Dispatches

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  Summit Series

  Toñita’s: The Brooklyn Club That Keeps Puerto Rico Kicking in Williamsburg

  September 16, 2013 - 

  As part of our 2013 Summit Series, filmmakers Beyza Boyacioglu and Sebastian Diaz document the vibrant, communal spirit of the last remaining Puerto Rican social club in South Williamsburg, Brooklyn—a neighborhood known as “Los Sures” until it lost its Latino character.  More

  By Beyza Boyacioglu

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  Dispatch

  Imagine What It Was Like To Be Me

  August 5, 2013 - 

  In the wake of George Zimmerman’s acquittal, which has intensified conversations about racial profiling and systemic discrimination, pioneering conceptual artist Adrian Piper presents a faded black-and-white image of Trayvon Martin peering through crosshairs.  More

  By Adrian Piper

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  Video

  The Time In Between: Displacement After Hurricane Sandy

  July 15, 2013 - 

  Sandy Storyline, a participatory documentary project, shares the first of a series of pieces for Creative Time Reports exploring the “in-between homes” where people lived after the storm, telling the story of an elderly Queens resident displaced to a psychiatric center for months.  More

  By Sandy Storyline

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  Interview

  A Time for Breaking Laws: The Injustice of NSA Surveillance

  July 15, 2013 - 

  Rajkamal Kahlon, artist in residence at the ACLU last fall, speaks with Jameel Jaffer, director of the organization’s Center for Democracy, about the significance of the National Security Agency surveillance programs revealed by whistleblower Edward Snowden.  More

  By Rajkamal Kahlon

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  Interview

  Turkey: Art and Upheaval

  July 1, 2013 - 

  Creative Time chief curator Nato Thompson interviews Turkish curator Defne Ayas, now director of Witte de With Center for Contemporary Art in Rotterdam, about the protests in Turkey—and international art-world solidarity.  More

  By Defne Ayas and Nato Thompson