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Broadway between 41st and 49th Streets 

New York, NY

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Jul 1, 2026

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Jul 31, 2026

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Nightly, 11:57pm – 12am

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Broadway between 41st and 49th Streets 

New York, NY

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Jul 1, 2026

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Jul 31, 2026

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Nightly, 11:57pm – 12am

Turn On #2
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Indonesian art collective Tromarama’s Turn On #2 examines how technology reshapes everyday experience, alters our sense of reality, and mediates our relationship with the environment. The work unfolds as a continuous, choreographed loop in which electric fans appear to activate shifting images and familiar scenes from daily life. What initially feels like a clear chain of cause and effect slowly unravels, disrupting expectations shaped by lived experience and raising questions about memory, association, and authenticity in a hyper-connected world. By positioning the screen as a site of continuous negotiation, Turn On #2 explores the ways in which contempo­rary technologies collapse distinctions between the real and the digital–disrupting how identity, memory, and meaning are produced through systems we both inhabit and attempt to control.

July’s Midnight Moment is presented in partnership with The Kitchen, which is presenting Tromarama’s first institutional exhibition in the United States, titled, Upon a Machine on view April 23–June 13, 2026. Using video, installation, and algorithmic processes to investigate the boundaries between virtual and physical worlds, the exhibition traces how information, images, and sound move across digital and physical networks, reflecting on the entanglements of technology, consumer culture, and daily life; they highlight how intelligent systems shape the way we see, listen, and participate.

Indonesian art collective Tromarama’s Turn On #2 examines how technology reshapes everyday experience, alters our sense of reality, and mediates our relationship with the environment. The work unfolds as a continuous, choreographed loop in which electric fans appear to activate shifting images and familiar scenes from daily life. What initially feels like a clear chain of cause and effect slowly unravels, disrupting expectations shaped by lived experience and raising questions about memory, association, and authenticity in a hyper-connected world. By positioning the screen as a site of continuous negotiation, Turn On #2 explores the ways in which contempo­rary technologies collapse distinctions between the real and the digital–disrupting how identity, memory, and meaning are produced through systems we both inhabit and attempt to control.

July’s Midnight Moment is presented in partnership with The Kitchen, which is presenting Tromarama’s first institutional exhibition in the United States, titled, Upon a Machine on view April 23–June 13, 2026. Using video, installation, and algorithmic processes to investigate the boundaries between virtual and physical worlds, the exhibition traces how information, images, and sound move across digital and physical networks, reflecting on the entanglements of technology, consumer culture, and daily life; they highlight how intelligent systems shape the way we see, listen, and participate.

Turn On #2

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The Kitchen

Founded in 1971 as an artist-driven collective, The Kitchen today reaffirms and expands upon its originating vision as a dynamic cultural institution that centers artists, prioritizes people, and puts process first. Programming in a kunsthalle model that brings together live performances, exhibition making, and public programming under one roof, The Kitchen empowers its audiences and communities to think creatively and radically about what it means to shape a multivalent and sustainable future in art. The Kitchen seeks to cultivate and hold space for wild thought, risky play, and innovative and experimental making, encouraging artists and cultural workers alike to defy boundaries and sending them into the world to remake art history and catalyze creative change.

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Broadway between 41st and 49th Streets 

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Nightly, 11:57pm – 12am

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