Required readings are from the course textbook Beyond Zuccotti Park: Freedom of Assembly and the Occupation of Public Space, available online and linked from this page, or accessible here and require a password.
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Akhtar, Ayad. “An Antidote to Digital Dehumanization? Live Theater.” New York Times. December 29, 2017. (In class)
Atlas, Carol. “Radical Imagination,” in Schiffman, Ronald, et al., eds. Beyond Zuccotti Park: freedom of assembly and the occupation of public space (146-155). NYU Press, 2012. Textbook
Barrios, Joi. “The Taumbayan as Epic Hero, the Audience as Community”, in Cohen-Cruz, Jan, ed. Radical Street Performance: An International Anthology (255-261). London: Routledge, 2008. Access here with password
Boal, Augusto. “Invisible Theater,” in Cohen-Cruz, Jan, ed. Radical Street Performance: An International Anthology (121-124). London: Routledge, 2008. (In class)
Brash, Julian. “Politics Out of Place: Occupy Wall Street and the Rhetoric of ‘Filth’”, in Schiffman, Ronald, et al., eds. Beyond Zuccotti Park: freedom of assembly and the occupation of public space (61-66). NYU Press, 2012. Textbook
Brooklyn Museum. Mission Statement
Brooklyn Museum. Half the Picture: A Feminist Look at the Collection
Caffentzis, George. “Commons,” Keywords for Radicals, Eds. Kelly Fritsch, Clare O’Connor, and AK Thompson, AK Press, 2016, pp. 95-101. Access here with password
Cahill, et. al. “The Right to the Sidewalk: The Struggle over Broken Windows, Policing, Young People, and NYC Streets,” in Hou and Kierbein, City Unsilenced: Urban Resistance and Public Space in the Age of Shrinking Democracy. London: Routledge, 2017, pp. 94-105. Access here with password
Cook, Terry, and Joan M. Schwartz. “Archives, records, and power: from (postmodern) theory to (archival) performance.” Archival science 2.3-4 (2002): 171-177. Access here with password
Eisenberg, Arthur. “Some Unresolved Constitutional Questions,” in Schiffman, Ronald, et al., eds. Beyond Zuccotti Park: freedom of assembly and the occupation of public space (74-88). NYU Press, 2012. Textbook
Excerpts from Emergency Index: An Annual Documentation of Performance Practice Vol.4. Ugly Duckling Press, 2014. Access here with password
“Environmental Performance Agency”
Evans, Rhonda. “Stonewall and Beyond: Researching LGBTQ History with NYPL’s Online Resources,” New York Public Library. June 28, 2018.
Fallen Fruit. “Sweetness in Public Space,” in Phillips, Fulya and Cruz, eds. Actors, Agents and Attendants. Social Housing–Housing the Social: Art, Property and Spatial Justice. 2012. Access here with password
Franck, Karen and Te-Sheng Huang. “Occupying Public Space, 2011: From Tahrir to Zuccotti Park,” in Schiffman, Ronald, et al., eds. Beyond Zuccotti Park: freedom of assembly and the occupation of public space (3-20). NYU Press, 2012. Textbook
Golan, Gan. “The Office of the People,” in Schiffman, Ronald, et al., eds. Beyond Zuccotti Park: freedom of assembly and the occupation of public space (70-73). NYU Press, 2012. Textbook
Greenwald, Dara, and Josh MacPhee, eds. Signs of Change: Social Movement Cultures, 1960s to Now. Ak Press, 2010. Access here with password
Guerrilla Girls. The Feminist Future. A Presentation at the Museum of Modern Art, January 27, 2007. New York, NY.
hooks, bell. “Performance Practice as a Site of Opposition,” Let’s Get It On: The Politics of Black Performance, Ed. Catherine Ugwu, Seattle: Bay Press, 1995, pp. 210-221. Access here with password
Keller, Lisa. “The Grass Is Always Greener: A Brief History of Public Space and Protest in New York City and London,” in Schiffman, Ronald, et al., eds. Beyond Zuccotti Park: freedom of assembly and the occupation of public space (187-196). NYU Press, 2012. Textbook
Kushner, Tony, et. al. “How Do You Make Social Change?.” Theater 31, no. 3 (2001): 62-93. (In class)
Lander, Brad and Michael Freedman-Schnapp. “Making–and Governing–Places for Democracy,” in Schiffman, Ronald, et al., eds. Beyond Zuccotti Park: freedom of assembly and the occupation of public space (277-292). NYU Press, 2012. Textbook
Lane, Jill. “Reverend Billy: Preaching, Protest, and Postindustrial Flânerie,” TDR 46(1) (Spring 2002): 60-84. (highlighted portions only) Access here with password
Newkirk, Vann. “The Quintessential Americanness of Juneteenth.” The Atlantic (June 19, 2017),
Resistance Revival Chorus Toolkit
Shank, Theodore. “Squat Theatre.” Beyond the Boundaries: American Alternative Theatre. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2002. Access here with password
Seiferle, Rebecca. Edited and revised, with Synopsis and Key Ideas added by Ruth Epstein. The Guerrilla Girls Artist Overview and Analysis. TheArtStory.org. 2018.
Solnit, Rebecca, and Joshua Jelly-Schapiro. Nonstop Metropolis: A New York City Atlas. Vol. 3. Univ of California Press, 2016. Access here with password
Small, Zachary. “Around 1,000 People Attend Anti-Columbus Day Tour at American Museum of Natural History.” Hyperallergic. October 9, 2018.
Taylor, Diana. “The New Uses of Performance.” Performance. Duke, 2016. Print. (In class)
Tsukayama, Hayley. “It takes more than social media to make a social movement.” The Washington Post, 31 January 2017.
van Heeswijk, Jeanne. “The Artist Will have to Decide who to Serve,” in Phillips, Fulya and Cruz, eds. Actors, Agents and Attendants. Social Housing–Housing the Social: Art, Property and Spatial Justice. 2012, pp. 79-89. Access here with password
Vartanian, Hrag. “Growing Coalition Calls Brooklyn Museum ‘Out of Touch’ and Demands Decolonization Commission.” Hyperallergic. April 12, 2018.
Waller, Marguerite. “Border Boda or Divorce Fronterizo?” in Cohen-Cruz, Jan, ed. Radical Street Performance: An International Anthology (86-89). London: Routledge, 2008. Access here with password
