ABC NO RIO 45 SCHEDULE
ABC No Rio 45 Years runs from April 5th through 26th, 2025 at the Emily Harvey Foundation at 537 Broadway, 2nd floor, NYC 10012. Gallery hours are Tuesday - Saturday, 12:00 - 6:00 PM or by appointment. More information can be found on the ABC No Rio 45 Years homepage. Event listings will be updated regularly, so please stay tuned for updates. Past Events are listed at the bottom of the page.
The ABC No Rio 45 Years exposition is designed to be a workshop space. If you want to propose an event during viewing hours, please send a proposal to awm13589@yahoo.com. Unless otherwise noted, events will be held at the Emily Harvey Foundation at 537 Broadway, 2nd Fl, NYC 10012. The space is not optimized for ADA accessibility, but elevator access is available with prior notification. If you have questions or access requests, please contact us in advance of your visit and we will make every effort to accommodate you.
¶Sunday, May 11th - Tuesday, May 13th
ABC No Rio: A Culture of Opposition Or Mixtapes And Celluloid 1980 - 2025
Anthology Film Archives, 32 2nd Ave, NYC 10003
In conjunction with the exhibition “ABC No Rio 45 Years” taking place in April at the Emily Harvey Foundation, this series presents film and video output spanning several eras of the alternative art space ABC No Rio, offering a window into the creative and political practice that has sustained the space for 45 years. As their new building at 156 Rivington Street approaches completion, ABC No Rio’s legacy as a catalyst for oppositional culture provides a vital source of inspiration for expanding the political imaginary of the speculative, hyper-gentrified city we find ourselves in today. More information at: https://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/film_screenings/series/59368
ABC No Rio: A Culture of Opposition Or Mixtapes And Celluloid 1980 - 2025
Anthology Film Archives, 32 2nd Ave, NYC 10003
In conjunction with the exhibition “ABC No Rio 45 Years” taking place in April at the Emily Harvey Foundation, this series presents film and video output spanning several eras of the alternative art space ABC No Rio, offering a window into the creative and political practice that has sustained the space for 45 years. As their new building at 156 Rivington Street approaches completion, ABC No Rio’s legacy as a catalyst for oppositional culture provides a vital source of inspiration for expanding the political imaginary of the speculative, hyper-gentrified city we find ourselves in today. More information at: https://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/film_screenings/series/59368
¶Until May 31st
Historietas: Latinx Comics as Alternative Histories
The Clemente, 107 Suffolk St, 4th Floor
Curated by Peruvian cartoonist and educator Carlo Quispe, with ties to ABC No Rio and WW3 Illustrated magazine, Historietas brings together seven contemporary Latinx creators whose work spans from the Bronx to the Lower East Side, tracing histories across public schools, prison libraries, community spaces, homes, and streets. These artists—Ivan Velez Jr., Sandy Jimenez, Carlo Quispe, Sharon De La Cruz, Ivan Monforte, Medar De La Cruz, and Daisy Ruiz—challenge dominant narratives through the immediacy of comics, using the medium to document lived experiences and create informal yet powerful counter-histories. The Spanish word Historietas translates to “little histories” or “short stories,” but despite their modest size, these comics serve as potent tools for self-representation, storytelling, and political discourse. Through independent and mainstream publishing, the featured artists ensure that their voices and perspectives are seen, read, and remembered.
Historietas: Latinx Comics as Alternative Histories
The Clemente, 107 Suffolk St, 4th Floor
Curated by Peruvian cartoonist and educator Carlo Quispe, with ties to ABC No Rio and WW3 Illustrated magazine, Historietas brings together seven contemporary Latinx creators whose work spans from the Bronx to the Lower East Side, tracing histories across public schools, prison libraries, community spaces, homes, and streets. These artists—Ivan Velez Jr., Sandy Jimenez, Carlo Quispe, Sharon De La Cruz, Ivan Monforte, Medar De La Cruz, and Daisy Ruiz—challenge dominant narratives through the immediacy of comics, using the medium to document lived experiences and create informal yet powerful counter-histories. The Spanish word Historietas translates to “little histories” or “short stories,” but despite their modest size, these comics serve as potent tools for self-representation, storytelling, and political discourse. Through independent and mainstream publishing, the featured artists ensure that their voices and perspectives are seen, read, and remembered.
¶Sunday, April 6th
Opening Historietas: Latinx Comics as Alternative Histories, The Clemente 2:00 - 4:00 PM
The Clemente, 107 Suffolk St, 4th Floor, RSVP Here
Curated by Peruvian cartoonist and educator Carlo Quispe, with ties to ABC No Rio and WW3 Illustrated magazine, Historietas brings together seven contemporary Latinx creators whose work spans from the Bronx to the Lower East Side, tracing histories across public schools, prison libraries, community spaces, homes, and streets. These artists—Ivan Velez Jr., Sandy Jimenez, Carlo Quispe, Sharon De La Cruz, Ivan Monforte, Medar De La Cruz, and Daisy Ruiz—challenge dominant narratives through the immediacy of comics, using the medium to document lived experiences and create informal yet powerful counter-histories. The Spanish word Historietas translates to “little histories” or “short stories,” but despite their modest size, these comics serve as potent tools for self-representation, storytelling, and political discourse. Through independent and mainstream publishing, the featured artists ensure that their voices and perspectives are seen, read, and remembered.
Opening Historietas: Latinx Comics as Alternative Histories, The Clemente 2:00 - 4:00 PM
The Clemente, 107 Suffolk St, 4th Floor, RSVP Here
Curated by Peruvian cartoonist and educator Carlo Quispe, with ties to ABC No Rio and WW3 Illustrated magazine, Historietas brings together seven contemporary Latinx creators whose work spans from the Bronx to the Lower East Side, tracing histories across public schools, prison libraries, community spaces, homes, and streets. These artists—Ivan Velez Jr., Sandy Jimenez, Carlo Quispe, Sharon De La Cruz, Ivan Monforte, Medar De La Cruz, and Daisy Ruiz—challenge dominant narratives through the immediacy of comics, using the medium to document lived experiences and create informal yet powerful counter-histories. The Spanish word Historietas translates to “little histories” or “short stories,” but despite their modest size, these comics serve as potent tools for self-representation, storytelling, and political discourse. Through independent and mainstream publishing, the featured artists ensure that their voices and perspectives are seen, read, and remembered.
¶Tuesday, April 8th
Transatlantic Urban Commonses, CUNY Graduate Center, 6:30 - 8:30 PM
The persistence of the idea of the commons is expressed as action in the transnational urban squatting movement, and the many occupations impulsed by social movements. Alan W. Moore joins Greg Sholette and Ashley Dawson for a discussion of his work on “occupation culture.” This conversation is on the occasion of the “ABC No Rio at 45 Years” exhibition at Emily Harvey Foundation, NYC, April 2025.
No RSVP required, more information on the CUNY website.
CUNY Graduate Center,Kelly Skylight Room 9100
365 5th Avenue, New York, NY 10016
Transatlantic Urban Commonses, CUNY Graduate Center, 6:30 - 8:30 PM
The persistence of the idea of the commons is expressed as action in the transnational urban squatting movement, and the many occupations impulsed by social movements. Alan W. Moore joins Greg Sholette and Ashley Dawson for a discussion of his work on “occupation culture.” This conversation is on the occasion of the “ABC No Rio at 45 Years” exhibition at Emily Harvey Foundation, NYC, April 2025.
No RSVP required, more information on the CUNY website.
CUNY Graduate Center,Kelly Skylight Room 9100
365 5th Avenue, New York, NY 10016
¶Wednesday, April 9th
Colab Coffee Klatch, 4:00 - 6:00 PM (Repeats April 11th and 16th), EHF
Members of the influential artists' group Collaborative Projects (1977-89) might come around and hang out. Come to meet and greet, and learn about the artistic projects that launched ABC No Rio.... and what came afterwards! Includes screening of The View from Avenue A(1985, TRT 38:00), a 16MM film about Anton van Dalen by Roger Deutsch.
Colab Coffee Klatch, 4:00 - 6:00 PM (Repeats April 11th and 16th), EHF
Members of the influential artists' group Collaborative Projects (1977-89) might come around and hang out. Come to meet and greet, and learn about the artistic projects that launched ABC No Rio.... and what came afterwards! Includes screening of The View from Avenue A(1985, TRT 38:00), a 16MM film about Anton van Dalen by Roger Deutsch.
¶Thursday, April 10th
Opening Reception, 6:00 - 8:00 PM, EHF
Opening reception for ABC No Rio 45 Years. All are welcome. Preceded by framing statements for "How can we be free and secure?" by Jack Bratich at 5:30 PM.
“How can we be here free and secure?”, A discussion circle with Jack Bratich, 5:30PM (Repeats Thursdays, April 17th & 24th), EHF
As institutional structures sway and melt, the autonomous “monster” institutions assume a more important role. How can ABC No Rio step into those new shoes which are growing larger every day? How can the network of resistant solidarity centers around the country and around the world understand itself as the ganglia of a new world brain? How can our will to freedom and bright living spread across borders as deftly as big capital? As for ABC No Rio, ruins, rebuilding, resistance, resilience -- What does it mean to return with a review/remembrance to re-establish something in these times, after a decade in exile.
Jack Bratich is an ABC No Rio Zine Library volunteer and professor of Journalism & Media Studies at Rutgers University. Texts, prompts and links will be posted on the ABC No Rio Summer School blog.
April 10th -- Framing Statements
April 17th & 24th -- Circles
Opening Reception, 6:00 - 8:00 PM, EHF
Opening reception for ABC No Rio 45 Years. All are welcome. Preceded by framing statements for "How can we be free and secure?" by Jack Bratich at 5:30 PM.
“How can we be here free and secure?”, A discussion circle with Jack Bratich, 5:30PM (Repeats Thursdays, April 17th & 24th), EHF
As institutional structures sway and melt, the autonomous “monster” institutions assume a more important role. How can ABC No Rio step into those new shoes which are growing larger every day? How can the network of resistant solidarity centers around the country and around the world understand itself as the ganglia of a new world brain? How can our will to freedom and bright living spread across borders as deftly as big capital? As for ABC No Rio, ruins, rebuilding, resistance, resilience -- What does it mean to return with a review/remembrance to re-establish something in these times, after a decade in exile.
Jack Bratich is an ABC No Rio Zine Library volunteer and professor of Journalism & Media Studies at Rutgers University. Texts, prompts and links will be posted on the ABC No Rio Summer School blog.
April 10th -- Framing Statements
April 17th & 24th -- Circles
¶Friday, April 11th
Colab Coffee Klatch, 4:00 - 6:00 PM (Repeats April 16th), EHF
Members of the influential artists' group Collaborative Projects (1977-89) might come around and hang out. Come to meet and greet, and learn about the artistic projects that launched ABC No Rio.... and what came afterwards! Includes screening of The View from Avenue A(1985, TRT 38:00), a 16MM film about Anton van Dalen by Roger Deutsch.
Exhibition Walkthrough with Art Against Displacement, 6:00 PM, EHF
Join ABC45 and the artist collective Art Against Displacement for a walkthrough of ABC No Rio 45 Years.
Colab Coffee Klatch, 4:00 - 6:00 PM (Repeats April 16th), EHF
Members of the influential artists' group Collaborative Projects (1977-89) might come around and hang out. Come to meet and greet, and learn about the artistic projects that launched ABC No Rio.... and what came afterwards! Includes screening of The View from Avenue A(1985, TRT 38:00), a 16MM film about Anton van Dalen by Roger Deutsch.
Exhibition Walkthrough with Art Against Displacement, 6:00 PM, EHF
Join ABC45 and the artist collective Art Against Displacement for a walkthrough of ABC No Rio 45 Years.
¶Saturday, April 12th
From the Lockup: Words Fly Free, TBD ~12:00 PM, EHF
CANCELLED
On the occasion of the anthology Books through Bars: Stories from the Prison Books Movement (2024) edited by Dave "Mac" Marquis and Moira Marquis, a discussion of the movements around solidarity with incarcerated people.
Reading World War III Illustrated, 4:00 PM, EHF
The radical graphic magazine is one year older than ABC No Rio (first published 1979). A day at the Emily Harvey event space will celebrate the many publications brought out by this group of graphic artists, many of whom have been closely associated with ABC No Rio. The World War III artists will table the journal and related zines, show slides, and stream in from afar.
From the Lockup: Words Fly Free, TBD ~12:00 PM, EHF
CANCELLED
On the occasion of the anthology Books through Bars: Stories from the Prison Books Movement (2024) edited by Dave "Mac" Marquis and Moira Marquis, a discussion of the movements around solidarity with incarcerated people.
Reading World War III Illustrated, 4:00 PM, EHF
The radical graphic magazine is one year older than ABC No Rio (first published 1979). A day at the Emily Harvey event space will celebrate the many publications brought out by this group of graphic artists, many of whom have been closely associated with ABC No Rio. The World War III artists will table the journal and related zines, show slides, and stream in from afar.
¶Tuesday, April 15th
GAME DAY, All Day and 5:00 - 7:00 PM (Repeats Tuesday, April 22nd), EHF
Steven Englander, ABC’s longtime director, loved games. A few exhibitions engaged the theme, including one produced by the artists’ collective Artcodex. For the day, games will be played in the EHF gallery space. Board games that immerse players in ideas about fighting for social and economic change have a long history in the US.
GAME DAY, All Day and 5:00 - 7:00 PM (Repeats Tuesday, April 22nd), EHF
Steven Englander, ABC’s longtime director, loved games. A few exhibitions engaged the theme, including one produced by the artists’ collective Artcodex. For the day, games will be played in the EHF gallery space. Board games that immerse players in ideas about fighting for social and economic change have a long history in the US.
- Stephanie Wuertz will conduct sessions of Paul Ryan's "Threeing" game -- "exploring triadic relationships: a cybernetic exercise with movement and voice" on the 15th & 22nd, 5-7PM
- Mike Estabrook of Artcodex, producers of “The Game Show” at ABC No Rio will roll out his "Analogue Rev: RPG for RVLT!"
- Games on hand: "Bloc by Bloc", "Uprising", and... BYOG
¶Wednesday, April 16th
Colab Coffee Klatch, 4:00 - 6:00 PM, EHF
Members of the influential artists' group Collaborative Projects (1977-89) might come around and hang out. Come to meet and greet, and learn about the artistic projects that launched ABC No Rio.... and what came afterwards! Includes screening of The View from Avenue A(1985, TRT 38:00), a 16MM film about Anton van Dalen by Roger Deutsch.
Colab Coffee Klatch, 4:00 - 6:00 PM, EHF
Members of the influential artists' group Collaborative Projects (1977-89) might come around and hang out. Come to meet and greet, and learn about the artistic projects that launched ABC No Rio.... and what came afterwards! Includes screening of The View from Avenue A(1985, TRT 38:00), a 16MM film about Anton van Dalen by Roger Deutsch.
¶Thursday, April 17th
“How can we be here free and secure?”, A discussion circle with Jack Bratich, 5:30 - 7:30 PM (Repeats Thursday 24th), EHF
As institutional structures sway and melt, the autonomous “monster” institutions assume a more important role. How can ABC No Rio step into those new shoes which are growing larger every day? How can the network of resistant solidarity centers around the country and around the world understand itself as the ganglia of a new world brain? How can our will to freedom and bright living spread across borders as deftly as big capital? As for ABC No Rio, ruins, rebuilding, resistance, resilience -- What does it mean to return with a review/remembrance to re-establish something in these times, after a decade in exile.
Jack Bratich is an ABC No Rio Zine Library volunteer and professor of Journalism & Media Studies at Rutgers University. Texts, prompts and links will be posted on the ABC No Rio Summer School blog.
April 10th -- Framing Statements
April 17th & 24th -- Circles
“How can we be here free and secure?”, A discussion circle with Jack Bratich, 5:30 - 7:30 PM (Repeats Thursday 24th), EHF
As institutional structures sway and melt, the autonomous “monster” institutions assume a more important role. How can ABC No Rio step into those new shoes which are growing larger every day? How can the network of resistant solidarity centers around the country and around the world understand itself as the ganglia of a new world brain? How can our will to freedom and bright living spread across borders as deftly as big capital? As for ABC No Rio, ruins, rebuilding, resistance, resilience -- What does it mean to return with a review/remembrance to re-establish something in these times, after a decade in exile.
Jack Bratich is an ABC No Rio Zine Library volunteer and professor of Journalism & Media Studies at Rutgers University. Texts, prompts and links will be posted on the ABC No Rio Summer School blog.
April 10th -- Framing Statements
April 17th & 24th -- Circles
¶Friday, April 18th
ABC No Rio Hardcore Matinees 1989-2016, 6:00 - 8:00 PM, EHF
A preview of Freddy Alva's upcoming book, Sonic Dissent On Rivington Street 1989-2016, about ABC No Rio's Saturday Hardcore Matinees, and a panel discussion with show bookers throughout the Hardcore Matinees' 27-year run. Panelists: Esneider Huasipungo, Dave Powell, Amelia, Dyami Bryant, Thorn, and Freddy Alva.
ABC No Rio Hardcore Matinees 1989-2016, 6:00 - 8:00 PM, EHF
A preview of Freddy Alva's upcoming book, Sonic Dissent On Rivington Street 1989-2016, about ABC No Rio's Saturday Hardcore Matinees, and a panel discussion with show bookers throughout the Hardcore Matinees' 27-year run. Panelists: Esneider Huasipungo, Dave Powell, Amelia, Dyami Bryant, Thorn, and Freddy Alva.
¶Saturday, April 19th
XFR Collective Popup, 12:00 - 4:00 PM (Repeats on Saturday, April 26th), EHF
XFR Collective is an all-volunteer non-profit that partners with artists, activists, and community organizations to lower the barriers to preserving at-risk audiovisual media through digitization, screenings, educational workshops, and pop-up events. XFR will join ABC45 for two Saturdays in April to digitize at-risk video media from ABC No Rio's Collections. A schedule of planned digitization will be shared here for those interested in seeing particular media.
Presentation by Peter Fend, 4:00 PM, EHF
A presentation by artist Peter Fend, who established Ocean Earth Development Corporation (originally Offices and the Ocean Earth Construction and Development Corporation) in 1980 with Colen Fitzgibbon, Jenny Holzer, Peter Nadin, Richard Prince, and Robin Winters. Ocean Earth was conceived as a means to implement the goals of the environmental art movement and pursues research into alternative energy sources. Fend is known for his interdisciplinary approach that blends art, ecology, and geopolitics. In his work, Fend strongly advocates for the engagement of art in the public sphere, using his research to propose solutions to a range of environmental and geopolitical issues and re-imagine a balance between social and natural worlds. More details TBA...
A Fire in the Forest of Possibilities. Is ‘What If’ Now ‘What Was’? A Walk through the Utopian Loisaida Past and Present, 5:00 - 7:00 PM, EHF
A key work in the 1980 “Real Estate Show” was Peter Fend’s proposal to replace Con Ed’s electric power with natural gas generated from algae cultivation in New York harbor. The Lower East Side has long been the focus of utopian dreams and projects. What are the prospects for that radical progressive urban change today?
Presenters: Stephen Zacks, Paul Bartlett, Felicia Young, Robby Herbst, Emily Rubin, Peter Fend
XFR Collective Popup, 12:00 - 4:00 PM (Repeats on Saturday, April 26th), EHF
XFR Collective is an all-volunteer non-profit that partners with artists, activists, and community organizations to lower the barriers to preserving at-risk audiovisual media through digitization, screenings, educational workshops, and pop-up events. XFR will join ABC45 for two Saturdays in April to digitize at-risk video media from ABC No Rio's Collections. A schedule of planned digitization will be shared here for those interested in seeing particular media.
Presentation by Peter Fend, 4:00 PM, EHF
A presentation by artist Peter Fend, who established Ocean Earth Development Corporation (originally Offices and the Ocean Earth Construction and Development Corporation) in 1980 with Colen Fitzgibbon, Jenny Holzer, Peter Nadin, Richard Prince, and Robin Winters. Ocean Earth was conceived as a means to implement the goals of the environmental art movement and pursues research into alternative energy sources. Fend is known for his interdisciplinary approach that blends art, ecology, and geopolitics. In his work, Fend strongly advocates for the engagement of art in the public sphere, using his research to propose solutions to a range of environmental and geopolitical issues and re-imagine a balance between social and natural worlds. More details TBA...
A Fire in the Forest of Possibilities. Is ‘What If’ Now ‘What Was’? A Walk through the Utopian Loisaida Past and Present, 5:00 - 7:00 PM, EHF
A key work in the 1980 “Real Estate Show” was Peter Fend’s proposal to replace Con Ed’s electric power with natural gas generated from algae cultivation in New York harbor. The Lower East Side has long been the focus of utopian dreams and projects. What are the prospects for that radical progressive urban change today?
Presenters: Stephen Zacks, Paul Bartlett, Felicia Young, Robby Herbst, Emily Rubin, Peter Fend
¶Tuesday, April 22nd
GAME DAY, All Day and 5:00 - 7:00 PM, EHF
Steven Englander, ABC’s longtime director, loved games. A few exhibitions engaged the theme, including one produced by the artists’ collective Artcodex. For the day, games will be played in the EHF gallery space. Board games that immerse players in ideas about fighting for social and economic change have a long history in the US.
GAME DAY, All Day and 5:00 - 7:00 PM, EHF
Steven Englander, ABC’s longtime director, loved games. A few exhibitions engaged the theme, including one produced by the artists’ collective Artcodex. For the day, games will be played in the EHF gallery space. Board games that immerse players in ideas about fighting for social and economic change have a long history in the US.
- Stephanie Wuertz will conduct sessions of Paul Ryan's "Threeing" game -- "exploring triadic relationships: a cybernetic exercise with movement and voice" on the 15th & 22nd, 5-7PM
- Mike Estabrook of Artcodex, producers of “The Game Show” at ABC No Rio will roll out his "Analogue Rev: RPG for RVLT!"
- Games on hand: "Bloc by Bloc", "Uprising", and... BYOG
¶Thursday, April 24th
“How can we be here free and secure?”, A discussion circle with Jack Bratich, 5:30 - 7:30 PM, EHF
As institutional structures sway and melt, the autonomous “monster” institutions assume a more important role. How can ABC No Rio step into those new shoes which are growing larger every day? How can the network of resistant solidarity centers around the country and around the world understand itself as the ganglia of a new world brain? How can our will to freedom and bright living spread across borders as deftly as big capital? As for ABC No Rio, ruins, rebuilding, resistance, resilience -- What does it mean to return with a review/remembrance to re-establish something in these times, after a decade in exile.
Jack Bratich is an ABC No Rio Zine Library volunteer and professor of Journalism & Media Studies at Rutgers University. Texts, prompts and links have been demounted at the request of ABC No Rio.
April 10th -- Framing Statements
April 17th & 24th -- Circles
“How can we be here free and secure?”, A discussion circle with Jack Bratich, 5:30 - 7:30 PM, EHF
As institutional structures sway and melt, the autonomous “monster” institutions assume a more important role. How can ABC No Rio step into those new shoes which are growing larger every day? How can the network of resistant solidarity centers around the country and around the world understand itself as the ganglia of a new world brain? How can our will to freedom and bright living spread across borders as deftly as big capital? As for ABC No Rio, ruins, rebuilding, resistance, resilience -- What does it mean to return with a review/remembrance to re-establish something in these times, after a decade in exile.
Jack Bratich is an ABC No Rio Zine Library volunteer and professor of Journalism & Media Studies at Rutgers University. Texts, prompts and links have been demounted at the request of ABC No Rio.
April 10th -- Framing Statements
April 17th & 24th -- Circles
¶Friday, April 25th
On Activism, Friendships, and Fighting with Benjamin Shepard, 5:00 - 7:00 PM, EHF
Conflict and resolution are the lifeblood of social movements. How, and with whom, do we find lasting friendship, support, and joy in a world in need of so much repair? Benjamin H. Shepard will present his new book On Activism, Friendships, and Fighting: Oral Histories, Strategies and Conflicts (Common Notions, 2025) in conversation with Marnie Brady, Associate Professor of Politics and Human Rights at Marymount Manhattan College.
On Activism, Friendships, and Fighting with Benjamin Shepard, 5:00 - 7:00 PM, EHF
Conflict and resolution are the lifeblood of social movements. How, and with whom, do we find lasting friendship, support, and joy in a world in need of so much repair? Benjamin H. Shepard will present his new book On Activism, Friendships, and Fighting: Oral Histories, Strategies and Conflicts (Common Notions, 2025) in conversation with Marnie Brady, Associate Professor of Politics and Human Rights at Marymount Manhattan College.
¶Saturday, April 26th
Exhibition Closing Day, 12:00 - 6:00 PM, EHF
XFR Collective Popup, 12:00 - 3:00 PM, EHF
XFR Collective is an all-volunteer non-profit that partners with artists, activists, and community organizations to lower the barriers to preserving at-risk audiovisual media through digitization, screenings, educational workshops, and pop-up events. XFR will join ABC45 for two Saturdays in April to digitize at-risk video media from ABC No Rio's Collections.
Poetry Reading with Jennifer Blowdryer, 4:00 - 7:00 PM, EHF
Jennifer Blowdryer will MC an Old School style Open Mic with no Features and, as always, some good music. "No list, just step up fast and don’t be a dick, say it in six. Just because I’m a woman, doesn’t mean I care!"
Exhibition Closing Day, 12:00 - 6:00 PM, EHF
XFR Collective Popup, 12:00 - 3:00 PM, EHF
XFR Collective is an all-volunteer non-profit that partners with artists, activists, and community organizations to lower the barriers to preserving at-risk audiovisual media through digitization, screenings, educational workshops, and pop-up events. XFR will join ABC45 for two Saturdays in April to digitize at-risk video media from ABC No Rio's Collections.
Poetry Reading with Jennifer Blowdryer, 4:00 - 7:00 PM, EHF
Jennifer Blowdryer will MC an Old School style Open Mic with no Features and, as always, some good music. "No list, just step up fast and don’t be a dick, say it in six. Just because I’m a woman, doesn’t mean I care!"
¶Monday, April 28th
Uptown/Downtown: When Boroughs Collide DEI Warriors on the Culture Front, 3:00 - 6:00 PM
The Clemente, 107 Suffolk St, 4th Floor
Austrian emigre artist Stefan Eins opened the Fashion Moda experimental art space in the South Bronx in 1978. ABC No Rio opened two years later in Loisaida, after a building occupation. Several of the artists from “the Moda” came down for the Real Estate Show, and later showed at ABC. Artists from ABC went uptown to the Moda regularly. This crosstown traffic continued throughout the 1980s. One of the okupas of the squatting movement in the Bronx had a zine library; when that squat was evicted the zine library came to ABC No Rio, the seed of the present-day collection. This artistic traffic between boroughs was crucially important in laying the foundations for the diverse multi-cultural artworld of the present-day.
Questions around intersectionality have dogged the cultural world in NYC for at least a century.* The axis of Colab, through Fashion Moda and ABC No Rio, set out to intervene in this by siting experimental cultural centers in peripheral barrios of the city in the late 1970s and through the '80s. These centers welcomed artists of color. How did that work? And did it work to build the artworld of today? The question is especially urgent given the recent federal government's all-out attacks on "DEI" funding in all sectors. The time is now urgent for this important history to be better known.
Slide presentation about Fashion Moda by Lisa Kahane (confirmed). Presentations and round table discussion – invitees include: Joe Lewis, Lisa Kahane, Jane Dickson, John Ahearn, Charlie Ahearn, John “Crash” Matos, Frank Morales, Yasmin Ramirez, and Betti-Sue Hertz, Libertad Guerra, Amy Starecheski
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Uptown/Downtown: When Boroughs Collide DEI Warriors on the Culture Front, 3:00 - 6:00 PM
The Clemente, 107 Suffolk St, 4th Floor
Austrian emigre artist Stefan Eins opened the Fashion Moda experimental art space in the South Bronx in 1978. ABC No Rio opened two years later in Loisaida, after a building occupation. Several of the artists from “the Moda” came down for the Real Estate Show, and later showed at ABC. Artists from ABC went uptown to the Moda regularly. This crosstown traffic continued throughout the 1980s. One of the okupas of the squatting movement in the Bronx had a zine library; when that squat was evicted the zine library came to ABC No Rio, the seed of the present-day collection. This artistic traffic between boroughs was crucially important in laying the foundations for the diverse multi-cultural artworld of the present-day.
Questions around intersectionality have dogged the cultural world in NYC for at least a century.* The axis of Colab, through Fashion Moda and ABC No Rio, set out to intervene in this by siting experimental cultural centers in peripheral barrios of the city in the late 1970s and through the '80s. These centers welcomed artists of color. How did that work? And did it work to build the artworld of today? The question is especially urgent given the recent federal government's all-out attacks on "DEI" funding in all sectors. The time is now urgent for this important history to be better known.
Slide presentation about Fashion Moda by Lisa Kahane (confirmed). Presentations and round table discussion – invitees include: Joe Lewis, Lisa Kahane, Jane Dickson, John Ahearn, Charlie Ahearn, John “Crash” Matos, Frank Morales, Yasmin Ramirez, and Betti-Sue Hertz, Libertad Guerra, Amy Starecheski
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