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Auf der Maur sees the world cosmically, so the serendipity of her daughter’s Olympiad falling a day before her own ritual performance is not lost on her — nor is the deep significance of DRONE ’23 in the broader landscape of her life. “I work in decade chapters,” she reminds me. “It’s always been my way. And here I am, 13 years later, starting a new chapter as we speak. DRONE is an exciting baton handoff for my own creative pursuits, because I’m going back into my creative realm now, having established something I believe offers the world a little bit of beauty.” In 2024, she’ll step back as director and focus on her multimedia rock memoir: a book, a museum exhibit sampling the roughly 30,000 35-millimeter negatives she says she accumulated from taking a roll of film every day during her time in Hole and The Smashing Pumpkins, and a soundtrack to that exhibit, created in collaboration with Montréal musicians.
This year is the first time Van Buren has been listed as an official collaborator in Drone’s curation, though she’s been heavily involved in the process since the Basilica’s very first drone. 2023 also marks the end of Auf der Maur and Stone’s “unofficial and intuitive 10-year strategic plan” (stretched three years longer due to COVID): They’ve locked in their “anchor events” — Soundscape, Drone, Farm and Flea, a non-fiction film screening series, and Jupiter Nights, a “non-destination,” locally focused concert series Auf der Maur founded post-lockdown when she “realized that the whole world was moving to Upstate New York and everything was getting really touristy and weird.” They’ve also established Basilica as one of the Hudson Valley’s premiere wedding venues, leading to a surprise windfall that’s helped fund their riskier endeavors. And, with Drone and the opening of their summer season, they’ve finally unveiled the first phase of their “historic green construction project.”
“For the last 12 years, we’ve functioned as an industrial barn that has not had heating or cooling,” Auf der Maur explains. “We’d shut down after Thanksgiving and reopen in the spring with Drone. We’ve never had things in the winter, and it’s been hot and uncomfortable in the summer. But we’ve completed today, as we’re speaking, phase one of our all-year-round, fossil-fuel-free historically restored factory.”
Phase one includes a new glass-block, copper-top bar at which one could conceivably sit for the entirety of Drone, watching the full sound ritual from a less rustic, more industrial-chic vantage. Phase two will finalize renovations on several satellite buildings on the grounds and implement the radiant heating floors that have already been installed, allowing Basilica to operate as a venue year-round. For the foreseeable future, Basilica Hudson will continue on as a living, breathing work in progress, even as its current conservators pass the baton.
“The building is still the central muse to this project,” Auf der Maur says. “The poetry of transforming an 1880s industrial mammoth into a center of immersive conceptual art and open-minded people is, for me, the ultimate reclaiming of a world gone wrong.”
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