Core Seminar in Urban Studies Spring 2020

Activist Art and Abortion Rights in the Post-Roe v. Wade United States: An Analysis of the Archival Works of REPOhistory, Kerr + Malley, and Andrea Bowers

By Elizabeth S. Hawley

Ph.D. Candidate

Art History Department

The Graduate Center, City University of New York

Abstract (essay attached)

Feminists in the u.s. viewed the 1973 passage of…[Read more]

No Artist Left Alive: Speculations on the Post-Pandemic Struggles of Cultural Workers Within, Against and Beyond Capitalism

“Art may get some bailouts precisely so that it can continue to produce nice things for the resurgent financial elite, who would otherwise be content to let artists die, like blithe aristocrats feasting during a…[Read more]

Authenticity and “Post-Chocolate” Cool in a Rapidly Gentrifying Washington, D.C.How the marketing of blackness as a prized aesthetic often leaves the city’s Black residents behind.

Next City…[Read more]

https://www.pbs.org/independentlens/videos/the-hottest-august/

I think if you’re in America you can watch this!

xoJ

co-founder William ‘Bill’ Menking passes away at age 72

DEMOLITION IN HELL’S KITCHEN

Located on West 44th Street, the Millennium Premier Hotel stands in a once largely Irish and working class neighborhood formerly known as Hell’s Kitchen but re-christened with the sanitarysounding moniker ‘Clinton’ by real estate speculators in the 1980s.…[Read more]

Beyond the Breakdown: Three Meditations on a Possible Aftermath

• Franco Berardi aka Bifo

All of a sudden, what we have been thinking for the last fifty years has to be rethought from scratch. Thank god (is god a virus?) that we have an abundance of extra time now because the old business is out of business.

I’m going to say something about t…[Read more]

We had scheduled Libertad and her husband Monxo Lopez as special guests…things are of course disrupted:

https://www.latinxspaces.com/latinx-art/cultural-centers-as-neighborhood-havens-interview-with-libertad-o-guerra

https://www.boredpanda.com/coronavirus-themed-street-art-around-the-world/?media_id=2141062&fbclid=IwAR3x6GEwsgoO3hueUFSwfG-1zyG5qUI4ZSgFacvXBfZ2K2tH8OUfHXk52S8&utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=organic

https://www.democracynow.org/2020/4/2/rana_ayyub_india_coronavirus

https://www.npr.org/sections/coronavirus-live-updates/2020/04/01/825329399/moscow-launches-new-surveillance-app-to-track-residents-in-coronavirus-lockdown

Hi!

Here is a forum where we can share articles we come across that we find interesting and/or contribute to our discussions.

https://vimeo.com/155760158?fbclid=IwAR1eQB0GNEwAM6aMsTZ8BxRKiTObjb2QSQa00INy1nmWd9V8Cqp1OyftDks

http://inthesetimes.com/<wbr />article/22394/coronavirus-<wbr />crisis-capitalism-covid-19-<wbr />monster-mike-davis

“Coronavirus Propagations” by Jonas Staal

“Let’s begin at the beginning. The coronavirus itself is inherently intertwined with global capitalism, which, as Mike Davis argues, “now appears to be biologically unsustainable in the absence of a truly international public health infrastructure.”3 Massive concentrations of livestock, hunting, and meat…[Read more]

Thinking back to our last discussion that seemed to pivot on the role of activism as an embedded part of one’s research and/or practice, I came across something I penned back in 1999 fyi:

“For [Lucy R.] Lippard, who was a co-founder of  several important collectives

including: the feminist art collective Heresies, Political…[Read more]

https://radiichina.com/klingon-emojis-morse-code/

Netizens Are Using Klingon, Emojis, and Morse Code to Evade Censors

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2020/03/16/dressing-for-the-surveillance-age?source=EDT_NYR_EDIT_NEWSLETTER_0_imagenewsletter_Movies_ZZ&utm_campaign=aud-dev&utm_source=nl&utm_brand=tny&utm_mailing=TNY_Movies_031320&utm_medium=email&bxid=5be9d2b33f92a40469e212ba&cndid=14800335&mbid=CRMNYR062419&utm_content=A&utm_term=TNY_Movies&hellip;

Pablo José Ramírez: Translation and Racial Cosmopolitanism
Tuesday, March 10, 2020
6:30 – 8pm
ICI 401 Broadway Suite 1620  (below Canal)
New York, NY 10013
FREE and open to the public

How is that non-white Mestizajes transform and expand the artistic canon? What does it imply to speak about an indigenous planetary indigeneity?