PERFORMANCE / MUSIC
MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 2, 2019
11:00 AM - 5:00 PM

Natacha Diels & Sam Scranton: I Love Myself Fully and Unconditionally
Building 10A, Nolan Park, Governors Island, Manhattan

Free
http://www.harvestworks.org/aug-24-25-31-sept-1-and-2-i-love-myself-fully-and-unconditionally-by-natacha-diels/

An installation in which visual effects subtly transform the interior of a house into . . . something else. Visitors are led on individual guided tours, starting at five-minute intervals throughout the day and lasting about half an hour. The composers, Natacha Diels and Sam Scranton, are both very good at transforming sounds into . . . something different. They promise this piece will be optimistic and life-affirming (which is not what you usually get from either of them). To me, it was only the inclusion of a Velvet Underground reference amid a plethora of references to truly crummy rock and pop songs that made me begin to think it might all have been sufficiently sarcastic.

MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Plenty of food and drink available on Governors Island(let me put in a special plug of the loaded Venezuelan hot dogs at Perros y Vainas). Afterward, stop for cocktails at Dead Rabbit near the ferry landing in Manhattan or The Long Island Bar near the landing in Brooklyn. (Watch out for odd Labor Day hours, though.)