2025–2027
Post Democracy
2015–2017
Post Democracy has recently arisen as a complex and contradictory term: for some it promises a new lens for the mobilizing forces of social media, considered catalysts for political imagination. Others equate Post Democracy with democracy’s demise due to the penetration of global capitalism into every regime type and the increasing intervention of international actors in domestic politics. Decried as “democratic melancholy,” such skepticism is considered ill placed by yet others. Common to most analysts of Post Democracy is the emphasis on impact (or content) as well as of form.
Over the course of four semesters, we will address these questions: How can new forms of social movements demobilize networks of power? What creative organizing tactics are being developed to reinvigorate a democratic ethos? Post Democracy will guide investigations into the nature of participation; the transformation of news media from educational tools to forms of entertainment; campaign financing and its potential reform; new forms of political institutions and alliances that are flexible and resilient.
Network
- ⁕ Jonathan Jones
- ⁕ Charles Heller and Lorenzo Pezzani
- ⁕ Burning Museum Art Collective
- ⁕ B’Tselem
- ⁕ Bisagra
- ⁕ Patrick Bernier and Olive Martin
- ⁕ Barış İçin Yürüyorum
- ⁕ Árpád Schilling
- ⁕ Ahmet Ogüt
- ⁕ IsumaTV
- ⁕ Coordinadora Universitaria de Disidencia Sexual (CUDS)
- ⁕ Forensic Architecture
- ⁕ Gulf Labor Artist Coalition
- ⁕ Gulnara Kasmalieva and Muratbek Djumaliev
- ⁕ House of Natural Fiber
- ⁕ Lihideb Mohsen
- ⁕ MADEYOULOOK
- ⁕ Marat Sarulu
- ⁕ Maria Thereza Alves
- ⁕ Omar Kholeif
- ⁕ PreparaNem
- ⁕ Simone Leigh
- ⁕ Superflex
- ⁕ Tintin Wulia
- ⁕ Zacharias Kunuk
- ⁕ Lawrence Abu Hamdan
- ⁕ Victoria Sobel and Casey Gollan
Book, e-book
Maria Thereza Alves: Seeds of Change
Press
Public Seminar: A Botany of Decolonization—An excerpt from Maria Thereza Alves: Seeds of Change
Feb 3, 2023
Announcement
New book by Maria Thereza Alves reveals the entangled histories of plants and displaced people
Jan 23, 2023
Photo Essay
Wild plants, queer landscapes
Marisa Prefer
AICA-USA Lecture
Paul Chaat Smith: Thirteen Months in America
Dec 7, 2017
Talk
Alfredo Jaar
Nov 29, 2017
Talk
Seeds of Change Lunchtime Reading: Alex Smith and M. Téllez from Metropolarity
Nov 21, 2017
Walk
WILD PLANTS, QUEER LANDSCAPES: SEEDborder CrossWALK in Crown Heights
Nov 19, 2017
Performance, Seminar
Indigenous New York, Artist Perspectives
Nov 17, 2017
Talk
Seeds of Change Lunchtime Reading: Jennifer Kabat
Nov 16, 2017
Talk
Nicole Eisenman
Nov 14, 2017
Walk
WILD PLANTS, QUEER LANDSCAPES; A ballast weed walk at Atlantic Basin / Red Hook
Nov 12, 2017
Seminar
Assuming Boycott: Resistance, Agency, and Cultural Production
Nov 10, 2017
Talk
Seeds of Change Lunchtime Reading: Patricia Klindienst
Nov 9, 2017
Talk
Seeds of Change Lunchtime Reading: Wendy S. Walters
Nov 7, 2017
Walk
WILD PLANTS, QUEER LANDSCAPES; A ballast weed walk at the Western Railyards
Nov 5, 2017
Conference, Conversation
The Vera List Center Prize for Art and Politics 2016-2018: International Biennial Prize Conference, Day II
Nov 4, 2017
Panel, Prize Ceremony
Prize Ceremony and Keynote Conversation with Maria Thereza Alves and Ruth Wilson Gilmore
Nov 3, 2017
Conference, Conversation
The Vera List Center Prize for Art and Politics 2016-2018: International Biennial Prize Conference, Day I
Nov 3, 2017
Exhibition
Maria Thereza Alves, Seeds of Change: New York—A Botany of Colonization
Nov 3–Nov 27, 2017
Essay
A Botany of Colonization
Maria Thereza Alves
Essay
Forensic Architecture
Mariam Ghani
Essay
Gulf Labor
Joanna Warza
Essay
IsumaTV: Zacharias Kunuk
Candice Hopkins
Essay
MADEYOULOOK
Nontobeko Ntombela
Essay
Sites as Citations of New York’s Colonial Past in Ballast
Carin Kuoni and Amanda Parmer
Essay
The House of Natural Fiber
Eungie Joo
Essay
The Importance of Words and Action
Jean Fisher
Essay
Transcending Movements: Weeds as Queering Species Boundaries
Marisa Prefer
Catalogue, VLC Forum
Vera List Center Prize for Art and Politics 2016–2018 Conference Companion
Panel
Arts Partnerships and the Transformation of Cities
Oct 23, 2017
Talk
New York Times TimesTalks with Ai Weiwei
Oct 16, 2017
Conversation, Screening
Hypervisibilities with Sondra Perry
Oct 7, 2017
Lecture
Trevor Schoonmaker
May 24, 2017
Conference
Radical Democracy VI: What’s the Matter
May 5–May 6, 2017
Talk
Anish Kapoor
May 3, 2017
Book Launch
Assuming Boycott: Resistance, Agency, and Cultural Production Book Launch
May 1, 2017
Essay, Series
Art Collection Writing Award Winners, 2016–2017
Panel, Screening
Indigenous New York, Critically Speaking
Mar 11, 2017
Catalogue
Indigenous New York, Critically Speaking
Panel, Seminar
Indigeneity, Stack, Sovereignty
Mar 2, 2017
Exhibition
Nobutaka Aozaki: Select Works from 2012-Present
Mar 2, 2017
Artist Book
No title (Book with reflective vinyl fabric cover, black and white printed content)
Victoria Sobel and Casey Gollan
Artist Book
No title (Square format book with a black and white print of an illustrated flower on it)
Victoria Sobel and Casey Gollan
Talk
Liz Glynn
Feb 17, 2017
Conversation, Panel
Post Human, Affect, Proliferation
Feb 13, 2017
Talk
Commercial Break: Meriem Bennani, Mary Reid Kelley, Patrick Kelley, and Hannah Whitaker
Feb 8, 2017
Party
DISPATCH PARTY
Jan 20, 2017
Conversation, Seminar
WHY ARE WE HERE … . . Tormenting One Another In The Middle of ?
Dec 12, 2016
Lecture
Standing Rock
Dec 2, 2016
AICA-USA Lecture
Negar Azimi. Nice One: The Wages of Tokenism
Nov 28, 2016
Talk
Spencer Finch
Nov 16, 2016
Conversation, Seminar
Prefigurative Politics on the Eve of the U.S. Presidential Elections
Nov 7, 2016
Lecture
Wendy Brown. Neoliberalism, Financialization and Democracy: Ten Theses
Oct 26, 2016
Seminar
Right of Refusal
Oct 24, 2016
Exhibition
Unplay: Action, Affect, Attention
Oct 24, 2016
Performance, Talk
Heather and Ivan Morison
Oct 19, 2016
Conference, Seminar
Indigenous New York, Curatorially Speaking
Oct 15, 2016
Talk
Explained Pictures with Jeffrey Scudder
Oct 6, 2016
Lecture
Sally Tallant
Sep 28, 2016
Panel
New Visions, New Voices
Sep 19, 2016
Book Launch
Jill Magid. The Proposal
Sep 14, 2016
Talk
Post-Democracy Paradise-Lost: Presentation by Casey Gollan and Victoria Sobel
Sep 8, 2016
Talk
David Shrigley
Sep 7, 2016
Seminar, Talk
Mobility in Post Democracy
Sep 1, 2016–Jun 1, 2017
Panel
Marking LGBT History in the Village and Beyond: A Panel Discussion with REPOhistory
Jun 22, 2016
Exhibition
Projects A-E
Jun 4, 2016
Essay, Series
Art Collection Writing Award Winners, 2015–2016
Exhibition
Abounaddara. The Right to the Image
Oct 23–Nov 7, 2015
Exhibition
Abounaddara. The Right to the Image
Oct 22–Nov 11, 2015
Exhibition
Mendi + Keith Obadike: Blues Speaker [for James Baldwin]
Apr 1–Apr 30, 2015
CONFLICT NO. 2: Authorship, Collective and Other
Dec 10, 2014
CONFLICT NO. 1: Accountability – Artist, Curator, Institution, Funder
Oct 7, 2014
CONFLICT NO. 4: Audience, Participation, Spectatorship, Modes of Address
Jun 4, 2014
CONFLICT NO. 3: Audience, Participation, Spectatorship, Modes of Address
CONFLICT NO. 5: ‘Do-Gooding’ and Criticality
Essay
The Belly of the World: A Note on Black Women’s Labors
Saidiya Hartman
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