VLC Forum 2023: Revision* – E-Flux Education

The New School offers a Vera List Center for Arts and Politics VLC Forum 2023: Edit*, presented October 12–14, 2023 in New York City and online. An international, annual conference on art and politics, this year’s forum is organized within the framework of the Center’s biennial inquiry. edit*Exploring the possibilities of „correcting”, revising or transcending histories of injustice, destruction and degradation.

VLC Forum 2023 celebrates a gathering of tribal urban artists proppaNOWRecipient of the 2022–24 Jane Lombard Prize of the Center for Arts and Social Justice, as well as Jane Lombard Fellows, Prize Finalists: Pan-African Another roadmap is the Africa cluster, Colectivo Sereny from Mexico, Kunci Study Forum & Co from Indonesia, and from Palestine Khalil Rabah. Over three days, the exhibition, workshops, conversations, keynote lectures and a social dinner and karaoke party with a DJ set by an ARAC member Christian Nyambeta, The Forum brings together community-based artists and collectives to advance social justice around the world through collective and collaborative practices.

Visit the full forum schedule, speakers, registration and publications VLC website.

Exhibition
October 9-November 10, open daily 12-6pm EDT, late Thursday until 8pm.
Parsons School of Design, Sheila C. Johnson Design Center, Arnold and Sheila Aronson Galleries
66 Fifth Avenue, New York

proppaNOW: There Goes the Neighborhood!Exhibition and screening program featuring members Tony Albert, Vernon Ah Gee, Richard Bell, Megan Cobb, Jennifer HurtLate Larry NielsenAnd Weather aside, hosts the forum. Presented 20 years after its founding in Brisbane, Australia, the exhibition highlights their unwavering commitment to pushing for greater visibility of Aboriginal struggles and rights. The screening program consists of videos selected by proppaNOW members. Screenings: October 13 at 4:30 & 5:30pm EDT, October 19 at 6:30pm EDT, October 26 at 6:30pm EDT.

VLC Forum 2023
Day One: Thursday, October 12

Indefinite/Logical Chronological Implementation Chapter 2.2 New York: 3-5 p.m. EDT
Event Café, University Center, The New School, 63 Fifth Avenue, New York. The first day of VLC Forum 2023 starts, Another roadmap is the Africa Cluster (ARAC). „Residence” hosts a workshop on histories and personal timelines.

Impossible Structures with Khalil Raba: 5–6:30 pm EDT
reality. Khalil Rabah Representing the natural history of Palestine and the semi-fictional Palestine Museum of Humanity, it is a roving museum dedicated to the culture of Palestine. Fos Capra.

Day Two: Friday, October 13

Blackness is…: Global Blackness and Indigenous Solidarities: 10–11:30 a.m. EDT
reality. Join proppaNOW members Natalie Ball, M. Carmen Laneand ARAC member Puleng Plesi Reflecting the diversity of black subjectivities in Australia, America, Africa and its diaspora.

proppaNOW: There Goes the Neighborhood!: 5–6:15 pm EDT
Arnold and Sheila Aaronson Galleries, Sheila C. Johnson Design Center, The New School, 66 5th Avenue at 13th Street. Opening and walk-through of the prize exhibition with artists and curators.

Awards ceremony and conversation with proppaNOW and Wanda Nanibush: 6:30-8 p.m. EDT
Auditorium, The New School, 66 W 12th Street, New York. Join us in honoring proppaNOW at the Jane Lombard Prize Gala, followed by a conversation among proppaNOW members. Vernon Ah Gee, Tony Albert, Richard Bell, Megan Cobb, Gordon Hookey, Lily EtherAnd Weather asideand 2022–2024 Prize Jury Member Anishinaabe Curator, Artist and Educator No nannybush.

Social feast and banquet: 8-10pm EDT
Vollman Hall, The New School, 65 W 11th Street, New York. The annual VLC Forum Dinner extends the festivities into the night with a free dinner and party for all. Artist and member of ARAC Christian Nyambeta With hosts, DJ sets and karaoke to follow.

Day Three: Saturday, October 14

Igniting Resistance: A Conversation with the Colectivo Serrani: 11 am–12 pm EDT
Wollman Hall, The New School. Colectivo Sereny P’urhepecha discusses resistance movements and attempts at autonomy in Mexico with the curator Pablo Jose Ramirez.

Learning together: 12:30-2 pm EDT
Wollman Hall, The New School. Vehicle And Kunci Study Forum & Co Join the Guardian Sarah Rifki to do Discuss experimental teaching and similarities in art education.

Farid Raghun: In space, or space, placing inruangrupa: 2:30-4 p.m. EDT
Wollman Hall, The New School. Jakarta-based conglomerate Ruangrupa Considers space as their primary object—members Farid the raccoon Reflects the use of space as a guiding tool in collaborative development. The keynote address is followed by a refreshments and closing reception.

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The Vera List Center for Arts and Politics’ Fall 2023 programs are generously supported by members of the Vera List Center Board, the VLC Producers Council, Vera’s List and other individual donors, and the following institutional donors: Australian Embassy-General in New York; Boris Lurie Foundation for the Arts and Shayna and Josephine Lurji Memorial Foundation; Bridge Philanthropy Consulting; Dayton Foundation; Ford Foundation; Kettering Fund; Mellon Foundation; Native Arts and Culture Foundation; and Pryor Cashman LLP. We also acknowledge the support of our educational home, the New School.