Social Practice CUNY

Identity in Context: Building the American LGBTQ+ Museum
2024-03-14 14:00 - 15:15 UTC | The Harriet and Kenneth Kupferberg Holocaust Center

Panel Discussion with Michael Kliën and Social Practice CUNY
2024-03-05 19:30 - 20:30 (America/New_York) | The Segal Theatre, The Graduate Center, CUNY, 365 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY, 10016, United States

Parliament (RSVP required)
2024-03-05 16:00 - 19:00 (America/New_York) | The Segal Theatre, The Graduate Center, CUNY, 365 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY, 10016, United States

An Evening with Wrong Criticism Magazine Hosted by Chloë Bass
2024-02-28 18:00 - 20:00 (America/New_York) | Francis Kite Club, 40 Loisaida Ave, New York, NY, 10009, United States

EMAP Capacity Building Workshop "Webinar on media (arts) and politics" @ NeMe
2024-02-21 16:00 - 18:30 (Europe/Berlin) | NY

Performances of ‘Julio Ain’t Goin’ Down Like That’ at QPAC
2024-02-21 - 2024-02-24 | Queensborough Performing Arts Center (QPAC), 222-05 56th Ave, Queens, NY, 11364, United States

Midtown South Community Coalition: Rent is Too Damned High
2024-02-20 18:00 - 19:00 (America/New_York) | The People’s Forum, 320 W 37th St, New York, NY, 10018, United States
Tue. Feb. 20 – 6 PM
Midtown South Community Coalition: Rent is Too Damned High
Location: The People’s Forum 320 W 37th St, New York, NY 10018

Screening of ‘Julio of Jackson Heights’
2024-02-16 14:30 - 17:00 (America/New_York) | Queensborough Performing Arts Center (QPAC), 222-05 56th Ave, Queens, NY, 11364, United States

Midtown South Community Coalition: Health Before Profits
2024-02-13 18:00 - 19:00 (America/New_York) | The People’s Forum, 320 W 37th St, New York, NY, 10018, United States
Tue. Feb. 13 – 6 PM
Midtown South Community Coalition: Health Before Profits
Location: The People’s Forum, 320 W 37th St, New York, NY 10018
Accessibility protocols: Masks available

Opening Reception and Screening of Uneven Growth
2024-02-08 17:30 - 21:00 (America/New_York) | Hudson Guild, 441 W. 26th St., New York, NY, 10001, United States
Thu. Feb. 8 – 7 PM
Opening Reception: Keynote Speaker, Clyde Kuemmerle
Screening: Uneven Growth
Panel Discussion: Miguel Robles-Durán, Shaindy Weichman, Robert Robinson
Location: Hudson Guild 441 W. 26th St. New York NY 10001
Part of UnHomeless NYC
Handicap accessible space

Community Engagements: The Finale of the 2023 SHARED DIALOGUE, SHARED SPACE (SDSS)
2024-02-07 - 2024-04-05 | Immigrant Social Services’ Storefront for Ideas, 127 Walker Street, New York, NY, 10013, United States

A ProtoScore
2023-12-14 14:00 - 17:00 (Africa/Nairobi) | National Museum of Kenya, Kipande Road, Nairobi, Kenya
At the National Museum of Kenya, Ford Hall
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; James Muriuki, Floor, Jepkorir Rose and scientists; Hussein Abkallo, Kelly Nakami and Peterkin Munywoki.

Biographies
Hussein Abkallo is a Biomedical Scientist working on broader applications of CRISPR/Cas technology and Synthetic biology in developing vaccines and establishing ultra-sensitive diagnostics.
Floor Grootenhuis is a contemporary artist based in NY. Her performative practice is focused on invitation, connection, and identity.
Peterkin Munywoki is a Veterinary surgeon. He holds a BVM (2021) and an MSc in Veterinary Theriogenology (2023), both from the University of Nairobi. He is currently consulting for Zoetis Belgium SA, a multinational pharmaceutical company.
James Muriuki, is an artist who has primarily utilized lens-based media in his work. His practice revolves around the transition of society and the development of rapidly evolving urban spaces.
Jepkorir Rose is a curator working alongside artists and affiliating practices to create opportunities and spaces to encounter each other in areas of interest.
Nakami Wilkister is a vet/reproductive technology specialist in livestock reproduction, genome editing, veterinary science, and stem cell culture. She also lectures at the University of Nairobi.

This collaboration has been made possible by the support of Social Practice CUNY, The Dr. Jayne Raper Lab at Hunter College New York, Steve Kemp at ILRI, and C& art space in Nairobi, Kenya.

Penumbra Kit: A Workshop on Reproductive Rights and the Constitution
2023-12-03 13:00 - 15:00 (America/New_York) | Old Stone House, 336 3rd St., Brooklyn, NY, 11215, United States

Picturing the Constitution: Penumbra
2023-10-22 - 2024-01-14 | Old Stone House, 336 3rd St., Brooklyn, NY, 11215, United States
Opening: Sunday, October 22, 4-6pm
Open hours: Friday-Sunday 12-4pm or by appointment
Penumbra (def. A partial shadow, as in an eclipse, between regions of complete shadow and complete illumination) is a project and installation that challenges the constitutionality of Dobbs v. Jackson, a decision by the U.S. Supreme Court, June 24, 2022, in which the Court held that the U.S. Constitution does not confer a right to abortion. Historically however, Justices and Scholars have argued that the founding document includes a penumbra: a group of rights implied from other explicitly protected rights. The term gained attention in 1965, when the Griswold v. Connecticut decision established a right to privacy based on the 1791 Bill of Rights and explicitly the First, Fourth, Fifth & Ninth Amendments, in addition to substantive due process rights of the 14th Amendment. Penumbra seeks to expand upon work completed by the art collective: how to perform an abortion.
When the Dobbs decision calls attention to the phrase ‘(not) deeply rooted in our history and tradition’ to explain why abortion was not a right granted in the Constitution, we ask ‘whose history….whose tradition?’ The answer is abortion history is women’s history as we draw 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. Here we juxtapose selections from Dobbs, placed on a background of images of groups of ‘men making serious decisions’ in relation to selections from Roe, placed on a background of women taking care of other women, all against a background of herbs used for abortion and contraception.

COVID-19 Policies:
Because of the interactive nature of our exhibit, face masks are required for all visitors over age 2 at all times during your visit to the Old Stone House. If you do not have a mask, OSH will provide one. All OSH staff members are fully vaccinated.

Shared Dialogue, Shared Space: An Alternative Manhattan Project (SDSS: AMP)
2023-10-21 12:00 - 16:00 (America/New_York) | The Peninsula, W 218th St and Indian Road, New York, NY, United States

Apply to be a 2023-24 SPCUNY Faculty Fellow
2023-06-30 | NY

(In)Visible Guides: Convening
2023-06-24 17:00 - 19:00 (America/New_York) | Abrons Arts Center, 466 Grand St., New York, NY, 10002, United States
Join Perfect City, The Catcalling Project, and SPCUNY Student Actionist Tiffany Zorrilla for a day-long convening of (In)Visible Guides. Programming includes a panel discussion, mapping workshop, zine release, and a neighborhood tour of the Lower East Side.

Echoes of Youth Sound Map Kickoff Party + Awards Ceremony
2023-06-04 18:00 - 20:00 UTC | TBA
We will gather outdoors on Sunday evening to reflect, celebrate the audio stories shared on the map, enjoy snacks, and give out cash awards for the Most Historical, Most Creative, Most Chaotic and Most Touching submissions, as decided by an esteemed jury.
The project itself will go live on the Echoes mobile application bright and early Saturday morning (June 3rd), so ideally you can visit the featured locations and hear their stories before this Sunday evening celebration.
RSVP for free on Eventbrite to be notified when the location is selected in late May! An outdoor location in NYC will be strategically selected depending on submission locations. This will likely be a public park or community garden.
Any donations will go toward a premium Echoes membership required to keep this project public all summer long!
It’s not too late to submit your own story! Anyone with memories in New York City from their youth can participate, no audio production experience necessary. Deadline May 24!
Check out the details here.
THE PROJECT
Echoes of Youth is a participatory art project created by artist Megan Hattie Stahl exploring youth experiences in the publicly accessible spaces of New York City. Audio submissions are combined to create an interactive, walkable map of sounds and memories spanning generations and boroughs.
HOW DOES IT WORK?
Participants submit short audio stories (1-5 minutes long) meant to be heard at a specific public location in New York City. This can be an intersection, a park, a coffee shop, a subway station, a church, a school, a beach, a university, a grocery store, a bus stop… and more! Stories can be as simple as a voice memo or as complex as a multitrack production. When someone visits your story’s corresponding location, you audio will play automatically through the Echoes geolocated sound app!
WHO CAN PARTICIPATE?
Anyone who is roughly between the ages of 15 and 24 (the United Nation’s definition of youth) or anyone who can create an audio story about a New York City memory or place from their youth. Folks in either category are encouraged to participate either separately or together; multigenerational entries can bring valuable historical complexity to the project! No audio production experience necessary.
BIOS
Megan Hattie Stahl (project director)
Megan Hattie Stahl (she/her) is a documentary artist and educator based between Portland, Oregon and New York City. Megan is an MFA Candidate in Integrated Media Arts at Hunter College and a 2022-23 Social Practice CUNY Actionist Fellow. She also teaches in Hunter’s Film & Media department. Her work uses video, audio, and new media to explore culture and communities past and present, physical and virtual. She is interested in musical histories and realities, and relationships between sound, place, memory, and collectivity. Megan loves digging into history and activating the archives, creating unique audience experiences that are both individual and collective in nature.
Chloë Bass (jury)
Chloë Bass is an artist who loves listening to sounds. She also serves as the co-director of Social Practice CUNY, an educational network that amplifies the collective power of socially engaged artists, scholars, and advocates throughout the City University of New York’s rich tapestry of faculty, staff, and students working for social justice.
Coline Chevrin (jury)
Coline Chevrin (The Graduate Center) is fourth-year Ph.D. student in Geography at the department of Earth and Environmental Sciences. After a Master’s Degree in Territorial Policies for Sustainable Development, Coline specialized in territorial and development studies. She was an assistant professor and researcher in Argentina at the Universidad Nacional de Rosario from 2013 to 2017. Her research focuses on the impact of the soybean extractivist model on the restructuring of the city of Rosario, Argentina. She analyses how the extractive frontier is materialized in the different spaces of the city, how communities organize to resist enclosure and displacement and to secure space to create beautiful lives. She is particularly interested in Latin American situated knowledge, decolonial praxis, Global South and feminist geographies. Coline has been experimenting visualizing her research through documentary photography and alternative methods and has incorporated working with artists as part of her praxis. She is an adjunct at the Geography Department at Hunter College.
Meryl Jones (jury)
Meryl Jones (they/them) is a filmmaker, sound artist, and actor. They came to filmmaking for its capacity to intermingle and complicate multiple self-expressions. Their work blurs the boundaries between narrative, experimental, documentary, and home video. And they especially love the process of sound and how it can be in dissonance to the image! They have directed three short films; Goldilocks, The Love Spell, and Dom screened at various festivals including Oberhausen Kurzfilmtage, Newfest, and online for The New Yorker Magazine and No Budge. They are a co-founder of Sweet Potato Productions and sometimes educator at Brooklyn-based analogue film-collective Mono No Aware.”

Citation Needed Book Launch
2023-05-25 17:00 - 18:30 UTC | 14 Street Y, 344 E 14th Street, New York, NY, 10003, United States
Artist Ari Wolff and The 14th Street Y are thrilled to announce the debut of Citation Needed, an experimental publishing initiative designed to support and distribute artist books made by young people. Joined by the authors and open to the public, the book launch will be May 25th, 5:00–6:30 pm, on the rooftop of the 14th Street Y. The evening will feature 10+ original titles created by 3rd–5th graders, authors meet-and-greet, and interactive games.
The Citation Needed book launch is the culmination of a year-long collaboration between Ari Wolff and the 14th Street Y, in partnership with Social Practice CUNY and Printed Matter / St Marks. Copies of students’ artist books will be on display and available for purchase at Printed Matter / St Marks. A set of the books will also have a permanent home in the Artist Book Collection at the Center for Book Arts, as the first works by children to be added to the collection.
“The most incredible part of this process has been watching our workspace come together; we started with three students, now we are at thirteen,” said Ari Wolff. “They’ve taught each other how to use the typewriters and copier and how to problem solve when they get stuck. I feel really lucky to be included in this creative process.”
This project was incubated as an after school workspace, in which young people were invited to experiment with visual poetry, xerography, typewriting, and book arts. Embracing a process of chance, many of the works created in this class were inspired through accidents. After many months of creation, editing, printing, and binding, the authors and illustrators are excited to share their work. These artist books are an opportunity to honor young people’s inner worlds, autonomy, and ability to create meaningful work that challenges oppressive systems, demands of coherence, and the status quo.
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About Ari Wolff
Ari Wolff is a multidisciplinary artist, writer, and educator whose practice explores language as a visual object. Ari’s work proposes alternate modes of reading and seeing through mark-making, xerography, sculpture, text, and book arts. For the last decade, Ari has worked with schools and community-based organizations to create process-based projects that meet at the intersection of art and literacy. Ari’s work has appeared at Longwood Gallery, Plaxall Gallery, Collar Works, the Foundry, and in POETRY Magazine, among other places. Ari holds an MFA in Studio Art and Social Practice program from Queens College.
About The 14th Street Y
The 14th Street Y is a vibrant community center grounded in the belief that contemporary Jewish sensibilities can be a source of inspiration, connection, and learning for the individuals and families we serve throughout New York City’s East Village and beyond. With a health and wellness center, childhood, parenting and adult education and enrichment programs, and an innovative arts and culture department, the 14Y is committed to the development of the whole person and bettering people’s lives by strengthening family connections and building inclusive and sustainable communities. The 14Y is part of Educational Alliance’s network of community centers in Lower Manhattan. We believe strong communities can transform lives. Our programs turn strangers into neighbors and provide New Yorkers access to quality education, health and wellness services, arts and culture, and civic engagement opportunities. Learn more at 14StreetY.org.
About Printed Matter / St Marks
Printed Matter is a non-profit dedicated to artist books. Printed Matter / St Marks, their East Village bookstore, focuses on books and programming that celebrate the history of avant garde art and countercultural publications in Lower Manhattan. They host a lively schedule of public events including book launches, readings, panel discussions, performances and bookbinding workshops.

Charting the Archive of Ancestral Histories and Place with artist Kamau Ware
2023-05-10 18:00 UTC | James Gallery, CUNY Graduate Center, 365 Fifth Avenue, NYC, NYC, NY, United States
How do we build an inclusive archive? What are some archival practices and tools for affecting repair, especially from the point of place? Join the conversation with Kamau Ware and Jennifer Jones, as they consider archival research methodologies, how they manifest in art practice, and how these expanded histories may be used to create futures.
Kamau Ware develops narratives about African Diasporic history through photography, films, exhibitions, and social practice. The Black Gotham Experience (BGX), an organization he founded in 2010, utilizes art and walking tours to illustrate the impact of the African Diaspora in New York City. The Black Gotham Experience has been in residence in the Seaport District of Lower Manhattan since 2017, serving as a gallery, event space, and visitor’s center for walks.
James Gallery Andrew W. Mellon Fellow and artist Jennifer Jones (Ph.D. Program in Art History and SPCUNY). Jones’ auto-ethnographic research is inspired by turn-of-the-century family photographs, set in one of the first free Black settlements in NYC and one of the oldest continuously occupied settlements in the country. She is currently researching methods of research to highlight or unearth histories that are left out of traditional archives.
Registration is not required.
COVID-19/BUILDING ENTRY POLICY
CUNY attendees must show proof of vaccination by presenting a valid CUNY Access Pass through the CLEARED4 health validation platform upon entry. Non-CUNY visitors will need to show proof of ID by presenting a valid government-issued photo document. See the full Building Entry Policy for more information.

NYC & Medellin walk/dialogue: Nomad Indigenous Resilience Thinking Social-ecological Practice
2023-05-07 11:00 - 12:15 (America/New_York) | NY
It is a life conversation and walk between two art collectives in a online format in New York (Urban Resilience Thinking Initiatives, Rafael de Balanzo, Christelle El Hage and Gerardo Santos) & Medellin (Espacio para Habitar, Alix Camacho and Clara Arroyave) discussing between Vestigial traces of Indigenous in Medellin watershed (the Cerro Nutibarra and Medellin river) and the Matinecock and Canarsie tribes, the first inhabitants of Flushing Bay and wetlands at Corona Meadows.
Participate on Zoom here.

Brooklyn & Barcelona walk/dialogue: Nomad Indigenous Resilience Thinking Social-ecological Practice
2023-04-30 11:00 - 12:30 (America/New_York) | Weeksville Heritage Center, 158 Buffalo Avenue, Brooklyn, NY, United States
It is a life conversation and walk between two art collectives in hybrid format online/in-person in Brooklyn (Urban Resilience Thinking Initiatives and Pratt Institute) & Barcelona (Sitesize Art Collective) 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.
People that would like to participate by zoom, must connect to the following zoom link: https://us02web.zoom.us/my/rafaeldebalanzo

People to participate in person in Barcelona, the meeting point address is: Parc de la Ciutadella, Quiosc de la Cascada monumental.

Organized by:

Brooklyn: Rafael de Balanzo, Jeffrey Hogrefe and Scott Ruff
Barcelona: Elvira Pujol and Joan Vila-Puig

Community Convening: We're Not Softening Our Resistance
2023-04-29 13:00 - 15:00 UTC | The Bronx Museum, 1040 Grand Concourse, The Bronx, NY, 10456, United States

Practicing Connection IRL // rooted sharing, listening and making
2023-04-22 10:00 - 12:00 UTC | Interfaith Center of New York, 475 Riverside Drive #540, New York, NY, 10115, United States
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.
We will perform a listening score, ‘this is a piece,’ that invites us to consider what we need as creative agents. We will then guide participants in making an artist book or zine, which are tools that social practice artists often use as jumping off points for dialogue, tools for celebration, and objects for collective reflection. Sharing, listening and making are methods that we use in our own practice and we hope that by working through these methods together, these tools may support the work that matters most to you.
Workshop leads:
Cristina Ferrigno is an interdisciplinary artist and educator based in Queens, NY. Cristina’s work explores identity and belonging, through lived experiences, photographs, zines, and an array of socially-engaged local and international projects. Her work has appeared at the Queens Museum, La Bodega Gallery, Local Project Art Space, AS220 Gallery, and New Women Space, among others. Cristina completed her BFA at Maryland Institute College of Art and recently completed her MFA with a focus on Social Practice at Queens College. She currently serves as a teaching artist with the Queens Museum, The Mosaic Project, and Sunnyside Arts.
Floor Grootenhuis is a New York based Dutch-Kenyan artist currently in residence at the Raper Lab in the Hunter College Biology department and a fellow with Social Practice CUNY. She has an MFA in Social Practice from Queens College, CUNY, was a More Art fellow 2017 and in the NYFA Immigrant Artist Mentorship Program 2018/19. She received grants from the City Artist Corps of New York, the Shelley & Donald Rubin Foundation, the Vilcek Foundation, and Queens Art Intervention. She exhibited at Brooklyn Public Library, Queens Museum, Godwin-Ternbach Museum, Five Myles Gallery in New York, and the Centre de Cultura Contemporània in Barcelona.

This program is presented in part with the 2023 Northeastern Public Humanities Consortium.

For EarthWeek: Grief, Art & Nature with Mary Ting
2023-04-20 18:00 - 19:30 UTC | Greenwood Cemetery, 500 25th Street, Brooklyn, NY, 11232, United States
Earth Week: Grief, Art, and the Environment with Mary Ting
How can the natural world provide connection and solace for those who are grieving?
In celebration of Earth Week, artist and educator Mary Ting will lead a discussion around grief from an ecological perspective. Ting will present her work and its trajectory from personal grief to environmental research, lectures, and community projects. She will share how her individual losses and family and cultural history led to her work on wildlife demand and environmental injustices.
Following the presentation in the Modern Chapel, attendees will break out into small groups for discussion and walk. To get free tickets register at https://www.green-wood.com/event/earth-day-artlab-grief-culture-and-the-environment/.

AI Care and Art: Chloë Bass & Hannah Zeavin
2023-04-03 18:00 - 19:30 (America/New_York) | The Segal Theatre, The Graduate Center, CUNY, 365 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY, 10016, United States

MY PHONE LIES TO ME: Los Angeles Book Launch and Reading
2023-04-01 19:00 - 22:00 (America/New_York) | Get Lit, 672 S. La Fayette PL #10, Los Angeles, CA, 90057, United States

Newburgh is a Broadcast
2023-03-24 - 2023-03-26 | NY

Book Release and Show at 411 Kent
2023-03-16 20:00 - 23:00 (America/New_York) | 411 Kent, 411 Kent Ave., Brooklyn, NY, 11249, United States

Situationist Films by Guy Debord, Ernie Larsen, and Sherry Millner
2023-03-15 19:30 - 21:00 (America/New_York) | Woodbine, 585 Woodward Avenue, Queens, NY, 11385, United States
Screening series presents “Situationist Film: Now and Then, Then and Now”, with films by Guy Debord, Sherry Millner & Ernie Larsen. Millner and Larsen will join us for a discussion following the screening.

Guy Debord’s On the Passage of a Few Persons Through a Fairly Short Unity of Time, 20 minutes, 1959
“…a few people put into practice a systematic questioning of all the works and diversions of a society, a total critique of its notion of happiness…”.
“The point is to understand what has been done and all that remains to be done, not to add more ruins to the old world of spectacles and memories.”

Partial Critique of Separation, 19 minutes, 2008-2012
The first re-make of a Situationist film, the two-screen 19-minute PARTIAL Critique of Separation. Rigorously but playfully applying detournement, the indispensable situationist principle of political/aesthetic intervention, to Debord’s film Critique of Separation (1961), Millner and Larsen claim to re-situate the undimmed energies of its intransigent and impassioned argument. Juxtaposing the here and now with the there and then (New York 2008 with Paris 1961) PARTIAL Critique of Separation proposes that the material conditions that separate each from all and self from self and that every moment militate against the imperative to resist persist.

DISASTER, 30 minutes, 1976
In 1975/76 Millner produced the two-screen super-8 Disaster, the first avowedly situationist film made in the U.S. Screen left features the spectacle of imagery from Seventies Hollywood blockbuster disaster films shot clandestinely in first-run movie theaters. Screen right depicts the actual site of disaster: everyday life. This cheapskate decidedly feminist cinemascope animates the gulf between the two sites of catastrophe. Is it this massive disjunction between the spectacle and the quotidian—a unrelenting deployment of humiliations, routines, disciplines, distractions, and fantasies—that reconciles all of us to a regimen of passive and delayed gratification?

Graven Images, 5 minutes, 2010
The sacred icon of the U.S. red, white, and blue literally becomes a burning issue. As flames engulf flag after flag, the audio-montage connects patriotism to hysterical blindness. Is there a fundamental(ist) relation between the religious injunction against graven images and the iconic status of the U.S. American flag? Who is burning all those flags?

In January we published a podcast interview with the artists, “Anarchist Cinema and the Counterculture w/ Sherry Millner & Ernie Larsen”: https://www.patreon.com/posts/61776128

Sherry Millner makes films, videos, photo-texts, book, curatorial and other research projects, exhibited in festivals, museums, cultural centers, squats, windows, storefronts and on walls. She co-created the collaborative video project State of Emergency (2003-2008). The video essay How Do Animals and Plants Live? was screened this year at the Social Justice Film Festival in Chennai, India, at the Small Axe Festival in Great Britain, and ChangeFest in Atlanta, Georgia. She co-curated Disruptive Film, a two volume DVD set of experimental short-form radical films and videos. She loves postcards.

As an exponent of oppositional culture, Ernie Larsen is a novelist, filmmaker, and media critic. He has collaborated with Sherry Millner on photo-text projects and many films including Rock the Cradle on the December ’09 uprising in Greece and How Do Animals and Plants Live?, on the demolition of a self-organized migrant squat in Thessaloniki, and 41 Shots, the first film to skewer the racist ‘broken windows’ theory of policing that underpinned the notorious murder of Amadou Diallo in New York City. He co-curated Disruptive Film: Everyday Resistance to Power, two DVD sets of short-form experimental political films from 26 countries. His most recent book is The Trial Before the Trial (Autonomedia, 2018).

Woodbine is an experimental hub in Ridgewood, Queens for developing the skills, practices, and tools needed to build autonomy.
