Composition for the unrealized Governor’s Palace

Powder Room 201 N Braddock Ave, #209, Pittsburgh, United States

Composition for the unrealized Governor’s Palace is a multi-channel audio work divided between loudspeakers, headphones, and the movement of the listener.

Gray Swartzel: Mother Tongue No. 1

Ellis Gallery School of Art 5000 Forbes Ave, Pittsburgh, PA, United States

Upon coming across a home video that presents both his pregnant mother and the artist as a newborn, MFA Candidate Gary Swartzel acts as a drag character of his mother in order to queer his existence prior to birth.

Lecture Series: Angela Dufresne

Kresge Theatre 4919 Frew Street, Pittsburgh, PA, United States

Angela Dufresne’s work articulates porous ways of being in a world fraught by fear and possession.

Grace Simmons & Sarah Kim: 6 or 7 souls

Ellis Gallery School of Art 5000 Forbes Ave, Pittsburgh, PA, United States

Capturing the past through a lens of make-believe and revision, "6 or 7 Souls" is a collection of paintings that we see as an attempt to “reincarnate” via portraiture, or through spaces once inhabited.

Hadi Tabatabai: New CFA Installation

College of Fine Arts, 214 5000 Forbes Ave, Pittsburgh, PA, United States

Hadi Tabatabai presents a new original installation in the College of Fine Art Great Hall for the wats:ON? Festival. The installation will open on November 2 with a reception at 5:00pm, followed by a talk with the artist in Kresge Theatre at 6:00pm.

Polis: Gindroz Prize Exhibition

The FRAME Gallery 5200 Forbes Ave, Pittsburgh, PA, United States

The Frame Gallery presents "Polis," an exhibition of the winners of the Grindroz prize, a stipend to support summer research in Europe by a music or architecture student.

Jakob Marsico & Chris Carlson: Body Drift

Kresge Theatre 4919 Frew Street, Pittsburgh, PA, United States

"Body Drift" is an immersive audiovisual performance that uses video-driven animation and multi-channel sound to examine the subtle shifts that take place in the development and degradation of sensory perception.

Alex Lukas: 87.5 to 107.9, 530 to 1710

Powder Room 201 N Braddock Ave, #209, Pittsburgh, United States

87.5 to 107.9, 530 to 1710 presents new sculptures and paintings by Alex Lukas examining this space of breakdown

Dine in the Dark: a Dinner pARTy

Dinner pARTy is a community engagement project in the form of a series of dinner events on CMU’s campus.

Summer Leavitt: We have a future, perhaps.

The FRAME Gallery 5200 Forbes Ave, Pittsburgh, PA, United States

"We have a future, perhaps." is a collection of seeking origins and creating, documenting, archiving moments of the artist's own queer existence and queer desire to prolong them, find representation, take herself into the future.