Tribeca Grand was proud to host an exciting exclusive film and video project in collaboration with VOLTA NY and Sketch Gallery during the Armory Show 2009.  Amanda Coulson, director of VOLTA NY, the darling of the Armory Show satellite fairs, commissioned Natalie Kovacs and Victoria Brooks to curate a 3-part project, entitled A New Stance for Tomorrow, including a site-specific screening program for Tribeca Grand:

A New Stance for Tomorrow - Screening Program Parts 1 & 2
The program was split into two parts, conceptually focused around the films of Charles and Ray Eames from the 1950s and 1980s and was screened daily in the Grand Screen at Tribeca Grand throughout the Armory Show.

A New Stance for Tomorrow – Part 2 Wildflowers of Manitoba mixed-media performative installation
The second major piece was displayed in Tribeca Grand’s Sanctum throughout the Armory Show and comprised an arresting mixed media work that incorporated film, performance and a domed installation by Noam Gonick and Luis Jacob. Wildflowers of Manitoba is both a utopian vision of an idealistic world and a model or vision of how things to come could be.

A New Stance for Tomorrow – Part 3 Soundscape and installation at VOLTA NY 7W
A New Stance for Tomorrow continued in the elevators at 7W – the site of VOLTA NY with a series of artists’ soundscapes and audio projects, including with Byron Broadbent’s Cine-Pod – a solar-powered cinema made from ‘smart glass’ – a switchable material that transforms from translucent to opaque with the start and end of a screening.

Following on from last year’s success, Tribeca Grand hosted VOLTA NY’s VIP Opening Reception on March 5th, 2009 with a special preview of A New Stance for Tomorrow. The event was co-hosted with the Guggenheim’s Young Collectors Council and VOLTA NY’s media sponsor, Art Review, and beverage sponsors, Grolsch beer, Basil Hayden and Mansinthe – Marilyn Manson’s own brand absinthe.  Trèfles a 4 Fleurs scented candles were provided courtesy of L’Artisan Parfumeur.