Welcome to ><‘s
Diamond Set Archive
Glossary
Diamond Set Collections (DiSets): Choice selections curated to commemorate the unstoppable spirit in culture, community and good neighbor-ship. Often created for exhibition within a >< program, event or session; they are titled, themed and interactive. DiSets are designed to support wellness, economy, makers, arts and entertainment communities with an emphasis on local engagement. The Collections are also used in building the sensorial memories collected in ><‘s time capsule archives. Each “Capsule Momento” in a DiSet can be purchased individually or as a collection through ><.
Diamond Cuts: Each selection in a DiSet is a “cut”. These cuts can be based on various themes such as the 5 senses, a PG Cinema Series, Guest Artist Programming, Featured Selections. . .
Season: The ><Season the collection was released during. >< Seasons are based on calendar years.
Session: Curated muti-sensorial, multidisciplinary, digital & live gatherings, events or posts presented by ><. They could be Festivals, Series, Cinema experiences, Installations, performances. . .
Games: A ><Made or curated game is included in each Collection.
Collections Chart
| Collection | Cut: Audio | Visual | Scent | Taste | Touch |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2021>< SEASON @ LIC’s SEQUI FEST | |||||
| Virtual Opening: Womyankind R.ise I.n P.ower | Zitkala Sa 1876-1938 | Larysa Heniush 1910-1983 | Rose Valland 1898 – 1980 | Frida Kahlo 1907 – 1954 | Madame Elisabeth Vigee Le Brun 1755 – 1842 |
| Image |  |  |  |  |  |
| Sample |  The Sun Dance Opera | Yelena Tylkina’s Portrait of Larysa Heniush Excerpt from a poem in Belarussian  |  One of the many piles of recovered Germain loot 1945 | The Wounded Table Lost Art! Donated by The Artists to the former Soviet Union – last seen in Warsaw in 1955. |  “Marie Antoinette in a Chemise Dress” (1783), oil on canvas, 35 3/8 x 28 3/8 inches |
| Description | Zitkála-Šá or “Red Bird”, was born a Yankton Dakota Sioux and grew to be a prominent 20th Century suffragist, author, educator and musician. She became a voice for women and Native Americans, helping to secure voting rights with the passing of The Indian Citizen Act in 1924. She saw herself as a fearless “preserver of her Tribe”. Using her classical music training, Red Bird cut a trail of consciousness and hope between the worlds of “Red” and “White”. By composing The Sun Dance Opera, in defiance and resurrection, she played her peoples roots and evolution into one. | (1910-1983) Larysa “Hienijus” was a Belarusian Archivist, Poet, Writer, National Activist and Political Refugee. As an Archivist, Larysa was appointed Secretary General for the Belarusian National Republic while in exile, March 1943. She preserved, organized and hid valuable parts of the country’s archive, and was later tortured and jailed by the Soviet Security Service. As a writer, she published works from 1942-2005; including poetry, children’s books and more. English translations are rare, with one poem ” in the 1971 Anthology Like Water, Like Fire | Heroine of Art in WWII, Rose Antonia Maria Valland was an art historian for the Jeu de Paume museum in Paris. She was also a member of the Resistance, a spy, a military captain and one of the most decorated women in French history. Secretly, she protected, and eventually helped recover, thousands in stolen art. Relying on her sense of intuition in a mine field of risk, she unassumingly created and shared meticulous records with details, on the Nazi’s systematic looting of Europe’s cultural heritage. | Surrealist, Magic realist Painter, lover of food and party with an open appetite for the “Body & Soul Spectrum”. She held lovers of all ages and genders. Two of whom were life long friends and are directly associated with Long Island City: In the 1930’s Isamu Noguchi, who moved to LIC in 1961 and has an open Museum here. The other being Georgia O’Keeffe, who painted Long Island City from the rooftop of her hotel home at The Sheldon on 49th & Lexington. A 1932 Detroit article about Frida’s work was shamefully titled “Wife of the Master Mural Painter Gleefully Dabbles in Works of Art”; and still she rose in power to icon and beyond. | |
| Momento |  LIC’s Astoria Bookshop Book: Dreams & Thunder: Stories, Poem & The Sun Dance Opera |  LIC ArtistYelena Tylkina Spiral Notebook |  LIC’s Maxaroma Atelier Cologne Rose Anonyme |  LIC’s Astoria BookshopFrida’s Fiestas Cookbook |  Custom Dress Maker & Designer Alyson Moyano Etsy ShopChemise Dress |
| Game | Name, Sense & Memento Word Search |  | | | |
| 2020 @ The Black & White Victorian* *This record is under construction. | |||||
| Christmas In July | > Soundtrack Sing along Edition > Feature Record | > Drive-way Movie The Nightmare Before Christmas. > Demolition Wall Art Exhibit Gil Riley | > Cinnamon Pine Cones > Weather | > Halloween Candy > Movie Theater Concessions | Christmas & Halloween Decor |
| All Life Forms Welcome | > Drive-way Movie E.T. The Extra Terrestrial Demolition Wall Art Exhibit Gil Riley | ||||
| Fight the Nothing | > Drive-way Movie The NeverEnding Story Demolition Wall Art Exhibit | ||||
| Cut Transmission | |||||
| The Deep End |