This fall, we continue to harvest from our two-year investigation into the political, social, and metaphorical implications of Correction*, as part of our research-driven Sabbatical Year. We’re pleased to share a preview of our upcoming exhibitions, public programs, publications, and performances!

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PARSONS VISITING ARTIST LECTURE
Anna Martine Whitehead: Still in the Waiting Room
Wednesday, October 23, 2024, 7–8:30 pm EDT
Starr Foundation Hall, University Center
The New School, 63 Fifth Avenue

Spanning installation, collage, socially-engaged performance, and opera, 2022–2024 VLC Fellow Anna Martine Whitehead’s work circles around questions of containment and liberation. How do bodies express livingness when penned in? What is the relationship between architecture and the voice? What does somatic solidarity with people in prison feel like? This performative talk explores the past decade of Whitehead’s practice, focusing especially on the Black femme waiting room.

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VLC FORUM
Correct History*
October 24–26, 2024
The New School

The VLC Forum 2024: Correct History* explores the ways in which history and historiography invariably function as acts of correction and revisionism while examining some of the ideological mechanisms that drive them. Over three days, discursive strands come together to consider how historical narratives and ideological formations are created, edited, altered, and contested.

Speakers include Sofía Gallisá Muriente, Natalia Lassalle-Morillo, Naeem Mohaiemen, Kent Monkman, Larissa Nez, and Zoé Samudzi. With these and other speakers, the VLC Forum puts forward poetic, artistic, and speculative forms of history-making that imagine new futures amid ongoing attempts at narrative control, denialism, censorship, and repression of peoples and their stories. Join us at The New School and online for lectures, conversations, performances, and the VLC’s annual community dinner. As always, the Forum is free for all to attend!

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PERFORMANCE
Anna Martine Whitehead: FORCE! an opera in three acts
November 22–23, 2024
Co-presented with Chocolate Factory
38-33 24th Street, Long Island City

FORCE!, an opera by Anna Martine Whitehead, brings together a constellation of characters who become fractals for the abundant relationships blooming in the shadows of the state and carceral power. The constellation imagines a strange sisterhood with the power to disintegrate walls. Using the prison as a particular prism through which we can bear witness to the ways carceral systems replicate themselves, FORCE! is also an attempt to abolish the Prison Industrial Complex in our heads, hearts, and houses.

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LECTURE
AICA-USA Distinguished Critic Lecture: Hilton Als
Wednesday, December 4, 2024, 6:30–8 pm EST
Tishman Auditorium, University Center
The New School, 63 Fifth Avenue

Award-winning journalist, critic, and curator Hilton Als will deliver the 18th annual AICA-USA Distinguished Critic Lecture, presented in partnership with the Vera List Center for Art and Politics at The New School. Als has been a staff writer at The New Yorker since 1994. Previous lecturers in this series are Valerie Cassel Oliver, Siddhartha Mitter, Legacy Russell, Carolina A. Miranda, Courtney J. Martin, Aruna D’Souza, Paul Chaat Smith, Negar Azimi, Naomi Beckwith, Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev, Lucy Lippard, Michelle Kuo, Peter Schjeldahl, Holland Cotter, Roberta Smith, Linda Nochlin, and Michael Brenson.

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EXHIBITION
Carmen Amengual: A Non-Coincidental Mirror
December 7, 2024–February 9, 2025
Opening Reception: Saturday, December 7, 6–8 pm
Co-presented with Smack Mellon
92 Plymouth Street, Brooklyn

A Non-Coincidental Mirror, a film installation by Los Angeles-based Argentine artist and 2022–2024 VLC Fellow Carmen Amengual, traces a little-known event in the cultural history of Global South solidarities: the First Third World Filmmakers Meeting in Algiers in 1973 and its second iteration in Buenos Aires a year later. Stemming from extensive research Amengual conducted using an archive she inherited from her mother, the project explores the networks of solidarity threaded throughout this story, and the historical forces that determined its outcome.

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BOOK
As for Protocols
Co-published by the Vera List Center and Amherst College Press
March 2025, Pre-order here

Protocols are systems of language that regulate how we relate to each other, to our cultural, social, and political environments, and to the technologies that create them. Looking at protocols across a wide range of disciplines, As for Protocols emerges from our 2020–2022 Focus Theme of the same name and brings together twenty-two contributors who speak to protocols as practice—neither conventional mannerisms nor abstract concepts, but material processes, relational affinities, shared responsibilities, and mutual care.

With an opening score by Raven Chacon and contributions by Salome Asega, Carolina Caycedo with Lupita Limón Corrales, Jesse Chun, Asia Dorsey, Taraneh Fazeli and Cannach MacBride, Pablo Helguera, Emmanuel Iduma, Mary Maggic, Shannon Mattern, V. Mitch McEwen with Nadir Jeevanjee, Rashaun Mitchell with Silas Riener, Romy Opperman, Rasheedah Phillips, Leanne Betasamosake Simpson with Maria Hupfield, Ultra-red with Robert Sember, and Underground Resistance.

As for Protocols is the third book in our partnership with Amherst College Press. Pre-order here and use the discount code ACPDC30 for 30% off.

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DIGITAL PUBLISHING SERIES
Post/doc

Post/doc is our biannual publishing series for discursive, speculative, experimental writing and artistic practices. Launched in fall 2022, the series features interdisciplinary works by writers, artists, musicians, and poets that respond to our programmatic Focus Themes. We are excited to co-publish the fall 2024 edition of Post/doc with Momus, an international art publication, podcast, and mentorship platform. Find previous editions—featuring Lara Atallah, Sarah Biscarra Dilley, Jason Lipeles, danilo machado, Ari Melenciano, Catalina Ouyang, and TJ Shin—on our website.