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.
Mourning Machine is a low-stakes participatory ritual designed to honor the history and resilience of the NYC theater community/ies during a time of uncertainty and reconfiguration. The event will feature Coffin Karaoke, open mic eulogies, lasagna, drinks, clown-tears, and more.
Join SPCUNY Faculty Fellow Tao Leigh Goffe as she presents her new book, a groundbreaking investigation of the Caribbean as both an idyll in the American imagination and a dark laboratory of Western experimentation, revealing secrets to racial and environmental progress that impact how we live today.
The Farsi Flows proposes a new framework for an alphabet. This alphabet bridges history, heritage, and the infinite possibilities of the future in a simple, comprehensible form.
The current exhibition Flight Into Egypt at the Metropolitan Museum of Art features several artists whose works can be experienced throughout the MTA system. Join Akili Tommasino, curator of the Flight into Egypt exhibition, contemporary artists Damien Davis and (SPCUNY co-director) Chloë Bass who have artwork in system, and Yaling Chen, Deputy Director of MTA Arts & Design to discuss how artists have been commissioned to make meaningful connections to transit stations and to the neighborhoods, communities, and riders they serve.
A day-long workshop facilitated by Nishant Shah and SPCUNY Alum Alexandra Juhasz in partnership with the Digital Narratives Studio at the School of Journalism & Communication, The Chinese University of Hong Kong. This workshop explores the technological shifts experienced during the management of the COVID19 pandemic, profoundly altering how we come together as groups, collectives, communities, and people. Registration required.
*NOTE: Postponed from original Feb. 1 date!* 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?
Activist mediamaker, scholar, writer, and Distinguished Professor of Film, CUNY, Alexandra Juhasz, announces the premiere of her latest experimental documentary, Please Hold (70 mins, 2024). Co-sponsored by the MIX Experimental Film Festival and Visual AIDS, emceed by “High-Profile NYC Drag Queen!” Linda Simpson, with a live performance by CHRISTEENE.
Join our SPCUNY Fellow Ali Motamedi for his Hunter MFA thesis show of 2025, Look Both Ways. The work exhibited will range from sculptural installation to VR, Photo, and Painting. Open March 6th through March 16th at 205 Hudson St. Featuring artists Meredith Bakke, Nava Derakshani, Max Eisenberg, Ali Motamedi, Magdalen Pickering, Rosalie Smith, and Emily Wichtrich.
Lead by SPCUNY Faculty Fellow Esther Neff, OUR STUDIES SHOW stages collective philosophy as a form of theatre. Spring 2025 sessions will involve "theoretical dramaturgies" (scores for thinking and theorizing together) which re-phrase, re-frame, and re-iterate such inquiries, particularly in relation to "biological" vs. "cultural" senses of sex and gender, de-alienation and "settler surrender," and the role of doxastic logics (belief systems) in collective self-recognition. All welcome; registration required.
