Upcoming & Recent Events

May 1, 2012	Launch of New Day New Standard: Launched on May Day and just in time for Mother's Day, New Day New Standard is a public art project and hotline that informs nannies, housekeepers, and elder careworkers about the new Domestic Workers Bill of Rights! Read the review in GOOD magazine and call the hotline! (646) 699-3989.
Fri, April 13, 2012 (10 am)	Book Launch & Panel Discussion: Marisa Jahn launches Pro+agonist: The Art of Opposition at the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis in conjunction with a three-day symposium entitled Discourse and Discord: Architecture of Agonism from the Kitchen Table to the City Street.
Thurs, June 14 - Oct 21, 2012	Opening Reception & Exhibition: El Bibliobandido comes to the Studio Museum of Harlem in New York City! Learn/see/hear about the latest adventures of this public art, living legend, and storytelling project that has ravaged the countryside of El Pital, Honduras.
Oct 17, 2012 - Jan 17, 2013	In World's Fair 2.0, Stephanie Rothenberg and youth reporters from People's Production House create an augmented reality tour of World's Fair 2012 for Regeneration, an exhibition curated by Steve Dietz and Amanda Parkes at The New York Hall of Science.

Projects

	New Day New Standard Produced by a group of artists, technologists, and nannies, this public art project and hotline informs domestic workers (nannies, housekeepers, elder caregivers) and their employers about the landmark Domestic Workers' Bill of Rights.
	Pro+agonist: The Art of Opposition A book that explores the productive possibilities of ‘agonism,’ or a relationship built on mutual incitement and struggle. Contributors: Anjum Asharia, John Seely Brown, D. Graham Burnett + Cornel West, Carl DiSalvo, Jean-Francois Lyotard, Chantal Mouffe, Warren Sack, Steve Shada, Mark Shepard, Doris Sommer, McKenzie Wark. Co-commissioned by Northern Lights.mn and Walker Art Center for Discourse and Discord: Architecture of Agonism from the Kitchen Table to the City Street..
	El Bibliobandido 'El Bibliobandido' (or 'Storythief' in English) is a character that terrorizes little kids in the jungle town of El Pital, Honduras until they write, offer, and nourish him with stories. What began in 2010 as a public art and literacy project has become a living legend...
	World's Fair 2.0 A partnership with People's Production House to create a virtual "augmented-reality" vision of a 2012 World's Fair located on the former fairgrounds.The goal—a World's Fair created not by corporations or the government, but by the community of Queens.
	Best Practices in Banana Time A mixed reality talk show exploring new forms of online labor in the global, digital workplace.
	Byproduct: On the Excess of Embedded Art Practices A series of texts by artists, activists, curators, and interdisciplinary thinkers that interrogate projects by cultural practitioners “embedded” in industries, the government, and other non-art sectors.
	Ticketing Jessica Lappin A public art project drawing attention to the recent attempt to legislatively criminalize food vendors in New York City.
	10 sec. 1 bayt A competition for the best 10 second poem inspired by the Persian/Tajik tradition of the 2-line poem ('bayt') and the emergent art form developed by Tajiks whose cell phone plan includes the first 10 secs. for free...
	Recipes for an Encounter An interdisciplinary exploration of the anticipatory nature of recipes together with their promise of what will unfold, take place, be consumed...
	Companion | Parafacts & Parafictions If a ‘parafiction’ operates in that space between fictional and real, alongside this term we might position a second: a ‘parafact’—an artwork that more stringently draws from the real—but a ‘real’ whose narrative is so curious, exquisite, or implausible so as to call into question its own veracity...