OUR STUDIES SHOW Session 3

Center for Performance Research

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

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

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.

Tao Leigh Goffe presents Dark Laboratory: On Columbus, the Caribbean, and the Origins of the Climate Crisis, with Natalie Diaz

McNally Jackson Seaport 4 Fulton St., New York, NY, United States

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.

$5 – $35

Farsi Flows

Rye Free Reading Room 1061 Boston Post Rd., Rye, NY, United States

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.

Museums without Walls: the MTA and the Met Intersect

New York Transit Museum 99 Schermerhorn St, Brooklyn, NY, United States

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.

$10 – $15

What the Pandemic taught us about Technologies, and vice-versa: Viral Missives from Hong Kong and New Delhi

The Skylight Room Room 9100, The Graduate Center, CUNY, 365 Fifth Ave, New York, NY, United States

Organized by SPCUNY Alum Alexandra Juhasz and featuring Nishant Shah, this talk draws from collaborative community workshops in Hong Kong and New Delhi to combine storytelling, contextualization, and re-mediation of the global experiences of the COVID19 pandemic.

Free

The Technological Pandemic: The Present and Future of Coming Together

CUNY Graduate Center 365 5th Ave, New York, NY, United States

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.

Free

What Else? A Comedy Show about the Solidarity Economy (new date!)

Maker's Ensemble 13 Grattan St. #408, Brooklyn, NY, United States

*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?

Film Premiere of Please Hold at The Parkside Lounge

Parkside Lounge 317 E Houston St., New York, NY, United States

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.

Pay-what-you-can

Online Premier: Please Hold

Virtual See event for details

How do neighborhoods, sweaters and scarves, videotapes and queer bars hold ghosts? How do we let them go? In this 2-hour webinar, we will introduce the panel and the video, screen it together (70 mins), and then the panel of "AIDS workers" who are authors or editors from the collection "AIDS and the Distribution of Crises" (Duke University Press, 2020) will discuss their reaction, feelings and questions.

Freedom Zines

CTHQ 59 E 4th St, Floor 7, New York, NY, United States

This zine-making workshop introduces participants to the pedagogical and political legacies of freedom schools in the Sea Islands and in rural Mississippi in the mid-20th century and asks them to craft writing that speaks to that legacy.

What Else? A Comedy Show about the Solidarity Economy

Maker's Ensemble 13 Grattan St. #408, Brooklyn, NY, United States

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?