Marisa Jahn
Articles by Marisa Jahn
STOREFRONT FILMS
Lucy Raven’s China Town (50′)
3pm, 4pm, 5pm at Storefront
Tuesday 7 – Saturday 11 April
Final screening with director’s presentation
7pm Saturday 11 April
China Town traces copper mining and production from an open pit mine in
Nevada to a smelter in China, where the semi-processed ore is sent to be
smelted and refined. Considering what it actually means to “be [...]
Really Really Free Market
Sunday August 30th 3-7pm (the last Sunday of each month)
Really Really Free Market
The Really Really Free Market is a bazaar and a celebration, where we discard capitalist notions of interaction and have fun trying new models of exchange. Expect and share free food, skills, music, clothing, books, other things and fun!
This is an open participatory [...]
Red Lines Housing Crisis Learning Center
Red Lines Housing Crisis Learning Center is presented in dialogue with The University of Trash, an exhibition by artists Nils Norman and Michael Cataldi on view at Sculpture Center May 10-August 3, 2009. Norman and Cataldi propose a radical imagination and radically different space might look like coming out of this crisis. The two exhibitions [...]
Red Lines Events
08/27/09
The Queens Museum of Art and the Center for Urban Pedagogy (CUP) invite you to two public programs associated with the current exhibition Red Lines Housing Crisis Learning Center.
Why are there so many foreclosures in Jamaica?
Housing Teach-In / Speak-Out
Thursday, August 27, 6–8 pm
Queens Borough Public Library Main Branch, Auditorium
89-11 Merrick Boulevard, between 89th & [...]
New Museum First Saturdays for Families: Sign and Intervene
For over twenty years, artist and activist Rigo 23 has challenged the status quo and advocated for social and political change through his murals, interventions, sculptures, paintings, drawings, performances, and zines. Informed by both the history of punk and DIY (do-it-yourself) aesthetics Rigo 23’s practice comfortably adapts itself to the environment in which it is [...]
Connective Mutations: Autonomy & Subjectivation in the New Century
Connective Mutations: Autonomy & Subjectivation in the New Century — September 3rd – 6th, 2009 — Dialogues with Franco Berardi Bifo — 09.03.09, 5:00 PM
For detailed info about the seminar with Bifo
Please go to …
http://www.16beavergroup.org/bifo/
Presentation: Dana Frank “Women’s Empowerment in Honduras”
Wednesday, September 16th @ 7PM – $5 Suggested
Presentation: Dana Frank “Women’s Empowerment in Honduras”
Now emerging as resistance leaders to the military coup in Honduras are the same women whom fought to establish unions for banana workers. Please join Dana Frank for a discussion about the crucial role of women in building popular movements in Honduras. [...]
Presentation: Arun Gupta “What Anti-War Movement?”
Friday, September 11th @ 7PM – $5 Suggested
Presentation: Arun Gupta “What Anti-War Movement?”
It’s now eight years after 9/11. The American government is escalating its war in Afghanistan and Pakistan (and is still engaged in Iraq). Yet, the once massive anti-war movement(s) has all but disappeared. Please join Arun Gupta for an examination of failures of [...]
The People v. Azim Hall: The Contingent Thresholds of Privacy and the Regulation of Eyes and Hands
The case that follows, Azim v. The People, raises a number of questions that test the constitutional protection against warrantless searches and seizures of one’s private property, whether dwelling or body…