We are pleased to enter the fall season with readings, screening programs, talks, and performances featuring Dagmar Herzog and Jonas von Lenthe; Bill Brown; works by Lawrence Weiner; Jace Clayton; works by Jean-Luc Godard and Mako Idemitsu; Rafiq Bhaita; Colby Chamberlain and work by George Maciunas.
Dagmar Herzog, The New Fascist Body
Tuesday, September 9, 2025
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Join us at e-flux on Tuesday, September 9 at 7:30pm for a lecture and conversation with Dagmar Herzog about her book The New Fascist Body, recently published by Wirklichkeit Books. Herzog posits that the success of new far-right movements cannot be explained by fear or rage alone; the pleasures of aggression and violence are just as essential. As such, racism is particularly intense when it is erotically charged. Germany’s strikingly successful right-wing political party Alternative für Deutschland is, according to Herzog, characterized by this “sexy racism.” Combined with an obsessive hostility to disability, these constituent elements resonate strongly with Nazism. Herzog connects her analysis of fascism’s libidinous energy with its animus against bodies perceived as imperfect. Herzog will be in dialogue with Jonas von Lenthe, Wirklichkeit Books Founding Editor. Read more here.
Bill Brown: Time is the Enemy
Thursday, September 11, 2025
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“Time is the Enemy” at e-flux Screening Room presents films by Bill Brown, followed by a Q&A with the filmmaker. Since 1994, Brown’s film practice has honed in on back alleys, abandoned public works projects, and dusty interstates, among other liminal spaces. Equal parts reverie and requiem, Brown’s films interrogate the social fascination with crash sites, contemplate the conditions of amnesia, and chart pathways against that particular combination of nostalgia and ennui often ascribed to small-town American existence. Read more here.
Lawrence Weiner: Films and Videos
Sunday, September 14, 2025
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Join us on the afternoon of Sunday, September 14 for a day-long platform dedicated to Lawrence Weiner’s films and audio works. In three cinematic screenings with two intermisisons, the program focuses on Weiner’s redefinition of the mise-en-scène as a direct, material form of expression. Weiner often referred to his film works as “moved pictures” and “motion drawings.” His view of the world is illustrated in recurring topics of emigration, censorship, eroticism, capitalism, and a cornucopia of the Seven Deadly Sins. As a director, Weiner’s approach was a mix of the formal and informal. He scripted his movies with his works in language as an armature for the structure of the film and allowed his “players” ad hoc to deliver the lines in the manner of their own choosing. In humanizing his propositions, he put into motion a dramaturgy that simultaneously functioned as documentation as well as performance. The players were a part of his social life and the props were his immediate surroundings. “Lawrence Weiner: Films and Videos” is organized in collaboration with Gladstone Gallery, with special thanks to the Lawrence Weiner Estate. The program takes place in conjunction with Lawrence Weiner’s inaugural exhibition at Gladstone, AS OFTEN AS NOT, on view from September 12 to October 25, 2025. Read more here.
Jace Clayton, “Modulation as Public Space”
Thursday, September 18, 2025
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Join us for a talk by artist and writer Jace Clayton. Clayton writes, “We live and love in the analog world. That’s where modulation—interpenetration instead of identity—is the operative procedure. From analog synths and trainwreck DJ sets to memes and bespoke AI, this talk will explore the concept of modulation as a basis for practices that sidestep binary thinking to open up shared space.” Read more here.
Economies of Love. Part 5: Commodified Life
Tuesday, September 23, 2025
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The fifth installment in the series Economies of Love, “Commodified Life” presents Jean-Luc Godard’s Two or Three Things I Know About Her (1967) preceded by Mako Idemitsu’s Kiyoko’s Situation (1989). While Godard shows how the bodies of women are compromised when societal expectations are organized by advertisement logics where intimacy is converted into transactional value, Idemitsu exposes how patriarchy normalizes the division of labor and devalues artistic work when it yields no immediate profit. Both works cast a critical eye on late-capitalist metrics of worth based on fake equivalence between personal and economic desires, and show how mass mediation does not merely reflect the commodification of life but helps to produce and regulate it. Read more here.
Playback at Bar Laika: Rafiq Bhatia
Wednseday, September 24, 2025
Join us at Bar Laika from 6pm onwards for an evening of listening with Rafiq Bhatia. “Rafiq Bhatia is writing his own musical language,” the New York Times proclaims, calling Bhaita “one of the most intriguing figures in music today.” Bhatia’s latest album Environments conjures worlds of improvised, organic sound that bloom, melt, crackle, and combust. Since 2014, Bhatia has been a member of the band Son Lux, releasing several recordings and giving hundreds of performances worldwide. He has also collaborated with a beguiling breadth of artists across generations and disciplines, including Apichatpong Weerasethakul, Cécile McLorin Salvant, Arooj Aftab, and many others. Read more here.
George Maciunas: Lecture and Performance
Thursday, September 25, 2025
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Dedicated to George Maciunas, coordinator and founding member of Fluxus, this program features a lecture by Colby Chamberlain, the author of Fluxus Administration: George Maciunas and the Art of Paperwork, and a performance of Solo for Violin, a piece by Maciunas from 1962. In histories of SoHo, George Maciunas and the Fluxhouse Cooperatives are usually a single paragraph in the larger story of how the neighborhood became an “artists’ colony” and a template for gentrification. A closer look at the Fluxhouses shows that the takeover of SoHo by chain stores and real estate developers was never as inevitable as it now seems. Maciunas’s original vision suggests that artists might have played a different role in shaping the post-industrial city. Part counter-factual, part cautionary tale, Chamberlain’s lecture will look at the nitty-gritty of the Fluxhouses’ organization and ask what lessons its successes and shortcomings hold for art and urbanism in the future. Read more here.