Call & Response occupies that open, inquisitive, generous place when pronouncements are offered, but conclusions not yet drawn. It usually entails participation by New School faculty and for a set period invites commentaries by visitors to the site.
CALL: The Cardew Object / RESPONSE: Lydia Matthews
CALL: The Cardew Object, Colloquium, Film, Workshops, and Installations, April 9, April 10, and April 15, 2010
2009-2010 Vera List Center Fellow Robert Sember organized a three-day event exploring the radical oeuvre of British experimental composer Cornelius Cardew and the activities of…
Posted on September 8, 2010
CALL: Roberta Smith / RESPONSE: Laura Auricchio
CALL: Roberta Smith, Criticism: A Life Sentence
On November 5, 2009, Roberta Smith delivered the 2009 AICA/USA Distinguished Critic Lecture at The New School. From her vantage as senior art critic of the New York Times, she shared her thoughts on art…
Posted on February 22, 2010
CALL: Birth and Rebirth of a Nation / RESPONSE: Chris Johnson
CALL: Birth and Rebirth of a Nation, colloquium and film screening, September 26, 2009
Centered on D.W. Griffith’s film The Birth of a Nation, this day-long event reconsidered the notorious white supremacist manifesto in the context of the Obama call for change.…
Posted on December 2, 2009
CALL: Inaugural Lecture, Speculating on Change / RESPONSE: William Morrish
CALL: Inaugural Lecture, Speculating on Change
The inaugural lecture on “Speculating on Change” was delivered by Michael A. Cohen, Director, The Graduate Program of International Affairs at The New School on October 16, 2009. Cohen discussed cities both as sites of the greatest…
Posted on December 2, 2009
CALL: Changing Labor Value / RESPONSE: Paolo Carpignano
CALL: Changing Labor Value
Changing Labor Value, a panel discussion on September 29, 2009, examined the nature of work in the digital era, focusing on the relationship between invisible labor, play, exploitation, pleasure, and the production of value. The speakers, Andrew…
Posted on November 11, 2009
RESPONSE: Paolo Carpignano
It might be useful to start with differences. Had Richard Sennett not fallen ill and participated, as intended, it would have been easier. After all his work is representative of a very learned but moderately progressive critique of the current…
Posted on November 11, 2009
CALL: Roee Rosen / RESPONSE: Vyjayanthi Rao
Prompted by Israel’s invasion of Gaza in January 2009, the following text by artist Roee Rosen and the response by anthropologist Vyjayanthi Rao examine the public articulation of conflict, specifically the military acts in the current Israeli Palestinian conflict. Rosen…
Posted on September 20, 2009
RESPONSE: Joshua Simon, Salmon with Mayonnaise
Joshua Simon is a curator and writer based in Tel Aviv-Jaffa. He is the co-editor of Maayan Magazine for Poetry and The New & Bad Art Magazine and editor of Maarvon – New Film Magazine, all based in Tel Aviv. Among his…
Posted on December 2, 2009
CALL: Roee Rosen
1. The Comic Mode of the Occupation
The name of Israel’s recent war in Gaza, Operation Cast Lead, was taken from a Hanukkah nursery song that Israeli children know by heart. It was penned decades ago by Chaim Nahman Bialik who…
Posted on September 20, 2009
RESPONSE: Vyjayanthi Rao
Where does conflict come from? The answer to this question is becoming ever more elusive, even in cases where we appear to know the answers, the protagonists and the situations well enough. Roee Rosen’s text, “The Law is Laughing: Fragments…
Posted on September 20, 2009
