As The New School celebrates its 90th anniversary, an exhibition, discussions, lectures, workshops and séances with psychics examine a legacy of progressive institutional and pedagogical policy at a time when the university is celebrating its past, yet also contending with a highly publicized period of internal criticism and activism. Most events are staged inside a mobile gallery space parked outside of The New School’s “signature building” at 66 West 12th Street. By Any Name: Institutional Memory at The New School Monday, October 19 through Saturday, October 24, 2009 Open daily, 11:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. Parts & Labor Gallery at The New School 66 West 12th Street, New York City All events free and open to the public Parts & Labor Gallery’s stop at The New School is one in a series of encounters in a traveling countrywide exhibition, exploring site- and community-specific experiences of the transformation of the American landscape. In “By Any Name,” the project takes the concept of a university archive and re-imagines it as a functional, representational installation with the power to evoke and challenge institutional memory. Composed of recycled texts and computer equipment, materials drawn from The New School library, and a new text penned by members of The New School community, this week-long on-campus environment involves a range of events, figures, ideas, opinions, and reminiscences which inform the legacy of the university. SCHEDULE OF EVENTS Unless noted below, all events take place in Parts & Labor Gallery at The New School. Consultation/Séance The Future Monday, October 19, through Friday, October 23, 2009 Open daily, 11:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. Sound Installation WHERE ARE WE GOING? AND WHAT ARE WE DOING? Monday, October 19, through Saturday, October 24, 2009 Open daily, 11:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. A sound installation by Vera List Center Fellows Lin + Lam and Robert Sember Drawing Workshop Thomas Bosket: Drawing as Archiving (with live model) Monday, October 19, 2009 – 1:00 to 4:00 p.m. Discussion Group Ali Krasners on the history of The New School Monday, October 19, 2009 – 4:00 to 4:50 p.m. Discussion Group Tess Harrison on the history of The New School Monday, October 19, 2009 – 5:00 to 5:50 p.m. Lecture Peter M. Rutkoff, The New School at 90: What Would Dewey Do? Monday, October 19, 2009 – 6:00 to 8:30 p.m. Tishman Auditorium, 66 West 12th Street Workshop Andy Bichlbaum’s Class, sans Andy: Speculating on the Future Tuesday, October 20, 2009 – 3:00 to 5:40 p.m. Class Session Steve Lambert Tuesday, October 20, 2009 – 6:00 to 9:00 p.m. Open Discussion John Zinsser The New York Art World and The New School: History and Possibility Wednesday, October 21, 2009 – 1:00 to 2:45 p.m. Parsons The New School for Design, Kellen Auditorium Sheila C. Johnson Design Center, 66 Fifth Avenue at 13th Street Roundtable The Librarians’ Circle: On Archives and Institutional Memory Wednesday, October 21, 2009 – 6:30 to 8:00 p.m. The New School, Orozco Room 66 West 12th Street, 7th floor Class Session Joseph Heathcott: The City as Archive Thursday, October 22, 2009 – 12:00 to 1:40 p.m. Conversation and Art Walk Art in the Institution/Art as the Institution: The New School Art Collection and its Institutional Life Thursday, October 22, 2009 – 4:00 to 5:00 p.m. Vera List Courtyard, 66 West 12th Street, ground floor Participants include John Aubry, Thomas Bosket, Mrs. Donna, Tess Harrison, Joseph Heathcott, Ali Krasners, Steve Lambert, Lin+Lam, Shannon Mattern, Parts & Labor Gallery (Brooke Chroman, Meghan Roe and Bryan Mesenbourg), Silvia Rocciolo, Peter M. Rutkoff, Ed Scarcelle, Wendy Scheir, Robert Sember, John Wanzel, John Zinsser and others to be announced. Presented on occasion of the Vera List Center’s 2009/2010 program theme “Speculating on Change,” with support of The Andy Warhol Foundation of the Visual Arts. For more information and a complete schedule of events, visit http://www.veralistcenter.org