Big week of anarchist book events
Posted April 13, 2007 by in Events
New York City Anarchist Bookfair
Saturday April 14th, 11am-7PM
Judson Memorial Church, 55 Washington Square South, Manhattan
The 1st Annual, 1st Ever NYC Anarchist Book Fair, will host a one-day exposition of books, zines, pamphlets, art, film/video, and other cultural and very political productions of the anarchist scene worldwide, on Sat., Apr. 14, 2007 at Judson Memorial Church in Manhattan. The 1st Annual, 1st Ever NYC Anarchist Book Fair will feature over 40 tables as well as an art gallery. Panels, presentations, workshops, and skill shares will provide further opportunities to learn more and share your own experience and creativity.
Realizing the Impossible Book Release
My new book finally came out! Realizing the Impossible: Art Against Authority was just released on AK Press and my co-editor Erik Reuland and I are celebrating at Bluestockings Books. The book is a huge sprawling collection of 23 essays on the intersection of art and anarchism and has something for anyone even the slightest bit interested in art and politics.
Book Release Party/Event
Sunday April 15th, 7PM
172 Allen St. (just below Houston)
Erik and I will be using the book as a jump off point to discuss the role of art and culture in radical social movements, and a number of contributors will talk about their work. Should be really fun and a nice collection of voices and images. Come check it out, hang out, and celebrate with us!!!
Monday April 16th -- Art and Anarchism Roundtable Discussion
Roundtable Discussion on Anarchist Aesthetics
16 Beaver Street, 4th Floor, Manhattan
7:30pm -- Free and open to all
Roundtable Discussion with Contributors to Realizing the Impossible.
Erika Biddle, Dara Greenwald, Josh MacPhee, Cindy Milstein
We would like to start the Roundtable promptly at 7:30, so please come early if possible, and bring your questions.
This event will be a dovetail to the 1st Annual New York Anarchist Bookfair. We are really hoping that this event together people that maybe haven’t been in dialogue yet but should be. And so, this is not a panel discussion in anyway, but an open forum.
Presenter Bios:
Josh MacPhee is an artist, curator and activist currently living in Troy, NY, usa. His work often revolves around themes of radical politics, privatization and public space. His second book Realizing the Impossible: Art Against Authority (AK Press, co-edited with Erik Reuland) was just published. He also organizes the Celebrate People's History Poster Series and is part of the political art collective www.justseeds.org.
Cindy Milstein is co-organizer of the Renewing the Anarchist Tradition conference and a board member with the Institute for Anarchist Studies. [ www.anarchiststudies.org] She's also a member of the Free Society Collective and Black Sheep Books Collective in Vermont. Her written work appears in periodicals and several recent anthologies, including Globalize Liberation (City Lights), Confronting Capitalism (Soft Skull), and Only a Beginning (Arsenal Pulp).
Erika Biddle is a founding member of the collective Artists in Dialogue. She can often be found tweaking text for Autonomedia and for Perspectives, the biannual journal of the Institute for Anarchist Studies. She is also on the board of the IAS. One of these days she's going to lose her mind, remember how to write, and become a full-time poet.
Dara Greenwald has participated in collaborative and collective cultural production and activism for many years. Participation includes the Pink Bloque, Ladyfest Midwest Chicago, Version>03, Pilot TV Chicago, and other groupings that resist being named. She worked as the distribution manager at the Video Data Bank from 1998-2005, where she distributed independent media and experimental video art and worked on the preservation of the Videofreex collection. She also writes, curates, and makes art. Her videos have screened widely, including at Images Festival(Toronto), New York Underground, Yerba Buena Center (SF), and Ocularis(NY). She is currently studying Electronic Arts at RPI in Troy, NY.
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