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.
It is a life conversation and walk between two art collectives in hybrid format (online/in-person in Brooklyn & Barcelona) between Brooklyn Vestigial traces of Lenapehoking Indigenous and Barcelona watershed memory of social struggles and hopes for the living conditions of its inhabitants with the construction of the new bourgeois city and linked to the trade of slaves taken from Africa to the coasts of the North American Caribbean.
An outdoor event celebrating the release of Echoes of Youth, an audio project mapping youth experiences in New York City's public spaces!
The Shared Dialogue, Shared Space: An Alternative Manhattan Project (SDSS: AMP) invites nine artists/teams to present their community-oriented and thought-provoking participatory art, engaging the community in conversations on peace-building. The participating artists/teams include Stephanie Alvarado with Nancy Paredes, Eugenie Chao, Yeon Jin Kim, brandon king, Moses Ros, Minshik Shin, The Square Theater, and V Tineo. This outdoor participatory art project will be held at the peninsula and front side of Inwood Hill Park, Manhattan, on October 21st (PLEASE NOTE DATE CHANGE, due to rain) from 12–4 p.m.
Penumbra is a conceptual art installation at the Old Stone House in Park Slope Brooklyn that draws attention to the millennia-long legacy of women using herbs for abortion and contraception, a ‘birthright’ that is part of a deeply hidden, repressed, and often destroyed global practice. As part of Picturing the Constitution Exhibit, Penumbra will be on view October 20, 2023-January 14, 2024. The opening reception is October 22, 4-6pm.
In this workshop, participants will be introduced to a women’s history of abortion; confront unexamined assumptions about rights, justice, and privacy; and engage in dialogue around what we want our constitution to mean. This workshop and related Penumbra kit and installation is a part of the exhibition Picturing the Constitution. Picturing the Constitution features artists’ responses to the origins, contents, and interpretations of the United States Constitution.
A ProtoScore is a durational gathering of artists, scientists and members of the public in Nairobi. This is a mutually generative and creative process that fosters curiosity and connection. It is an experiment for scientists and artists to explore collaborations. It builds relational connections between artists and scientists through a non-hierarchical form of conversation, where each person in the conversation has an equal voice. The conversation format was created together in Kenya between artists and scientists.
