January events

e-flux welcomes 2025 with a slate of special events, beginning on January 9 with the launch of e-flux journal issue 150: “Experimental Publics,” featuring guest editor Mi You. Join us on January 14 for a screening of A Non-Coincidental Mirror by Carmen Amengual; and January 21 for a program on Sergei Eisenstein’s Capital Diaries, hosted by Elena Vogman with Michael Kunichika. Rescheduled from December, on January 30 we are pleased to present Lace Action Cards, a performance by Zeena Parkins with Craig Taborn and Ishmael Houston-Jones.

Please stay tuned to our website and announcements for news about the e-flux Film Award 2024 ceremony and showcase screenings, to take place on January 16 and 25. 

Thursday, January 9, 2025
Launch of e-flux journal issue 150: “Experimental Publics”
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Please join the editors of e-flux journal on Thursday, January 9 at 7pm for an evening launching the journal’s current issue 150: “Experimental Publics”, guest-edited by Mi You. In the wake of what some call the golden era of globalization, e-flux journal issue 150 plays with the concept of experimentation in relation to public life. Mi You asks, “Is it possible for the backbone of society to experiment with the forces that it is subject to?” The event will feature a presentation by Mi You on her esssay “Art in a Multipolar World” and her eponymous book, forthcoming from Hatje Cantz. A conversation with e-flux journal editor Brian Kuan Wood will follow. Read more here.

Tuesday, January 14, 2025
Carmen Amengual: A Non-Coincidental Mirror
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e-flux Screening Room, Smack Mellon, and the Vera List Center for Art and Politics at The New School are pleased to co-present a single-channel iteration of A Non-Coincidental Mirror by Carmen Amengual, followed by a conversation with artist and art historian Soyoung Yoon. A Non-Coincidental Mirror is an ongoing film project resulting from research that Amengual started in 2022 about a little-explored event in the cultural history of Global South solidarities: the first Third World Filmmakers Meeting in Algiers in 1973, and its second iteration in Buenos Aires in 1974. Using architecture as an entry point to the utopian horizons of the past, and to the ruinification of these in the present, the film intertwines an inquiry into political cinema with questions about the contemporary decolonial project as it emerges in filmic portraits of buildings and urban infrastructure made by the artist during her research trips. Read more here.

Tuesday, January 21, 2025
Sergei Eisenstein’s Capital Diaries: Talk and Screening by Elena Vogman with Michael Kunichika
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This talk, screening, and public reading will introduce Sergei Eisenstein’s Capital Diaries (1927–1928), an extensive new selection of which has been recently published by October, selected by Elena Vogman and translated by Michael Kunichika. The publication draws from over five hundred pages of notes, images, press clippings, drawings, and diagrams Vogman reconstructed as part of Eisenstein’s Capital project. The experimental, diaristic, and proto-cinematic nature of the Capital Diaries provides a fuller understanding of Eisenstein’s work on film and the central role of images in this process. The talk will explore the director’s auto-theoretical experiment involving psychoanalysis (including his own), “intellectual attractions,” typage (non-professional actors), and the many ways James Joyce’s Ulysses, especially the “inner monologue,” served as creative resources for the Capital project. Delving into Eisenstein’s heterodox materialism and (multi)linguistic obsessions, the presentation will uncover new dimensions in Eisenstein’s articulation of montage. Read more here.

Thursday, January 30, 2025
Lace Action Cards: Zeena Parkins, with Ishmael Houston-Jones and Craig Taborn
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Artist Zeena Parkins will be joined by musician Craig Taborn and choreographer Ishmael Houston-Jones for Lace Action Cards, part of Parkins’s ongoing Lace Project, initially commissioned by the Merce Cunningham Dance Company in 2008 for their Music in the Studio series. This multi-movement research project explores the concept of lace as an embodiment of a score—a translation of image into sound and movement. It examines patterning, morphing, overlays, and the relationships between materials. Lace Action Cards will generate new possibilities for this concept by reconfiguring and reshaping lace patterns to become stamps that leave marks on performers and audiences alike. Read more here.

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