Sept. 11 at Inquiring Minds Books, New Paltz, NY

Inquiring Minds Bookstore 6 Church St, New Paltz, United States

Friday, September 11th, 7pm Inquiring Minds Bookstore 6 Church St New Paltz, NY 12561 http://www.inquiringbooks.com/

Metelkova & Rog from Ljubljana

MoRUS museum 155 Avenue C, Manhattan, New York City, United States

I am hosting activists from Slovenia from two giant cultural centers in Ljubljana which began as occupations — Metelkova, a former army base, and Rog, once a bicycle factory. The venue is MoRUS, the NYC squat & garden museum. An activist from Argentina also may join us… MoRUS museum storefront 155 Avenue C Manhattan, New York […]

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tabling at New York Art Book Fair

P.S. 1 Museum 22-25 Jackson Ave, Long Island City, NY, NY, United States

I'll be around the Journal of Aesthetics & Protest table in the "Friendly Fire" section of this great annual event, organized by the artists' bookstore Printed Matter. (They're also releasing a catalogue of their show about the art group Colab, which I participated in.) Preview is on Thursday, Sept. 17, 6-9pm. I list here only […]

talk at the Sunview Luncheonette

Sunview Luncheonette 221 Nassau Avenue, Brooklyn, NY, NY, United States

I'm going to be talking at the Sunview Luncheonette, an odd artists' project working in a fully functional modernist restaurant. Dylan Gauthier is coordinating this meeting, and other NY Art Book Fair participants will most likely be roped in.

seminar at/with Interference Archive

Interference Archive 131 8th Avenue, Brooklyn, NY, NY, United States

A seminar on archiving the squatting movement is scheduled with the Interference Archive on three dates and times. Tuesday, Sept. 22 7-9pm; Wednesday, Sept. 23 7-9pm; Sunday, Sept. 27 12-6pm. The venues are not yet agreed upon: Likely the first meeting will be at ABC No Rio, the second either at IA or MoRUS, and the third […]

conversation with Martha Rosler

ABC No Rio 156 Rivington Street, Manhattan, New York City, United States

A conversation with the renowned artist and cultural critic Martha Rosler. The discussion will be keyed to her book Culture Class, and turn on relationships between her artistic practice and urban politics. This event is produced by Alan Smart at the "Making Room" exhibition at ABC No Rio. Evening time to be announced.

conversation with Erick Lyle about “Streetopia”

ABC No Rio 156 Rivington Street, Manhattan, New York City, United States

A catalogue of the epochal San Francisco exhibition that cried out against the ferocious gentrification of that city by dot-com workers. "A massive anti-gentrification art fair that took place in venues throughout the city," writer Erick Lyle (of the zine SCAM) will present the Streetopia project. (An informal BBQ will follow in the backyard, barring rain […]

Big Idea in Pittsburgh

Big Idea Cooperative Bookstore and Cafe 4812 Liberty Ave., Pittsburgh, United States

Rad author Hannah Dobbz, who wrote Nine-Tenths of the Law, the first survey history of squatting in the USA, will introduce me at the Big Idea bookstore in Pittsburgh. Psyched to see the Warhol city....

V2_COMMUNITY INVITES SQEK: MAKING ROOM

V2 in Rotterdam, the "Institute for Unstable Media", invites to a Book Talk and Discussion about Making Room: Cultural Production in Occupied Spaces with Alan Smart of Other Forms. Alan W. Moore, and other authors of texts in the book (also members of the SqEK research group) will be there. http://v2.nl/events/v2_community-invites-sqek-making-room