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2024

AICA-USA Lecture

Hilton Als. One Writer’s Beginnings: Thinking in Words and Pictures

Dec 4, 2024

Performance

Anna Martine Whitehead: FORCE! an opera in three acts

Nov 22–Nov 23, 2024

Lecture, Performance

VLC Forum 2024: Tactics of Transmission

Oct 26, 2024

Conversation

VLC Forum 2024: Relative Histories

Brown and green graphic saying: Relative Histories, Saturday Oct. 26, 1:15 to 2:30 pm. Zoé Samudzi and Mahdi Sabbagh.

Oct 26, 2024

Conversation

VLC Forum 2024: Queer(ing) History

Brown and green graphic saying: Queer(ing) history. Saturday, Oct. 25 11 am to 12:30 pm. Andrea Geyer, Adam HajYahia, Carlos Motta.

Oct 26, 2024

Dinner, Performance

VLC Forum 2024: Community Dinner

Brown and green graphic saying: Community dinner and party, free for all! Friday Oct 25, 8 to 10 pm.

Oct 25, 2024

Keynote

VLC Forum 2024: Naeem Mohaiemen: Prisoners of Shothik Itihash

Brown and green graphic that says: Keynote: Naeem Mohaiemen, Prisoners of Shothik Itihash. Friday, Oct. 25 6:30 to 8 pm

Oct 25, 2024

Conversation

VLC Forum 2024: Re-visioning Native Histories

Brown and green graphic that says: Re-visioning Native Histories. Thurs Oct 24, 6:30-8:30 pm, Kent Monkman, Nathan Young, and Larissa Nez.

Oct 24, 2024

Forum

VLC Forum 2024: Correct History*

Oct 24–Oct 26, 2024

Lecture

Anna Martine Whitehead: Still in the Waiting Room

Oct 23, 2024

Screening

Release: Screenings from Fox Maxy’s Mental Wellness Film Workshop

The image shows a figure laying on the ground with an arm and leg

Jun 9, 2024

Seminar

Seminar 12: Strike That

Jun 3, 2024

Workshop

Mental Wellness Film Workshop with Fox Maxy

May 23–Jun 9, 2024

Convening, Panel

Harlem Earth Day: Vision 2050

Apr 27, 2024

Reading

New School New Books 2024

Mar 22, 2024

Conversation, Workshop

Studies into Darkness: Manifestos, in Genre and in Practice

Mar 9, 2024

Seminar

Seminar 11: Many Returns

Mar 4, 2024

Book Launch, Performance

Off Script

Mar 2, 2024

Conversation

Revisiting Studies into Darkness: Conversations on Freedom of Speech

A book with a black cover placed on a light gray background; white text on the cover reads "Studies into Darkness: The Perils and Promise of Freedom of Speech, edited by Carin Kuoni and Laura Raicovich" in a serif font. Red, blue, and green edge printing; green and blue edges visible.

Feb 22–May 29, 2024

Seminar

Seminar 10: Reducing Harm (As Prompt, As Practice)

Feb 12, 2024

2023

Seminar

Seminar 9: Of Bodies and Sound

Dec 18, 2023

AICA-USA Lecture

Valerie Cassel Oliver. Black Ontology: The Subversive Beauty of Soul

Dec 11, 2023

Symposium

In Common: Romare Bearden and New Approaches to Art, Race & Economy

Nov 30–Dec 2, 2023

Seminar

Seminar 8: “Hader Halal” (With Regard to Presence)

Nov 13, 2023

Performance

Beatriz Cortez: Ilopango, the Volcano that Left

Oct 27–Oct 29, 2023

Conversation

VLC Forum 2023: Igniting Resistance: A Conversation with Colectivo Cherani

Oct 14, 2023

Keynote

VLC Forum 2023: farid rakun: On space, or putting the ruang in ruangrupa

Oct 14, 2023

Conversation

VLC Forum 2023: On Learning Together

Oct 14, 2023

Party

VLC Forum 2023: Community Dinner and Party

Oct 13, 2023

Panel

VLC Forum 2023: Blackness Is…: Global Black and Indigenous Solidarities

Oct 13, 2023

Conversation, Prize Ceremony

VLC Forum 2023: Prize Ceremony and Conversation proppaNOW with Wanda Nanibush

Oct 13, 2023

Conversation

VLC Forum 2023: Impossible Structures with Khalil Rabah

Oct 12, 2023

Workshop

VLC Forum 2023: Unchrono/logical Timeline Activation Chapter 2.2 New York

Oct 12, 2023

Forum

Vera List Center Forum 2023: Correction*

Oct 12–Oct 14, 2023

Book Launch

Breaking Protocol Book Launch

Oct 8, 2023

Lecture

Beatriz Cortez: Voids, Portals, and Moving Land

Sep 20, 2023

Seminar

Seminar 7: Bring into Order: School(ing) as a War of Correction

Sep 18, 2023

Conversation

Libraries in Practice: Tending Toward Liberation

May 18, 2023

Seminar

Seminar 6: Indigenous Cultural Revitalization: Rematriation and Preservation

May 1, 2023

Panel

Libraries as Correctives: C& Center of Unfinished Business, Keleketla! Library, and Sister Library with Asia Art Archive

Apr 24, 2023

Reading

New School New Books: A Reading Series

Apr 21, 2023

Seminar

Seminar 5: Lupus as an Operating System

Apr 10, 2023

Screening

Ariella Aïsha Azoulay: the world like a jewel in the hand

Mar 29, 2023

Convening

Conflicting Relations

Mar 11, 2023

Seminar

Seminar 4: Becoming One: The University Between Labor Struggles and Communities of Care

Feb 27, 2023

Seminar

Seminar 3: Correcting Mistaken Ideas: Revisiting the People’s Program at Lincoln Hospital with Walter Bosque

Feb 13, 2023

Conversation

Cybercultures and Cyberfeminisms

Jan 30, 2023

2022

AICA-USA Lecture

Siddhartha Mitter: Moving the Center

Dec 14, 2022

Seminar

Seminar 2: Virus Becoming

Nov 7, 2022

Presentation

VLC Forum 2022: A Time for Correction*, Introducing the 2022–2024 VLC Fellows

Oct 22, 2022

Performance

VLC Forum 2022: FORCE! an opera in three acts with Sistazz of the Nitty Gritty

Oct 22, 2022

Keynote, Lecture

Shuddhabrata Sengupta, Raqs Media Collective. Emendations: 30 Years of Art and Politics

Oct 21, 2022

Conversation

VLC Forum 2022: Make Room!

Oct 20, 2022

Forum

Vera List Center Forum 2022: Correction*

Oct 20–Oct 22, 2022

Conversation

Breaking Protocol: A Conversation with Maria Hupfield

Oct 15, 2022

Conversation

Studies into Darkness: Editors and Artists in Conversation

Oct 13, 2022

Seminar

Seminar 1: Ashes to Artifact: Cultural Death, Repair, and Restitution of the Benin Bronzes

Sep 26, 2022

Seminar Overview

Correction* Seminar Series

Sep 26, 2022–May 6, 2024

Book Launch, Performance

Studies into Darkness: The Perils and Promise of Freedom of Speech Book Launch

Jun 7, 2022

Performance, Seminar

Seminar 12: Breaking Protocols: Desire Lines

May 16, 2022

Performance, Roundtable

La Siembra

May 7, 2022

Performance

Maria Hupfield: Super Massive Thunder Boom Ultimate Collection

May 6, 2022

Symposium

Prime Meridian Unconference

Apr 15–Apr 17, 2022

Lecture

Visiting Artist Lecture: Rasheedah Phillips/Black Quantum Futurism

Apr 13, 2022

Seminar

Seminar 11: Forces of Art: Protocols of Evaluation

Apr 4, 2022

Conversation

On Conditions and Conditionality: Ecological Injustices and the Biopolitics of Resistance

Apr 2, 2022

Workshop

These Conditions: Family Saturdays at Brooklyn Army Terminal

Apr 2, 2022

Study Group

On Necessary Work

Mar 17, 2022

Seminar

Seminar 10: School of Tomorrow: From the Open Plan to the Tele-classroom

Empty classroom with changing screen at the front

Mar 14, 2022

Conversation

Teach-In on Ukraine for Artists, Activists, and Arts Workers

Mar 12, 2022

Performance

These Conditions: Duvet

Mar 6, 2022

Reading

A Reading Inside These Conditions 

Feb 24, 2022

Symposium

Remote Control: Surveying Drones and Culture Today

Feb 9–Feb 11, 2022

2021

Symposium

Rethinking Residencies Symposium

Dec 8–Dec 10, 2021

Seminar

Seminar 9: Bridge: Protocols of Jazz and Modernism

Dec 6, 2021

Performance

Hél čhaŋkú kiŋ ȟpáye (There lies the road): A Performance

Dec 4, 2021

AICA-USA Lecture

Legacy Russell: On Footnotes

Nov 29, 2021

Lecture, Performance

RESPONSE ABILITY* A Manifesto on Ecocide

Nov 19, 2021

Seminar

Seminar 8: Work in the Cultural Economy We Want: Cooperatives

Nov 8, 2021

Assembly

ArtsLink Assembly 2021: Future Fellows

Nov 1–Nov 19, 2021

Assembly, Screening

VLC Forum 2021 Day Five: Escuela de Oficios

Hands weaving a basket together

Oct 16, 2021

Conversation

VLC Forum 2021 Day Four: Conflictorium

Oct 15, 2021

Conversation, Party, Performance

VLC Forum 2021 Day Three: Underground Resistance

Oct 14, 2021

Presentation, Workshop

VLC Forum 2021 Day Two: Nepal Picture Library

picture of courtyard with papers pinned to the wall

Oct 13, 2021

Conversation, Screening, Workshop

VLC Forum 2021 Day One: Invisible Borders Trans-African Photographers Organization

Road trip participants on steps in front of brown guesthouse

Oct 12, 2021

Forum

Vera List Center Forum 2021: As for Protocols

Oct 12–Oct 16, 2021

Seminar

Seminar 7: Drones and the Bird’s-Eye View

Sep 20, 2021

Ceremony, Vigil

¡LOS QUE MUEREN POR LA VIDA, NO PUEDEN LLAMARSE MUERTOS! THOSE WHO DIE FOR LIFE, ARE NOT DEAD!

Sep 18, 2021

Symposium

As for Protocols—To Hold Things Together

May 20–May 21, 2021

Conversation

Hél čhaŋkú kiŋ ȟpáye (There lies the road) – A Dialogue About Making Art in a Good Way

May 20, 2021

News

New School News: The Vera List Center “As for Protocols” Seminar Series Explores Questions of Algorithms, Equitable Networks, Scientific Research, and More

Apr 29, 2021

Laboratory

NO WORK, NO SHOP: Socio-Environmental Imagination and Pedagogies of Action

Apr 22–Apr 23, 2021

Seminar

Seminar 6: Lab Work – Art of the Experiment

Apr 5, 2021

Conversation, Reading

Strategies for Survival: Black Feminist Manifestos

Mar 13, 2021

Seminar

Seminar 5: Protocols of Revolutionary Feminisms to Re/make the World

Woman holding young boy in kitchen

Mar 8, 2021

News

New School News: The Vera List Center Expands Support for Indigenous Artists with the Inaugural Borderlands Fellowship

Mar 4, 2021

Book Launch, Conversation

Communication After Refusal: The Turn to Love and Polyvocality

Feb 22, 2021

Panel

Climate Relations: Indigeneity in Activism, Art and Digital Media

Feb 11, 2021

Seminar

Seminar 4: Reimagining Protocols: Reclaiming, Challenging, and Queering Surveillance

Feb 8, 2021

News

Philadelphia Inquirer: Are you thinking about time right now? For ‘Black Futures’ contributor Rasheedah Phillips, it’s a lifelong pursuit

Jan 1, 2021

2020

News

Vice: Inside India’s ‘Museum of Conflict’ That Just Won a Major International Award

Dec 4, 2020

Book Launch, Conference

Forces of Art: Perspectives from a Changing World

Happy people doing somersault outside

Nov 26, 2020

Panel, Screening

Seminar 3: Bring Forth the Body: Biopower, Protocol, and Plagues

Nov 16, 2020

AICA-USA Lecture

Carolina A. Miranda: Going Local

Nov 10, 2020

Book Launch, Conversation

The Idols of ISIS: From Assyria to the Internet

Assyrian relief

Nov 1, 2020

News

L.A. Times: Column – Are art museums still racist? The COVID reset

Oct 22, 2020

Seminar

Seminar 2: Protocols for Community and Equitable Networks [as applied to education]

Oct 19, 2020

VLC Prize Announcement

2020-2022 Prize Recipient: Avni Sethi

Oct 10, 2020

Convening

What Protocols Are Needed Now? & Announcement of 2020-2022 Jane Lombard Prize for Art and Social Justice

Oct 10, 2020

Keynote

The Computable and the Uncomputable Keynote Lecture by Alexander R. Galloway

Oct 9, 2020

Talk

Towards a Temporal Rezoning: Unmapping the Time Zones. A Talk by VLC Fellow Rasheedah Phillips

Oct 8, 2020

Conversation

On Protocol: VLC Fellow Maria Hupfield in Conversation with Leanne Betasamosake Simpson

Oct 8, 2020

Conversation, Performance

From Errorism to NEO-EXTRA-ACTIVISM: VLC Fellow Etcétera and Jennifer Ponce de León

Oct 8, 2020

Dialogue, Screening

Gathering: VLC Fellow Adelita Husni Bey in Dialogue with Robert Sember

Oct 7, 2020

Conversation

Borderlands: VLC Fellow Carolina Caycedo in Conversation with Natalie Diaz

Oct 7, 2020

On Race, Representation, and White Lies: A Tribute to Maurice Berger

Portrait person in front of giant CBS logo

Oct 6, 2020

Performance

Palais de Mari: A Tribute to Maurice Berger, Part III

Oct 6, 2020

Panel

On Race, Representation, and White Lies: A Tribute to Maurice Berger, Part II

Portrait person in front of giant CBS logo

Oct 6, 2020

Performance, Reading

The Berger Object: A Tribute to Maurice Berger, Part I

Oct 6, 2020

Forum

Vera List Center Forum 2020: As for Protocols

Oct 6–Oct 10, 2020

Conversation, Screening

World Records Volume 4 Launch: In the Presence of Others

Protest in front of Natural History Museum in New York City in beige colors

Sep 30, 2020

Seminar

Seminar 1: Protocols as Language and Communication

Song chorus on

Sep 14, 2020

Seminar Overview

As for Protocols Seminar Series

Sep 14, 2020–May 16, 2022

Forum

ART • WORK • PLACE: Emergency Session III

Jun 16, 2020

Charrette, Convening

Training for the Not-Yet: Protocols in the Making

May 19, 2020

Forum

ART • WORK • PLACE: Emergency Session II

May 6, 2020

Summit

Art•Work•Place: Creating an Equitable Art World

Apr 18, 2020

Forum

ART • WORK • PLACE: Emergency Session I

Apr 7, 2020

Party

Jesus Benavente, I’m Not Dancing, I’m Struggling to Survive: Shelter in Place

Mar 28, 2020

Screening, Symposium

Art and the Specter of Ideology

Feb 22, 2020

News

BOMB: Digesting Place: Dean Erdmann Interviewed by Amanda Parmer

Jan 30, 2020

Conversation

Queer Archives: Between the Individual and the Institutional

Jan 27, 2020

2019

Book Launch, Conversation, Screening

Being Together Precedes Being

Dec 9, 2019

AICA-USA Lecture

Courtney J. Martin: In the Context of Criticism

Nov 12, 2019

Conference

Global Voices: Conversations with the Jane Lombard Fellows

Oct 26, 2019

Performance

FESTAC ’77, a concert by Craig Harris

Oct 25, 2019

Lecture

Tiffany Chung

Oct 23, 2019

Forum

Vera List Center Forum 2019: If Art Is Politics

Oct 23–Oct 25, 2019

Panel

Moving Movements: Women in Philanthropy

Oct 6, 2019

News

Art Papers: Art Isn’t Neutral, A Conversation With Carin Kuoni and Laura Raicovich

Oct 1, 2019

Conversation

Dialogues on a Future Communication. Entanglement #2: Resilience

Sep 26, 2019

Panel, Performance

Freedom of Speech: A Curriculum for Studies Into Darkness

Sep 20–Sep 21, 2019

Lecture

Parsons Fine Arts Visiting Artist Lecture Series: Dean Erdmann

Sep 11, 2019

News

New School News: Feminist Manifestos Continue to Challenge the Status Quo

Jan 9, 2019

2018

News

Brittle Paper: Chimurenga Collective Awarded Vera List Center’s 2018-20 Jane Lombard Prize for Art and Social Justice

Oct 8, 2018

News

Hyperallergic: How the Arts Can Help Immigrant Communities Through Sanctuary

Feb 19, 2018

2017

News

Hyperallergic: The Growing Necessity for the Vera List Center for Art and Politics

Nov 21, 2017

News

New York Times: A Seed Artist Germinates History

Oct 31, 2017

VLC Prize Announcement

Vera List Center Marks 25 Years of International Impact

Sep 7–Jun 7, 2017

News

Mondoweiss: On boycotts, Palestine, and resistance – a review of ‘Assuming Boycott’

Aug 23, 2017

2016

Seminar

Vera List Center: Where Art is Politics

Nov 8, 2016

VLC Prize Announcement

2016-2018 Prize Recipient: Maria Thereza Alves

Nov 1, 2016

Seminar Overview

Indigenous New York

Apr 1, 2016–Jun 1, 2017

Screening

Art and Social Justice Working Group

Jan 1, 2016

2015

News

New York Times: Syrian Film Collective Offers View of Life Behind a Conflict

Oct 18, 2015

Screening

Abounaddara

Jan 1, 2015

2014

Screening

The Year of James Baldwin

Nov 3, 2014–Mar 22, 2015

VLC Prize Announcement

2014-2016 Prize Recipient: Abounaddara and The Right to the Image

Oct 1, 2014

News

New York Times: Trying to Bring Baldwin’s Complex Voice Back to the Classroom

Apr 24, 2014

2013

Talk

Iran do Espiríto Santo

Sep 11, 2013

Screening

Reena Katz: embodied arts collective assembly

Jun 15, 2013

Roundtable

WBYA 2.0, Who Builds Your Architecture? Part 2: Sustainability and Sustaining Human Life

Apr 27, 2013

2012

Talk

Between Art and Architecture: Carol Bove

Nov 14, 2012

News

New York Times: New School Prize Goes to Theaster Gates

Nov 11, 2012

VLC Prize Announcement

2012-2014 Prize Recipient Theaster Gates and Dorchester Projects

Oct 1, 2012

Screening

Paul Ramírez Jonas: Hello I Am Hello I Was

Sep 11, 2012

Panel

Vera List Center for Art and Politics presents A New School Moment: Energy!

Mar 5, 2012

Walk

Thingness of Energy: New School Facilities Tour

Feb 23, 2012

Panel, Screening

Jamie Kruse: Thingness of Energy

Feb 2, 2012

2011

Conference

What’s Wrong with Digital Education? Ghana ThinkTank has the Solutions!

Oct 11, 2011

2010

Screening

Listening Session (Vogue’ology)

Nov 29, 2010

News

Art21: 5 Questions with Carin Kuoni of the Vera List Center for Art and Politics

Nov 18, 2010

Panel, Screening

Lin + Lam: Change Encounters

Sep 1, 2010

Lecture

AMT Visiting Artists Lecture Series: Lin + Lam

Mar 24, 2010

2009

Screening

Martha Rosler’s Partial, Partisan Blogroll

Dec 7, 2009

Screening

Melanie Crean: Shape of Change

Sep 20, 2009

2008

Lecture

Subjective Histories of Sculpture II: Sanford Biggers

Mar 3, 2008

2006

Party

The Borough Arts Bash: Celebrating Manhattan’s Creative Communities

Mar 30, 2006

2002

Conversation

Inside the Culture of Resistance: Reg E. Gaines Interviews Savion Glover

Aug 15, 2002

Conversation

Inside the Culture of Resistance: Danny Hoch

Jun 18, 2002

2001

Panel

Bellmer Panel

Aug 1, 2001

2000

Panel

Making Waves: Art, Context, and The New Millennium: Multiculti: Definition, Progression, Revision

Apr 1, 2000

Panel

Does Beauty Matter?

Apr 1, 2000

Panel

Whatever Happened to Hybridity?

Apr 1, 2000

Panel

Making Waves: Art, Context, and The New Millennium: Rites of Passage: Resisting Art Structures and Arts Scenes

Mar 1, 2000

Panel, Performance

Art and Politics: Women in Theatre

Mar 1, 2000

Panel

Making Waves: Art, Context, and The New Millennium: Sambos, Jezebels, Fairies, and In-Between: Film, Video, New Media, and Cultural Context(s)

Feb 1, 2000

1999

Panel

International Art Talks

May 1, 1999

Seminar

Symposium on Conceptualist Art: Conceptualism, Late 50s to Early 70s

Apr 2, 1999

Panel

The On-Line Art World: A Work In Progress: Reception and Interpretation

Apr 1, 1999

Seminar

Symposium on Conceptualist Art: Consequences of Conceptualism

Mar 10, 1999

Seminar

Symposium on Conceptualist Art: Precursors of Conceptual Art

Mar 1, 1999

Panel

The On-Line Art World: A Work In Progress: Production and Distribution

Mar 1, 1999

Seminar

Symposium on Conceptualist Art: Conceptualism, ’70s to ’80s

Feb 1, 1999

Panel

The Resurrection of “Live Art”: What Kind of “Life” Will It Be?

Jan 1, 1999

1998

Talk

Cultural Heritage: Tours of Wall Street

Sep 1, 1998

Talk

Cultural Heritage: Grandparents Day

Aug 1, 1998

Talk

Cultural Heritage: Komar and Melamid

Aug 1, 1998

Panel

African Diaspora/Cultural Resonance: Twilight

Aug 1, 1998