Artists Space

Letter to Paul Bowles, August, 1948, read by Pamela Sneed Dear Jane Puppet Play & Readings Documentation Monday, January 23, 2017 Artists Space Books & Talks 55 Walker Street http://artistsspace.org/materials/dear-jane

Excerpt from a letter to Natasha von Hoershelman and Katharine Hamill by Jane Bowles, June 1954, read by Tiffany Malakooti Dear Jane Puppet Play & Readings Documentation Monday, January 23, 2017 Artists Space Books & Talks 55 Walker Street http://artistsspace.org/materials/dear-jane

Letter to Paul Bowles, late May/early June, 1958, read by Ariana Reines Dear Jane Puppet Play & Readings Documentation Wednesday, January 18, 2017 Artists Space Books & Talks 55 Walker Street http://artistsspace.org/materials/dear-jane

Excerpt from "Camp Cataract," 1949, read by Christine Smallwood Dear Jane Puppet Play & Readings Documentation Wednesday, January 18, 2017 Artists Space Books & Talks 55 Walker Street http://artistsspace.org/materials/dear-jane

"A Quarreling Pair," a play by Jane Bowles, staged by Nick Mauss, and starring Deborah Eisenberg and Lynne Tillman Dear Jane Puppet Play & Readings Documentation Wednesday, January 18, 2017 Artists Space Books & Talks 55 Walker Street http://artistsspace.org/materials/dear-jane

Excerpt from "Plain Pleasures," 1946, read by Gini Alhadeff Dear Jane Puppet Play & Readings Documentation Wednesday, January 18, 2017 Artists Space Books & Talks 55 Walker Street http://artistsspace.org/materials/dear-jane

Letter to “Spivy” LeVoe, Deal Beach, NJ, January 29, 1937, read by Nick Mauss Dear Jane Puppet Play & Readings Documentation Wednesday, January 18, 2017 Artists Space Books & Talks 55 Walker Street http://artistsspace.org/materials/dear-jane

Excerpt from “Curls and a Quiet Country Face,” early 1950s, read by Yto Barrada Dear Jane Puppet Play & Readings Documentation Monday, January 23, 2017 Artists Space Books & Talks 55 Walker Street http://artistsspace.org/materials/dear-jane

Lise Soskolne (W.A.G.E.) Mabel Wilson David Joselit Amin Husain Eva Mayhabal Davis Nia Nottage Sneha Ganguly Conversation Documentation Saturday, November 10, 2016 Artists Space Books & Talks 55 Walker Street #decolonizethisplace www.decolonizethisplace.org

Robin D.G. Kelley Jasbir K. Puar Amin Husain Marz Saffore Conversation Documentation Friday, November 4, 2016 Artists Space Books & Talks 55 Walker Street #decolonizethisplace www.decolonizethisplace.org

Artists: NYC Is Not for Sale Nancy Meza, Defend Boyle Heights Pati Ankalli Rodriguez, Mi Casa No Es Su Case Alicia Grullón, Mothers On The Move Sandra de la Loza, North East Los Angeles Alliance Chino Mayday, NYC Not 4 Sale Raquel Namuche, Queens Is Not for Sale Anthony Rosado Samuel Stein Shellyne Rodriguez, Take Back The Bronx Discussion Saturday, October 29, 2016, 7pm Artists Space Books & Talks 55 Walker Street For more information please visit http://artistsspace.org/programs/arti... #NYCNot4Sale #DecolonizeThisPlace http://decolonizethisplace.org/

Chinatown Is Not for Sale Peter Kwong Liz Moy Margaret Lee, 47 Canal Juan Puntes, WhiteBox Betty Yu, Chinatown Art Brigade Discussion Saturday, October 22, 2016, 7pm Artists Space Books & Talks 55 Walker Street For more information please visit http://artistsspace.org/programs/chin... #ChinatownNot4Sale #DecolonizeThisPlace http://decolonizethisplace.org/

NEON Eve Essex Performance Documentation Wednesday, July 13, 2016, 7pm Artists Space Books & Talks 55 Walker Street For more information visit http://artistsspace.org/materials/neon

Yates McKee, Nina Felshin, Amin Husain, Victoria Sobel Conversation Documentation Wednesday, June 29, 2016, 7pm Artists Space Books & Talks 55 Walker Street In "Strike Art: Contemporary Art and the Post-Occupy Condition" (Verso, 2016), Yates McKee shows that during the five years since Occupy Wall Street—a period that has also witnessed the upsurge of the black liberation movement, climate justice mobilizations, the struggles of workers, debtors, students, tenants, and more—artists have increasingly embedded their practice in expanded fields of political organizing. While much such work has taken place outside the art system, in many cases it has also involved doubling back upon art institutions themselves as arenas of action in ways exceed the traditions of Institutional Critique, including the work of groups such as The Natural History Museum; Free Cooper Union; the Global Ultra Luxury Faction, known for its actions at the Guggenheim; and the recent intervention of the Decolonial Cultural Front at the Br

Wednesday, March 2, 2016, 7pm Doors open 6pm Artists Space Books & Talks 55 Walker Street One of the defining characteristics of Artists Space’s work is dialogue: dialogue between artists, writers, scholars, theorists and our audiences. Artists Space Dialogues takes the simple format of a public conversation between two people. Every month renowned art historian Bettina Funcke will talk with an influential figure in the field of contemporary art and visual culture, investigating their work and thinking, their histories, trajectories, and processes. Douglas Crimp Wednesday, February 3, 2016, 7pm Sarah Morris Wednesday, March 2, 2016, 7pm John Knight Wednesday, April 13, 2016, 7pm For more information click here artistsspace.org/programs/sarah-morris

Wednesday, February 3, 7pm Doors open 6pm Artists Space Books & Talks 55 Walker Street One of the defining characteristics of Artists Space’s work is dialogue: dialogue between artists, writers, scholars, theorists and our audiences. Artists Space Dialogues takes the simple format of a public conversation between two people. Every month renowned art historian Bettina Funcke will talk with an influential figure in the field of contemporary art and visual culture, investigating their work and thinking, their histories, trajectories, and processes. Douglas Crimp Wednesday, February 3, 2016, 7pm Sarah Morris Wednesday, March 2, 2016, 7pm John Knight Wednesday, April 13, 2016, 7pm For more information click here http://artistsspace.org/programs/douglas-crimp

Talk Tuesday, January 19, 7pm Artists Space Books & Talks 55 Walker Street "Despite efforts to obscure slavery and indigenous dispossession in the genealogy and narrative of American nationhood, these realities remain deeply embedded in the relationship between race and markets where in fact race and economic domination are fused. Racial hierarchy is continually replenished through the market, while the market encodes property in accord with racial regimes. For example, "black" spaces are forever unstable, subprime, and "waste," making them always available for (re) appropriation through various technologies such as debt, (de)regulation, and development." – Cheryl I. Harris In conjunction with Cameron Rowland's exhibition 91020000, Artists Space presents a talk by Cheryl I. Harris, Professor of Law and Director of the Center for Critical Race Studies at UCLA School of Law. Harris is the author of key texts in the field of critical race theory including "Whiteness as Property" (1993) and "Equal Treatment an

Mimetic Exchange: Michael Taussig on Juan Downey and Jean Rouch Screenings & Talk Wednesday, December 2, 2015, 7pm Artists Space Books & Talks 55 Walker Street In the second of a series of programs forming part of the Union Gaucha Productions survey, screenings of the films The Laughing Alligator by Juan Downey and Les Maîtres Fous (The Mad Masters) by Jean Rouch will be followed by a talk by anthropologist Michael Taussig. This audio recording documents the talk given by Taussig following screenings of the two films. Michael Taussig (born 1940 in Sydney, Australia) is a Professor of Anthropology at Columbia University in New York. Taussig's most recent book is The Corn Wolf (2015), a collection of his writing that marries storytelling with theory, and analysis with ethnography. His previous books include Beauty and the Beast (2012), What Color is the Sacred? (2009), Walter Benjamin’s Grave (2006), My Cocaine Museum (2004), Magic of the State (1997), Mimesis and Alterity (1993), and The Devil and Commodi

Jeff Preiss and Union Gaucha Productions Screenings & Discussion Thursday, November 19, 7pm Artists Space Books & Talks 55 Walker Street Filmmaker Jeff Preiss's long-term engagement with Union Gaucha Productions has encompassed the production of collaborative work, as well as sharing with Nicolás Guagnini and Karin Schneider an involvement in the co-operative exhibition space Orchard, which operated in the Lower East Side of New York between 2005 and 2008. This evening of screenings and conversation between the three artists, dedicated to Preiss's work, draws on these exchanges among others and includes the presentation of three films: the early 8mm film Boy Town (1987); Twins (2001), a 16mm film produced by Guagnini and Schneider with Preiss; and the premiere screening in 24fps HD video of Part 1 of STOP (2012), Preiss's feature-length chronicle distilled from footage shot between 1995 and 2011. This audio recording documents the discussion, between Jeff Preiss, Karin Schneider and Nicolás Guagnini, that

Juliana Huxtable & LaTasha N. Nevada Diggs Readings Friday, October 9, 7pm Artists Space Books & Talks 55 Walker Street “Performance is a bothersome word for writerly poets” writes poet Nathaniel Mackey in his essay “Sight-Specific, Sound-Specific…” from 2005. Despite twentieth century poetry’s rich tradition of performance, Mackey notes that in poetry there is often an expectation for words do the performing, as opposed to people or things. Yet, language exists beyond just words, and functions in tandem with images, gestures, bodies and technologies. In this series of readings, distinctions between the language of performance and the performance of language are blurred. Foregrounded are writerly poets who embrace images, gestures, bodies and technologies in the presentation of their poetry – as elements that don’t overshadow their poetics, but are embraced as part of its liveliness, and of reading as a social experience. The series is structured via themes of sound, the body, technology, theater and come