Tuesday, 12/2, 6:30 pm: SOVIET CONTAMINATION

Celebrate the five-year anniversary of Future Anterior: Journal of Historic Preservation History, Theory, and Criticism with a special event on the preservation of Soviet modernist buildings, and experimental techniques currently being used by Russia to preserve its Soviet heritage. Studio-X is pleased to welcome an esteemed roundtable to discuss the future and past of preservation within the Soviet context, featuring:

Barry Bergdoll, MoMA and Columbia
Jean-Louis Cohen, NYU
Yevgeniy Fiks, Artist
Vitaly Komar, Artist
Annette Michelson, NYU and Co-Founder of October
Jorge Otero-Pailos, Columbia and Editor of Future Anterior

Sponsored by BROOKLYN BREWERY and IZZE SPARKLING JUICE

Reception to follow

RSVP: gdb2106@columbia.edu
Free and open to the public

Thursday, 12/4: Night Haunts

The famed London night: "There was a time, well over a century ago now, when it was considered one the finest Victorian inventions." Gas lighting opened up the night--rendering the darkness visible, and introducing new spaces of lawlessness and depravity. But have CCTV cameras and British Anti-Social Behaviour Orders (ASBOs) neutralized the night? Writer SUKHDEV SANDHU and composer ANDREW INGKAVET present a visual and sonic journey through an unfamiliar nocturnal London, encountering urban fox hunters, exorcists, cleaning crews, mini-cab drivers, sleep technicians and the Nuns of Tyburn, as they pray for the souls of Londoners.

SANDHU is a professor of English Literature at New York University, Chief Film Critic of the "Daily Telegraph," and author of "London Calling: How Black and Asian Writers Imagined a City." INGKAVET is a composer, filmmaker and designer. He began scoring films while working in Hong Kong as one of MTV-Asia's first VJs.

RSVP: gdb2106@columbia.edu
Free and open to the public