Each year, the VLC identifies a topic of urgency and resonance that becomes the subject of various public programs – Speculating on Change is the annual theme for 2009-2010, in response to the Obama call for “change we can believe in.” The discussions probe perceptions, descriptions, measurements, and meanings of change that inform collective action, whether political, scientific, or cultural. Speculating on Change also entails projection, prognosis and risk, and embodies the fluid and divergent time space continuum of contemporary existence. The programs are tied to the previous cycle on democracy as an eternally deferred state. Both program cycles received the generous support of The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts.
martha rosler’s partial, partisan blogroll
Opinionated but practical, the Switchboard blogroll is curated by artists or academics we admire and turn to when looking beyond the confines of our own disciplines. Their selections identify stakeholders in political or cultural debates while sketching a portrait of the blogroll curators themselves.
The inaugural edition is written and presented by Martha Rosler, artist, writer, and member of the Vera…
Posted on December 7, 2009
Michael A. Cohen, “Four Paradoxes of Our Urban Future”
Michael A. Cohen discusses the economic welfare and political stability of cities both as sites of the greatest impacts of global change, but also as sites providing solutions to some of the challenges that result from such change.
Cohen will deliver the inaugural lecture for “Speculating on Change,” the Vera List Center annual theme for 2009-10, at The New School on Friday,…
Posted on October 8, 2009
Bill Gaskins
Photographer, essayist and Parsons faculty member Bill Gaskins introduces “Birth and Rebirth of a Nation,” a colloquium and screening event taking place at The New School on Saturday, September 26, 2009.
Posted on September 20, 2009
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