In-Person

What Else? is a series of co-created solidarity economy themed comedy shows. the shows will hold a practice of shared laughter as we answer the questions: what can the solidarity economy offer us, after and instead of capitalism, humorously, breathfully? how can humor make the solidarity economy compelling, inviting, appealing? what's funny and beautiful about it?

Three Asian American-led East Coast hardcore punk bands—No Model, Material Support, and Dog Breath—join forces for an epic showcase. Lyrically, these groups create music that addresses generational trauma, racism, war, social justice, and liberation in service of opening a conversation about the state of the punk scene and the use of the genre to assert fully empowered Asian American narratives rooted in anti-colonial resistance. Their work embraces the struggle of every person raging against oppression and inequality, both at home and abroad.

It’s the Time of the Season is an interactive public event presented by Prem Krishnamurthy and Sam Rauch: Department of Transformation (DOT). Amid a deepening crisis of isolation and loneliness, how might art and design function as ways of reconnecting at both individual and communal scales? In this participatory talk, *Prem & Sam frame how art and design can prototype new formats for togetherness, learning, and collective healing.

OUR STUDIES SHOW stages philosophy of mind as experimental processes of social mapping and modal operations. Considering our inhabitation of our own body-minds as legitimate empirical study (e.g. “instances of human thinking”) and our intuitions and ideas as important philosophical contributions, we practice thinking together.