Tuesday, 10/14, 6:30 pm: INSIDE THE PAVILION

A survey of videos from the U.S. Pavilion at the 2008 Venice Biennale, including the work of Rebar, Center for Urban Pedagogy, Studio 804, International Center for Urban Ecology and more. Followed by a conversation with "Into the Open: Positioning Practice" curators Aaron Levy and Andrew Sturm, and filmmaker Laura Hanna.

Aaron Levy is Executive Director and a Senior Curator at Slought Foundation
Andrew Sturm is the Director of Architecture for the PARC Foundation
Laura Hanna is co-founder of Hidden Driver Pictures

Sponsored by Wine Cellar Sorbet

Thursday, 10/16, 7:00 pm: Live from Palestine: Raja Shehadeh

Shortly before his appearance at Studio-X, lawyer, writer and avid walker Raja Shehadeh will walk through the hills of the West Bank: rugged slopes that surround his home in Ramallah and constitute the subject of his book Palestinian Walks: Forays into a Vanishing Landscape. Shehadeh will film his walk in entirety. Then, on October 16th, the footage will be screened at Studio-X while he narrates the experience (via Skype) live from Palestine-so that we too may traverse this beautiful and charged landscape.

READING GROUP: Flying Close to the Sun

"On the morning of March 6, 1970, in the subbasement of 18 West 11th Street in Greenwich Village, a piece of ordinary water pipe, filled with dynamite, nails, and an electric blasting cap, ignited by mistake..."

As a college student in the 1960s, Cathy Wilkerson became involved with the civil rights movement, Students for a Democratic Society, and the Weathermen: a "fighting, anti-imperialist youth movement." Having survived the explosion of a New York City townhouse where she and four other Weathermen were building bombs, she moved underground. For the past twenty years, Wilkerson has worked as a mathematics educator in New York City schools.

This election season, Studio-X will host a month-long reading and discussion group of Cathy Wilkerson's memoir Flying Close to the Sun: My Life and Times as a Weatherman. Three sessions will be devoted to exploring Wilkerson's work, which, according to the New York Times, "unsparingly maps the idealism, fanaticism, moral absolutism and personal passions that carried her to the townhouse [explosion]." In the fourth and final session, Cathy Wilkerson will join us at Studio-X.

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10/28/2008 RAPID RESPONSE: COLLAPSE!

Collapse! explores the spatial consequences of the "new" economy--the panic of 2008 as well as the last two decades, and the last two years--at a variety of scales: the NYSE trading room to Manhattan, the city to the suburbs, the United States to the world. Network Architecture Lab Director Kazys Varnelis will lead a discussion with Daniel Beunza, Assistant Professor, Management Division, Columbia Business School and Micah Fink, Emmy Award-nominated documentary filmmaker. We will be airing a segment of a film by Fink originally produced for a PBS New York Voices special on the mortgage crisis.

Collapse! is produced in collaboration with the Network Architecture Lab.

Refreshments provided by Barefoot Wines

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