Hemispheric New York Events

Wednesday, May 22, 2013 | 7pm | Hemispheric Institute

One Version of Events: A Performance Work-in-Progress with Neil Goldberg

"One Version of Events" is a performance work-in-progress that explores the condition of being embodied – specifically the politics and poetics of our imperative to eat – by combining experimental video and photography, improvisational storytelling and scripted text. Like the Wislawa Szymborska poem it is named after, the piece contemplates the inherent strangeness of our need to kill and consume other living organisms in order to survive.

 

Neil Goldberg has exhibited his video, photo and sculptural work at The Museum of Modern Art; The New Museum of Contemporary Art; The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum; The Wexner Center for the Arts; and The Kitchen. In 2012 his work entitled Stories the City Tells Itself, was included in Time Out New York's "Best Art of 2012" list. His work has been supported by the Guggenheim Foundation, the New York State Council on the Arts, the Experimental Television Center, CEC ArtsLink, Yaddo and the MacDowell Colony.

This event is free and open to the public. Photo ID required to enter NYU buildings.

Hemispheric Institute of Performance & Politics
20 Cooper Square, 5th Floor
New York, NY 10003 

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Thursday, May 23, 2013 | 6pm | Hemispheric Institute

The Culture of Possibility: Art, Artists & The Future, a book launch with author Arlene Goldbard

Please join us for a talk by writer, speaker, and cultural activist Arlene Goldbard, focusing on the ideas that animate her two new books, The Culture of Possibility: Art, Artists & The Future; and The Wave. She argues that we must greatly enlarge our understanding of the public interest in art. We know ourselves and each other through music, images, movement, and stories. Thousands of years ago, art aided our survival as a species. Culture is the laboratory in which we nurture compassion and discover how to improvise a livable future. And artists are both the stem cells of the body politic, generating myriad forms of beauty and meaning, and the indicator species for social well-being. A reception will follow the talk. Books will be available for sale.

Hemispheric Institute of Performance & Politics
20 Cooper Square, 5th Floor
New York, NY 10003

Arlene Goldbard is a writer, speaker, consultant and cultural activist whose focus is the intersection of culture, politics and spirituality. Her blog and other writings may be downloaded from her Web site: www.arlenegoldbard.com. She was born in New York and grew up near San Francisco. Her two new books on art’s public purpose—The Wave and The Culture of Possibility: Art, Artists & The Future—will be published in spring 2013. New Creative Community: The Art of Cultural Development was published by New Village Press in November 2006. She is also co-author of Community, Culture and Globalization, an international anthology published by the Rockefeller Foundation, Crossroads: Reflections on the Politics of Culture, and author of Clarity, a novel. Her essays have been published in In Motion Magazine, Art in America, Theatre, Tikkun, and many other journals. She has addressed many academic and community audiences in the U.S. and Europe, on topics ranging from the ethics of community arts practice to the development of integral organizations. She has provided advice and counsel to hundreds of community-based organizations, independent media groups, and public and private funders and policymakers including the Rockefeller Foundation, the Independent Television Service, Appalshop and dozens of others. She serves as President of the Board of Directors of The Shalom Center.

Free and open to the public, photo ID required to enter NYU buildings.

Presented as part of the Hemispheric New York Performance Network Emerging Artist Fellow program funded by the Rockefeller Foundation Cultural Innovation Fund.

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Tuesday, May 28, 2013 | 6 pm | Hemispheric Institute

Dissident Biopoetics: A Conversation with Rubí Carreño

Join us for a conversation with Chilean literary and cultural critic Rubí Carreño about her recent book Av. Independencia: Literatura, música e ideas del Chile disidente and the vibrant biopoetics driving contemporary movements for social change.

Rubí Carreño is Assistant Professor of Literature at the Catholic University in Santiago, Chile, where she teaches literary theory and contemporary literary criticism. Her interdisciplinary work mobilizes upon both gender and memory studies to interpret different literary and musical traditions in Chile and Latin America more broadly. Along with her recent Av. Independencia, she has published Leche amarga: violencia y erotismo en la narrativa chilena (Bombal, Brunet, Donoso y Eltit); Memorias del nuevo siglo: jóvenes, trabajadores y artistas en la narrativa chilena del siglo XX; and Diamela Eltit: redes locales y redes globales (ed).

*The conversation will be in Spanish, translation will be provided

This event is free and open to the public. Photo ID required to enter NYU buildings.

Hemispheric Institute of Performance & Politics
20 Cooper Square, 5th Floor
New York, NY 10003

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June 1 - June 30, 2013  | 6pm | Hemispheric Institute

Coatlicue Theatre Company: Twenty-five years of performance, culture and activism

A multimedia retrospective exhibition celebrating the diverse works of acclaimed actresses, playwrights and activists, Hortencia Colorado and Elvira Colorado, founders of Coatlicue Theatre Company, New York's pioneering Indigenous theatre and cultural ensemble. 

OPENING RECEPTION | SAT. JUNE 1, 2013, 6pm
An evening of film and live performances.

ARTISTS TALK | THURS. JUNE 6, 2013, 7pm
Hortencia and Elvira Colorado of Coatlicue Theatre Company speak about their experiences and discuss the creative processes and themes involved in their creation and development of selected works.

WATER IS MY BLOOD | WED. JUNE 26, 2013, 7pm
A journey through memory and spirit where the feminine forces of water are brought to life in this excerpt performance piece by Coatlicue Theatre Company, followed by a question and answer period with the artists.

This event is free and open to the public. Photo ID required to enter NYU buildings.

Hemispheric Institute of Performance & Politics
20 Cooper Square, 5th Floor
New York, NY 10003

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Yes Lab: ACTIPEDIA Crowdsourcing Platform goes Public

Database of creative activist case studies will inform and inspire a new generation of activists

The Yes Lab and the Center for Artistic Activism are announcing the launch of Actipedia.org, an open-access, user-generated database of creative activism case studies designed to inspire activists.

"We designed Actipedia to inspire activists to more creative—and effective—actions," explains Stephen Duncombe, co-founder of the Center for Creative Activism.

"Actipedia is about sharing the ways people challenge power and envision a better society," adds Andy Bichlbaum of the Yes Lab. "To change the world we've got to learn from each other."

Actipedia is built on an open-source platform and is designed for ease of use, with simple formats for viewing, searching and posting examples. The site draws case studies from original submissions, reprinted news articles, and informal snippets of action reports.  Although it is only now launching, Actipedia already hosts over 500 case studies and counting, from countries from all over the world.

"Actipedia provides a space for inspiration and for contribution," noted one recent user. "Seeing all the amazing work going on around the world motivates me and makes me realize the potential impact I can have."

The Yes Lab helps activist groups carry out media-getting creative actions, focused on their own campaign goals. Through brainstorms and trainings, social justice organizations can take advantage of all that the Yes Men—Andy Bichlbaum and Mike Bonanno—have learned, not only about our their own ways of doing things, but those practices they’ve  come in contact with over the decade and a half they've been engaging in creative activism and tactical media.

The Center for Artistic Activism is a place to explore, analyze, and strengthen connections between social activism and artistic practice. The Center was founded by Stephen Duncombe, longtime activist and professor at New York University and Steve Lambert, longtime artist and professor at SUNY Purchase.  Since 2009, the center has has served as a site for artistic activist trainings, actions, research and resources. The Center seeks to foster more creative activists and more effective artists.

Actipedia can be found at http://actipedia.org/ or on twitter @Actipedia, and the collaborators are available for interviews upon request.

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Creative Activism Thursdays

The Revolution Will Be Debated

Come meet the revolutionaries who have changed or are changing the world, and those who study them. We’ll be meeting every Thursday for a series of lectures, workshops, and other events focusing on the potential for societal change, and what we can do to bring it about through creative tactics and strategies.

Unless otherwise indicated, all Creative Activism Thursday events will be held at:

• The Hemispheric Institute
• 20 Cooper Square, 5th Floor
• NY, NY 10003
• (photo ID required to enter NYU buildings)

See the Current Schedule

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