2025–2027
Branding Democracy
2008–2009
At a moment when the catch-word “democracy” is ubiquitous and evoked by a plethora of regimes internationally, this program and accompanying exhibition looks at the design and packaging of the notion of democracy, and how it became a consumer brand. The Vera List Center is gathering thinkers from the arts, law, the social sciences, the media, and other fields to engage in a multi-disciplinary investigation of “Branding Democracy,” positioning this form of governance in terms of marketing and market shares, design and visual concepts, and consumer culture and agency. Practitioners from various fields examine this phenomenon and uncover possible reasons for it, thus indirectly also indicating a way out.
For the first time, Vera List Center public programs are accompanied by an exhibition presented at Parsons The New School for Design, “OURS: Democracy in the Age of Branding.” The exhibition is complemented by a range of lectures, talks, performances, workshops and participatory events, many of which take place in the gallery, within an “open” structure designed for this purpose by British artist Liam Gillick.
Panel
The Rogue State
Mar 9, 2009
Panel
Confounding Expectations: The Obsolescence of the Photographic Object
Feb 25, 2009
Lecture
Subjective Histories of Sculpture: Paul Sietsema
Feb 23, 2009
Roundtable
Fundraising and the Financial Crisis: How Forward-Thinking Nonprofits are Creating Opportunities
Feb 2, 2009
Broadsheet, Catalogue
OURS: Democracy in the Age of Branding
Roundtable
The Crits: Parsons Faculty on the Presidential Inauguration
Jan 27, 2009
Lecture, Performance
Alexis Bhagat: Lecture on Democracy as Word and Brand
Jan 21, 2009
Panel
Confounding Expectations: Photography in Context – Street Art, Street Life: Street As Site of Globalization
Dec 3, 2008
Talk
Catherine Sullivan
Nov 19, 2008
Charrette, Panel
Dress Code: Panel and Charrette with Shelley Fox, Peter Merlin, and Trevor Paglen
Nov 19, 2008
Lecture
Boris Groys. Art in the Age of Democracy
Nov 17, 2008
Panel
Confounding Expectations: Photography in Context—Framing the Presidency
Nov 12, 2008
AICA-USA Lecture
Linda Nochlin: Art Criticism and Its Enemies
Nov 10, 2008
Charrette, Workshop
Runo Lagomarsino
Nov 6, 2008
Talk
Tom Friedman
Nov 5, 2008
Performance
PETLab, Re:Activism NYC
Nov 4, 2008
Lecture, Performance
Andrea Geyer: Spiral Lands/Chapter 2
Nov 3, 2008
Charrette, Performance, Workshop
Alexis Bhagat
Oct 27, 2008
Charrette, Workshop
Judi Werthein
Oct 27, 2008
Performance
Carey Young: Conflict Management
Oct 26, 2008
Charrette
Ashley Hunt
Oct 23, 2008
Charrette
Sam Durant
Oct 22, 2008
Performance
Yael Bartana: Wild Seeds in America
Oct 19, 2008
Charrette
Miguel Luciano
Oct 16, 2008
Panel
Confounding Expectations: Photography in Context—Photography©®™
Oct 15, 2008
Exhibition
OURS: Democracy in the Age of Branding
Oct 15, 2008
Talk
Rob Pruitt
Oct 1, 2008
Lecture
Simon Critchley: Barack Obama and the American Void
Sep 18, 2008
Screening
The Greenroom, Day 2
May 28, 2008
Screening
The Greenroom, Day 1
May 27, 2008
Talk
Paul Chan
Apr 30, 2008
Roundtable
East Coast Europe: Roundtable
Apr 15, 2008
Panel
The Artforum Talks at The New School: Art and Money
Apr 14, 2008
Screening, Talk
Dara Friedman
Apr 9, 2008
Lecture
Subjective Histories of Sculpture II: Robert Morris
Apr 7, 2008
Talk
Liam Gillick
Apr 2, 2008
Roundtable
Agency + Surveillance
Mar 31, 2008
Panel
Confounding Expectations: Photography in Context—The Influence of The New West
Mar 12, 2008
Lecture
Subjective Histories of Sculpture II: Sanford Biggers
Mar 3, 2008
Panel
Confounding Expectations: Photography in Context – Parallel Worlds—Explorations in Second Life
Feb 13, 2008
Lecture
Subjective Histories of Sculpture II: Huma Bhabha
Feb 11, 2008
Conversation
CALL & RESPONSE: The Law is Laughing; Fragments Following the War in Gaza
Exhibition
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