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.
March 16th book release and show (organized by SPCUNY Faculty Fellow Matt Mottel): Cisco Bradley's "The Williamsburg Avant-Garde" / Andrea Wolper, Virg Dzurinko, Talibam! with Yuko Otomo (Recreate the Levitation of Vice Media into the East River 2015), Tamio Shiraishi, Marc Edwards' Slipstream Time Travel
A reading of new poems by Get Lit poets in conversation with My Phone Lies to Me: Fake News Poetry Workshops as Radical Digital Media Literacy, ed. Alexandra Juhasz with a foreword by Tara McPherson and afterword by Margaret Rhee (punctum books, 2022). Audience members are enthusiastically invited to read their own or another’s writing from the collection or new work engaging with the project’s themes.
A conversation between artist and SPCUNY co-director Chloë Bass and scholar and critic Hannah Zeavin about the greater recognition of the need for care in our social infrastructure, our relationships with each other, and our relationships with ourselves, while facing the simultaneous reality that modes of care have become increasingly technological and at screen’s length from our embodied lives. The follow-up to a talk hosted by the Brooklyn Public Library and the Art World Conference in 2021, this talk brings Bass and Zeavin together for continued conversation about the many meanings of care, care’s potential violence both in IRL and AFK arenas, and the ongoing importance of translating between digital and material form. The conversation builds on Zeavin's engagement with technology as a simultaneous mediating support and form of surveillance with respect to familial care (her book Mother's Little Helpers is forthcoming from MIT Press), dovetailing with Bass' ongoing artistic research project Obligation to Others Holds Me in My Place, a study of intimacy at the scale of the immediate family
To inaugurate Earth Week @ Greenwood Cemetary, Mary Ting will give a presentation on her work and its trajectory from personal grief to environmental research, lectures and projects, with a focus on the Grief Artlab. A walk and discussion follows the talk.
This workshop provides an introduction to some of the methods used in social practice art, an approach that emphasizes the potential of art to support positive social change. In this workshop, we will engage in practicing 'connection' to create an experience of community and care through listening, sharing and making.
