Agathe Snow’s 24-Hour Dance Party Goes Down at the Guggenheim This Week

Agathe Snow’s 24-Hour Dance Party Goes Down at the Guggenheim This Week


Dig up your favorite 24-hour party people because it’s time to disco in the Rotunda at the Guggenheim. Part of the museum’s Storylines: Contemporary Art at the Guggenheim, artist Agathe Snow is staging Stamina, a 24-hour film premiere and dance party that will feature live music by Donald Cumming, I.U.D. (Lizzi Bougatsos and Spencer Sweeney), and more. It starts at 6pm on Thursday, August 20 and goes until dawn and beyond the following day.

Snow has a history of producing live events. Food had a prominent roll in her early happenings. She would pull up a pushcart to different places and serve food, and there was her War Series, where she invaded people’s homes and served food from a country the US had invaded. Snow also made a name for herself with her dance-a-thons. Four years after 9/11, she co-hosted a 24-hour dance marathon at Ground Zero in an effort to capture the energy of the NYC underground scene post-the attacks. For the 2008 Whitney Biennial, she organized Stamina: Gloria et Patria, a week-long dance marathon at the Park Avenue Armory. It featured over 50 DJs, homemade tequila and prizes for stamina.

Her arty rager at the Guggenheim combines live music, film and movement and features a footage of the dance party she threw with her friends in 2005. With the work, she aims to explore “social interactions, rebellion, and the redemptive power of human ingenuity and community.” In addition to the live performances, beats will be provided by DJs Eric Duncan and Ben Ruhe. From 6pm-4am, there will be a cash bar and light fare, and between 4am-8pm, revelers can indulge in a breakfast and juice bar. Check out a excerpt from the film below.

Storylines: Contemporary Art at the Guggenheim examines the way in which artists today engage narrative in their work. The exhibit closes September 9. Other events occurring before the show closes include Gerard & Kelly’s Timelining performance, which happens Monday evenings, and a screening of Matthew Barney’s The CREMASTER Cycle on Saturday, September 5.

Updated 8/19 at 10:45am – Dev Hynes is no longer performing. His name has been deleted from the list of performers. 

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