Experimental Geography exhibit
09/19/08
CUP’s rolling Garbage Education Display System will be traveling throughout the United States as part of ICI’s Expiremental Geography exhibit, curated by Nato Thompson. The exhibit looks into the collision between geographical study and the artistic experience of the earth, and will make stops in Indiana, Minnesota, New Mexico, and Maine. For more information, visit
here
Re-inventing Grand Army Plaza
09/13/08
What would it take to get something new built on Grand Army Plaza? CUP teaching artist Cassie Thornton has been investigating building implementation with high school students from College Now in conjunction with Design Trust for Public Space’s Grand Army Plaza Design Competition. The results of CUP’s investigation will be displayed in Grand Army Plaza from September 14 through October 13. Opening Day: Saturday, September 13, 11 am to 4 pm.
Red Lines, Death Vows, Foreclosures, Risk Structures at the MIT Museum
09/09/08
An installation of models, photographs, videos, and drawings, Red Lines immerses visitors in a landscape of pulsing capital and liquidated buildings, exploring the relation between finance and architecture. During a year-long residence at MIT’s Center for Advanced Visual Studies, designer and CUP founder Damon Rich surveyed the darkening realm of real estate markets and produced an installation to share the findings.
Red Lines, Death Vows, Foreclosures, Risk Structures
An exhibition by Damon Rich and the Center for Urban Pedagogy (CUP)
Commissioned by the Center for Advanced Visual Studies (CAVS)
September 9—December 21, 2008
MIT Museum Compton Gallery
77 Massachusetts Avenue
Cambridge, MA 02139
Free and open daily 10 am—5 pm
More on the exhibit here
Bodega Down Bronx Screening
07/31/08
Join us for an outdoor screening of Bodega Down Bronx at the Weeksville Heritage Center. Students from New Settlement’s Bronx Helpers and CUP teaching artist Jonathan Bogarín investigated bodegas in the Bronx. The group interviewed bodegueros, visited their suppliers, and met with government officials, health professionals, and alternative Bronx food establishments. Their documentary will screen at 8:30 pm, once the sun has set. Weeksville Heritage Center, 1698 Bergen Street (between Buffalo and Rochester Avenue), Brooklyn, NY. A/C to Utica Avenue, 3/4 to Crown Heights/Utica Avenue.
Watch the trailer here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l-axY2RPdpc
CUP's 2008 Summer Benefit
07/17/08
Please join
Cynthia Barton, Sarina Basta, Paul Beatty, Chitra Ganesh, Toni Griffin, Tala Hadid, Fritz Haeg, Yu Inamoto, André Knights, Alix Lambert, Rattawut Lapcharoensap, Chris Muller, Carol Paik, Jen Petersen, Damaris Reyes, Martha Rosler, Ron Shiffman, David Smiley, Celina Su, Elayne Tobin, Calvin Tsao, Omar Wasow, Peter W. Wood, Gwendolyn Wright, and CUP’s board and staff
for the 2008 CUP Summer Benefit, a relaxed summertime loft party.
Thursday, July 17, 2008, 7 pm—10 pm
The home of William Menking and Diana Darling
60 Lispenard Street, 7th floor, New York, NY
(One block south of Canal Street, between Broadway and Church)
Tickets begin at $50. Please RSVP to info@anothercupdevelopment.org