Snap!“I am what time, circumstance, history, have made of me, certainly, but I am also, much more than that. So are we all.”
-James Baldwin
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Performing (at) the Body’s Edge: “This Is Just Like Life” New York University, 15 November 2011
The fall CSGS calendar of evening events ended on an amazing note, with a conversation between Shelley Jackson and Rebecca Schneider, hosted by CSGS and NYU’s Department of Performance Studies. Jackson and Schneider, whose books include The Melancholy [...]
21 Peaceful Genders – No Boxes, No Bars, No Apologies
Edited by Doris J. Popovich and Jacqueline H. Boyd
Gender identity is an experience, not an assignment. If you are living this truth and can write about it, we want to hear from you. Together we can dispel myths, give hope to young people, [...]
Thursday and Friday, December 1 and 2
Co-organized by the NYU Gallatin School of Individualized Study and the Poetry Society of America, with the support of the NYU Humanities Initiative.
Free and open to the public
Jerry H. Labowitz Theatre for the Performing Arts 1 Washington Place
Thursday, 12/1
6-6:45 pm: Seeing Elizabeth Bishop, [...]
a conversation with Shelley Jackson and Rebecca Schneider
Read a review of this talk!
November 15, Tuesday 7 to 8:30 pm
Shelley Jackson, writer and artist
Rebecca Schneider, Theatre Arts and Performance Studies, Brown University
The question of the body — the body as question – is a recurring motif in the work [...]
THE REALITY SHOWS
a conversation with Karen Finley
April 6, Wednesday 6:30 to 8 pm
READ THE REVIEW! Reclaiming Hysteria in The Reality Shows: A Conversation with Karen Finley and Ann Pellegrini
Karen Finley, Art and Public Policy, NYU
Ann Pellegrini, Performance Studies & Religious Studies, NYU
The Reality Shows collects a decade’s [...]
CAMP AESTHETICS AND DESI VISUAL CULTURE
A Brown Bag Lunch Talk with Alpesh Patel
November 22, Monday 12:30 to 1:45 pm
Alpesh Patel, CSGS Visiting Scholar and Independent Art Historian/Cultural Arts Producer
In the Western art world, a curious alliance has formed between those that are sympathetic to identity politics and those that [...]
“Where is Ana Mendieta?”: A Revisitation of the Artist’s Life and Work New York University, 7 October 2010
A capacity crowd, their bodies packed against each other in the Studio at the Department of Performance Studies, came out on October 7th for a symposium on the work and legacy of the Cuban-American artist Ana [...]
WHERE IS ANA MENDIETA? ¿DÓNDE ESTA ANA MENDIETA?
25 Years Later: An Exhibition and Symposium
READ THE REVIEW! “Where is Ana Mendieta?”: A Revisitation of the Artist’s Life and Work
For more information, click here.
Non-NYU affiliates please RSVP to PSLectures@gmail.com
September 8, 2010 marks 25 years since artist Ana Mendieta’s fatal fall, [...]
Barbara Hammer MoMA Retrospective
9/15/10-10/13/10
MoMA CELEBRATES BARBARA HAMMER, WITH A MONTH-LONG RETROSPECTIVE OF THE PROLIFIC ARTIST’S EXTENSIVE BODY OF WORK
Exhibition Includes the World Premiere of Hammer’s Newest Film, Generations, as well as Her Groundbreaking Experimental Short Films and Documentaries
Barbara Hammer from [...]
How Obscene is This! The Decency Clause Turns 20: Panel I
Wednesday, September 15, 2010 6:30 to 8:30 p.m.
Tishman Auditorium 66 West 12th Street
free
On the occasion of the 20th anniversary of the Congressional decision to require the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) to consider “general standards of decency and respect” [...]
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