We are pleased to announce our Spring 2023 programs under our 2022–2024 focus theme Correction*. With conversations, film screenings, performances, publications, a reading series, and an exhibition, our spring roster features projects that explore decolonial frameworks for unpacking notions of “correction.”

As always, all our programs are free and open to the public! Please see our events page for more information, full program listings, and registration.

CONVERSATION
Cybercultures and Cyberfeminisms
Part of SWEET PEA: YOUR OTHER PROGENY
Monday, January 30, 2023
8–9:30 pm EST
Online
Bringing together histories of technoscientific study and cultural metaphors of inheritance and kinship, this program with Maria Fernandez, Mindy Seu, Margaret Tan, and moderator Irina Aristkharkova focuses on cyberfeminism, looking at recent art that draws on (re)generative technologies of artificial intelligence and biological reproduction. This program is part of SWEET PEA: YOUR OTHER PROGENY, curated by The New School faculty member Jeannine Tang for the Singapore Biennial, presented in partnership with the Singapore Art Museum.

SEMINAR
Correction* Seminar 3: Correcting Mistaken Ideas: Revisiting the People’s Program at Lincoln Hospital with Walter Bosque
Monday, February 13, 2023
6–7:30 pm EST
Online
For the third VLC Correction* Seminar, acupuncturist, community organizer, and former Young Lord Walter Bosque shares the history of radical acupuncture at the People’s Program, a drug treatment organization founded in 1970 at Lincoln Hospital in the South Bronx by the Young Lords along with members of the Black Panther Party and the Health Revolutionary Unity Movement. Monxo López, curator and co-founder of South Bronx Unite, responds in conversation on collective care practices.

Stay tuned for details on future Correction* Seminars later this spring:

Seminar 4: Reform: Between Labor and Institutions
Monday, February 27, 2023, 6:30–8 pm EST
Wollman Hall, The New School and Livestream

Seminar 5: Body and Self
Monday, April 10, 2023, 6–7:30 pm EDT
Online

Seminar 6: Indigenous Cultural Revitalization: Rematriation and Preservation
Monday, May 1, 2023, 6–7:30 pm EDT
Online
Convened by Larissa Nez (Diné), Borderlands Curatorial Fellow. Speakers to be announced.

CONVENING
Conflicting Relations
Saturday, March 11, 2023
11–4 pm EST
Starr Foundation Hall, The New School
Co-presented with Frame Contemporary Art Finland as part of its 2019–2023 Rehearsing Hospitalities series, this two-part program brings together institutions, curators, and artists whose practices go beyond hospitality and act as correctives to prescribed host and guest hierarchies. It does so in dialogue with Matti Aikio (2022–2023 Vera List Center Sámi Fellow), whose practice considers Indigenous sovereignty and the ongoing conflict between Sámi culture and the Nordic nation states’ use of natural resources.

SCREENING & CONVERSATION
Ariella Aïsha Azoulay: the world like a jewel in the hand
Wednesday, March 29, 2023
6:30–8 pm EDT
Kellen Auditorium, The New School
A screening and conversation with author, curator, and filmmaker Ariella Aïsha Azoulay marks the New York City premiere of the world like a jewel in the hand—unlearning imperial plunder ii (2022), a new film that considers the so-called relics of history, inviting resistance, reinterpretation, and reclamation of a world deemed lost.

EXHIBITION
C& Center of Unfinished Business
April 1–May 26, 2023
The New School
The Vera List Center iteration of C& Center of Unfinished Business, a roving reading room and discussion-based program, presents a selection of texts that speak to the persistence and presence of colonialism in contemporary life alongside titles from the VLC Fellows Library and The New School faculty. The exhibition hosts a reading series that inscribes the VLC’s focus theme Correction* into colonial legacies and postcolonial realities.

PANEL
Libraries as Correctives: C& Center of Unfinished Business, Keleketla! Library, and Sister Library with Asia Art Archive
Monday, April 24, 2023
10–11:30 am EDT
Online
This event brings together C& Center of Unfinished Business in Berlin, Keleketla! Library in Johannesburg, and Sister Library in Mumbai to explore the transformative potential of libraries in the cultural field. It is presented as part of the exhibition of C& Center of Unfinished Business at The New School, and Asia Art Archive’s ongoing inquiry into libraries as spaces for gathering and co-learning.

PUBLICATION
Maria Thereza Alves: Seeds of Change
Edited by Carin Kuoni and Wilma Lukatsch
Co-published by the Vera List Center and Amherst College Press
April 2023
Seeds of Change is the first monograph to document Brazilian artist Maria Thereza Alves’s twenty-year investigation into the hidden history of ballast flora—displaced plant seeds found in the soil used to balance shipping vessels during the colonial period.

The spring book launch will be held Wednesday, June 14, 2023, in collaboration with the University of Applied Sciences and Arts, Northwestern Switzerland, during Art Basel, with other events to be announced. The ebook is now available on Fulcrum here. We are also pleased to publish a digital version of contributor Marisa Prefer’s photo essay “Wild plants/Queer Landscapes,” which is now available on our website here.

PUBLICATION
Breaking Protocol
Edited by Maria Hupfield
Co-published by the Vera List Center and Inventory Press
May 2023
2020–2022 Borderlands Fellow Maria Hupfield’s artist book Breaking Protocol brings together over twenty contributions by performance artists, writers, and curators reflecting on Indigenous knowledge, sovereignty, and critical accountability. With photo essays, poetry, short stories, and other written reflections, the book illuminates processes of documenting performance, or the performative, through an Indigenous lens. Book launch in early May 2023 to be announced. Pre-order through D.A.P. here.

PUBLISHING SERIES
Post/doc
veralistcenter.org
Post/doc is a recently launched biannual publishing series for discursive, speculative, experimental writing, and artistic practices. The series features works by writers, artists, musicians, and poets paired together and jointly published, building on the center’s Focus Themes. The first commissions for the Correction* cycle feature Jason Lipeles and danilo machado, and are available on our website.