Art / Activism / Context / Surveillance (Lecture)
This online lecture traces the development of Bill Beirne’s activist art and performance practice in relation to some precedents in modern art history.
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WORKSHOP #1 with BFAMFAPhD (invite only)
Three 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 highlights similarities and fosters understanding among different groups. The third workshop will be open to the public.
The Anti-Eviction Mapping Project (lecture)
In this talk, critical urbanist Manon Vergerio will give a brief background on the Anti-Eviction Mapping Project (AEMP), a web-based interactive mapping project that personalizes eviction data through the evictees’ stories of struggle and resistance.
NON-LINEAR: QC MFA Annual Exhibition
Culture Lab LIC 5-25 46th Ave., Long Island City, New York, United StatesThe Queens College MFA Annual Exhibition 2022 includes all of this year's Social Practice CUNY Student Fellows. Opening reception: April 2, 6-9pm.
How to Begin Again: An Initiation Towards Unitary Urbanism
How to Begin Again is a 4-step initiation to a new awareness about alternatives for the future of urban design. It centers on the concept of unitary urbanism, which CohStra redefines as “an anti-capitalist and transdisciplinary practice that attempts to bridge popular and scientific knowledge to co-produce social and environmental justice in cities.”
The Artist & Homeless Collective (discussion)
In the early 1990s, conceptual artist Hope Sandrow founded the Artist & Homeless Collaborative, an innovative New York City public art project. 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).
WORKSHOP #2 with BFAMFAPhD (invite only)
Kingsborough Art Museum 2001 Oriental Blvd., Brooklyn, NY, United StatesThree 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. The third workshop will be open to the public.
Upcycle, Uplift with Sachigusa Yasuda
Kingsborough Art Museum 2001 Oriental Blvd., Brooklyn, NY, United StatesUpcycle, Uplift proposes a utopian solution to the current housing crisis by developing a line of recycled clothing created in workshops and remodeled based on the needs of homeless people.
Ending Housing Precarity
NYC's Chief Housing Officer Jessica Katz will discuss the current housing crisis with activists, scholars, and CUNY students.
Ignea: An Exchange About Nesting Technologies
Kingsborough Art Museum 2001 Oriental Blvd., Brooklyn, NY, United StatesIgnea: An Exchange About Nesting Technologies gathers audiences around a built fire to talk about possible ways to inhabit the planet, taking into account its scale, interdependencies, and temporalities. It proposes to rethink humanity’s relationship with fire, energy, and consumption.
‘Taking Care’ (Closing Reception)
Klapper Hall 65-30 Kissena Blvd, Queens, New York, United StatesConnor Henderson's MFA Thesis Closing Reception.
Free
UNIT 25 Building Culture: When Land Becomes Water.
Rise Center 58-03 Rockaway Beach Blvd., Far Rockaway, NY, United StatesThe graduate students at the Spitzer School of Architecture (City College of New York, CUNY) and the Rise Center invite the community to a presentation and discussion of resistance, resilience, and the future of the Rockaway in light of climate change.
Free
