Artists Space

Lise Soskolne (W.A.G.E.)

Mabel Wilson

David Joselit

Amin Husain

Eva Mayhabal Davis

Nia Nottage

Sneha Ganguly

Conversation Documentation

Saturday, November 10, 2016

Artists Space Books & Talks

55 Walker Street

#decolonizethisplace

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Robin D.G. Kelley

Jasbir K. Puar

Amin Husain

Marz Saffore

Conversation Documentation

Friday, November 4, 2016

Artists Space Books & Talks

55 Walker Street

#decolonizethisplace

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Artists: NYC Is Not for Sale

Nancy Meza, Defend Boyle Heights

Pati Ankalli Rodriguez, Mi Casa No Es Su Case

Alicia Grullón, Mothers On The Move

Sandra de la Loza, North East Los Angeles Alliance

Chino Mayday, NYC Not 4 Sale

Raquel Namuche, Queens Is Not for Sale

Anthony Rosado

Samuel Stein

Shellyne Rodriguez, Take Back The Bronx

Discussion

Saturday, October 29, 2016, 7pm

Artists Space Books & Talks

55 Walker Street

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#NYCNot4Sale

#DecolonizeThisPlace

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Chinatown Is Not for Sale

Peter Kwong

Liz Moy

Margaret Lee, 47 Canal

Juan Puntes, WhiteBox

Betty Yu, Chinatown Art Brigade

Discussion

Saturday, October 22, 2016, 7pm

Artists Space Books & Talks

55 Walker Street

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#ChinatownNot4Sale

#DecolonizeThisPlace

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NEON

Eve Essex

Performance Documentation

Wednesday, July 13, 2016, 7pm

Artists Space Books & Talks

55 Walker Street

For more information visit http://artistsspace.org/materials/neon

Yates McKee, Nina Felshin, Amin Husain, Victoria Sobel

Conversation Documentation

Wednesday, June 29, 2016, 7pm

Artists Space Books & Talks

55 Walker Street

In "Strike Art: Contemporary Art and the Post-Occupy Condition" (Verso, 2016), Yates McKee shows that during the five years since Occupy Wall Street—a period that has also witnessed the upsurge of the black liberation movement, climate justice mobilizations, the struggles of workers, debtors, students, tenants, and more—artists have increasingly embedded their practice in expanded fields of political organizing. While much such work has taken place outside the art system, in many cases it has also involved doubling back upon art institutions themselves as arenas of action in ways exceed the traditions of Institutional Critique, including the work of groups such as The Natural History Museum; Free Cooper Union; the Global Ultra Luxury Faction, known for its actions at the Guggenheim; and the recent intervention of the Decolonial Cultural Front at the Brooklyn Museum. In such work, creative direct action is coupled with long term movement-building work in which the reclaiming of certain artistic infrastructures proceeds alongside the cultivation of new political formations that far exceed the domain of art per se.

This conversation takes the release of "Strike Art" as the occasion to address the following proposition: If we are seeing a move from Institutional Critique to institutional liberation (the latter being an admittedly multivalent term) it is imperative that an ethos of decolonization be developed in the process—one that draws links between struggles against displacement, dispossession and white supremacy from the occupied Lenape territory of Manhattan itself, to the frontiers of real estate speculation in New York such as Chinatown and Bushwick, and the ongoing colonization of Palestine.

Webpage: http://artistsspace.org/materials/strike-art

Wednesday, March 2, 2016, 7pm

Doors open 6pm

Artists Space Books & Talks

55 Walker Street

One of the defining characteristics of Artists Space’s work is dialogue: dialogue between artists, writers, scholars, theorists and our audiences.

Artists Space Dialogues takes the simple format of a public conversation between two people. Every month renowned art historian Bettina Funcke will talk with an influential figure in the field of contemporary art and visual culture, investigating their work and thinking, their histories, trajectories, and processes.

Douglas Crimp

Wednesday, February 3, 2016, 7pm

Sarah Morris

Wednesday, March 2, 2016, 7pm

John Knight

Wednesday, April 13, 2016, 7pm

For more information click here artistsspace.org/programs/sarah-morris

Wednesday, February 3, 7pm

Doors open 6pm

Artists Space Books & Talks

55 Walker Street

One of the defining characteristics of Artists Space’s work is dialogue: dialogue between artists, writers, scholars, theorists and our audiences.

Artists Space Dialogues takes the simple format of a public conversation between two people. Every month renowned art historian Bettina Funcke will talk with an influential figure in the field of contemporary art and visual culture, investigating their work and thinking, their histories, trajectories, and processes.

Douglas Crimp

Wednesday, February 3, 2016, 7pm

Sarah Morris

Wednesday, March 2, 2016, 7pm

John Knight

Wednesday, April 13, 2016, 7pm

For more information click here http://artistsspace.org/programs/douglas-crimp

Talk

Tuesday, January 19, 7pm

Artists Space Books & Talks

55 Walker Street

"Despite efforts to obscure slavery and indigenous dispossession in the genealogy and narrative of American nationhood, these realities remain deeply embedded in the relationship between race and markets where in fact race and economic domination are fused. Racial hierarchy is continually replenished through the market, while the market encodes property in accord with racial regimes. For example, "black" spaces are forever unstable, subprime, and "waste," making them always available for (re) appropriation through various technologies such as debt, (de)regulation, and development."

– Cheryl I. Harris

In conjunction with Cameron Rowland's exhibition 91020000, Artists Space presents a talk by Cheryl I. Harris, Professor of Law and Director of the Center for Critical Race Studies at UCLA School of Law. Harris is the author of key texts in the field of critical race theory including "Whiteness as Property" (1993) and "Equal Treatment and the Reproduction of Inequality" (2001).

For more information click here: http://artistsspace.org/programs/the-afterlife-of-slavery

Mimetic Exchange: Michael Taussig on Juan Downey and Jean Rouch

Screenings & Talk

Wednesday, December 2, 2015, 7pm

Artists Space Books & Talks

55 Walker Street

In the second of a series of programs forming part of the Union Gaucha Productions survey, screenings of the films The Laughing Alligator by Juan Downey and Les Maîtres Fous (The Mad Masters) by Jean Rouch will be followed by a talk by anthropologist Michael Taussig.

This audio recording documents the talk given by Taussig following screenings of the two films.

Michael Taussig (born 1940 in Sydney, Australia) is a Professor of Anthropology at Columbia University in New York. Taussig's most recent book is The Corn Wolf (2015), a collection of his writing that marries storytelling with theory, and analysis with ethnography. His previous books include Beauty and the Beast (2012), What Color is the Sacred? (2009), Walter Benjamin’s Grave (2006), My Cocaine Museum (2004), Magic of the State (1997), Mimesis and Alterity (1993), and The Devil and Commodity Fetishism in South America (1980), among many other publications.

For more information click here http://artistsspace.org/programs/mimetic-exchange