The Clemente Soto Velez Cultural & Educational Center presents ‘Parade of the Old New’, a solo presentation of works by Zoe Beloff including a large format mural on cardboard and a correlating publication. Dates: May 20th - June 12th. Opening Reception: May 27th 5-9pm.
In this one-time live event, New Orleans Musicians’ Village will be transformed into a shifting soundscape of intersecting performances.
A new work of sound art by Angel Nevarez and Valerie Tevere in collaboration with Danny Abel, Sam Albright, Denise Bonis, Tom Chute, Sula Janet Evans, Helen Gillet, Edward Lee Jr., Thomas McDonald, Margie Perez, Troy Sawyer, Gabriel Velasco, and Chip Wilson. Curated by Anna Mecugni.
With a participatory ancestral tribute to Musicians’ Village founding resident Council Chief Joseph Jenkins in the Black Indian tradition, featuring Big Chiefs Kevin Goodman and Kevin Turner who co-curated the production with Maroon Queen Reesie (Cherice Harrison-Nelson).
Organized by Faculty Lead of Archives in common and Social Practice CUNY fellow Ángeles Donoso Macaya, this event marks the launching of Las hermanas de la milpa: comienza con la calabaza / The sisters of the milpa: it begins with the squash, a bilingual and indigenous (Mixteco) cookbook by chef Natalia Mendez of La Morada restaurant. Like other initiatives devised by La Morada, this book seeks to disseminate indigenous knowledges and practices, and at the same time to conceptualize and expand the ways of doing mutual aid.
A special screening of the 60-minute award-winning documentary The Art of Un-War directed by Maria Niro. The film chronicles the life and work of artist and educator, Krzysztof Wodiczko, focusing on major themes in Wodiczko’s oeuvre such as war, trauma, and displacement. The event is hosted by Art Science Connect and supported by Social Practice Queens, Galerie Lelong, Polish Cultural Institute, New York, and the CUNY Central Office of Veteran Affairs. RSVP requested.
Digital media scholars Alexandra Juhasz (2022-23 SPCUNY Faculty Fellow) and Nishant Shah, authors of Really Fake (University of Minnesota and meson presses, 2021), discuss story, poetry, and other human logics of care, intelligence, and dignity, to explore socio-technological and politico-aesthetic emergences in a world where information overload has become a new ontology of not-knowing. Co-sponsored with Art & Science Connect.
Mapping and photography workshop asking participants to think about their relation to space in ways that are both familiar and unfamiliar, exploring themes of safety, community, and place making.
Join us for the Barcelona and Medellin watersheds community walk included in the Nomad Resilience Thinking Social-ecological Practice Actions. This event will be held between Medellin and Barcelona using multimedia tools discussing how local vulnerable communities are linked and affected by their ecological systems.
Hear SPCUNY co-director Chloë Bass, the artist behind two concurrent projects in Los Angeles, in conversation with curators Cate Thurston, of the Skirball Cultural Center, and Taylor Renee Aldridge, of the California African American Museum (CAAM), about the roles of institutions and artists with respect to the creation and stewardship of memory, memorials, and the presentation of private feelings in public spaces.
Gather in the James Gallery for a performative talk by Kuba Szreder concerning the precarious conditions of artistic labour followed by an open discussion about cultural resistance created and practiced by gig-economy workers, “the projectariat,” in Szreder’s words. The artistic projectariat--people who do projects to make a living--roam the global art world, where enthusiasm is paired with exclusion, mobility with poverty, self-entrepreneurialism with anxiety. The evening's discussion will be opened by SPCUNY Co-Director Greg Sholette.
Sam Solomon, Savannah Sevenzo, Claudia Treacher, Violet Marchenkova, Nehaal Bajwa respond to SPCUNY Faculty Fellow Alexandra Juhasz (My Phone Lies to Me).
Join us for a double book launch and conversation with Andreas Huyssen and Gregory Sholette, presented and co-sponsored by Social Practice CUNY (SPCUNY). Approaching the politics of memory from two overlapping perspectives, Huyssen and Sholette will discuss their recent books, Memory Art in the Contemporary World and The Art of Activism and the Activism of Art.
This special event celebrates the publication of My Phone Lies To Me: Fake News Poetry Workshops As Radical Digital Media Literacy Given the Fact of Fake News (Punctum Books, 2023) edited by feminist media theorist Alex Juhasz in conversation with poet Chet'la Sebree’s lyrical book Field Study.
