Maspeth's Knockdown Center Is Packed With Performances This Saturday

MASPETH, QUEENS — Knockdown Center, Maspeth's modern art and events space, will host three exhibition openings and one concert this Saturday, April 15

The day will kick off at 3 p.m. with Flight "Over Wasteland," a collaborative project that reimagines T.S. Eliot's modern epic poem "The Waste Land." The project was created by visual artist Liliya Lifanova, composer Hiroya Miura and choreographer Davy Bisaro. Rehearsals are free to attend between April 12 and April 14 April, but the performance on Saturday will be ticketed. Tickets cost $16 in advance and $20 at the door.

The next event of the day will be the opening reception for "Hanne Tierney's Baby, Said Alice B. Toklas," "a self-performing object theater," as described by Knockdown Center. Accompanied by a soundtrack, the exhibition will use Knockdown Center's annex to bring to life a series of imagined arguments between Gertrude Stein and her partner Alice B. Toklas through the use of cloth figures, hula hoops, satin configurations and a system of motors and robotics, designed by engineer Oskar Strautmanis. The opening reception will be held at 6 p.m. on Saturday and exhibition will run through May 28. An artists' talk for the project will also be held 6 p.m. April 30.

The opening reception for "Formal Complaint," a project that brings craft, scrap and architectural minimalism together, will also be held at 6 p.m. on April 15. The exhibition features projects by Aria Dean, Female Background, Christopher Hanrahan, Mario Navarro and Megan Pahmier.

The day will conclude with a guest DJ set by Young Magic in Knockdown Center's bar, the Ready Room, starting at 10 p.m.

You can buy your tickets to the "Flight Over Wasteland" performance here. All other events are free.

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