The Martin E. Segal Theater Centre, CUNY invites you to PRELUDE 2026 for
PERFORMANCE (Shared Evening)
Untitled: Study #1 | Music and Masturbation
Nile Harris | Ethan Philbrick
Wednesday, October 7, 2026
beginning at
7pm
Wythe Hotel, 80 Wythe Avenue, Brooklyn, NY
RSVP required; capacity is limited. Room details are shared with confirmed guests at check-in. There is no late entry.
Experience this shared evening as part of Prelude 2026:
Untitled: Study #1 by Nile Harris
ABOUT THE PERFORMANCE
No description.
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Nile Harris is a performer and director of live art. He has done a few things and hopes to do a few more, God willing.
Photo: Maria Baranova
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MUSIC AND MASTURBATION by Ethan Philbrick
ABOUT THE PERFORMANCE
An essay-song for solo cello and voice on aesthetics and autoeroticism.
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Ethan Philbrick is a cellist, artist, and writer. He is currently curator-in-residence at The Poetry Project and a member of the curatorial collective for Offerings. In 2023, Philbrick published Group Works: Art, Politics, and Collective Ambivalence with Fordham University Press. In addition to participating in a variety of collaborative performance projects and being part of the musical-theatrical project DAYS, Philbrick is currently making interdisciplinary works that cluster around three different conceptual threads: 1. experiments in music and theory on the nature of instruments and the politics of instrumentality; 2. compositions for vocal collectivities that investigate the contested history of anticapitalist critique; and 3. collaborative research projects that inquire into alternative relationships between music and dance.
Photo: Nir Arieli