2022–2024
As for Protocols
2020–2022
Explicitly—or not—protocols determine much of what we do. Supplanting traditional notions of “good manners,” protocols are languages that regulate how people relate to each other, to their cultural, social, and political environments, and to the technologies that create them. They are evidence of governmental, organizational, social, or corporate power structures. Protocols speak to processes, rather than finite outcomes. While often overlooked or invisible, they set the tone and conditions for potential encounters. Investigating them as such will allow us to contribute to the creation of new protocols that are inclusive and equitable, ranging from computer interfaces, A.I., data aggregation, and algorithms to community agreements and culturally-specific engagement protocols to protocols undergirding scientific research. As “protocol” may also refer to documentation and minutes, the term signals a hybrid time frame of both the past and projection into the future. With the engagement of artists, scholars, activists, and students, the Vera List Center will consider protocols as the foundations for the performance of living, and begin thinking and working toward new spaces of political empowerment.
Scroll below for As for Protocols programs, exhibitions, fellows, and publications.
Network
- ⁕ Conflictorium
- ⁕ Black Quantum Futurism
- ⁕ Regan De Loggans
- ⁕ Suzanne Kite
- ⁕ BAK, basis voor actuele kunst, Utrecht
- ⁕ Maria Hlavajova
- ⁕ European Cultural Foundation
- ⁕ Prince Claus Fund
- ⁕ Hivos
- ⁕ Emeka Ogboh
- ⁕ Danilo Correale
- ⁕ Rafael Lozano-Hemmer
- ⁕ Ruth Estevez
- ⁕ Kabelo Malatsie
- ⁕ Christian Nyampeta
- ⁕ Hannah Black
- ⁕ Taeyoon Choi
- ⁕ Akansha Rastogi
- ⁕ Emmanuel Iduma
- ⁕ Amanda Abi Khalil
- ⁕ Bruno Moreschi
- ⁕ Wanda Nanibush
- ⁕ DooEun Choi
- ⁕ Jack Gray
- ⁕ Paulina E. Varas
- ⁕ Press Press Baltimore
- ⁕ herdsceneand
- ⁕ Mothers & Daughters
- ⁕ Camila Marambio
- ⁕ Victor Ehikhamenor
- ⁕ Brook Andrew
- ⁕ Franziska Pierwoss and Sandra Teitge
- ⁕ Claudia Andujar
- ⁕ Sabelo Mlangeni
- ⁕ Mina Cheon
- ⁕ Serigrafistas Queer
- ⁕ not/nowhere
- ⁕ Judith Baca
- ⁕ Josh Begley
- ⁕ Sim Chi Yin
- ⁕ Rosana Paulino
- ⁕ Rebecca Belmore
- ⁕ Sebastián Calfuqueo Aliste
- ⁕ Agung Kurniawan
- ⁕ Emma Wolukau-Wanambwa
- ⁕ By Us For Us (BUFU)
- ⁕ Mata Aho Collective
- ⁕ Charles Koroneho
- ⁕ Underground Resistance
- ⁕ NayanTara Gurung Kakshapati
News
C Magazine: Review of Maria Hupfield’s Breaking Protocol
Apr 15, 2024
News
NO NIIN: These Conditions (Are Only Worsening): An Interview with Adelita Husni-Bey
Mar 1, 2024
Book
Breaking Protocol
Announcement
Maria Hupfield’s Breaking Protocol centers on performance practices grounded in indigenous knowledge and sovereignty
Oct 6, 2023
News
BOMB: Adelita Husni Bey by Amal Khalaf
Apr 5, 2023
News
MARCH: On Necessary Work
May 24, 2022
Exhibition
NEO-EXTRA-ACTIVISM–Protocols for Buen Vivir
May 20–Jun 16, 2022
Broadsheet, Catalogue
Etcétera: NEO-EXTRA-ACTIVISM–Protocols for Buen Vivir
News
New York Times: Art We Saw This Spring—featuring Adelita Husni Bey
Apr 6, 2022
Exhibition
Black Quantum Futurism: Time Zone Protocols
Apr 4–Apr 18, 2022
Catalogue
Black Quantum Futurism: Time Zone Protocols
News
The Architect’s Newspaper: Adelita Husni Bey examines pandemics past, present, and future at the Brooklyn Army Terminal
Mar 30, 2022
News
Hyperallergic: Art as an Exercise in Moving Through Grief
Mar 21, 2022
Exhibition
Adelita Husni Bey: These Conditions
Feb 8–Apr 10, 2022
Catalogue
Adelita Husni Bey: These Conditions
Announcement
Announcing Spring 2022 Programs
Jan 26, 2022
Announcement
The Vera List Center is Expanding!
Jan 11, 2022
News
New School News: Artist Suzanne Kite Debuts New Show in Partnership with the Vera List Center for Art and Politics
Dec 13, 2021
Symposium
Rethinking Residencies Symposium
Dec 8–Dec 10, 2021
Seminar
Seminar 9: Bridge: Protocols of Jazz and Modernism
Dec 6, 2021
Performance
Hél čhaŋkú kiŋ ȟpáye (There lies the road): A Performance
Dec 4, 2021
Exhibition
Kite: Hél čhaŋkú kiŋ ȟpáye (There lies the road)
Dec 3–Dec 12, 2021
Catalogue
Kite: Hél čhaŋkú kiŋ ȟpáye (There lies the road)
Audio, Essay, Poetry
Song of Curves
Riel Bellow and Kite
AICA-USA Lecture
Legacy Russell: On Footnotes
Nov 29, 2021
Lecture, Performance
RESPONSE ABILITY* A Manifesto on Ecocide
Nov 19, 2021
Seminar
Seminar 8: Work in the Cultural Economy We Want: Cooperatives
Nov 8, 2021
Assembly
ArtsLink Assembly 2021: Future Fellows
Nov 1–Nov 19, 2021
Assembly, Screening
VLC Forum 2021 Day Five: Escuela de Oficios
Oct 16, 2021
Conversation
VLC Forum 2021 Day Four: Conflictorium
Oct 15, 2021
Conversation, Party, Performance
VLC Forum 2021 Day Three: Underground Resistance
Oct 14, 2021
Presentation, Workshop
VLC Forum 2021 Day Two: Nepal Picture Library
Oct 13, 2021
Forum
Vera List Center Forum 2021: As for Protocols
Oct 12–Oct 16, 2021
Conversation, Screening, Workshop
VLC Forum 2021 Day One: Invisible Borders Trans-African Photographers Organization
Oct 12, 2021
Essay
Emeka Okereke: Invisible Borders Trans-African Photographers Organization
Naeem Mohaiemen
Essay
Jorge González: Escuela de Oficios
Michelle Marxuach
Essay
NayanTara Gurung Kakshapati: Nepal Picture Library
Naeem Mohaiemen
Essay
Underground Resistance: Submerge Project
Salome Asega
Catalogue
Vera List Center Forum 2021: As for Protocols
Exhibition
Owed to a Certain Emptiness: Infra-structuring the Conflictorium
Oct 9–Oct 24, 2021
Seminar
Seminar 7: Drones and the Bird’s-Eye View
Sep 20, 2021
Ceremony, Vigil
¡LOS QUE MUEREN POR LA VIDA, NO PUEDEN LLAMARSE MUERTOS! THOSE WHO DIE FOR LIFE, ARE NOT DEAD!
Sep 18, 2021
Announcement
Announcing Fall 2021 Programs
Sep 8, 2021
Conversation
Hél čhaŋkú kiŋ ȟpáye (There lies the road) – A Dialogue About Making Art in a Good Way
May 20, 2021
Symposium
As for Protocols—To Hold Things Together
May 20–May 21, 2021
News
New School News: The Vera List Center “As for Protocols” Seminar Series Explores Questions of Algorithms, Equitable Networks, Scientific Research, and More
Apr 29, 2021
News
New School News: The Vera List Center “As for Protocols” Seminar Series Explores Questions of Algorithms, Equitable Networks, Scientific Research, and More
Apr 29, 2021
Laboratory
NO WORK, NO SHOP: Socio-Environmental Imagination and Pedagogies of Action
Apr 22–Apr 23, 2021
Seminar
Seminar 6: Lab Work – Art of the Experiment
Apr 5, 2021
Seminar
Seminar 5: Protocols of Revolutionary Feminisms to Re/make the World
Mar 8, 2021
News
New School News: The Vera List Center Expands Support for Indigenous Artists with the Inaugural Borderlands Fellowship
Mar 4, 2021
Book Launch, Conversation
Communication After Refusal: The Turn to Love and Polyvocality
Feb 22, 2021
Panel
Climate Relations: Indigeneity in Activism, Art and Digital Media
Feb 11, 2021
Seminar
Seminar 4: Reimagining Protocols: Reclaiming, Challenging, and Queering Surveillance
Feb 8, 2021
News
Philadelphia Inquirer: Are you thinking about time right now? For ‘Black Futures’ contributor Rasheedah Phillips, it’s a lifelong pursuit
Jan 1, 2021
News
Vice: Inside India’s ‘Museum of Conflict’ That Just Won a Major International Award
Dec 4, 2020
Book Launch, Conference
Forces of Art: Perspectives from a Changing World
Nov 26, 2020
Panel, Screening
Seminar 3: Bring Forth the Body: Biopower, Protocol, and Plagues
Nov 16, 2020
AICA-USA Lecture
Carolina A. Miranda: Going Local
Nov 10, 2020
Book Launch, Conversation
The Idols of ISIS: From Assyria to the Internet
Nov 1, 2020
News
L.A. Times: Column – Are art museums still racist? The COVID reset
Oct 22, 2020
Seminar
Seminar 2: Protocols for Community and Equitable Networks [as applied to education]
Oct 19, 2020
News
Artforum: Avni Sethi Wins Vera List Center’s Jane Lombard Prize for Art and Social Justice
Oct 11, 2020
Convening
What Protocols Are Needed Now? & Announcement of 2020-2022 Jane Lombard Prize for Art and Social Justice
Oct 10, 2020
VLC Prize Announcement
2020-2022 Prize Recipient: Avni Sethi
Oct 10, 2020
Announcement
2020-2022 Prize Recipient: Avni Sethi
Oct 10, 2020
Keynote
The Computable and the Uncomputable Keynote Lecture by Alexander R. Galloway
Oct 9, 2020
Conversation, Performance
From Errorism to NEO-EXTRA-ACTIVISM: VLC Fellow Etcétera and Jennifer Ponce de León
Oct 8, 2020
Conversation
On Protocol: VLC Fellow Maria Hupfield in Conversation with Leanne Betasamosake Simpson
Oct 8, 2020
Talk
Towards a Temporal Rezoning: Unmapping the Time Zones. A Talk by VLC Fellow Rasheedah Phillips
Oct 8, 2020
Conversation
Borderlands: VLC Fellow Carolina Caycedo in Conversation with Natalie Diaz
Oct 7, 2020
Dialogue, Screening
Gathering: VLC Fellow Adelita Husni Bey in Dialogue with Robert Sember
Oct 7, 2020
Forum
Vera List Center Forum 2020: As for Protocols
Oct 6–Oct 10, 2020
Performance, Reading
The Berger Object: A Tribute to Maurice Berger, Part I
Oct 6, 2020
Panel
On Race, Representation, and White Lies: A Tribute to Maurice Berger, Part II
Oct 6, 2020
Performance
Palais de Mari: A Tribute to Maurice Berger, Part III
Oct 6, 2020
On Race, Representation, and White Lies: A Tribute to Maurice Berger
Oct 6, 2020
Guide
Vera List Center Fellows 2020–2022
Conversation, Screening
World Records Volume 4 Launch: In the Presence of Others
Sep 30, 2020
Seminar Overview
As for Protocols Seminar Series
Sep 14, 2020–May 16, 2022
Seminar
Seminar 1: Protocols as Language and Communication
Sep 14, 2020
Announcement
2020-2022 Borderlands Fellowship
Jun 26, 2020
Charrette, Convening
Training for the Not-Yet: Protocols in the Making
May 19, 2020
Announcement
2020–2022 VLC Fellowship Open Call
Jan 15, 2020
Announcement
2020-2022 Vera List Center Fellows
Reading List
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