Visits & Talks

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

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 […]

Not sure of the gallery hours....

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 […]

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.

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 […]

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.

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 […]

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 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