Editor's Picks

12:00pm
to 10:00pm

Colloquium: Ten Days for Oppositional Architecture: Towards Post-Capitalist Spaces

The transformation of the urban landscape within the last decades has increasingly been dominated by the demands of capitalist utilization. Due to the current crisis, however, which goes far beyond a mere crisis of the real estate and financial market, these neoliberal politics and attendant forms of production of space have been subject to a loss of legitimation. For this reason, not only do the dominance and promises of the privatization model, the free market and private property have to be questioned, but also the conventions of the space-producing professions that follow and materialize these policies.

In this context, the event “Ten Days for Oppositional Architecture” takes up the task of exploring possibilities and conditions of a socially committed architectural practice. Therefore the narrow boundaries of the profession have to be left behind. Invited are activists, geographers, architects, planners, and economists representing different critical approaches to discuss and develop concepts and practices that not only try to oppose and challenge the capitalist mode of production of space, but also try to go beyond it strategies of de-commodification, re-appropriation and alternative production of space.

They will look at already existing spatial actions of resistance as well as search for possibilities to further theorize them: How can these strategies and alternative practices be turned into social and political forces towards post-capitalist spaces?

2:00pm

Concert: Alex Waterman's A Ballad of Accounting 2009: Compositions for Cello and Brooklyn Queens Expressway

A musical performance with a 16-millimeter film by Elizabeth Wendelbo.

9:00pm

Theater: Anthony Neilson's Normal: The Düsseldorf Ripper

Based on real events in 1920s Düsseldorf, Normal follows the trials and tribulations of accused murderer Peter Kurten. A naive young lawyer, hired to defend the undefendable Kurten, decides to plead insanity on his behalf – only to come to the startling conclusion that his client is, in fact, worryingly sane.

1:00pm
to 6:00pm

Other: Artist-in-Residence Open Studios

Come welcome the 2009–10 artists in residence, Mequitta Ahuja, Lauren D. Kelley and Valerie Piraino, and be among the first to visit their studios.

5:00pm

Concert: Bach Vespers

Program:
Johann Sebastian Bach Cantata 96 – Herr Christ, der einige Gottessohn.
Bach O Jesu Christ, mein’s Lebens Licht, (O Jesus Christ, Light of my Life) BWV 118

With Soprano Jennifer Bates, Countertenor Jason Abrams, Tenor John Kawa, Bass Joe Damon Chappel, Concertmaster Peter Kupfer; under the direction of Cantor Rick Erickson.

4:00pm
to 7:00pm

Dance Performance: Master Class: Dance Theatre of Harlem's Arthur Mitchell

A master class with The Dance Theatre of Harlem's Founder and Artistic Director Arthur Mitchell. Following will be a conversation with The Studio Museum of Harlem's Director and Chief Curator, Thelma Golden. Reception to follow.

7:00pm
to 8:00pm

Book Reading: Stuart Hample and Dick Cavett talk about Woody Allen

Woody Allen's classic neurosis, humorous life philosophy, and complex relationships are embodied in the classic comic strip "Inside Woody Allen," syndicated daily by King Features from 1976 to 1984, illustrated by Stuart Hample. Dread & Superficiality: Woody Allen as Comic Strip is a compilation of 220 of the best of the comic's comics, all reproduced from the original art, along with sketches, photographs, and development work. Former television talk show host, Dick Cavett, will discuss this collection with Stuart Hample.

8:00pm

Jazz: Jazz Big Band & Jazz Combos

Musicians from the college perform.