"A Quarreling Pair," a play by Jane Bowles, staged by Nick Mauss, and starring Deborah Eisenberg and Lynne Tillman Dear Jane Puppet Play & Readings Documentation Wednesday, January 18, 2017 Artists Space Books & Talks 55 Walker Street http://artistsspace.org/materials/dear-jane

Excerpt from "Plain Pleasures," 1946, read by Gini Alhadeff Dear Jane Puppet Play & Readings Documentation Wednesday, January 18, 2017 Artists Space Books & Talks 55 Walker Street http://artistsspace.org/materials/dear-jane

Excerpt from "Two Serious Ladies," 1943, read by James Hannaham Dear Jane Puppet Play & Readings Documentation Wednesday, January 18, 2017 Artists Space Books & Talks 55 Walker Street http://artistsspace.org/materials/dear-jane

Excerpt from "Two Serious Ladies," 1943, read by Lidija Haas Dear Jane Puppet Play & Readings Documentation Wednesday, January 18, 2017 Artists Space Books & Talks 55 Walker Street http://artistsspace.org/materials/dear-jane

Letter to “Spivy” LeVoe, Deal Beach, NJ, January 29, 1937, read by Nick Mauss Dear Jane Puppet Play & Readings Documentation Wednesday, January 18, 2017 Artists Space Books & Talks 55 Walker Street http://artistsspace.org/materials/dear-jane

Excerpt from “Curls and a Quiet Country Face,” early 1950s, read by Yto Barrada Dear Jane Puppet Play & Readings Documentation Monday, January 23, 2017 Artists Space Books & Talks 55 Walker Street http://artistsspace.org/materials/dear-jane

Lise Soskolne (W.A.G.E.) Mabel Wilson David Joselit Amin Husain Eva Mayhabal Davis Nia Nottage Sneha Ganguly Conversation Documentation Saturday, November 10, 2016 Artists Space Books & Talks 55 Walker Street #decolonizethisplace www.decolonizethisplace.org

Robin D.G. Kelley Jasbir K. Puar Amin Husain Marz Saffore Conversation Documentation Friday, November 4, 2016 Artists Space Books & Talks 55 Walker Street #decolonizethisplace www.decolonizethisplace.org

Artists: NYC Is Not for Sale Nancy Meza, Defend Boyle Heights Pati Ankalli Rodriguez, Mi Casa No Es Su Case Alicia Grullón, Mothers On The Move Sandra de la Loza, North East Los Angeles Alliance Chino Mayday, NYC Not 4 Sale Raquel Namuche, Queens Is Not for Sale Anthony Rosado Samuel Stein Shellyne Rodriguez, Take Back The Bronx Discussion Saturday, October 29, 2016, 7pm Artists Space Books & Talks 55 Walker Street For more information please visit...

Chinatown Is Not for Sale Peter Kwong Liz Moy Margaret Lee, 47 Canal Juan Puntes, WhiteBox Betty Yu, Chinatown Art Brigade Discussion Saturday, October 22, 2016, 7pm Artists Space Books & Talks 55 Walker Street For more information please visit http://artistsspace.org/programs/chin... #ChinatownNot4Sale #DecolonizeThisPlace http://decolonizethisplace.org/

NEON Eve Essex Performance Documentation Wednesday, July 13, 2016, 7pm Artists Space Books & Talks 55 Walker Street For more information visit http://artistsspace.org/materials/neon

Yates McKee, Nina Felshin, Amin Husain, Victoria Sobel Conversation Documentation Wednesday, June 29, 2016, 7pm Artists Space Books & Talks 55 Walker Street In "Strike Art: Contemporary Art and the Post-Occupy Condition" (Verso, 2016), Yates McKee shows that during the five years since Occupy Wall Street—a period that has also witnessed the upsurge of the black liberation movement, climate justice mobilizations, the struggles of workers, debtors, students, tenants, and more—artists...

Wednesday, March 2, 2016, 7pm Doors open 6pm Artists Space Books & Talks 55 Walker Street One of the defining characteristics of Artists Space’s work is dialogue: dialogue between artists, writers, scholars, theorists and our audiences. Artists Space Dialogues takes the simple format of a public conversation between two people. Every month renowned art historian Bettina Funcke will talk with an influential figure in the field of contemporary art and visual culture, investigating their...

Wednesday, February 3, 7pm Doors open 6pm Artists Space Books & Talks 55 Walker Street One of the defining characteristics of Artists Space’s work is dialogue: dialogue between artists, writers, scholars, theorists and our audiences. Artists Space Dialogues takes the simple format of a public conversation between two people. Every month renowned art historian Bettina Funcke will talk with an influential figure in the field of contemporary art and visual culture, investigating their...

Talk Tuesday, January 19, 7pm Artists Space Books & Talks 55 Walker Street "Despite efforts to obscure slavery and indigenous dispossession in the genealogy and narrative of American nationhood, these realities remain deeply embedded in the relationship between race and markets where in fact race and economic domination are fused. Racial hierarchy is continually replenished through the market, while the market encodes property in accord with racial regimes. For example, "black" spaces...

Mimetic Exchange: Michael Taussig on Juan Downey and Jean Rouch Screenings & Talk Wednesday, December 2, 2015, 7pm Artists Space Books & Talks 55 Walker Street In the second of a series of programs forming part of the Union Gaucha Productions survey, screenings of the films The Laughing Alligator by Juan Downey and Les Maîtres Fous (The Mad Masters) by Jean Rouch will be followed by a talk by anthropologist Michael Taussig. This audio recording documents the talk given by Taussig...

Jeff Preiss and Union Gaucha Productions Screenings & Discussion Thursday, November 19, 7pm Artists Space Books & Talks 55 Walker Street Filmmaker Jeff Preiss's long-term engagement with Union Gaucha Productions has encompassed the production of collaborative work, as well as sharing with Nicolás Guagnini and Karin Schneider an involvement in the co-operative exhibition space Orchard, which operated in the Lower East Side of New York between 2005 and 2008. This evening of...

Juliana Huxtable & LaTasha N. Nevada Diggs Readings Friday, October 9, 7pm Artists Space Books & Talks 55 Walker Street “Performance is a bothersome word for writerly poets” writes poet Nathaniel Mackey in his essay “Sight-Specific, Sound-Specific…” from 2005. Despite twentieth century poetry’s rich tradition of performance, Mackey notes that in poetry there is often an expectation for words do the performing, as opposed to people or things. Yet, language exists beyond just words,...

Alejandro Miguel Justino Crawford, Ian Hatcher & Sophia Le Fraga Readings Friday, October 16, 7pm Artists Space Books & Talks 55 Walker Street “Performance is a bothersome word for writerly poets” writes poet Nathaniel Mackey in his essay “Sight-Specific, Sound-Specific…” from 2005. Despite twentieth century poetry’s rich tradition of performance, Mackey notes that in poetry there is often an expectation for words do the performing, as opposed to people or things. Yet, language...

Juliana Huxtable & LaTasha N. Nevada Diggs Readings Friday, October 9, 7pm Artists Space Books & Talks 55 Walker Street “Performance is a bothersome word for writerly poets” writes poet Nathaniel Mackey in his essay “Sight-Specific, Sound-Specific…” from 2005. Despite twentieth century poetry’s rich tradition of performance, Mackey notes that in poetry there is often an expectation for words do the performing, as opposed to people or things. Yet, language exists beyond just words,...

Talks & Readings Thursday, October 1, 7pm Artists Space Books & Talks 55 Walker Street Ariana Reines will open the evening with a reading of “Littoral Madness”, a section from Chris Kraus’ forthcoming critical biography of Kathy Acker, and will complete the evening with readings of her poetry. In between two talks will be delivered by Melissa Gordon and Meredyth Sparks on the value of presence in art in relation to gender, history and genius. Melissa Gordon will discuss her...

Talk Tuesday, September 22, 7pm Artists Space Books & Talks 55 Walker Street The International Art Exhibition in Solidarity with Palestine was inaugurated in Beirut, Lebanon, in March 1978, and was intended as the seed collection for a museum in exile. Inspired by the Museum of Resistance in Exile in Solidarity with Salvador Allende, the museum took the form of an itinerant exhibition that was meant to tour until it could "repatriate" to Palestine. Organized by the Palestine Liberation...

Talk Friday, October 2, 7pm Artists Space Books & Talks 55 Walker Street This discussion will consider the construction, performance and broadcast of gender archetypes over the last fifty years, and how these have been transformed, critiqued and subverted within visual art – specifically in the work of Dara Birnbaum and Joan Jonas. Both were part of a generation of women artists who began working in the 60s and 70s, and were pioneers in their radical address of subjectivity, imagery,...

Double Bind with Rhea Anastas, Daniel Bozhkov, K8 Hardy, Leigh Ledare, and John Miller Book Launch & Talk Sunday, September 13, 4pm Co-presented with A.R.T. Press http://www.artresourcestransfer.org/#art/about For more information click here http://artistsspace.org/programs/double-bind

Finding Words Angie Keefer & Lynne Tillman A talk, a reading and a conversation in assorted voices Wednesday, September 30, 2015, doors 6.30pm, starts 7pm sharp Artists Space Books & Talks 55 Walker Street For more information click here http://artistsspace.org/programs/finding-words This public event was part of We (Not I), a four-day program of discursive meetings, presentations, and events bringing together a wide range of female artists, writers, curators and thinkers...