February 2019
February 1, 2019 @ 5:30 pm – 8:00 pm
Screening followed by discussion with:
Director Rachel Israel, and lead actors Brandon Polansky and Samantha Elisofon
Moderator: Janet Grillo (Filmmaker/Associate Arts Professor, NYU UGFTV)
An offbeat NYC rom-com, this award-winning film features an unlikely pair who find that happiness is not about conforming. Starring actors on the autism spectrum who worked with the director to create the story.Winner, Best U.S. Narrative Feature and Best New Director, 2017 Tribeca Film Festival
Co-Sponsors: NYU Connections; NYU Center for Media, Culture & History
February 28, 2019 @ 6:30 pm – 8:00 pm
Lindsay and Danielle dance a quartet that embraces critical disability and Mad theory, spoken word, dance, and film, offering critical reflections on the generative possibilities of disability and madness in the arts
Discussion with: André Lepecki (Performance Studies) & Hentyle Yapp (Performance Studies, Art & Public Policy, Center for Disability Studies)
Co-Sponsors: Depts. of Art & Public Policy, Performance Studies; Hemispheric Institute for Performance & Politics
March 2019
March 2, 2019 @ 3:00 pm – 5:00 pm
Collective Strategies for Reparative Care: A panel discussion with Ted Kerr (writer and organizer, What Would an HIV Doula Do?), Lana Lin (filmmaker, scholar, author of Freud’s Jaw and Other Lost Objects: Fractured Subjectivity in the Face of Cancer, 2017), Kevin Gotkin (artist, activist, and professor), and OlaRonke Akinmowo (creator, The Free Black Women’s Library). A reception will follow the event.
Presented in Collaboration with the Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts
March 15, 2019 @ 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm
Join us for a lunchtime conversation between Georgina Kleege, Netta Yerushalmy, Mara Mills, David Linton, and Mary Murphy about their experience describing George Balanchine’s abstract modernist ballet, Agon, for both blind and sighted audiences. Their response to Agon is part of the Paramodernities series at New York Live Arts March 14-17th.
About Paramodernities:
After over three years of research, development, and multiple performances nationwide, the complete six-part Paramodernities series comes to New York.
The run is March 14th-17th @ New York Live Arts
April 2019
April 3, 2019 @ 5:00 pm – 7:00 pm
Discussion with Director Paul Damien Williams & Faye Ginsburg
Born blind, the late Indigenous Australian musician and Yolngu elder Gurrumul Yunupingu, was celebrated at home and abroad, straddling Aboriginal and global worlds in this extraordinary documentary chronicling his life.
Co-Sponsors: Anthropology; Center for Media, Culture & History; NYU Native American & Indigenous Studies
April 22, 2019 @ 6:30 pm – 8:30 pm
Presented by the Colloquium for Unpopular Culture: TALKING HANDS (dir. Emanuel Almborg, 2016), 48 min – screening + director in conversation with Mara Mills
TALKING HANDS is a film about a pioneering school for deaf-blind children. Established in 1963 in Zaborsk, north of Moscow, it was known as the “synchrophasotron of the social sciences”. Its founder, Marxist philosopher Evald Ilyenkov, claimed, “By studying the brain you will Iearn little of the mind – just as little as you will learn of the nature of money by studying the material properties of the material (gold, silver, or paper) in which the money form is embodied.” Or, as one of his deaf-blind students Alexander Suvorov exclaimed: “Who told you we see nothing and hear nothing? We see and hear through the eyes and ears of our friends, all people, the entire human race.”
April 26, 2019 @ 4:00 pm – 6:00 pm
Celebrate a new special issue of Catalyst: Feminism, Theory, Technoscience with editors Kelly Fritsch, Aimi Hamraie, Mara Mills, and David Serlin and authors Kevin Gotkin and Alice Sheppard. Crip Technoscience brings critical feminist perspectives to the study of disability, science, and technology, offering interventions into political debates related to emerging technologies, treatments, and practices of access, design, health, and enhancement.
Co-sponsor: NYU Department of Media, Culture and Communication