As for Protocols
2020–2022

Explicitly—or not—protocols determine much of what we do. Supplanting traditional notions of “good manners,” protocols are languages that regulate how people relate to each other, to their cultural, social, and political environments, and to the technologies that create them. They are evidence of governmental, organizational, social, or corporate power structures. Protocols speak to processes, rather than finite outcomes. While often overlooked or invisible, they set the tone and conditions for potential encounters. Investigating them as such will allow us to contribute to the creation of new protocols that are inclusive and equitable, ranging from computer interfaces, A.I., data aggregation, and algorithms to community agreements and culturally-specific engagement protocols to protocols undergirding scientific research. As “protocol” may also refer to documentation and minutes, the term signals a hybrid time frame of both the past and projection into the future. With the engagement of artists, scholars, activists, and students, the Vera List Center will consider protocols as the foundations for the performance of living, and begin thinking and working toward new spaces of political empowerment.

As for Protocols 2020–2022

Network

Book, e-book

As for Protocols (pre-order available)

Press

C Magazine: Review of Maria Hupfield’s Breaking Protocol

Apr 15, 2024

Press

NO NIIN: These Conditions (Are Only Worsening): An Interview with Adelita Husni-Bey

Mar 1, 2024

Press

The Brooklyn Rail & the Vera List Center for Art and Politics: Conversations on Freedom of Speech

Feb 20, 2024

Book

Breaking Protocol

Announcement

Maria Hupfield’s Breaking Protocol centers on performance practices grounded in indigenous knowledge and sovereignty

Oct 6, 2023

Press

BOMB: Adelita Husni Bey by Amal Khalaf

Apr 5, 2023

Press

MARCH: On Necessary Work

May 24, 2022

Exhibition

NEO-EXTRA-ACTIVISM–Protocols for Buen Vivir

May 20–Jun 16, 2022

Broadsheet, Catalogue

Etcétera: NEO-EXTRA-ACTIVISM–Protocols for Buen Vivir

Press

New York Times: Art We Saw This Spring—featuring Adelita Husni Bey

Apr 6, 2022

Exhibition

Black Quantum Futurism: Time Zone Protocols

Apr 4–Apr 18, 2022

Catalogue

Black Quantum Futurism: Time Zone Protocols

Press

The Architect’s Newspaper: Adelita Husni Bey examines pandemics past, present, and future at the Brooklyn Army Terminal

Mar 30, 2022

Press

Hyperallergic: Art as an Exercise in Moving Through Grief

Mar 21, 2022

Exhibition

Adelita Husni Bey: These Conditions

Feb 8–Apr 10, 2022

Catalogue

Adelita Husni Bey: These Conditions

Announcement

Announcing Spring 2022 Programs

Jan 26, 2022

Announcement

The Vera List Center is Expanding!

Jan 11, 2022

Press

New School News: Artist Suzanne Kite Debuts New Show in Partnership with the Vera List Center for Art and Politics

Dec 13, 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

Exhibition

Kite: Hél čhaŋkú kiŋ ȟpáye (There lies the road)

Dec 3–Dec 12, 2021

Catalogue

Kite: Hél čhaŋkú kiŋ ȟpáye (There lies the road)

Audio, Essay, Poetry

Song of Curves Riel Bellow and Kite

AICA-USA Lecture

Legacy Russell: On Footnotes

Nov 29, 2021

Lecture, Performance

RESPONSE ABILITY* A Manifesto on Ecocide

Nov 19, 2021

Seminar

As for Protocols
2020–2022

Song of Curves
Riel Bellow and Kite

Emeka Okereke: Invisible Borders Trans-African Photographers Organization
Naeem Mohaiemen

Jorge González: Escuela de Oficios
Michelle Marxuach

NayanTara Gurung Kakshapati: Nepal Picture Library
Naeem Mohaiemen

Underground Resistance: Submerge Project
Salome Asega