Correction*
20222024

From correction on the page to correction of one’s body to the course correction of the body politic or financial markets—correction holds the potential to learn, reshape, and turn things around. Correction, the act of identifying and rectifying an error or inaccuracy, is ostensibly intended to make things better or right. Yet the potential of the correction and its capacity to offer transformation and repair have their corollary in discipline and censure.

 

The 2022–2024 VLC Focus Theme: Correction* and the programs dedicated to it explore the tension and discomfort it inspires to pose questions about the metaphorical, political, and social dimensions and implications of correction. How is correctness enacted and performed across histories and institutions? Who is asked to correct and who resists and refuses correction or accountability? How is correction internalized, and is it ever enough? Can it get us closer to truth, to liberation? To our authentic (and improved) selves? How do we teach or learn through correction? What are we correcting towards and along which measure? When does reform give way to overhaul, to revolution?

 

The Focus Theme—which permeates all of the center’s activities—is an opportunity to investigate the contradictions of correction, making space not only to consider existing histories, systems, and modes but also to challenge our position and relationship to the act of correcting. Accordingly, the asterisk holds space for future annotations. As the Vera List Center for Art and Politics enters its 30th year, the theme is also a call for adjustments, revisions, and course correction for the organization as it takes up the demands and challenges of our moment.

Network

Exhibition

Carmen Amengual: A Non-Coincidental Mirror

Dec 7, 2024–Feb 9, 2025

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

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

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

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

Forum

VLC Forum 2024: Correct History*

Oct 24–Oct 26, 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

Catalogue

Vera List Center Forum 2024: Correct History*

Lecture

Anna Martine Whitehead: Still in the Waiting Room

Oct 23, 2024

Announcement

Announcing Fall 2024 Programs

Sep 3, 2024

Press

Mousse Magazine: The Vow by TJ Shin

Aug 26, 2024

Announcement

Sabbatical Year: Slowing Down and Recalibrating our Rhythm

Jul 30, 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

Poetry, Post/doc

every pattern needs a passage

Sarah Biscarra Dilley

Essay, Post/doc

Phantom Territory

Lara Atallah

Workshop

Mental Wellness Film Workshop with Fox Maxy

May 23–Jun 9, 2024

Convening, Panel

Harlem Earth Day: Vision 2050

Apr 27, 2024

Press

New School News: The Vera List Center for Art and Politics Presents New School New Books Event Series

Apr 4, 2024

Reading

New School New Books 2024

Mar 22, 2024

Seminar

Seminar 11: Many Returns

Mar 4, 2024

Seminar

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

Feb 12, 2024

Announcement

Announcing Spring 2024 Programs

Jan 29, 2024

Seminar

Seminar 9: Of Bodies and Sound

Dec 18, 2023

Audio, Essay, Photo Essay, Post/doc

야생의 파도와 함께 with tides of the wild

TJ Shin

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

Exhibition

In Common: New Approaches with Romare Bearden

Nov 9, 2023–Jan 15, 2024

Catalogue

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

Press

New School Free Press: How the Vera List Center brings art from all over the world to The New School’s galleries

Oct 31, 2023

Performance

Beatriz Cortez: Ilopango, the Volcano that Left

Oct 27–Oct 29, 2023

Press

Times Union: The Volcano that Journeyed up the Hudson River

Oct 27, 2023

Guide, Reading List

In Solidarity with Victims of Violence: A Resource Guide and Archive

Conversation

VLC Forum 2023: On Learning Together

Oct 14, 2023

Keynote

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

Oct 14, 2023

Conversation

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

Oct 14, 2023

Conversation, Prize Ceremony

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

Oct 13, 2023

Panel

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

Oct 13, 2023

Party

VLC Forum 2023: Community Dinner and Party

Oct 13, 2023

Forum

Vera List Center Forum 2023: Correction*

Oct 12–Oct 14, 2023

Workshop

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

Oct 12, 2023

Conversation

VLC Forum 2023: Impossible Structures with Khalil Rabah

Oct 12, 2023

Essay

Another Roadmap Africa Cluster: Another Roadmap School

Özge Ersoy

Essay

Colectivo Cherani: Cherán Cultural Center

Fabiola Palacios and Pablo José Ramírez

Essay

Khalil Rabah: The Palestinian Museum of Natural History and Humankind

Nabila Abdel Nabi

Essay

KUNCI Study Forum & Collective: School of Improper Education

Qinyi Lim

Interview

On Country

proppaNOW in conversation with New Red Order

Essay

proppaNOW: OCCURRENT AFFAIR

Dawn Chan

Catalogue, VLC Forum

Vera List Center Forum 2023: Correction*

Exhibition

proppaNOW: There Goes the Neighbourhood!

Oct 9–Nov 9, 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

Announcement

Announcing Fall 2023 Programs

Aug 28, 2023

Press

Arts of the Working Class: VLC Correction* Seminar on Indigenous Cultural Revitalization featured in AWC Issue 27: Kinships

Jul 13, 2023

Press

New School News: The Vera List Center for Art and Politics Hosts Reading Room Featuring Faculty Books

Jun 28, 2023

Essay, Photo Essay, Post/doc

Demon of the heart

Catalina Ouyang

Essay, Post/doc

Paradoxical Intelligence

Ari Melenciano

Conversation

Libraries in Practice: Tending Toward Liberation

May 18, 2023

Press

Topical Cream: Blessings and Transmutations: An Interview with Fox Maxy

May 10, 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

Exhibition

C& Center of Unfinished Business

Apr 1–May 26, 2023

Essay, Series

Art Collection Writing Award, 2022–2023

Red text on a white background: C& Center of Unfinished Business at The New School Vera List Center for Art and Politics Contemporary And (C&) Social Justic Hub, University Center, The New School 63 5th Avenue, 5th Floor, New York, NY 10003 April 1–May 26, 2023 The Vera List Center for Art and Politics and multimedia platform Contemporary And (C&) present the C& Center of Unfinished Business at The New School, a roving reading room and exhibition that speaks to the persistence and presence of colonialism in contemporary life. Conceived by Contemporary And’s Julia Grosse, Yvette Mutumba, and Mearg Negusse, the project offers a selection of key, and, at times, unexpected texts that spark discourse on the enduring structures that continuously undergird colonial legacies in modern society. “Unfinished,” here, subtly echoes the “post” in postcolonial—hinting at an incomplete reckoning with colonialism and its evident and insidious aftermaths. The Vera List Center iteration of the exhibition features a curated selection of books, including titles from The New School faculty, alumni, and the VLC Fellows Library. Inaugurated during the 2022 VLC Forum and 30th anniversary celebration, the VLC Fellows Library is a collection of publications by each of the forty-four fellows the Vera List Center has hosted over its thirty-year history, celebrating and making available their research and work. Both the installation and accompanying broadsheet publication are designed by New School students. As with previous iterations, the reading room upends traditional forms of display in both content and form. Books meander through angular shelves next to, above, and across from each other in challenging, experimental, unconventional ways to mirror the tension and discomfort historically embedded in discussions on colonization. To this end, the C& Center of Unfinished Business occupies The New School’s Social Justice Hub, an interstitial space designed and designated for conversations on equity and solidarity across communities. The reading room plays host to public programs that inscribe the VLC’s 2022–2024 Focus Theme Correction* into colonial legacies and postcolonial realities. Conversations with local and international libraries as well as a public reading series explore libraries as sites of intervention, liberation, and repair.

Broadsheet, Catalogue

C& Center of Unfinished Business

Screening

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

Mar 29, 2023

Convening

Conflicting Relations

Mar 11, 2023

Press

New School News: Matti Aikio, Sámi Fellow at the Vera List Center, Explores Legacies of Settler Colonialism

Mar 9, 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

Announcement

Announcing Spring 2023 Programs

Jan 23, 2023

Audio, Poetry, Post/doc, Video

And Let Us Say

Jason Lipeles

Essay, Poetry, Post/doc

on asterisks (*for the stars)

danilo machado

AICA-USA Lecture

Siddhartha Mitter: Moving the Center

Dec 14, 2022

Announcement

New Appointments and Staff Promotions at the VLC

Nov 18, 2022

Press

New School News: The Vera List Center for Art and Politics Celebrates 30 Years with a Forum, New Fellows, and More

Nov 10, 2022

Seminar

Seminar 2: Virus Becoming

Nov 7, 2022

Press

Artforum: Aboriginal Collective proppaNOW Wins Jane Lombard Prize for Art and Social Justice

Nov 4, 2022

Performance

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

Oct 22, 2022

Presentation

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

Oct 22, 2022

Announcement

2022–2024 Jane Lombard Prize for Art and Social Justice Recipient: proppaNOW

Oct 22, 2022

Keynote, Lecture

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

Oct 21, 2022

Press

The Guardian: Brisbane-based Indigenous Art Collective proppaNOW Wins Prestigious Global Prize

Oct 21, 2022

Forum

Vera List Center Forum 2022: Correction*

Oct 20–Oct 22, 2022

Conversation

VLC Forum 2022: Make Room!

Oct 20, 2022

Catalogue, VLC Forum

Vera List Center Forum 2022: Correction*

Exhibition

Labor of Love: Vera List Center for Art and Politics at 30

Oct 17–Nov 27, 2022

Seminar Overview

Correction* Seminar Series

Sep 26, 2022–May 6, 2024

Seminar

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

Sep 26, 2022

Announcement

Announcing Fall 2022 Programs

Aug 29, 2022

Announcement

2022–2024 Vera List Center Fellows

Jun 30, 2022

Call

Open Call: 2022–2024 Vera List Center Fellowships

Jan 11, 2022

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