Consulting the Index: Readings from e-flux Index #5

Join us at e-flux on Thursday, May 1 at 7pm for a night of readings and presentations emerging from the fifth issue of e-flux’s new quarterly print publication, e-flux Index.

For this night of readings, we are delighted to welcome Luis Camnitzer, Coco Fusco, Leo Goldsmith, Lauren van Haaften-Schick, and Naeem Mohaiemen. They will each expand upon their contributions to issue 5 of the Index, covering the increasingly technocratic role of STEM in education, the aporias of cultural politics in contemporary Cuba, the investigative images of Harun Farocki, the bureaucratic “paper language” of George Maciunas’ Fluxus administrationanalyzed in the new book by Coby Chamberlain, and the authoritarian dream of enforcing “shothik itihash” (correct history) in Bangladesh. This event will be hosted by e-flux Index editor George MacBeth.

Index is a quarterly print publication like few others. It sets out to untangle the mess of the contemporary, bringing together art and film theory, philosophy, political theory, architecture, and criticism within the same publication. Each edition draws into dialogue commissioned essays, reviews, and articles from the five separate e-flux sections: e-flux Architecture, e-flux Criticism, e-flux Education, e-flux Journal, and e-flux Notes.

Index #5 features all the pieces published by e-flux between August–September 2024, encompassing 54 pieces from 61 contributors, comprising a veritable supercommunity of artists, theorists, designers, critics, filmmakers, activists, architects, poets, and all those who would prefer not to be categorized!

Refreshments will be provided, and copies of Index #1–5 will be available for purchase.

For more information, please contact program [ at ] e-flux.com.

Accessibility
–Two flights of stairs lead up to the building’s front entrance at 172 Classon Avenue.
–For elevator access, please RSVP to program [ at ] e-flux.com. The building has a freight elevator which leads into the e-flux office space. Entrance to the elevator is nearest to 180 Classon Ave (a garage door). We have a ramp for the steps within the space.
–e-flux has an ADA-compliant bathroom. There are no steps between the event space and this bathroom.

Bios
Luis Camnitzer is an Uruguayan artist living in New York.

Coco Fusco is a Cuban-American artist and writer, and a professor at the Cooper Union School of Art in New York.

Leo Goldsmith teaches screen studies at Eugene Lang College of Liberal Arts, The New School, and serves as a programming advisor for the New York Film Festival.

Naeem Mohaiemen uses films, photography, drawings, and essays to explore failed uprisings, scattered families, and permeable borders.

Lauren van Haaften-Schick is a Lecturer in the Arts Administration program at Teachers College, Columbia University. Her in-progress book examines artists’ rights laws and contracts in the US through the case study of Seth Siegelaub’s The Artist’s Reserved Rights Transfer and Sale Agreement (1971).