Photo: Cameron Blaylock

7:00pm—9:00pm 
Tuesday, November 12 
ISSUE Project Room 
22 Boerum Place, Ground Floor
Brooklyn, NY

Van Alen Institute is pleased to present an evening of performances, talks, and reflections to celebrate the launch of Elsewhere: Escape and the Urban Landscape, an exploration of escape in the urban environment. Hosted in collaboration with ISSUE Project Room Artistic Director Lawrence Kumpf, the evening will bring together a diverse lineup featuring Richard Sennett, the Centennial Professor of Sociology at the London School of Economics and University Professor of the Humanities at New York University; Keller Easterling, Professor of Architecture at Yale University and author of forthcoming Extrastatecraft; singer, musician, and artist Joseph Keckler; Ron Shiffman, Professor at Pratt’s Graduate Center for Planning and the Environment, former director and co-founder of the Pratt Center for Community Development; Maria Chavez, curator and sound artist; designer and writerBenedict Singleton; performers Niegel Smithand Jax Jackson; Vyjayanthi Rao, Assistant Professor of Anthropology at The New School for Social Research; writer, theorist, and artistEvan Calder Williams; Henk Ovink, Senior Advisor to HUD Secretary Shaun Donovan’s Hurricane Sandy Rebuilding Task Force; and more, to explore how and why we escape the city, pushing the concept to its edges to see where Elsewhere may take us.

The celebration will continue with drinks following the program.

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