“A riot is the language of the unheard”
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Event Details
Please join the School of Art at The Cooper Union for an event on Oct. 6, 4 pm.
“A riot is the language of the unheard”: an exercise in unrestrained speech
Saturday, October 6, 4pm
The Rose Auditorium, The Cooper Union, 41 Cooper Square
A.K. Burns
Mary Walling Blackburn + Che Chen
Thom Donovan
Corrine Fitzpatrick
Naeem Mohaiemen
Gregory Sholette
Marina Sitrin
David Levi Strauss
Krzysztof Wodiczko
Taking its cue from a quote from a 1968 speech about injustice and>> freedom by Dr. Martin Luther King this public event engages in the use of the voice in imagining collective and political speech through short readings by artists scholars, writers, poets, musicians and speakers.
The event features a variety of contemporary and historic material such as re-performed texts, agitational poetry, experimental theater,
pedagogic exercises, as well as everyday collections of testimonials, essays, and private ruminations.
Envisioned as a “rough cut” anthology of live subversive speech acts, “A riot is the language of the unheard” is an experimental tribute to
parrhesia, or defiant and confrontational speech. As surveillance and force is becoming increasingly utilized to control and manage
resistance, this program seeks to address how the right to speak is also a politics of listening.
The event features a variety of contemporary and historic material such as re-performed texts, agitational poetry, experimental theater,
pedagogic exercises, as well as everyday collections of testimonials, essays, and private ruminations.
Envisioned as a “rough cut” anthology of live subversive speech acts, “A riot is the language of the unheard” is an experimental tribute to
parrhesia, or defiant and confrontational speech. As surveillance and force is becoming increasingly utilized to control and manage
resistance, this program seeks to address how the right to speak is also a politics of listening.
The event if free and open to the public.
Please RSVP below:
Contact and directions:
artschool@cooper.edu
Rose Auditorium entrance on Third Avenue and E 7th Street, Lower Level NYC
Subways: Astor Place (6), 8th Street (N, R)
This event is held in conjunction with the exhibition, Ruptures: Forms of Public Address ,which closes Oct. 13.
www.cooper.edu/ruptures