🎥 Video trailer for the tour
10:00–11:00am
- 🎤 Warm-up performance by Clairaudience - listen
- Meditation and deep listening session
- At the new HQ for Baker’s Falls, the venue-at-large that proceeded Cake Shop
- “Besides the world which we can describe, there is another kind of world.”
11:00am–12:00pm
- 🎶 Walking tour of Nolita, SoHo, and TriBeCa
details
- In this tour through NoLiTa, SoHo, and TriBeCa, we'll see how cheap rents and repurposed industrial spaces helped jump-start punk, disco, and hip hop—leading artists like Blondie, Sonic Youth, Run-DMC, Beastie Boys, Arthur Russell, Madonna, Public Enemy, and Grace Jones to cross paths, and giving birth to sub-genres like No Wave, Mutant Disco, and Electro in the decade that followed.
12:00–12:30pm
- 🎧 Brief interlude during the commute with Jen Ng
Soundscapes of Williamsburg
- A live recording during the commute to Dreamer’s Welcome of some memories of West Williamsburg, to be later archived as part of the oral history linked above.
12:30–2:00pm
- 🌉 Across the Williamsburg Bridge to Dreamer’s Welcome
- Group arts-making, decorating cassettes and other materials
- Right Now Mind by Sarah Conarro
about
- A participatory event series offering space for creative decompression, connection, and mindfulness—low-pressure gatherings designed to help the nervous system soften, trust, and open through art-making and conversation.
2:30–5:30pm
- Visit to my mother’s painting studio aka Studio 66 in Bushwick
- 🍕 Pizza by Williamsburg Pizza
- 📼 Performance by G. Lucas Crane
watch
- Collaging together the “Advice from the Past” tapes.
- 🎂 Cake

6:00–7:30pm
- 🖨️ Walk to Secret Riso Club, a community print shop
- Eli Dvorkin, Center for Urban Futures
Creative New York
- The creative sector—from performing arts organizations to design firms—is more critical than ever to New York City's economy. But mounting affordability challenges threaten its future.
- Eli will be soliciting ideas & asks on what the city should be doing to address these challenges
- 🌀 Reading by Neon Masharova regarding time portals

7:30–8:00pm
- 🏛️ Walking tour during the commute
- Architecture of the surrounding neighborhood
8:00–11:00pm
- 📚 The loft: my archival library
- 📕 The Other Broadway
- The 1977 Blackout by Cameron Cuchulainn
slides
- Based on his upcoming book about Brooklyn’s Broadway, Cameron Cuchulainn will give a brief talk about how the 1977 Blackout affected the built space that people can experience performances in along the street.
- 🪦 I’ve Got To Remember by Julian Bozeman
about
- A 30-minute solo performance combining live avant-pop songs with prerecorded abstract projections, exploring aging, masculinity, stubbornness, gratitude, and time through dated video technology and raw sincerity.
11:30pm onward
- 🏁 After-party somewhere else
- Where I won’t be responsible for anyone

You can RSVP for these various segments at the ticket link 🎟️