“The warmth of the sun was a joy for most of human history, but thanks to human foolishness, this source of life has become the curse of our age.” Bill McKibben (@billmckibben.bsky.social) on shade’s fragile mercy. pioneerworks.org/broadcast/pr...

“Air-conditioning is not just a technology of personal comfort; it is also a technology of forgetting.” Jeff Goodell (@jeffgoodell.bsky.social) on the fraught luxury of cold air. pioneerworks.org/broadcast/je...

Heat won’t show up in family photos, but its quiet violence is felt beyond the frame. Emily Raboteau (@emilyraboteau.bsky.social) on raising kids and growing trees in the mouth of a lion. pioneerworks.org/broadcast/am...

Lucy Sante (@luxante.bsky.social) shares an ode to the season that scorches: “It was all those cars, all those drugs, all that red meat, all that money it sucked up and vaporized. Summer only remembers luxury and rage.” pioneerworks.org/broadcast/su...

I had the pleasure of speaking with @tega.bsky.social + @lav.io about their new exhibition — which engages with surveillance, data infrastructures, and climate — at @pioneerwork.bsky.social!

"How quickly a state of careless ease becomes one of mortal peril. Enter the future." @laurenmarkham.bsky.social for @pioneerwork.bsky.social: pioneerworks.org/broadcast/ed...

Broadcast presents HEAT WEEK—a series of dispatches from a world on fire. Ft @luxante.bsky.social, @billmckibben.bsky.social, @emilyraboteau.bsky.social, @jannalevinastro.bsky.social, @laurenmarkham.bsky.social, @philipcball.bsky.social. @wellcometrust.bsky.social pioneerworks.org/broadcast/se...

“Huge testicles, a long upright tail, and extensive territory: these are the foundations of wren triumph.” Now on Broadcast, an intimate look into the polygynous lives of wren, from Adam Nicolson’s BIRD SCHOOL (@fsgbooks.bsky.social). pioneerworks.org/broadcast/wr...

“The answer to death is sex.” Adam Nicolson on the lustful lives of wrens—an exclusive excerpt from BIRD SCHOOL, out now from @fsgbooks.bsky.social. pioneerworks.org/broadcast/wr...

Come see "How To Get To Zero", my new collaborative exhibit with @tega.bsky.social at @pioneerwork.bsky.social. It's up until Dec 13th. The show includes 10 pieces, covering the last decade of our solo and collective practices.

RIP Hermeto Pascoal, who in 2023 warned Joshua Minsoo Kim against what he called real death: “When people graduate, they sometimes think they know stuff. That’s what dying is. When you think you know, that’s when you’ve really died.” pioneerworks.org/broadcast/he...

Farewell to Hermeto Pascoal—the Brazilian master who found music everywhere. On the day after his 2023 set at Pioneer Works, he said to Joshua Minsoo Kim that death didn’t scare him: “People think about it as an end, but for me it’s just part of the journey.” pioneerworks.org/broadcast/he...

Einstein once said science & art coalesce at high levels of mastery. #NASmember S. James Gates, Jr. has found that fusion in “adinkras,” geometric diagrams that illuminate supersymmetry & help visualize hidden truths of nature. Read more in @pioneerwork.bsky.social:

NASA GISS folks talking about climate at @pioneerwork.bsky.social in Red Hook today 12-4pm. Come say hi!

“I just want to know her damn name.” PW Working Artist Fellow Kameelah Janan Rasheed and Jazmine Hughes (@jazzedloon) on ancestral presence, living records, and the power of naming names. pioneerworks.org/broadcast/ka...

“I don’t really draw and I don’t really paint, but me and words are tight.” PW Working Artist Fellow Kameelah Janan Rasheed and Jazmine Hughes on the power of archives, the practice of play, and the presence of ancestors. pioneerworks.org/broadcast/ka...

Working Artist Fellow Kameelah Janan Rasheed (@sprawlingtext) and Jazmine Hughes (@jazzedloon) discuss process as play, writing as high art, and why searching is the point: “Capitalism requires a certain sense of finality, and me and capitalism haven’t gotten along.” pioneerworks.org/broadcast/ka...

What kind of clam are you? In her latest memoir, Anelise Chen inhabits her inner mollusk to spin solitude into revelation. For PW Broadcast, Carolina Abbott Galvão considers CLAM DOWN (@penguinrandom) and the pleasures and perils of a life spent inward. pioneerworks.org/broadcast/an...

How do you turn reclusion into revelation without letting hiding become habit? In CLAM DOWN (@penguinrandomhouse.bsky.social), Anelise Chen writes as a mollusk to study reclusion, inheritance, and how our own survival instincts can injure us. pioneerworks.org/broadcast/an...

grilled my sister for @pioneerwork.bsky.social pioneerworks.org/broadcast/je...

For @pioneerwork.bsky.social, Jordan Kisner talks with Garth Greenwell about being ruthless with your art. Read the interview here:

"A library-based service might not fully 'solve' the streaming dilemma, but I think it would help foster intentional listening, which is part of the puzzle." A conversation between @jennpelly.bsky.social and @lizpelly.bsky.social for @pioneerwork.bsky.social:

Can we talk to whales—or are we just beginning to understand how they talk to each other? In Scientific Controversies, Janna Levin joins David Gruber and Joy Reidenberg to explore how sperm whales communicate through clicks, codas, and anatomy. Watch now: tinyurl.com/5n97bz2t

“I think any artist’s life is a kind of gamble.” Does art retain its value when everything else falls away? @GarthGreenwell and Jordan Kisner discuss Small Rain and devotion. pioneerworks.org/broadcast/ga...

“My whole aesthetic practice is predicated on if something is too much, you do more of it.” Writer @GarthGreenwell talks to Jordan Kisner on art, annihilation, and ruthless devotion. pioneerworks.org/broadcast/ga...

What if reality itself is a computer simulation? Theoretical physicist Sylvester James Gates on reality’s hidden matrix. pioneerworks.org/broadcast/pi...

“War Profiteers Out of Music should also include Daniel Ek.” Liz Pelly on how Spotify gentrified file-sharing culture, and what the future of music should look like. pioneerworks.org/broadcast/je...

“One conversation can change your life.” For Liz Pelly, it was a 7th grade friend telling her to download music on Napster. She joins @jennpelly.bsky.social‬ to talk streaming’s cost, and the future of listening pioneerworks.org/broadcast/je...

“It’s an eternal teenager sensibility.” Identical twin sisters Jenn Pelly (@jennpelly.bsky.social‬) and Liz Pelly stopped by Pioneer Works to discuss DIY music, music writing, and life beyond streaming. pioneerworks.org/broadcast/je...

Between touching down and taking off, Apollo 11 astronauts Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin grew older than their colleagues back in Houston. For Broadcast, Elise Cutts @elisecutts.bsky.social untangles the complicated physics of lunar time. pioneerworks.org/broadcast/lu...

On the Moon, time runs faster. But as our ambitions to explore the solar system grow, so does our need for a clock made for space. @elisecutts.bsky.social pioneerworks.org/broadcast/lu...

Nightmares, Freud's smoking habit, and the mysteries of wish fulfillment. On the Second Sunday of April, psychoanalyst Jamieson Webster spoke to novelist Leslie Jamison about how to breathe and dream through catastrophe. www.youtube.com/watch?v=s1Jx...

Watch ML Buch's spellbinding performance at Pioneer Works—the sold-out return of the Copenhagen-based composer, producer, guitarist, and vocalist. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y-jP...

Interactive cinema isn’t a game. For PW Broadcast, writer, musician, and @blippo.plus co-creator Claire L. Evans (@theuniverse.bsky.social) considers the strange art of playing god. pioneerworks.org/broadcast/in...

“It was a raucous, fun time, so long as you didn’t really care about movies.” Writer, musician, and @blippo.plus co-creator Claire L. Evans (@theuniverse.bsky.social) muses about the curious history of interactive cinema. pioneerworks.org/broadcast/in...

📄 New piece by @theuniverse.bsky.social on interactive movies, full-motion video games, and all the weird stuff in between (like @blippo.plus). 📡 @pioneerwork.bsky.social pioneerworks.org/broadcast/in...

“Is it a confessional? Is it Brechtian theater? Am I God?” Claire L. Evans (@theuniverse.bsky.social) on the past and future of interactive cinema: the art form that never quite succeeds, yet is somehow always just around the corner. pioneerworks.org/broadcast/in...

“She was the obvious third point of the triangle.” In an excerpt from The Mobius Book (@fsgbooks), Catherine Lacey captures the slow build of chosen family—relationships that change shape without reaching conclusion. pioneerworks.org/broadcast/ca...

What’s a marriage without marriage? PW Broadcast presents fiction from @catherinelacey.bsky.social—an excerpt from her latest book—on time, friendship and love triangles. The Möbius Book is out this week from @fsgbooks.bsky.social. pioneerworks.org/broadcast/ca...

“He’s what freedom looks like, what it sounds like.” Marcus J. Moore on Sun Ra Arkestra’s galactic elder, Marshall Allan, who just turned 101. Join us this Friday for a special concert from the visionary ensemble at Pioneer Works. pioneerworks.org/broadcast/ma...

For PW Broadcast, Marcus J. Moore writes on the living legacy of Marshall Allan, who—at 101—is still seeking new worlds of sound. Join us at PW this Friday for a special performance from Sun Ra Arkestra with special guests Colin Self and Young Boy Dancing Group. pioneerworks.org/broadcast/ma...

At 19, Joe Westmoreland fell for New York City of the ʼ70s, in all its brash, queer beauty. Back in print after two decades, we’re delighted to present a piece of the writer’s iconic book, Tramps Like Us, out now from @fsgbooks.bsky.social. pioneerworks.org/broadcast/tr...

🌟Join us in NYC for “Listening to the Whales” at @pioneerwork.bsky.social on Tues. June 24 at 8pm! Our Founder and Lead David Gruber will be in conversation with comparative anatomist Joy Reidenberg and hosted by astrophysicist Janna Levin! 🎟️RSVP for FREE here: bit.ly/4jP1b0Z

“I think every bottom is full of grace, right? Because we start moving in a different direction from that point, which is the greatest mercy when you’re caught in a destructive pattern.” Melissa Febos on celibacy and the hardwon lessons of her dry season. pioneerworks.org/broadcast/ce...

Streams, tumbling across time and toward the sea, have memories too. PW Broadcast is delighted to share an exclusive excerpt from @robgmacfarlane.bsky.social’s latest from @wwnorton.com, which we’ll be launching tomorrow at Pioneer Works. pioneerworks.org/broadcast/ri...

“Here are people for the first time, drawn to this place where water is born.” Ahead of his U.S. launch at Pioneer Works tomorrow, @robgmacfarlane.bsky.social traces springs, streams, and rivers through the centuries on Broadcast. @wwnorton.com pioneerworks.org/broadcast/ri...

Is a river alive? Tomorrow, we’ll host the inimitable @robgmacfarlane.bsky.social for the U.S. launch of his book, out now from @wwnorton.com. On PW Broadcast, the writer ponders the memory of water. pioneerworks.org/broadcast/ri...

Why do we die, if evolution wants us to live? For the latest episode of Author Talks, Nobel laureate Venki Ramakrishnan sat down with @jannalevinastro.bsky.social to discuss the biology of death and immortality. youtu.be/uI4keiLnVpc?...

Do you and your dog smell the same? In the latest from Picture This—our column in which scientists describe the power of drawings—neuroscientist Stuart Firestein breaks down the strange science of olfaction. pioneerworks.org/broadcast/pi...

Tickets are now available for @robgmacfarlane.bsky.social in conversation with the incomparable Joshua Jelly-Schapiro at @pioneerwork.bsky.social in Brooklyn on Weds June 4. pioneerworks.org/programs/rob...