Pollen: Crystal Wind
Benja Thompson
LEIMAY PRESENTING SERIES 2026: CONSTELLATION SERIES
Pollen presented a second night of expanded cinema on January 25, 2026 at CAVE featuring two curated programs. This Pollen instance transmitted video spells submitted by artists from around the world, alongside experimental performances folding the screen and stage.
Documentation
Part of the planned program had to be rescheduled due to the storm. The adjusted program ran as follows:
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Reverie by Gonzaga Gómez-Cortázar Romero
MURMUR by Irene Dionisio
Blue Transcendence by Erica Schreiner
Repertoire of Death by Guadalupe Arellanes
The Motion by Lisa Danikovych
Fifteen by Mattie McGarey
Misericorde by Natasa Stearns
Noli me tangere by Mahda Purmehdi
All the Days of May by Miryam Charles
Tell It To Spring by Juyi Mao
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DEADEYE by Ian Gibbins
Accidental Animals by Felix Samsa and Leila Fatima Keita
Battery Eupocalyptus by Clare Schweitzer
Rattle by Eduardo Herrera
Prelude to a flash by Nicolas Onischuk
Little balls of mercury by Andrea Marquez
Circa by Ceri Bythesea
tectum argenti by Joanna Ruth Byrne
The Eyes by Wang Xun
the water was here by Nemo Camus and Sophie Sherman
Nowhere/Somewhere by Kerry Baldry
I Will Now Repeat The Last Word Sent by Gia Abucejo and Alyxandra Ciale Charfauros
Object Identifier
AMP.PRG.2026.ConSr.3Year Created
2026Performance dates
2026-01-25 00:00:00
Language
EnglishCurated Filters
Space / Location
Premiere Venue
CAVE Home Of LEIMAY58 Grand St - Brooklyn NY
Produced and Curated by Benja Thompson
Ximena Garnica, Shige Moriya
Pollen is produced and curated by Benja Thompson as part of the LEIMAY Constellation Series, co-presented with LEIMAY at CAVE, Williamsburg, Brooklyn, within WEAVE.
LEIMAY is supported, in part, by the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature. And the Howard Gilman Foundation, the Mertz Gilmore Foundation, The New York Community Trust, the Mellon Foundation and many generous contributions from individual donors.
LEIMAY’s works, community, and coalition programs are supported in part, by public funds from the New York City Department Of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council; National Endowment for the Arts; the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature; the NYC Women’s Fund for Media, Music and Theatre by the City of New York Mayor’s Office of Media and Entertainment in association with The New York Foundation for the Arts. And by Creative Capital, the Harkness Foundation for Dance, the National Performance Network (NPN); and the New England Foundation for the Arts’ National Dance Project, with lead funding from the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation and the Mellon Foundation.
Past supporters have included A.R.T./New York’s NYC Small Theatre Fund made possible with support from the Howard Gilman Foundation, The Harkness Foundation for Dance, Café Royal Cultural Foundation, Japan Foundation, IndieSpace, National Dance Project, Dance/NYC.
