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SUMMARY:UnHomeless NYC
DESCRIPTION:7 March – 14 April\, 2022\nOpening March 9th 3-7pm (in person) \nOverview\nKingsborough Art Museum (KAM) is pleased to present UnHomeless NYC\, a group exhibition that brings together sixteen artists and artist groups who use participation\, activism\, and pedagogy as their media. Connecting students\, artists\, activists\, academicians\, and the public\, the show offers a forum to consider and better understand NYC’s housing crisis and think about our future as the city emerges from the pandemic in Spring 2021. \nBackground\nThe exhibition holds particular importance for Kingsborough; based on the 2018 #RealCollege survey\, out of the 22\,000 CUNY students\, 55% were housing insecure in the previous year\, and 14% were homeless. UnHomeless NYC was initially conceived to challenge the stigma of homelessness. Through artworks that highlight research\, statistics\, and activism\, the show will examine how the fundamental human right to housing has been eclipsed in this city and offering an opportunity to imagine a different future. \nArtwork\nThe first work in the exhibition\, Miguel Robels-Duran and Cohabitation Strategies’s (CohStra) twenty-four-minute documentary video\, Uneven Growth (2014)\, convincingly explains how neoliberalism has affected land use and changed people’s relation to housing in New York City\, especially after the 2008 financial crisis. The new landowners–the banks and hedge fund firms–manage their tenants as dots on a spreadsheet\, treating homes as commodities. This section also introduces examples of CohStra’s transformative urban design that suggests alternative possibilities for the future of our city. \nAcross from CohStra stands the show’s centerpiece\, a recreation of an installation from Martha Rosler’s If You Lived Here . . . originally exhibited in 1989. Rosler\, the long-time anti-homeless advocate and activist-artist\, invites contemporary local activists to use her work as their headquarters\, as other activists did in the work’s original installation. Another artwork in this section by critical urbanist Manon Vergerio is the Anti-Eviction Mapping Project (est. 2014)\, which provides the opportunity to view eviction data on a city map while listening to the recordings of the evictees’ personal stories. BFAMFAPh.D. an artists’ collective that bases its work in radical pedagogy\, will invite a group of KCC administrators and students to form a think tank with NYC housing activists that will seek solutions to the unique forms of housing and food insecurity that exist on campuses. \nMichael Rakowitz’s paraSITE workshop creates a portable inflatable shelter that galvanizes a do-it-yourself spirit and foregrounds marginalized voices for viewer participants. Bill Beirne’s Priority Seating (2017-) initiates change by asking gallery visitors to place the priority seating signs he created on public benches and other support structures to advocate for preferential seating for the homeless. Amplifying the messages of these seminal pieces\, the artist William Baronet will display in the gallery\, a selection of signs Baronet has been purchasing from homeless people for over three decades. Michael Corris will create a ‘zine\, Incidents on the Street: A Workbook\, based on the stories these signs reveal. \nCanadian artist Dominique Paul’s Median Income Dress (2015) contains LED lights that make visible the city’s rezoning and gentrification. Connected to the colors of online census-based income maps\, the dress changes to distinguish residents’ income levels as she walks through various parts of Brooklyn and Manhattan\, and engages the passersby in conversation about the changes they were witnessing in their neighborhood. Income and related issues of race also echo in Dread Scott’s two photographs from the 2016 series entitled On the Impossibility of Freedom in a Country Founded on Slavery and Genocide. In this series\, Scott places contemporary struggles for racial justice within the history of civil rights activism in the United States\, pointing to the foundation of inequality and calling for institutional change. \nCollaboration is a focus of the exhibition. Hope Sandrow and The Artists and Homeless Collaborative’s historical video\, Making Art\, Reclaiming Lives (1993)\, demonstrates the value of collective artmaking by documenting the creation of a mural by homeless women living at the NYC Park Avenue Shelter as they worked together with several New York artists. The show will also feature Sandrow’s Shelter News and Resumé project. The artist duo Susan Hoffman Fishman and Elena Kalman’s site-specific installation\, Fragmented Home: Kingsborough (2021)\, provides visitors the opportunity to manifest their ideas of home to create and collectively build a structure made of black parachute cord and 6” x 24” pieces of corrugated cardboard. As part of an outreach effort beyond the campus\, during the exhibition\, the artist Nancy Hwang\, in collaboration with chef Heidi Thomas\, will host eight extraordinary dining experiences for eight homeless people each time\, under Maya Lin’s Ghost Forest (2021) at Madison Square Park. At-a-glance Huang’s work makes us contemplate the overlapping issues of homelessness and ecology. \nUnHomeless NYC further proposes ecology and regenerative energy as alternative frames within which to reconsider the housing crisis. Considering the unique clothing needs of the homeless\, Sachigusa Yasuda will work with fashion-design students and others to reimagine modes of production and distribution with her anti-capitalist clothing line\, UpCycle\, UpLift. By altering recycled clothes to suit the requirements of those who live on the street\, Yasuda invites the public to envision alternative economic systems that are more equitable. Considering different models for habitation and community in the age of climate change\, Bibi Calderaro of The Institute for Wishful Thinking (est. 2008) will pose the questions: “What’s home? Whose home?” by hosting walks to various sites on the Kingsborough Campus–Urban Farm\, Beach\, and other locations–to consider how various other life forms make their homes in the environments that surround us. \nThe artists Maureen Connor and Tommy Mintz\, also of the Institute for Wishful Thinking\, will create a slide show that presents details about the exhibition and its events on campus-wide information monitors. The works and events both in and outside the gallery encourage visitors and students to apply the knowledge and insights learned through the arts and humanities to reconsider how they think about the housing insecurity that exists both on campus and in other Brooklyn neighborhoods. \nUnHomeless NYC is an experiment in community college teaching that connects the college with the local community. \nAccess\nThe exhibition will be in a hybrid form. The show and all events will be accessible through online after October 13th at: https://homelessnyc.commons.gc.cuny.edu/artists/ \nUrban Intervention\nDuring the exhibition\, there will be physical satellite events held in Manhattan and Queens. \nCOVID-19 Protocols\nWe will follow the CUNY Protocols for Spring 2021.
URL:https://socialpracticecuny.org/event/unhomeless-nyc/
LOCATION:Kingsborough Art Museum\, 2001 Oriental Blvd.\, Brooklyn\, NY\, 11235\, United States
CATEGORIES:In-Person,Virtual
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SUMMARY:UnHomeless NYC Opening Reception
DESCRIPTION:March 9\, 3–7 p.m.  \nPublic Event \nIn person \nOPENING RECEPTION  \n  \nProgram: \n  \n3–4 p.m.  \nGATHERING \n  \n4–5 p.m. \nOPENING REMARKS \nCurators: \nThomas Mintz \nJason Legget \nMaureen Connor \nMidori Yamamura \n  \nSTUDENTS WHO NEED HELP \nHattie Elmore \n  \nKEYNOTE SPEECH \n“The Right to Housing ‘Overcoming Homelessness– a Social Issue vs an Individual Problem’ “ \nRob Robinson\, Housing Activist \n  \n5-7 p.m.  \nIGNEA: AN EXCHANGE ABOUT NESTING TECHNOLOGIES \nBibi Calderaro \n  \nIgnea: An Exchange About Nesting Technologies gathers audiences around a built fire to talk about possible ways to inhabit the planet\, taking into account its scale\, interdependencies\, and temporalities. It proposes to rethink humanity’s relationship with fire\, energy\, and consumption. \n  \nBibi Calderaro is an artist and educator who engages in transdisciplinary practice in order to expand her audience’s perceptual capacities to foster reciprocal\, diverse\, and ethical relationships among life forms. Her work aims at building ecological solidarity within and beyond humanity.
URL:https://socialpracticecuny.org/event/unhomeless-nyc-opening-reception/
LOCATION:Kingsborough Art Museum\, 2001 Oriental Blvd.\, Brooklyn\, NY\, 11235\, United States
CATEGORIES:In-Person,UnHomeless NYC
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SUMMARY:Upcycle\, Uplift (Artist Workshop)
DESCRIPTION:This is an artist workshop with Upcycle\, Uplift\, which proposes a utopian solution to the current housing crisis by developing a line of recycled clothing created in workshops and remodeled based on the needs of homeless people. The participatory project invites the public to engage in deep listening with homeless people\, opening themselves up to the complex issues that drive people to the street beyond the stereotypical assumptions. By designing and creating clothes that meet the needs of unhoused people\, Upcycle\, Uplift helps to restore dignity to those living on the street. Yasuda further tries to establish Upcycle\, Uplift as a clothing brand and discusses concepts with college students and faculty members for an alternative economic system that can distribute profits in more egalitarian ways.  \n  \nAbout Sachigusa Yasuda \nBorn and raised in Japan\, Yasuda moved to New York City in 2009 and has been creating artworks from the worldview of a woman and an ethnic minority.
URL:https://socialpracticecuny.org/event/upcycle-uplift-with-sachigusa-yasuda/
LOCATION:Kingsborough Art Museum\, 2001 Oriental Blvd.\, Brooklyn\, NY\, 11235\, United States
CATEGORIES:In-Person,UnHomeless NYC
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SUMMARY:Three Public Events with Willie Baronet
DESCRIPTION:March 17\, 10–11 a.m. \nPublic Event \nWHAT IS HOME? \nWillie Baronet  \nKingsborough Art Museum \nIn person\, artist talk and signage-making workshop \n  \nMarch 17\, 1:30–3 p.m. \nPublic Event \nSIGNS OF HUMANITY \n2017 \nWillie Baronet \nArt & Science Building\, 163 \nIn person\, film screening and director’s talk \n  \nhttps://vimeo.com/221654766 \nSOHWAAH4 \n  \nSigns of Humanity is a documentary film that explores interrelated themes of home\, homelessness\, compassion\, and humanity. Willie Baronet has purchased more than 2\,000 homeless signs over the past twenty-seven years. He uses this collection to create installations to raise awareness about homelessness. During the month of July 2014\, Willie and three filmmakers drove across the country\, interviewing more than 100 people on the streets and purchasing over 280 signs. Signs of Humanity is a film about that trip. \n  \nMarch 17\, 3–4 p.m. \nPublic Event \nHOME IS A JOURNEY \nWillie Baronet  \nStarting from Kingsborough Art Museum \n  \nIn this event\, each participant will hold one homeless sign and march on campus to show their support for homeless people. \nhttps://www.facebook.com/events/306775864624572/ \n  \nAbout Willie Baronet \nAfter a prolific career in advertising design\, Willie Baronet began creating art out of homeless signs to raise public awareness on housing insecurity. Since 1993\, he has purchased more than 2\,000 signs from the homeless as part of a long-term art project titled\, We Are All Homeless.
URL:https://socialpracticecuny.org/event/three-public-events-with-willie-baronet/
LOCATION:Kingsborough Art Museum\, 2001 Oriental Blvd.\, Brooklyn\, NY\, 11235\, United States
CATEGORIES:In-Person,UnHomeless NYC
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SUMMARY:Thesis Show (A Pollicino)
DESCRIPTION:A Pollicino’s Thesis Show will be an experiential exhibition exploring past\, present\, future manifestations of identity related to gender nonconformity. Historical and contemporary themes of TGNC representation will be illuminated by suspended realities drawing from early animation techniques. \nDate\, Time\, Location: \nMarch 22nd from 6:30-7:30pm\, at Klapper Hall\, Queens College\, 65-30 Kissena Blvd\, Queens\, NY 11367 \nCOVID and Accessibility Protocols: \nCampus clearance required.
URL:https://socialpracticecuny.org/event/thesis-show-a-pollicino/
LOCATION:Klapper Hall\, 65-30 Kissena Blvd\, Queens\, New York\, 11367\, United States
CATEGORIES:In-Person
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SUMMARY:NON-LINEAR: QC MFA Annual Exhibition
DESCRIPTION:NON-LINEAR\, the Queens College MFA Annual Exhibition\, includes all of this year’s Social Practice CUNY Student Fellows. \nOpening reception: April 2\, 6-9pm \nGallery hours: Thursday-Sunday\, 5-9pm
URL:https://socialpracticecuny.org/event/non-linear-qc-mfa-annual-exhibition/
LOCATION:Culture Lab LIC\, 5-25 46th Ave.\, Long Island City\, New York\, 11101\, United States
CATEGORIES:In-Person
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