The Classroom
Third FloorTypescripts: Performance and Conversation, with Raffaella della Olga and Robert Wiesenberger
Artist Raffaella della Olga presents an improvisational performance on a prepared typewriter followed by a conversation about her upcoming exhibition Typescripts, at the Clark Art Institute. della Olga (b. 1967) makes unique artist’s books, each addressed to a different conceptual or technical problem, using modified typewriters and multicolor ink ribbons on materials ranging from tracing paper to photo paper to sandpaper. The artist will be joined in conversation by exhibition curator Robert Wiesenberger. Presented by Three Star Books and the Clark.
Afuera! Publishing Queer Liberation, with Mariano López Seoane, Germán Garrido, and Jorge Luis Giacosa
On the occasion of the exhibition Afuera! Publishing Queer Liberation — From the Collection of Archivos Desviados, currently on view at Printed Matter (231 11th Ave), this conversation will explore the transnational networks of queer communities that arose through the work of three activist coalitions from the 1970s: the Gay Liberation Front of New York (GLF), the Third World Gay Revolution (TWGR), and the Frente de Liberación Homosexual of Argentina (FLH). Scholars Mariano López Seoane and Germán Garrido will speak about their research involving these groups’ publications, documents, posters, and ephemera held within Archivos Desviados, a queer archive project founded and led by Juan Queiroz. They will be joined by Jorge Luis Giacosa of the FLH, Latin America's first political action group for gays and lesbians, who will share his experience as an activist in this pioneering organization. Presented by Printed Matter, Inc.
Wish This Was Real, with Tyler Mitchell and Drew Sawyer
Photographer Tyler Mitchell is joined by art historian and curator Drew Sawyer for a conversation celebrating the release of Wish This Was Real (Aperture, 2025). Mitchell’s definitive early-career survey is animated by dreams of paradise and joy against the backdrop of history. Since establishing himself in the fields of art and fashion, Mitchell has created images of beauty, utopia, and the American landscape that expand the imaginary of Blackness in the twenty-first century. Presenting new perspectives by leading writers on his long-standing themes of self-determination and the extraordinary radiance of the everyday, Wish This Was Real shows how photography can be rooted in a collective past while evoking imagined futures. Presented by Aperture.
Archiving History, with Anu Ambasna and Jordan Taylor
This program presents research and materials from several archives, including PageMasters and MayDay Rooms, focusing on radical publications such as Crowbar, Shocking Pink, The Black Lesbian Group, Shakti Khabar, and more. These DIY zines, newsletters, and printed matter emerged from anti-racist, feminist, queer, and anti-capitalist movements in the 1970s to present day, offering vital platforms for political organizing, cultural expression, and autonomous publishing. Through archival material and discussion, the discussion traces the continuity between past and present zine cultures in London. We explore how the political urgency and self-organized spirit of earlier publications resonate in contemporary DIY publishing, particularly among queer and marginalized communities. Presented by CAMP! Books and PageMasters.
Asian Revolutionaries and Asian-American Conservatives, with Matthew Shen Goodman and Minh Nguyen
Critic and curator Minh Nguyen joins writer and The Baffler editor-in-chief Matthew Shen Goodman for a discussion on Asian politics across borders and how Asian revolutionary legacies shape diaspora politics in unexpected ways. Occasioned by the release of Nguyen’s essay collection Memorial Park, which examines the afterlife of the Vietnamese revolution—both within the country and among Vietnamese Americans, one of the most conservative Asian diaspora groups—the conversation bridges to Shen Goodman’s recent writing and book-in-progress on the roots of right-wing Asian American movements. Together they consider the usefulness of “Asian American” as an analytical framework, and how art and cultural criticism offer approaches to understanding the political realities of place. Presented by Wendy’s Subway and Art Metropole.
Beneath The Surface: Deep Listening, Buried Narratives, and Embodied Resistance, with Luïza Luz
In a world where both noise and silence perpetuate cycles of oppression and ecological destruction, Beneath the Surface: Deep Listening, Buried Narratives, and Embodied Resistance, invites us to pause, listen deeply, and reclaim the stories that have been buried or ignored. In this public program, Brazilian transdisciplinary artist, lecturer, and author Luïza Luz shares readings from their new work, which weaves together personal reflection, collective narratives, and theoretical inquiry. Centering deep listening as both a method and a practice of resistance, the text explores how academic and cultural institutions often reproduce selective histories, and how embodied knowledge can offer pathways toward emancipation. Co-published by Archive Books and We make it, and featuring contributions by Ahmet Öğüt and Jamila Barakat, Beneath the Surface opens a conversation around education, memory, and the radical potential of the collective. This program offers an opportunity to engage with Luïza Luz’s intersectional approach to environmentalism, pedagogy, and voice—foregrounding listening as an essential tool for imagination. Presented by Gloria Glitzer and We make it.
Gathering in Practice, with Joshua Duttweiler, Prem Krishnamurthy, Vera van de Seyp, and ULISES
This panel explores how to design more intentional, imaginative, and responsive forms of gathering, drawing from A Toolkit for Gathering—a new publication from Draw Down Books that offers prompts, exercises, and strategies for rethinking how people come together. The book serves as both a practical guide and poetic invitation, encouraging artists, designers, educators, and organizers to reimagine conventional formats. Building on these ideas, the panel shares adaptable tools and strategies that challenge default assumptions about space, time, roles, and structure, inviting the audience into a dialogue about what thoughtful convening can make possible. This program brings together Joshua Duttweiler (Riso-Rama), Prem Krishnamurthy (Department of Transportation), Vera van de Seyp (ITERATIONS), and ULISES. Moderated by Kathleen and Christopher Sleboda. Presented by Draw Down Books.
a sound answers a sound (slight return), with basalt hsu, Asiya Wadud, and Nicole Wallace
This session revisits the eponymous early September performance and chapbook, a sound answers a sound, which debuted in São Paolo and gathers the scores and sonic practices of Ryan C. Clarke, JJJJJerome Ellis, and Kite. This slight return takes the form of a mixtape-like gathering: not a repetition, but an echo with variation, a riff that returns altered by time and context. Phone recordings, music tracks, and audio fragments from the making of a sound answers a sound resurface as traces of process and memory. Alongside these archival elements, poets basalt hsu, Asiya Wadud, and Nicole Wallace whose work appears in the chapbook will read live, offering new points of entry into the project’s polyphonic terrain. This program foregrounds the broader constellation of writers and artists whose practices explore memory, place, and embodied listening. Together, these voices compose a resonant space for return—one that extends the project’s call to dream, remember, and move otherwise. a sound answers a sound is CARA’s contribution to Conjugations, the opening program of the 36th São Paulo Biennial, Not All Travelers Walk Roads. Presented by the Center for Art, Research and Alliances (CARA).