we are frenzy

fragmenting diffracting

shattering shimmering

coming in & out of sync

sounding out

collective disarray

is there a there here

in this interruption of alarm

ecstatic for corners

half known

half hidden

spread & coated

at the turn of each cheek

times is pleased to present the new york premiere of in the interim, burn, a new short film by artist Barnett Cohen, accompanied by a screening of anyyywayy whatever, the film–documentation of Cohen's eponymous performance that premiered at Amant in September 2025.

in the interim, burn performers: Deja Rion + Maddie Hopfield + Maxi Hawkeye Canion + Miguel Angel Guzmán+ Paris Cullen + Ray Tsung Jui Tsou ••• sound: Shamica Ruddock ••• voices: Erin Leland + Deja Rion + Ksenia M. Soboleva + Theresa Buchheister ••• camera: Laura Carella + Avery Johnson ••• lighting designer: Sarai Frazier ••• lighting assistant: Rodney Perez ••• stylist: JenniLee ••• editor: Sandra Itäinen ••• colorist: Marika Litz ••• producers: Mimi Chiahemen + Barnett Cohen ••• special thanks: Performance Space New York + Monica Mirable + Ana Beatriz Sepúlveda +Taja Cheek + Pati Hertling

anyyywayyy whatever performers: Laurel Atwell + Sally Butin + Maddie Hopfield + Deja Rion + Fiona Smith + Ray Tsung-Jui Tsou ••• curator: Patricia Margarita Hernández ••• producer: Erin Leland ••• lighting designer: Sarai Frazier ••• looks: Melitta Baumeister ••• stylist: Jenni Lee ••• intimacy coordinator: Willow Funkhouser ••• zine design: Leslie Rosario-Olivio ••• production fellow: Joseph Euoi Lee ••• sound: J.R. Bohannon ••• promotional images: Andrew Hallinan ••• performance images: Maria Baranova-Suzuki ••• pr: dan duray ••• director of photography: Corinne Spencer ••• second camera: Suz Murray ••• editor: Sandra Itäinen ••• colorist: Marika Litz ••• special thanks: Jon Neustadter + Will Palley + Caterina Zevola + Adam Kleinman + Leto Ybarra & Blanca Ulloa + Kim Donica  + Summer Guthery + Saskia Fischer + Melitta Baumeister + Michal Plata + Izzy Volpe + Anador Walsh + Tracey Burgess 

Barnett Cohen is an artist/choreographer whose work proposes a kaleidoscopic queer surrealism. Cohen has presented work at Amant, Canal Projects as part of Performa 2023, The Centre Wallonie Bruxelles as part of Performissima, Kunsthall Trondheim, Judson Memorial Church (respectively as part of Movement Research and JUF), The Leslie-Lohman Museum of Art, RECESS, The Center For Performance Research, Light & Sound Design, The Exponential Festival, International Objects, JOAN, The Institute of Contemporary Art Los Angeles, LAXART, Human Resources, The Box, REDCAT, Rupert, The Onassis Foundation (online), City Limits, Ryan Lee Gallery, JDJ, and ICP. In 2021, Open Space/SFMOMA published a collection of his poems alongside those of artist and collaborator Simone Forti. Cohen has been in-residence at Skowhegan, MacDowell, NARS, Rupert, and Denniston Hill. He is currently a resident at Pioneer Works and will be in-residence in Callie's in Berlin later this year. He is a grant recipient from The Foundation For Contemporary Arts. His work has been reviewed and featured in BOMB, The New Yorker, The New York Times, T Magazine, Artforum, The Brooklyn Rail, hyperallergic, Cultured, The Financial Times, and Riting among others. In 2017, Cohen founded the Mutual Aid Immigration Network (MAIN), a trilingual free assistance hotline for people detained in immigration detention centers across the United States. MAIN connects people who call with bond funds and legal services that can accelerate their freedom from incarceration. 

photo credit: Barnett Cohen, anyyywayyy whatever, Amant, 2025. Photo: Maria Baranova.