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The ABC of the Projectariat

James Gallery 365 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY, United States

Gather in the James Gallery for a performative talk by Kuba Szreder concerning the precarious conditions of artistic labour followed by an open discussion about cultural resistance created and practiced by gig-economy workers, “the projectariat,” in Szreder’s words. The artistic projectariat--people who do projects to make a living--roam the global art world, where enthusiasm is paired with exclusion, mobility with poverty, self-entrepreneurialism with anxiety. The evening's discussion will be opened by SPCUNY Co-Director Greg Sholette.

Free

Placeholder Poetry Readings #6

Hope & Ruin 11 Queens Road, Brighton, United Kingdom

Sam Solomon, Savannah Sevenzo, Claudia Treacher, Violet Marchenkova, Nehaal Bajwa respond to SPCUNY Faculty Fellow Alexandra Juhasz (My Phone Lies to Me).

£3

Aesthetics, Resistance, and Memory: a double book launch and conversation with Andreas Huyssen and Gregory Sholette

Printed Matter 231 11th Ave, New York, NY, United States

Join us for a double book launch and conversation with Andreas Huyssen and Gregory Sholette, presented and co-sponsored by Social Practice CUNY (SPCUNY). Approaching the politics of memory from two overlapping perspectives, Huyssen and Sholette will discuss their recent books, Memory Art in the Contemporary World and The Art of Activism and the Activism of Art.

Free

Poetry Media Race

The New School

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.

Free

Situationist Films by Guy Debord, Ernie Larsen, and Sherry Millner

Woodbine 585 Woodward Avenue, Queens, NY, United States

Screening series presents "Situationist Film: Now and Then,  Then and Now", with films by Guy Debord, SPCUNY Faculty Fellow Sherry Millner & Ernie Larsen. Millner and Larsen will join us for a discussion following the screening.

Book Release and Show at 411 Kent

411 Kent 411 Kent Ave., Brooklyn, NY, United States

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

Newburgh is a Broadcast

Newburgh is a Broadcast is a community project where together we create media in the format of "live radio" broadcast online via youtube. In a partnered storefront at 163 Broadway, a pop up ‘radio station’ will transform and activate the empty storefront. The radio programs will be a mix of interviews documenting the lives and day-to-day reality of living in Newburgh and showcasing local musicians by giving them a timeslot to play their own productions and/or their favorite records. Multi-lingual and intergenerational, educational and artistic Newburgh is a Broadcast aims to showcase the broad and diverse city that is Newburgh.

MY PHONE LIES TO ME: Los Angeles Book Launch and Reading

Get Lit 672 S. La Fayette PL #10, Los Angeles, CA, United States

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.

Free

AI Care and Art: Chloë Bass & Hannah Zeavin

The Segal Theatre The Graduate Center, CUNY, 365 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY, United States

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

For EarthWeek: Grief, Art & Nature with Mary Ting

Greenwood Cemetery 500 25th Street, Brooklyn, NY, United States

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.

Free

Practicing Connection IRL // rooted sharing, listening and making

Interfaith Center of New York 475 Riverside Drive #540, New York, NY, 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.

Free

Community Convening: We’re Not Softening Our Resistance

The Bronx Museum 1040 Grand Concourse, The Bronx, NY, United States

Video festival and panel sponsored in part by SPCUNY, showcasing short films/videos by visual artists on issues around climate change, indigenous land rights, Black liberation and migration. Participate in a critical intercultural exchange and platform to discuss climate breakdown and what resistance looks like. After the festival, audience members are invited to join in activities led by local and international environmental justice activists taking a deeper dive into the films’ theme. Curated and organized by Alicia Grullon.