Phase Shifting Index Summer Programming
The Polygon is pleased to present our 2023 Summer Programming. Always by donation, courtesy of BMO Financial Group, you are invited to enjoy performances, talks, film screenings and more that build on ideas presented in Jeremy Shaw: Phase Shifting Index.
July 13 at 7pm
Nothingness by Anju Singh
An original composition performed live in response to Phase Shifting Index. Followed by a Deckchair Cinema screening of What We Do In The Shadows.
August 10 at 7pm
Black Psychedelia with Phen Ray
Through a DJ set, Phen Ray will explore Black Psychedelia and its shaping of popular culture. Followed by a Deckchair Cinema screening of Lovers Rock.
August 23 at 6pm
Transition, Translation, Transcendence
A conversation between Qudus Onikeku and Manuel Piña about the intersection of transcendence and technology, to imagine collective African and Afro-Diasporic futures.
Image: Alison Boulier
September 14 at 6pm
Cultural Humility in an Age of Growth
Kim Haxton and Sussan Yáñez discuss how walking with plant medicines in a time of “psychedelic renaissance” can deter its ongoing collateral damages to Indigenous Peoples.
Image: Sussan Yáñez, still from the land teaches us our ceremonies, not the laboratory, 2022
September 23 at 5pm
Phase Shifting Index Closing Celebration
Featuring a conversation with Jeremy Shaw and a film screening. Stay late for a party!
Image: Jeremy Shaw, Quickeners, 2014. Courtesy of the artist.