Nov 4 :: PLEASURE PRINCIPLES: Bad Asians, Bottomhood, & the Belated Archive

Pleasure Principles: Bad Asians, Bottomhood, & the Belated Archive screenings & discussion with Erica Cho, Nguyen Tan Hoang, & Eve Oishi, and moderated by Gayatri Gopinath November 4, Friday 7 to 9 pm RSVP required. Click here to register. Curated by Leeroy Kang, A/P/A Institute Visiting Scholar As a historical, temporal, and aesthetic exploration into queer experimental Asian/Pacific cinema, this …

Nov 21: Urban Pacific: Contemporary Indigenous Cultures from New Zealand & the Pacific

Urban Pacific: Contemporary Indigenous Cultures from New Zealand & the Pacific a lecture by Shigeyuki Kihara Thursday, November 21 6 to 7:30 pm Please RSVP for this event by Tuesday, November 19th here. A native of Samoa, Shigeyuki Kihara is an interdisciplinary artist whose work examines the notions surrounding gender, history, and representation in post-colonial societies. …

Nov 18: Brother to Brother

Brother to Brother a panel discussion with Thomas Allen Harris, Lenelle Moïse, & Bill Wright Monday, November 18 6 pm The Institute of African American Affairs (IAAA) at NYU presents a semester-long series (see also Sister to Sister on December 9th) of lectures, poetry readings, and film screenings with key figures, as well as emerging stars, …

Performing (at) the Body's Edge: Mortal Works

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 of multi-media …

The Reality Shows: a conversation with Karen Finley

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 worth of …

Camp Aesthetics & Desi Visual Culture: Brown Bag Lunch Talk

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 have always …

Where is Ana Mendieta? 25 Years Later: An Exhibition and Symposium

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, naked, from …

Barbara Hammer – MoMA Retrospective

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 September 15-October 13, 2010 at 
The Roy and Niuta Titus Theaters NEW …

How Obscene is This! The Decency Clause Turns 20

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” in …

Joseph Keckler @ NYU Performance Studies Lecture Forum

TUESDAY, MARCH 2ND 7 to 8:30 PM NYU’s Department of Performance Studies presents the first event in this year’s Performance Studies Lecture Forum: JOSEPH KECKLER. He will discuss and perform his work. Joseph Keckler is a performance artist, writer, and singer. His work explores the gap between theater and life, establishing unexpected connections between art, …