“I do not know if I have learned enough in the past decade to justify the life I have lived. I have watched, even when I didn’t want to watch. I have written in defence of causes I knew to be hopeless. Of course, at times I have given in to hopelessness when, if only for the sake of victims, perhaps I should have soldiered on. Who hasn’t? The moral test of being an onlooker at other people’s tragedies is one that few of us are likely to pass reliably.” —
—David Rieff, A Bed for the Night: Humanitarianism in Crisis
Today at 3pm at PS1: Journalist David Rieff, author of books on immigration, international conflict, and humanitarianism will detail the proposed solutions to the world food crisis, and the serious difficulties with each.
Rieff’s lecture is part of Triple Canopy’s Speculations (“The future is___”), fifty days of lectures, discussions, and debates about the future as part of EXPO 1: New York.
Click here for the full schedule.
“My Dear Michael, Jim Watson and I have probably made a most important discovery…Our structure is very beautiful…When you come home we will show you the model. Lots of love, Daddy.”
From Francis Crick’s letter to his son, Michael, explaining the discovery of DNA.
Adam Cohen, a professor in the Departments of Chemistry and Chemical Biology and Physics at Harvard will speak on the writings of Crick and H. G. Wells and speculate on the future of stem cells and the brain May 24, 2pm and 4pm at MoMA PS1.
Cohen’s lecture is part of Speculations (“The future is___”), fifty days of lectures, discussions and debates about the future as part of EXPO 1: New York.
Click here for the full schedule.
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John Miller, A Refusal to Accept Limits, 2007.
Join artist John Miller and Triple Canopy at MoMA PS1 today at 2 and 4 pm for a discussion and lecture concerning Vilém Flusser’s Towards a Philosophy of Photography, as part of Speculations (“The future is ______”), fifty days of lectures, discussions and debates about the future as part of EXPO 1: New York.
Support the work of poetry press Song Cave with this new print by Eileen Quinlan!
The 14x10.5” Version of Fahrenheit #13, 2008-2013
Eileen Quinlan
14x10.5 inches, archival pigment print
Signed and numbered, in an edition of 50BUY $200
Stunningly mysterious and beautiful, the photographer Eileen Quinlan’s work is unsuspectingly straightforward. The house-of-cardlike worlds that she constructs, staged solely for her camera’s lens, prop mirrors reflecting intensely colored light, deep shadows, cloth, reflective Mylar, wisps of smoke, and especially, each other. The images created by these arrangements offer kaleidoscopic sights into indeterminate and infinite spaces… .
“The colony proposes a model for future living and communal utopia.” You’ll also be closer at hand to participate in Triple Canopy’s school at Expo 1: Speculations schedule here.
CALL FOR VOLUNTEERS! a77 is looking for architects, artists, craftsmen, and designers to volunteer in the collective construction of the EXPO 1 colony.
Anyone want to attempt the same trick on Adrián Villar Rojas’s concrete amphitheater at MoMA PS1?
Tickets are available here. Join Triple Canopy for conversations and lectures about the future, during Expo 1: New York; view the full Speculations schedule here.
Julien Blaine Chute des escaliers de la gare St Charles :: Bas Jan Ader Fall
“I’m 54 and the older I get, the harder it is for me to project. I’d like to think that’s because the projections of the sixties and seventies were so inadequate to the actual strangeness of things. Sure, 2001 thought we’d be taking Pan Am to the moon, but it also thought Hal would be the size of a room, not that Suri would fit in my pocket.” —Maureen McHugh
Maureen McHugh will join us at Speculations (“The future is _____”) on Monday, May 20th. She is an author whose latest collection of stories, After the Apocalypse, was one of Publishers Weekly’s Ten Best Books of 2011.
At 2:00 pm, she’ll be discussing Thomas Malthus and his theories on the limits of population. At 4:00 pm she will speculate on the consequences of depopulation and de-extinction, and the possibility of terraforming Earth itself to ensure our survival.
Can’t make it in person? Watch the livestream!
View the full Speculations schedule here.
MoMA PS1, 22-25 Jackson Ave., Long Island City
FREE with Museum Admission
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On Saturday, May 18th Speculations brings together Adrián Villar Rojas and Klaus Biesenbach. Villar Rojas represented Argentina at the 2011 Venice Biennale and Biesenbach is the director of MoMA PS1 and Chief Curator at Large at the Museum of Modern Art. At 3:00 pm, the two will discuss Villar Rojas’s sculptural installation La inocencia de los animales and “Dark Optimism.”