Past Events
Thursday 5 September
Join us for the launch of Pleasure Gardens: Blackouts and the Logic in Kashmir, an urgent two-part project by Skye Arundhati Thomas and Izabella Scott, that investigates the military occupation, land appropriation, and communication blackouts in Kashmir. The evening will include readings from Skye Arundhati Thomas and Izabella Scott, and a conversation between the authors.
Wednesday 4 September
As part of Pratt Institute’s Photo Talk Series, artist Carmen Winant will be in conversation with founder of SPBH Editions, Bruno Ceschel. Join for a unique opportunity to gain insight and perspective on publishing as a form of artistic practice within contemporary culture.
Wednesday 4 September
Join us for a conversation with Carmen Winant on occasion of her latest book The Last Safe Abortion, a collective portrait of the ordinary, daily tasks required to provide abortion health care.
Thursday 13 June
For The Last Safe Abortion, Carmen Winant assembled 2,500 photographic prints to form a collective portrait of the ordinary, daily tasks required to provide abortion health care. Drawn from the archives of university special collections and clinics (and supplemented by photographs made by the artist), these images depict staff, physicians, and volunteers taken over a fifty-year period before the overturning of Roe v. Wade in 2022.
In this event, Winant extends this project by bringing together a group of clinicians, patients, and activists from the MYAbortion Network to discuss how photography is central to understanding the medical, political, and social realities of abortion care.
Friday 14 June
Join us to celebrate the expansive work of Petra Blaisse and her renowned studio Inside Outside and mark the launch of their new retrospective Art Applied, a kaleidoscopic view of their work across interior, exhibition, and landscape design over the course of more than three decades. Petra Blaisse and Inside Outside partners Jana Crepon and Aura Luz Melis will be in conversation with architectural historian Wouter Vanstiphout. This event is part of the Rotterdam Architecture Month programme.
Tuesday 25 June
Celebrate the launch of Little Joe: A book about queers and cinema, mostly — a new book, compiled by editor-in chief Sam Ashby — that brings together the cult periodical’s elusive texts and proposes a new, alternative cinematic canon drawn from the fringes of taste and style.