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They Have Watches, But We Have Time: A Takeover by WAI Architecture Think Tank
Tue 6:00 PM
Van Alen Institute, 303 Bond St, Brooklyn, NY 11231, USA
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For one evening, WAI Architecture Think Tank transforms Van Alen Institute into a living postcolonial collage, inspired by the abolitionist Afro-Asian Bookstore of political prisoner Martin Sostre and the mutual-aid restaurants and loudreadings of anarcho-syndicalist and feminist Luisa Capetillo. Through books, artifacts, food, loudreadings, lectures, and performances, the evening questions whose histories the archive preserves alongside: Nathalie Frankowski & Cruz Garcia with Ema Yuizarix , WAI Architecture Think Tank Luis Othoniel Rosa , writer; Associate Professor of Spanish and Ethnic Studies, University of Nebraska–Lincoln Rose Florian , architect and urban designer; Post-Novis Daniel…