Readings

Required readings are available online and linked from this page, or accessible here as PDFs and require a password (see Syllabus).

Civil Disobedience Manual. Act Up

Aktar, Ayan. “The Antidote to Digital Dehumanization? Live Theater.” The New York Times. Dec. 29, 2017.

Alexiou, Joseph. “Prologue.” Gowanus : Brooklyn’s Curious Canal. NYU Press, 2015. (PDF)

Baker, Kevin. “Where our New World Begins: Politics, Power, and the Green New Deal.” Harpers. May 2019.

Boal, Augusto. “Invisible Theater,” in Cohen-Cruz, Jan, ed. Radical Street Performance: An International Anthology (121-124). London: Routledge, 2008. (PDF)

Boyd, Andrew, and Dave Oswald Mitchell. Beautiful Trouble : A Toolbox for Revolution. New York: OR, 2012. Ebook. (Library Login required for off-campus access)

“Bread and Puppet Cheap Art Manifesto:” http://breadandpuppet.org/cheap-art/why-cheap-art-manifesto

“Bread and Puppet Theater Podcast” (Audio Interference): https://interferencearchive.org/audio-interference-46-bread-and-puppet-theater/

Ching, Francis D.K. Design Drawing. Hoboken, N.J.: John Wiley, 2010) (selected pages) (PDF)

Cohen-Cruz, Jan. “Introduction.” Radical Street Performance: An International Anthology (1-6). London: Routledge, 2008 (PDF)

Curtis, Kimberly. “Climate Refugees Explained.” UN Dispatch, April 24, 2017.

Del Signore, John. “Spotting Signs of Life on the Poisoned Waters of Newtown Creek.” Gothamist, May 1, 2018.

Dowling, Kathleen, Laura Marte Piccini, and Matthew Schofield. The Show Must Go On! American Theater in the Great Depression. Digital Public Library of America. February 2014. [Read only Introduction – A New Social Order, Federal Theater Project Introduction and A Localized National Theatre]

Emergency Index: An Annual Documentation of Performance Practice. Vol 6. Ugly Duckling Press, 2017.

Federal Theatre Project, 1935-1939. Library of Congress. https://www.loc.gov/collections/federal-theatre-project-1935-to-1939/about-this-collection/

Floradewan, Sheik. “CUNY Students and Staff Call for More Funding in City Hall Rally.” The Ticker. 1 April 2019.

Gage, Beverley. “Reading the Classic Novel That Predicted Trump.” New York Times. Jan. 17, 2017.

Knight, Sam. “Does Extinction Rebellion Have the Solution to the Climate Crisis?” The New Yorker. 21 July 2019.

Leatherbarrow, David. “Architecture’s Unscripted Performance.” in Kolarevic, Branko, and Ali Malkawi, eds. Peformative Architecture: Beyond Instrumentality. Routledge, 2005. 5-20. (PDF)

LES Community Gardens (Audio Interference Podcast): https://interferencearchive.org/audio-interference-47-lower-east-side-community-gardens/

McLaughlin, John. “Newtown Creek Restoration Ecology.” [Presentation]. NYC Office of Ecological Services. Feb 2014.

Nagel, Rebecca. “This Land,” Crooked Media (June 24, 2019). Episode 4, The Treaty and Episode 5, The Land Grab

Newkirk II, Vann R. “Trump’s EPA Concludes Environmental Racism is Real.” The Atlantic. Feb 28, 2018.

Next Epoch Seed Library (Video): https://vimeo.com/195514276

Novick, Ilana. “Learning from Decolonize This Place.” Hyperallergic. 9 Jan 2017.

Quinn, Anna. “‘Clean it Before you Rezone it,’ Gowanus Activists Tell City.” Patch. 22 May 2019.

Reeves, Carolyn. “Climate Change Theatre is LIT: A Study on the Performing Arts and Climate Change Engagement.” Howlround. 27 March 2019.

Reverend Billy Videos:

Stachura, Rick. “Are Playgrounds the Site of New York City’s Next Big Land Grab?” CityLab, April 2, 2019

Shepard, Peggy. “Building Justice: NYC’s Sacrifice Zones and the Environmental Legacy of Racial Injustice.” City Limits. 10 Oct 2016.

Smith, Phil. Counter-Tourism: The Handbook. Devon: Triarchy, 1993. Ebook. (Library Login required for off-campus access)

Tobocman, Seth. [Excerpts] War in the Neighborhood: a graphic novel. AK Press, 1999. (PDF)

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. (PDF)

Waller, Marguerite. “Border Boda or Divorce Fronterizo?” in Cohen-Cruz, Jan, ed. Radical Street Performance: An International Anthology (86-89). London: Routledge, 2008. (PDF)

Weinstein. “Stage and Audience.” in Aronson, Arnold, ed. The Routledge Companion to Scenography. Routledge, 2017. (Read pp. 19-26) (PDF)

Yeginsu, Ceylan. “Climate Protests in London Occupy Major Landmarks.” The New York Times (April 17, 2019).