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SUMMARY:UnHomeless NYC
DESCRIPTION:7 March – 14 April\, 2022\nOpening March 9th 3-7pm (in person) \nOverview\nKingsborough Art Museum (KAM) is pleased to present UnHomeless NYC\, a group exhibition that brings together sixteen artists and artist groups who use participation\, activism\, and pedagogy as their media. Connecting students\, artists\, activists\, academicians\, and the public\, the show offers a forum to consider and better understand NYC’s housing crisis and think about our future as the city emerges from the pandemic in Spring 2021. \nBackground\nThe exhibition holds particular importance for Kingsborough; based on the 2018 #RealCollege survey\, out of the 22\,000 CUNY students\, 55% were housing insecure in the previous year\, and 14% were homeless. UnHomeless NYC was initially conceived to challenge the stigma of homelessness. Through artworks that highlight research\, statistics\, and activism\, the show will examine how the fundamental human right to housing has been eclipsed in this city and offering an opportunity to imagine a different future. \nArtwork\nThe first work in the exhibition\, Miguel Robels-Duran and Cohabitation Strategies’s (CohStra) twenty-four-minute documentary video\, Uneven Growth (2014)\, convincingly explains how neoliberalism has affected land use and changed people’s relation to housing in New York City\, especially after the 2008 financial crisis. The new landowners–the banks and hedge fund firms–manage their tenants as dots on a spreadsheet\, treating homes as commodities. This section also introduces examples of CohStra’s transformative urban design that suggests alternative possibilities for the future of our city. \nAcross from CohStra stands the show’s centerpiece\, a recreation of an installation from Martha Rosler’s If You Lived Here . . . originally exhibited in 1989. Rosler\, the long-time anti-homeless advocate and activist-artist\, invites contemporary local activists to use her work as their headquarters\, as other activists did in the work’s original installation. Another artwork in this section by critical urbanist Manon Vergerio is the Anti-Eviction Mapping Project (est. 2014)\, which provides the opportunity to view eviction data on a city map while listening to the recordings of the evictees’ personal stories. BFAMFAPh.D. an artists’ collective that bases its work in radical pedagogy\, will invite a group of KCC administrators and students to form a think tank with NYC housing activists that will seek solutions to the unique forms of housing and food insecurity that exist on campuses. \nMichael Rakowitz’s paraSITE workshop creates a portable inflatable shelter that galvanizes a do-it-yourself spirit and foregrounds marginalized voices for viewer participants. Bill Beirne’s Priority Seating (2017-) initiates change by asking gallery visitors to place the priority seating signs he created on public benches and other support structures to advocate for preferential seating for the homeless. Amplifying the messages of these seminal pieces\, the artist William Baronet will display in the gallery\, a selection of signs Baronet has been purchasing from homeless people for over three decades. Michael Corris will create a ‘zine\, Incidents on the Street: A Workbook\, based on the stories these signs reveal. \nCanadian artist Dominique Paul’s Median Income Dress (2015) contains LED lights that make visible the city’s rezoning and gentrification. Connected to the colors of online census-based income maps\, the dress changes to distinguish residents’ income levels as she walks through various parts of Brooklyn and Manhattan\, and engages the passersby in conversation about the changes they were witnessing in their neighborhood. Income and related issues of race also echo in Dread Scott’s two photographs from the 2016 series entitled On the Impossibility of Freedom in a Country Founded on Slavery and Genocide. In this series\, Scott places contemporary struggles for racial justice within the history of civil rights activism in the United States\, pointing to the foundation of inequality and calling for institutional change. \nCollaboration is a focus of the exhibition. Hope Sandrow and The Artists and Homeless Collaborative’s historical video\, Making Art\, Reclaiming Lives (1993)\, demonstrates the value of collective artmaking by documenting the creation of a mural by homeless women living at the NYC Park Avenue Shelter as they worked together with several New York artists. The show will also feature Sandrow’s Shelter News and Resumé project. The artist duo Susan Hoffman Fishman and Elena Kalman’s site-specific installation\, Fragmented Home: Kingsborough (2021)\, provides visitors the opportunity to manifest their ideas of home to create and collectively build a structure made of black parachute cord and 6” x 24” pieces of corrugated cardboard. As part of an outreach effort beyond the campus\, during the exhibition\, the artist Nancy Hwang\, in collaboration with chef Heidi Thomas\, will host eight extraordinary dining experiences for eight homeless people each time\, under Maya Lin’s Ghost Forest (2021) at Madison Square Park. At-a-glance Huang’s work makes us contemplate the overlapping issues of homelessness and ecology. \nUnHomeless NYC further proposes ecology and regenerative energy as alternative frames within which to reconsider the housing crisis. Considering the unique clothing needs of the homeless\, Sachigusa Yasuda will work with fashion-design students and others to reimagine modes of production and distribution with her anti-capitalist clothing line\, UpCycle\, UpLift. By altering recycled clothes to suit the requirements of those who live on the street\, Yasuda invites the public to envision alternative economic systems that are more equitable. Considering different models for habitation and community in the age of climate change\, Bibi Calderaro of The Institute for Wishful Thinking (est. 2008) will pose the questions: “What’s home? Whose home?” by hosting walks to various sites on the Kingsborough Campus–Urban Farm\, Beach\, and other locations–to consider how various other life forms make their homes in the environments that surround us. \nThe artists Maureen Connor and Tommy Mintz\, also of the Institute for Wishful Thinking\, will create a slide show that presents details about the exhibition and its events on campus-wide information monitors. The works and events both in and outside the gallery encourage visitors and students to apply the knowledge and insights learned through the arts and humanities to reconsider how they think about the housing insecurity that exists both on campus and in other Brooklyn neighborhoods. \nUnHomeless NYC is an experiment in community college teaching that connects the college with the local community. \nAccess\nThe exhibition will be in a hybrid form. The show and all events will be accessible through online after October 13th at: https://homelessnyc.commons.gc.cuny.edu/artists/ \nUrban Intervention\nDuring the exhibition\, there will be physical satellite events held in Manhattan and Queens. \nCOVID-19 Protocols\nWe will follow the CUNY Protocols for Spring 2021.
URL:https://socialpracticecuny.org/event/unhomeless-nyc/
LOCATION:Kingsborough Art Museum\, 2001 Oriental Blvd.\, Brooklyn\, NY\, 11235\, United States
CATEGORIES:In-Person,Virtual
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SUMMARY:The Artist & Homeless Collective (discussion)
DESCRIPTION:THE ARTIST & HOMELESS COLLECTIVE \nHope Sandrow (artist) \nDiscussant\, Nina Felshin (editor of But Is it Art? The Spirit of Art and Activism) \nZoom \nContact myamamura3524@gmail.com for login info \nIn the early 1990s\, conceptual artist Hope Sandrow founded the Artist & Homeless Collaborative\, an innovative New York City public art project. Combining elements of grassroots activity with media techniques\, she worked with homeless women living at the Lenox Hill Women’s Mental Health Shelter at the Park Avenue Armory and several New York artists\, exploring the transformative potential of art in public and private life. Together with volunteers from the art world and activist groups including the Guerrilla Girls\, Women’s Action Coalition\, and Visual AIDS\, the women residents called attention to their experiences through exhibitions\, published work\, and activist poster projects. Sandrow will discuss her project with Nina Felshin\, the editor of But Is it Art? The Spirit of Art as Activism (Seattle\, WA; Bay Press\, 1995).
URL:https://socialpracticecuny.org/event/the-artist-homeless-collective-discussion/
CATEGORIES:UnHomeless NYC,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Ending Housing Precarity
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CATEGORIES:In-Person,UnHomeless NYC,Virtual
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SUMMARY:WORKSHOP #3 (with BFAMFAPhD)
DESCRIPTION:WORKSHOP #3 \nBFAMFAPhD \nZoom (link will be sent after RSVP) \nPublic Event \nTo register please RSVP to Susan Jahoda susan.e.jahoda@gmail.com  \nIndicate which workshop(s)you will be attending. \n  \nThree Facilitated Workshops focus on the impact of food and housing precarity on the well-being of students at Kingsborough Community College. The first two workshops use Intergroup Dialogue—a deep listening practice that aims to highlight similarities and foster understanding among different groups. This final WORKSHOP #3 will be a public event on Zoom and will create a dialogue with other projects included in the UnHomeless NYC exhibition. \n  \nBFAMFAPhD is a collective that formed in 2012 to make art\, reports\, and teaching tools to advocate for cultural equity in the United States. The work of the collective is to bring people together to analyze and reimagine relationships of power in the arts. Among the group’s core members are Susan Jahoda\, Agnes Szanyi\, Vicky Virgin\, and Caroline Woolard.
URL:https://socialpracticecuny.org/event/workshop-3-with-bfamfaphd/
CATEGORIES:UnHomeless NYC,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Come Back Cities: A family event for the NY Deaf-Blind community
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a Sunday afternoon filled with arts and crafts activities\, theater games for youth/children\, and community resources that support the needs of Deaf-Blind youth and their families. Come Back Cities will provide a simultaneous in-person and virtual community gathering in a safe and accessible location in the Unisphere Gallery of the Queens Museum and on the Queens Museum’s website. \nTe invitamos a una tarde de domingo llena de actividades artísticas y de manualidades\, con juegos de teatro para jóvenes/niños y recursos comunitarios para apoyar las necesidades de los jóvenes sordociegos y sus familias. Come Back Cities proporcionará una reunión comunitaria simultánea en persona y virtual en un lugar seguro y accesible\, tanto en la Galería Unisphere del Museo de Queens\, como en el sitio web del Museo de Queens. \nAll people are welcome to attend this community-building opportunity for members of Deaf-Blind families to celebrate their experiences and stories. \nTodas las personas son bienvenidas a hacer parte de esta iniciativa para construir comunidad\, donde celebraremos las historias y las experiencias de las familias sordociegas. \n  \nREGISTRATION (Free) \nhttps://www.eventbrite.com/e/come-back-cities-tickets-302261892457 \n  \n‘Come Back Cities’ is spearheaded by the New York Parent Association for Deaf-Blind\, the Queens Museum\, and Brooklyn College MFA artist duo Kilusan Bautista and Lauren Zeftel. The event is also generously co-sponsored and supported by the Helen Keller National Center\, Social Practice CUNY and S.O.F.E.D.U.P. CUNY. \n‘Come Back Cities’ está encabezado por la Asociación de Padres de Sordociegos de Nueva York\, el Museo de Queens y el dúo de artista MFA de Brooklyn College\, Kilusan Bautista y Lauren Zeftel. El evento también cuenta con el generoso patrocinio y apoyo del Centro Nacional Helen Keller\, Social Practice CUNY y S.O.F.E.D.U.P. CUNY. \nFeaturing art activities lead by facilitators Ellie Bell\, Marlee Koenigsberg\, and Christian Paxton from the CUNY School of Professional Studies and other special guests to be announced. \nLas actividades artísticas serán dirigidas por los facilitadores: Ellie Bell\, Marlee Koenigsberg y Christian Paxton de la Escuela de Estudios Profesionales de CUNY y otros invitados especiales por anunciar. \n  \nDIRECTIONS / DIRECCIONES \nhttps://queensmuseum.org/directions \nSubway / Subterraneo \nPlease make sure to check the MTA website for the latest updates about changes to subway service. Please allot 15 minutes for the walk from either subway station to the museum.* \nAsegúrese de consultar el sitio web de la MTA para obtener las últimas actualizaciones sobre los cambios en el servicio de metro. Asigne 15 minutos para caminar desde cualquiera de las estaciones de metro hasta el museo.* \nFrom Mets-Willets Point (7 train) / Desde Mets-Willets Point (tren 7) \nCOVID Protocols \nFacemasks welcomed for in-person attendance!
URL:https://socialpracticecuny.org/event/come-back-cities/
LOCATION:Queens Museum\, Flushing Meadows Corona Park\, Queens\, NY\, 11368\, United States
CATEGORIES:Come Back Cities,In-Person,Virtual
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