The Archive puts forward documentation of past Vera List Center programs, to further ongoing research on the intersection of art and politics. Check for available formats after each event listing. For events prior to spring 2009, visit our New School site at http://www.newschool.edu/vlc/events.
Film screenings and Conversation
Confounding Expectations: The Forgotten Space. A Film by Allan Sekula and Noël Burch
Monday, December 5, 2011, 8:00 –10:00 p.m.
The AICA-USA Distinguished Critic Lecture at The New School
Peter Schjeldahl. The Critic as Artist, in 2011: Updating Oscar Wilde
Thursday, November 17, 2011, 6:30 – 8:00 p.m.
Public Art Fund Talks at The New School
The Limits of an Object: Matthew Day Jackson
Wednesday, November 16, 2011 , 6:30 – 8:00 p.m.
Workshop
Melanie Crean and Claire Picher. Building Better Speech. Performance Workshops
Saturday, November 12, 2011, 3:00 – 6:00 p.m.
Discussion
Occupy Everywhere: On the New Politics and Possibilities of the Movement Against Corporate Power
Thursday, November 10, 8:00 – 10:00 p.m.
Roundtables
Day Two. Parading the Object: Three Roundtable Discussions
Saturday, November 5, 2011, 11:30 a.m. – 6:00 p.m.
Presentations
Day One. Osteobiographies
Friday, November 4, 2011, 6:00 – 8:00 p.m.
Presentations & Roundtables On and With Objects
Forensic Aesthetics: Two-Day Forum
Friday & Saturday, November 4 & 5, 2011
Game Show and Opening Celebration
Beyond the Super Square: The Architecture Challenge!
Friday, October 28, 2011, 6:00 – 8:30 p.m.
Reception: 6:00 – 6:30 p.m.
Reception: 6:00 – 6:30 p.m.
Presentations
Occupy Wall Street and the Right to Protest: What’s Next?
Wednesday, October 26, 2011, 8:00 – 10:00 p.m.
Panel Discussion
No Thing Unto Itself: Object-Oriented Politics
Thursday, October 20, 2011, 7:00 – 9:00 p.m.
MobilityShifts
The Assignment Book. Conversation Between Luis Camnitzer and Christiane Paul
Tuesday, October 11, 2011, 6:30 – 8:00 p.m.
MobilityShifts Demonstrations and Actions
Ghana ThinkTank at The New School
Monday, October 10, through Saturday, October 15, 2011
* Public Art Fund Talks at The New School
The Limits of an Object. Paola Pivi
Wednesday, October 5, 2011, 6:30 – 8:00 p.m.
Conversation with Film Screenings
Israeli and Palestinian Cinema: Shaping Memory and Imagining the Future
Monday, October 3, 2011, 6:30 – 8:30 p.m.
* Public Art Fund Talks at The New School
The Limits of an Object: Michael Sailstorfer
Wednesday, September 21, 2011, 6:30 – 8:00 p.m.
* Inaugural Lecture
Jane Bennett. Powers of the Hoard: Artistry and Agency in a World of Vibrant Matter
Tuesday, September 13, 2011, 6:30 – 8:00 p.m.
Film Screenings and Conversations
United States of Palestine-Israel: Here And Elsewhere
Saturday, September 10, 2011, 11:00 a.m. – 7:00 p.m.
Presentation
Coney Island
Thursday, May 5, 2011 -- 6:30 to 8:30 p.m.
Panel Discussion
New York Stories: Working with Sol
Wednesday, May 4, 2011 – 6:30 to 8:30 p.m.
Presentation & Discussion
Buenos Aires: Margarita Gutman and Others
Tuesday, April 26, 2011 – 6:30 to 8:30 p.m.
Conversation
New York Stories: Andy Touched Me
Thursday, April 20, 2011 – 6:30 to 8:00 p.m.
Conversation
Warhorse: The Puppeteers
Wednesday, April 13, 2011 – 6:30 to 8:30 p.m.
Panel Discussion
John Knight
Saturday, April 9, 2011 – 5:00 to 7:00 p.m.
Celebration
Noir Now: Student Voices
Thursday, April 7, 2011 – 6:30 to 7:30 p.m
Symposium
The Photographic Universe: A Conference
Wednesday & Thursday, March 2 & 3, 2011
Book celebration
Dark Matter: Art and Politics in the Age of Enterprise Culture
Thursday, February 10, 2011, 5:30 – 7:30 p.m.
Conversation
New York Stories: Lynne Cooke and Douglas Crimp, “Mixed Use, Manhattan”
Wednesday, February 9, 2011, 6:30 -- 8:00 p.m.
Roundtable and Booksigning
ByProduct: On the Excess of Embedded Art Practices
Friday, December 10, 2010 – 6:30 to 8:00 p.m.
Aperture at the New School
Confounding Expectations: Images, Surveillance, and Power
Wednesday, December 8, 2010 -- 7:00 to 9:00 p.m.
Lecture
Art and Science Transdisciplinary Lecture: Anna Blume, Art Historian
Tuesday, December 7, 2010 – 6:30 to 7:30 p.m.
Film Screening
Sex In An Epidemic
Wednesday, December 1, 2010, 6:30-8:30 pm
Lecture
Art and Science Transdisciplinary Lecture: Mel Chin, Artist, Whitehouse to the Safehouse
Tuesday, November 30, 2010 – 6:00 to 7:00 p.m.
Panel Discussion
Organized Listening: Sound Art, Collectivity and Politics
Thursday, November 18, 2010, 6:30-8:30pm
Lecture / Performance
Pawel Althamer
Wednesday, November 17, 2010 – 6:30 to 8:00 p.m.
Exhibition
Vogue-ology
Wednesday, November 17 through Tuesday, November 30, 2010
Gallery hours: Monday to Sunday, 12:00 p.m. to 6:00 p.m., closed on Thursday, November 24, through Sunday, November 29, for Thanksgiving holiday
Gallery hours: Monday to Sunday, 12:00 p.m. to 6:00 p.m., closed on Thursday, November 24, through Sunday, November 29, for Thanksgiving holiday
Lecture
Art and Science Transdisciplinary Lectures: Josiah McElheny, Artist
Tuesday, November 16, 2010 – 6:00 to 7:00 p.m.
Lecture
The AICA/USA Distinguished Critic Lecture at The New School: Holland Cotter: Art Critic, So What?
Thursday, November 11, 2010 – 6:30 to 8:00 p.m.
Lecture / Performance
Simon Fujiwara
Wednesday, November 10, 2010 – 6:30 to 8:00 p.m.
Aperture Foundation at the New School
Confounding Expectations: Revisiting “In, Around and Afterthoughts on Documentary Photography”
Wednesday, November 3, 2010 – 7:00 to 8:30 p.m.
Lecture
Art and Science Transdisciplinary Lectures: Okwui Enwezor, Curator. On the Politics of Disaggregation: Notes on Cildo Meireles’ “Insertions into Ideological Circuits”
Tuesday, November 2, 2010 – 6:00 to 7:00 p.m.
Book Signing and Lecture
Art and Science Transdisciplinary Lectures: Pascal Gielen, Sociologist, and Michael Hardt, Philosopher
Tuesday, October 26, 2010 – 6:00 to 7:00 p.m.
Preceded by book signing and reception from 5:00 to 6:00 p.m.
Preceded by book signing and reception from 5:00 to 6:00 p.m.
Lecture
The John McDonald Moore Memorial Lecture: Peter Galison, Wasteland and Wilderness
Wednesday, October 20, 2010 -- 8:00 to 9:30 p.m.
Lecture
Art and Science Transdisciplinary Lectures: Iñigo Manglano-Ovalle, Artist
Tuesday, October 12, 2010 – 6:00 to 7:00 p.m.
Debate
The Oil Spill
Wednesday, October 6, 2010 – 6:30 to 8:30 p.m.
Lecture
Art and Science Transdisciplinary Lectures: Kim Knowlton, Senior Scientist and Director, Global Warming and Health Project, Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC)
Tuesday, October 5, 2010 – 6:00 to 7:00 p.m.
Anniversary
How Obscene is This! The Decency Clause Turns 20: Panel II
Wednesday, September 22, 2010 – 6:30 to 8:30 p.m.
Lecture
Art and Science Transdisciplinary Lectures: Nina Katchadourian, Artist
Tuesday, September 21, 2010 – 6:00 to 7:00 p.m.
Lecture / Performance
Ryan Gander
Thursday, September 16, 2010 – 6:30 to 8:00 p.m.
Anniversary
How Obscene is This! The Decency Clause Turns 20: Panel I
Wednesday, September 15, 2010 – 6:30 to 8:30 p.m.
Lecture
Art and Science Transdisciplinary Lectures: Laurel Braitman, Historian: The Zookeeper’s Couch
Tuesday, September 14, 2010 – 6:00 to 7:00p.m.
Premiere showing, panel discussion, and sideshow
It Happened Tomorrow: Probabilities, Predictions and Prophecies
Saturday, September 11, 2010 – 2:00 to 5:00 p.m.
Lecture
Art and Science Transdisciplinary Lectures: Jennifer Wilson, Mathematician
Tuesday, September 7, 2010 – 6:00 to 7:00 p.m.
Launch
Art and Science Transdisciplinary Lectures: Tatiana Lyubetskaya, Geophysicist
Tuesday, August 31, 2010 – 6:00 to 7:00 p.m.
Public Art Fund Talks at The New School
Thomas Houseago
Wednesday, May 12, 2010 – 6:30 to 8:00 p.m.
Conversation
My Best Friend: When Fiction Meets Archeology / I-Hsien Wu and Sandrine Larrive-Bass
Monday, May 10, 2010 – 6:30 to 8:30 p.m.
OPEN MEETING & WORKSHOP
Vogue’ology and The New School Gender Studies
Saturday, May 8, 2010—2:00 to 5:00 p.m.
Discussion
The Democratic Trilemma: Rational Choice Theory and the Challenge of Designing Democratic-Decision Making
Monday, May 3, 2010 -- 6:30 to 8:30 p.m.
PANEL DISCUSSION
The Shape of Change: A Conversation
Friday, April 23, 2010 – 6:30 to 8:30 p.m.
SculptureCenter at The New School
Expanded, Exploded, Collapsed?
Monday, April 19, 2010 – 6:30 to 8:30 p.m.
Conversation
My Best Friend: Vladan Nikolic and Eric Werthman
Friday, April 16, 2010 – 6:30 to 8:30 p.m.
Colloquium, Film, Workshops, Installations
The Cardew Object
Friday, April 9, Saturday, April 10, and Thursday, April 15, 2010
Watch this program Above is John Tilbury's introduction to "The Cardew Object." Click here to watch the video of the panel discussion.
Public Art Fund Talks at The New School
Huma Bhabha
Wednesday, April 14, 2010 – 6:30 to 8:00 p.m.
Colloquium, Film, Workshops, Installations
The Cardew Object
Friday, April 9, Saturday, April 10, and Thursday, April 15, 2010
Watch this program Above is John Tilbury's introduction to "The Cardew Object." Click here to watch the video of the panel discussion.
Colloquium, Film, Workshops, Installations
The Cardew Object
Friday, April 9, Saturday, April 10, and Thursday, April 15, 2010
Watch this program Above is John Tilbury's introduction to "The Cardew Object." Click here to watch the video of the panel discussion.
Panel Discussion
Confounding Expectations XI: Open Cover Before Striking
Thursday, April 8, 2010
STORIES
The National Theater of the United States of America: THE GOLDEN VEIL
Wednesday, April 7, 2010 - 7:00 to 8:30 p.m.
The Bronx Museum of the Arts at The New School
Road to Freedom: The Civil Rights Movement 1958-1968, and Beyond
Friday, March 26, 2010 – 6:30 to 8:30 p.m.
Lecture
AMT Visiting Artists Lecture Series: Lin + Lam
Wednesday, March 24, 2010, 3:15 to 4:30 p.m.
Public Art Fund Talks at The New School
Matthew Monahan
Wednesday, March 17, 2010 – 6:30 to 8:00 p.m.
STORIES
Aleksandra Wagner / Goes West
Wednesday, March 3, 2010 - 6:30 to 8:00 p.m
STORIES
Pablo Helguera: What in the World
Wednesday, February 24, 2010 - 6:30 to 8:00 p.m.
EXHIBITION, COLLOQUIUM & PROGRAM SERIES
The Storyteller
Saturday, January 30, 2010
Panel Discussion
Confounding Expectations X: Photography in Context, The Projected Photograph
Thursday, December 10, 2009 – 7:00 to 8:30 p.m.
Streaming Culture / Art & Politics
Entangled Activisms: Emergence, Betrayal and the Possibility of Rethinking the Possible / Iain Kerr in Conversation with Brian McGrath, Petia Morozov and Nato Thompson
Tuesday, December 8, 2009 – 6:30 to 8:00 p.m.
Panel Discussion
Bookforum at The New School: Getting to Work – Labor Issues in the 21st Century
Thursday, November 19, 2009 – 6:30 to 8:00 p.m.
Conference
The Internet as Playground and Factory: A Conference on Digital Labor
Thursday, November 12 through Saturday, November 14, 2009
Screening and Discussion
Museum Futures: Distributed
Tuesday, November 10, 2009 - 6:30 to 8:00 p.m.
Lecture
Roberta Smith: “Criticism: A Life Sentence”
Thursday, November 5, 2009 – 6:30 to 8:00 p.m.
STREAMING CULTURE / ART & POLITICS
Miodrag Mitrasinovic and Carin Kuoni in conversation
Tuesday, October 27, 2009 - 6:30 to 8:00 p.m.
Conversation and Art Walk
Art in the Institution/Art as the Institution: The New School Art Collection and its Institutional Life
Thursday, October 22, 2009 - 4:00 to 5:00 p.m.
Workshop
Joseph Heathcott: The City as Archive
Thursday, October 22, 2009 – 12:00 to 1:40 p.m.
Roundtable
The Librarians’ Circle
Wednesday, October 21, 2009, 6:30 to 8:00 p.m.
Open Discussion
John Zinsser, The New York Art World and The New School: History and Possibility
Wednesday, October 21, 2009 – 1:00 to 2:45 p.m.
Workshop
Andy Bichlbaum’s Class, sans Andy
Tuesday, October 20, 2009 - 3:00 to 5:40 p.m.
Lecture
Peter M. Rutkoff, The New School at 90: What Would Dewey Do?
Monday, October 19, 2009 - 6:00 to 8:30 p.m.
Discussion Group
Tess Harrison
Monday, October 19, 2009 - 5:00 to 5:50 p.m.
Discussion Group
Ali Krasners
Monday, October 19, 2009 - 4:00 to 4:50 p.m.
Drawing Workshop
Thomas Bosket
Monday, October 19, 2009 – 1:00 to 4:00 p.m.
Exhibition and series of workshops, lectures, and Séances
By Any Name: Institutional Memory at The New School
Monday, October 19, through Saturday, October 24, 2009
Open daily, 11:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m.
Open daily, 11:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m.
Sound Installation
WHERE ARE WE GOING? AND WHAT ARE WE DOING?
Monday, October 19 through Saturday, October 24, 2009
Consultation/Séance
The Future
Monday, October 19 through Friday, October 23, 2009
Open daily, 11:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m.
Open daily, 11:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m.
Journal Launch Celebration
Where We Are Now, Issue 2: Speculating on Change
Saturday, October 17, 2009 – 4:00 to 5:00 p.m.
Inaugural Lecture on “Speculating on Change”
Michael A. Cohen, Speculating on Change: Four Paradoxes of Our Urban Future
Friday, October 16, 2009 – 6:30 to 8:00 p.m.
Watch this program Above is part one of this program; click here for part two. Click here to see a short interview with Michael A. Cohen.
Panel Discussion & Art Installation
Changing Labor Value
Tuesday, September 29, 2009 – 6:30 to 8:00 p.m.
Screening and colloquium
Birth and Rebirth of a Nation
Saturday, September 26, 2009
Panel Discussion
Confounding Expectations X: Photography in Context, Words Without Pictures
Thursday, September 17, 2009 - 7:00 to 8:30 p.m.
Conversation in collaboration with Art in General
The Mobile Archive: The Israeli Center for Digital Art, Holon
Tuesday, September 15, 2009 - 6:30 to 8:00 p.m.
For programs from fall 2004 to spring 2009, visit our New School site. For VLC initiatives before fall 2004, please inquire at vlc@newschool.edu.
