This fall marks the second year of the Vera List Center’s two-year investigation into the political, social, and metaphorical implications of Correction*. We’re pleased to share a preview of upcoming exhibitions, programs, publications, and more!

SEMINAR
Correction* Seminar 7: Bring into Order: School(ing) as a War of Correction
Monday, September 18, 2023
6–7:30 pm EDT
Online
Year two of the Correction* Seminar Series begins with a look at education and prison systems. This conversation with scholar Dylan Rodríguez not only pushes beyond “reform” as an objective of collective engagement with, and revolt against, regimes of correction (schooling and otherwise) but also recognizes how reform is already part of the correctional apparatus and its logic of carcerality and policing.

Stay tuned for details on future Correction* Seminars later this fall:

Correction* Seminar 8: “Hader Halal” (With Regard to Presence)
Monday, November 13, 2023
12–1:30 pm EST
Online
Co-presented with OSUN Center for Human Rights & the Arts at Bard, Fehras Publishing Practices’s Sami Rustom and Kenan Darwich share their research into the history and presence of publishing and its entanglement in the sociopolitical and cultural sphere in the Eastern Mediterranean, North Africa, and the Arab diaspora.

Correction* Seminar 9: Of Bodies and Sound
Monday, December 18, 2023
12–1:30 pm EST
Online
Amsterdam-based Kosovar artist Astrit Ismaili’s performance lecture centers on how bodies are constructed, modified, and interpreted through contemporary society, but also how they are heard, asking what it means to sonify a body politic.

PARSONS VISITING ARTIST LECTURE SERIES
Beatriz Cortez: Voids, Portals, and Moving Land
Wednesday, September 20, 2023
7–8 pm EDT
Alvin Johnson/J.M. Kaplan Hall
The New School, 66 W 12th St, Room 404
2022–2024 Borderlands Fellow Beatriz Cortez charts the different ways in which her monumental sculpture Ilopango, the Volcano that Left counters ideas about permanence, portals, and multiple temporalities. The volcano, currently on view at Storm King Art Center, is journeying up the Hudson River to EMPAC–Curtis R. Priem Experimental Media and Performing Arts Center at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute from October 27 through 29.

BOOK LAUNCH
Breaking Protocol
Sunday, October 8, 2023, 3–4:30 pm EDT
Artbook @ MoMA PS1
22-25 Jackson Ave (at 46th Ave)
Long Island City, NY 11101
The launch of 2020–2022 VLC Borderlands Fellow Maria Hupfield’s artist book Breaking Protocol (co-published by Inventory Press and the VLC) reunites Hupfield with poet Natalie Diaz in a joint performance that builds on their longstanding artistic exchange. They are joined in dialogue by Thomas (T.) Lax.

FORUM
VLC Forum 2023: Correction*
October 12–14, 2023
Online and in person at The New School
With an exhibition, workshops, conversations, a keynote lecture, and a community dinner and party, the VLC Forum 2023 highlights artists and collectives working in community and advancing social justice across the world through collaborative practices. This year’s forum celebrates the urban Aboriginal artist collective proppaNOW, recipient of the Vera List Center’s 2022–2024 Jane Lombard Prize for Art and Social Justice. The forum also showcases the Jane Lombard Fellows, who are finalists for the prize: the Pan-African Another Roadmap Africa Cluster (ARAC), Colectivo Cherani from Mexico, KUNCI Study Forum & Collective from Indonesia, and from Palestine Khalil Rabah.

farid rakun of the Jakarta-based collectives ruangrupa and Gudskul delivers the keynote lecture. Other special appearances include Fawz Kabra, Wanda Nanibush, Pablo José Ramírez, and Sarah Rifky.

EXHIBITION
proppaNOW: There Goes the Neighbourhood!
October 9–November 5, 2023
Open daily 12–6 pm EDT, Thursdays late until 8 pm
Parsons School of Design, Sheila C. Johnson Design Center, Arnold and Sheila Aronson Galleries
66 Fifth Avenue at 13th Street
proppaNOW: There Goes the Neighbourhood! features the work of proppaNOW members Vernon Ah Kee, Tony Albert, Richard Bell, Megan Cope, Jennifer Herd, and the late Laurie Nilsen. The exhibition is a testament to the collective’s unwavering commitment to pushing for greater visibility for Aboriginal struggles and rights within Australia and beyond. A video screening program complements the exhibition, showcasing the collective’s range of artistic and activist approaches.

Join us for a an opening reception and exhibition walkthrough on Friday, October 13, 5:30–6:30 pm EDT.

EXHIBITION
In Common: New Approaches With Romare Bearden
November 9, 2023–January 15, 2024
Open daily 12–6 pm EDT, Thursdays late until 8 pm
Parsons School of Design, Sheila C. Johnson Design Center, Anna-Maria and Stephen Kellen Gallery
66 Fifth Avenue at 13th Street
This exhibition brings together works by artist, educator, scholar, songwriter, and social activist Romare Bearden alongside six contemporary artists—Black Quantum Futurism, Kahlil Robert Irving, Lorraine O’Grady, Hank Willis Thomas, Mickalene Thomas, and Charisse Pearlina Weston—in a multigenerational dialogue on the political agency of art. The exhibition is presented as part of the multitier initiative Romare Bearden and New Approaches to Art, Race & Economy, which includes a three-day symposium (November 30–December 2, 2023) organized by the The New School’s Institute on Race, Power, and Political Economy and the Vera List Center for Art and Politics, the Romare Bearden Foundation, and The Institute of Jazz Studies at Rutgers University.

AICA LECTURE
AICA-USA Distinguished Critic Lecture: Valerie Cassel Oliver
Monday, December 11, 2023
6:30–8 pm EST
The Auditorium at 66 West 12th Street
The New School
AICA-USA is pleased to announce that writer and curator Valerie Cassel Oliver will deliver the 17th annual AICA-USA Distinguished Critic Lecture, presented in partnership with the Vera List Center for Art and Politics at The New School.

PUBLISHING SERIES
Post/doc
Our digital publishing series Post/doc continues this fall. Focusing on ecology, contributions by Borderlands Curatorial Fellow Larissa Nez and and artist TJ Shin respond to Correction* through considerations of borderlands, rematriation, and reparations (forthcoming). Last spring, the second edition of Post/doc explored notions of “correction” in digital spaces to subvert, distort, and disrupt modes of visibility or legibility of the self to reimagine other forms of artificial and somatic intelligence. Read “Paradoxical Intelligence” by Ari Melenciano and “Demon of the Heart” by Catalina Ouyang on the VLC website.