Jeffrey Grunthaner, with Christine Kelly, Carlos Lara, and Tilghman Alexander Goldsborough
A Poetry Reading
Wednesday May 15th, 2024. 5-7pm
Lun*na Menoh and Brooklyn Rail co-founder Phong Bui in conversation following a screening of the documentary film Who is Lun*na Menoh? at TOTAH
May 20th, 2023. 6PM
Brooklyn Rail virtual screening
Screening of Blah Blah Blah: Mel Bochner In His Own Words with filmmaker Lizbeth Marano and Mel Bochner. Drawing upon archival footage and interviews, the film chronicles pivotal moments across six decades of the artist's career as told by Bochner himself. Screening followed by Q&A.
Saturday, April 2nd, 2022.
Tosh Berman and Andrew Lampert discuss Wallace Berman’s film Aleph, 1956-66, moderated by Anne Waldman.
September 18th, 2021.
Crackle & Drag
Crackle & Drag (2015) is a film-poem created by visual artist TR Ericsson. A haunting epitaph of maternal and filial love structured around a series of biographical vignettes and narrated by the artist’s deceased mother through several audio voice recordings.
The film combines still and moving images from personal archives in a diverse range of media. Formats include 8mm digital transfer, digital scans of 35mm photographic prints, polaroids and snapshots from the 1940s to the early 2000s, digital HD video as well as digital audio and audio transfer from cassette recordings.
Crackle & Drag will have its first New York screening on February 11th at 5:00PM.
Conversation between Melissa McGill and Brian Langloss from Oceana on the precarious state of our oceans’ ecosystem and the threat of rising water levels.
February 27th, 2020.
TOTAH presents A Reading, an evening of poetry organized by artist and writer Jeffrey Grunthaner. Featured readers include Zoe Brezny, William Lessard, Brendan Lorber, and Nadia de Vries
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Tuesday, February 26th, 2019. 7-9pm
Press Release
Conversation between Rachel Corbett and Mara De Luca on Rainer Maria Rilke as a critical source of inspiration in their respective work. On May 30th, 2018.
Screening of End of Love (written and directed by David Austen) followed by a discussion between the artist and Fionn Meade.
But For What’s My Axis? Part 1. Empire, the first in a trilogy of performances by artist Kara Rooney, composer Fatrin Krajka, and poets Marine Cornuet, Betsy Fagin and Laura Henriksen. With choreography by Dylan Crossman.
December 13th, 2017.
An intimate preview of When the Worlds Collide, a new documentary film by Malia Scharf and Max Basch on the life and work of artist Kenny Scharf, with the American Friends of the Israel Museum. The screening was followed by a conversation between Kenny Scharf, Jane Panetta [Associate Curator, Whitney Museum of Art] and Mary Ann Monforton [Publisher, BOMB Magazine], moderated by David Totah.
October 24th, 2017.
A film screening and discussion on May 1st, 2017, featuring award-winning directors Francisca Alegria, Jimmy Keyrouz, Elizabeth Rose and alumni from the National YoungArts Foundation, moderated by Annette Insdorf, professor of film at Columbia University.
Lauretta Vinciarelli: Light Unveiled
Conversation with Barry Bergdoll, Mary McLeod, James Russell and Rebecca Siefert.
September 14th, 2016.
SIGN/DE/SIGN with Mel Bochner
Moderated by Jason Stopa, joined by Brian Boucher and Prem Krishnamurthy.
April 20th, 2016.