When
Where CCS Bard / Hessel Museum of Art
Experience
The Search for Power can be experienced as a ticketed live performance or as an open installation without a ticket or reservation.
FOOD ALLERGY NOTICE
Please be aware that the table featured at the center of the performance will be set with—among other items—candles, tree nuts, grapes, dried apricots, and wine.
TICKETED LIVE PERFORMANCE
• Saturday, February 1 at 6 pm
• Sunday, February 2 at 6 pm
• Monday, February 3 at 6 pm
• Friday, February 7 at 6 pm
• Saturday, February 8 at 6 pm
• Sunday, February 9 at 6 pm
Tickets may be purchased from this event page.
NON-TICKETED OPEN INSTALLATION
In the open installation, the audience is invited to listen through headphones to a pre-recorded text and explore the archive box in their own time.
The Search for Power will be on view at CCS Bard / Hessel Museum of Art from February 1–23.
On performance days (above), exhibit hours are 11 am – 4 pm. On days when there are no performances, exhibit hours are Monday through Sunday 11 am – 5 pm.
The last admission for the open installation will be one hour before the museum’s closing.
The Search for Power was commissioned by Anti Festival Live Art Prize. The development was supported by Arts Council England, Shubbak Festival and brut Wien. The sound installation was commissioned by Sharjah Biennial 15 (SB15).
Fisher Center LAB is the residency and commissioning program of the Fisher Center at Bard. Tania El Khoury is a 2024–26 Fisher Center LAB artist in residence supported by the Mellon Foundation.