Omnicide II

Jason Bahbak Mohaghegh & Reza Negarestani
An evening trial of riddles, poetry, and a new game
Miguel Abreu Gallery
36 Orchard Street
New York, NY 10002
January 27, 2024, 7pm
PRESS RELEASE  


TransLatin Diagonals

Conversation with Gabriel Catren, Amy Ireland,
Maya B. Kronic, and Thomas Murphy
Casa São Roque – Centro de Arte
Rua São Roque da Lameira 2092
4350-317 Porto
June 18, 2023, 5–7pm
PRESS RELEASE  


Sam Lewitt, CURE (the Work)

Book launch & reception
Miguel Abreu Gallery
36 Orchard Street
New York, NY 10002
July 27, 2022, 5–7pm
INFO  


Robin Mackay, By the North Sea

Audio work & discussion
Miguel Abreu Gallery
36 Orchard Street
New York, NY 10002
March 4, 2022, 7pm
PRESS RELEASE  


Doomed and Famous: Selections from the Adrian Dannatt Collection

Exhibition and book launch
Miguel Abreu Gallery
36 Orchard Street
New York, NY 10002
January 16 — March 13, 2021
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Seminar on Reza Negarestani's Intelligence and Spirit

Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México
January 29, 2020
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Book Week V: Editions & Objects

Books, objects and artist editions by R. H. Quaytman, Jimmy Raskin,
Tamar Mogendorff, Tunji Dada, Yuji Agematsu, Aaron Flint Jamison, Raha Raissnia, Anthony Burdin, Pieter Schoolwerth, among others... 

December 11 – 22, 2019
Miguel Abreu Gallery
36 Orchard Street
New York, NY 10002
WEBSITE

Encore

Wols, Eileen Quinlan, Josephine Pryde, Atelier E.B, Jazz Leeb
Exhibition organized by Helena Papadopoulos on the occasion of the publication of 
Always Starts with an Encounter: Wols—Eileen Quinlan
October 30 – December 8, 2019
Book launch and performance: Wednesday, October 30, 2019, 7pm
Cello performance by Alex Waterman and a reading by Domenick Ammirati
Miguel Abreu Gallery
36 Orchard Street
New York, NY 10002
PRESS RELEASE   IMAGES   TEXT


Lisa Radon & Zoe Brezsny

Book launch & poetry reading
November 24, 2019, 7pm
Miguel Abreu Gallery
36 Orchard Street, NYC, 10002
PRESS RELEASE


Fernando Zalamea

Episode 10: A Means Without End
Presented by Arika and Tramway
November 20–24, 2019
Tramway, Glasgow
WEBSITE


Alain Badiou

The Dialectic in Politics: Affirmation, Negation,
and the Affirmative Part of the Negation
Monday, November 11, 2019, 7pm
Miguel Abreu Gallery
88 Eldridge Street, 4th Floor
New York, NY 10002
PRESS RELEASE   IMAGES   VIDEO


Reza Negarestani, The Art of Making Intelligence

Art After Culture? Conference
Saturday June 15, 2019, 2:15pm
e-flux, New York
WEBSITE


States of Consciousness in Cognitive Capitalism

Saas-Fee Summer Institute of Art
June 1 – 15, 2019
Performance Space New York
WEBSITE


Jason Bahbak Mohaghegh

Omnicide, Talk & Book Launch
May 29, 2019, 7pm
Miguel Abreu Gallery 
36 Orchard Street
New York, NY 10002

PRESS RELEASE  IMAGES  VIDEO


Book Week IV: Late Arrivals

With artworks by Jimmy Raskin and Milton Resnick
Saturday, November 24 – Saturday, December 22, 2018
Poetry Reading, Thursday, December 6th, 7pm
Miguel Abreu Gallery
36 Orchard Street
New York, NY 10002

PRESS RELEASE   IMAGES


Marina van Zuylen, On Distraction

Talk with John Plotz, moderated by Robin Kelsey 
Thursday, November 29, 2018, 6pm
Harvard University
Barker Center, Room 110
12 Quincy Street
Cambridge, MA 02138

WEBSITE  PDF  AUDIO


How to Make Yourself an AGI:
Reza Negarestani in conversation with Robin Mackay

Wednesday, November 7, 2018 
7pm
Miguel Abreu Gallery
88 Eldridge Street, 4th Floor
New York, NY 10002

PRESS RELEASE   TRANSCRIPT   IMAGES


Reza Negarestani Lecture

Thursday, October 25, 2018 
7pm
ICA Miami

61 NE 41st Street
Miami, FL 33137

WEBSITE


Pasolini's Bodies and Places

Book Launch and exhibit
Tuesday, February 27, 2018
6–8pm (reception)
Wednesday, February 28, 10am–8pm
Miguel Abreu Gallery
36 Orchard Street
New York, NY 10002

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Marina van Zuylen

The Plenitude of Distraction, Talk & Book Signing
Friday, February 9, 2018
7pm
McNally Jackson Books
52 Prince Street
New York, NY 10012

PDF


Jean-Luc Moulène in conversation with Alain Badiou
and Reza Negarestani

Sunday, October 29, 2017, 4pm
University Settlement
184 Eldridge St. (at Rivington)
New York, NY 10002

VIDEO

  

Marina van Zuylen

The Plenitude of Distraction, Talk & Book Launch
in a decor by Jimmy Raskin
Sunday, September 24, 2017
6:30pm
88 Eldridge Street, 5th Floor
New York, NY 10002

PDF


Sequence at the NY Art Book Fair

September 22 – 24, 2017
Preview: Thursday, 21st, 6–9pm
Project Room 1, 2nd Floor
MoMA PS1, 22–25 Jackson Ave.
Long Island City, NY 11101

WEBSITE 


Nick Srnicek and Alex Williams in conversation with Alain Badiou
on Inventing the Future: Postcapitalism and a World Without Work

Discussion
Tuesday, November 22, 2016, 7:00pm
Miguel Abreu Gallery
88 Eldridge Street, 4th Floor
New York, NY 10002

PDF   VIDEO   IMAGES


Sam Lewitt, More Heat Than Light

Book launch
Wednesday, October 26, 2016, 6-8pm
Westreich Wagner
114 Greene Street, 2nd Floor
New York, NY 10012


Writings: Jean-Marie Straub and Danièle Huillet

Book launch and discussion with Sally Shafto,
Katherine Pickard, Miguel Abreu, and Barton Byg
Monday, September 19, 2016, 6:00pm
Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts
Harvard University
24 Quincy Street
Cambridge, MA 02138

WEBSITE


Abbas Kiarostami Memorial

Tuesday, August 2, 2016, 7:00pm
Miguel Abreu Gallery
36 Orchard Street
New York, NY 10002  

PDF


Images, Information, and Meaning

Discussion with Peter Wolfendale, Claire Lehmann,
Joshua Johnson, and Pieter Schoolwerth
Tuesday, July 26, 2016, 7:00pm
Miguel Abreu Gallery
36 Orchard Street
New York, NY 10002  

PDF


Alain Badiou

Contemporary Art Facing Historical Tragedies
Lecture
Wednesday, December 9, 2015, 7:30pm
Miguel Abreu Gallery
88 Eldridge Street
New York, NY 10002  

PDF   NYC PROGRAM


James Metcalf
Hammer & Forge: From Europe to Santa Clara del Cobre
Sunday, November 22, 2015
Reception and book launch, 4 – 7pm
Discussion with Ana Pellicer and Roy Skodnick, 5pm
Miguel Abreu Gallery
36 Orchard Street
New York, NY 10002

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Fernando Zalamea
Grothendieck and a Theory of Contemporary Transgression
October 7-24, 2015
Month-long seminar hosted by the Graduate Program in Media Studies
Pratt Institute, Manhattan Campus
144 West 14th Street, between 6th and 7th Ave.
New York, NY 10011

WEBSITE   PROGRAM OUTLINE


Sequence at the NY Art Book Fair
September 18–20, 2015
Preview: Thursday, 9/17
MoMA PS1, 22-25 Jackson Ave.
Long Island City, NY 11101
Project Room 1, 2nd floor
New York, NY 10011

WEBSITE


Alain Badiou
Contemporary Art Confronting the 21st Century
Lecture
Saturday, February 7, 2015, 7PM
Miguel Abreu Gallery
88 Eldridge Street, 4th floor
New York, NY 10002

PDF   VIDEO   IMAGES


Alain Badiou
Book Launch & reception
Gilles Châtelet, To Live and Think Like Pigs 
Foreword by Alain Badiou
Saturday, December 13, 2014, 6PM
Miguel Abreu Gallery
36 Orchard Street
New York, NY 10002

Dialogue Between a Chinese Philosopher and a French Philosopher
Lecture-Performance hosted in partnership with The Manny Cantor Center
Saturday, December 13, 2014, 7PM
Manny Cantor Center
197 East Broadway (at Jefferson Street)
New York, NY 10002

PDF 


Sequence at the NY Art Book Fair
September 26–28, 2014
Preview, Thursday, September 25th
MoMA PS1, 22-25 Jackson Avenue at 46th Avenue
Long Island City, NY 11101


François Laruelle
Symposium: The Non-standard Philosophy of François Laruelle
Centre Culturel International de Cerisy, Cerisy-la-Salle, France
September 3 - 10, 2014

WEBSITE 

  

Book Week III
Around the San Francisco Renaissance
Wednesday, December 18, 2013 - Sunday, January 5, 2014
Miguel Abreu Gallery
36 Orchard Street, New York, NY

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Daniel Heller-Roazen
Dark Tongues: The Art of Rogues and Riddlers
Reading and Presentation
Saturday, November 16, 2013, 7PM
Miguel Abreu Gallery
36 Orchard Street, New York, NY

PDF  


Pamela Rosenkranz's No Core
Book launch and signing
Tuesday, October 22, 2013, 7-9PM
Miguel Abreu Gallery
36 Orchard Street, New York, NY

VIDEO  


Giuseppe Longo & Benedict Singleton
Perspective, Alienation, Escape
Lecture and discussion, moderated by Robin Mackay
Thursday, September 26, 2013, 7:30PM
Miguel Abreu Gallery, 36 Orchard Street, New York, NY

PDF  INTRO. PDF  VIDEO 


Alison Knowles, The Big Book 
Passenger Books, book launch and reception
Wednesday, September 18, 2013, 7:30PM
Miguel Abreu Gallery, 36 Orchard Street, New York, NY


Sequence at the NY Art Book Fair
September 19 - 22, 2013
Preview, Thursday, September 19th
MoMA PS1, 22-25 Jackson Avenue at 46th Avenue
Long Island City, NY 11101

WEBSITE


Ray Brassier, Suhail Malik, and Reza Negarestani
Blow Your Mind: On Freedom and Enlightenment
Miguel Abreu Gallery, 88 Eldridge Street, 4th Floor
Saturday, July 20, 2013, 7PM

  

Sequence at Book Machine (Paris)
Nouveau Festival 2013
February 20 - March 11, 2013
Centre Pompidou
19 Rue Beaubourg, 75004 Paris, France

WEBSITE


Sequence at the LA Art Book Fair
February 1 - 3, 2013
Preview, January 31st, 6 - 9PM
Project Room H
The Geffen Contemporary at MOCA
152 North Central Avenue
Los Angeles, CA 90012

WEBSITE

 

Book Week II: In Translation
with Collages by Raha Raissnia
Wednesday, October 24 - Sunday, November 4, 2012
Miguel Abreu Gallery, 36 Orchard Street, New York, NY

PDF IMAGES


Reza Negarestani & Florian Hecker
The Non-Trivial Goat and the Cliffs of the Universal
Thursday, November 15, 2012, 7:30PM
Abrons' Playhouse, 466 Grand Street (at Pitt Street)
New York, NY

PDF IMAGES


Reza Negarestani
Abducting the Outside: Modernity and The Culture of Acceleration
Lecture
Sunday, November 18, 2012, 7:30PM
Miguel Abreu Gallery, 36 Orchard Street, New York, NY

PDF IMAGES


François Laruelle
The Degrowth of Philosophy: Towards a Generic Ecology
Lecture 
Tuesday, November 20, 2012, 7:30PM
Miguel Abreu Gallery, 36 Orchard Street, New York, NY

PDF  


Quentin Meillassoux
The Coup de dés, or the Materialist Divinization of the Hypothesis
Lecture and book launch of, The Number and the Siren
Sunday, May 6, 2012, 7PM
88 Eldridge Street, 4th Floor (just below Grand Street)
New York, NY

PDF   VIDEO


Book Week
Wednesday, April 18 - Tuesday, April 24, 2012
Miguel Abreu Gallery, 36 Orchard Street, New York, NY 

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Daniel Heller-Roazen
The Fifth Hammer: Pythagoras and the Disharmony of the World
Reading and Presentation
Thursday, October 13, 2011, 7PM
Miguel Abreu Gallery
36 Orchard Street, New York, NY

PDF


R. H. Quaytman's Spine & Collapse VII: Culinary Materialism
Book Launch
Thursday, July 28, 2011
Miguel Abreu Gallery
36 Orchard Street, New York, NY


François Laruelle, The Concept of Non-Photography
Book launch, symposium and lecture 
Tuesday, April 5 – Thursday, April 7, 2011
Miguel Abreu Gallery
36 Orchard Street, New York, NY 

PDF


The Medium of Contingency
Thomas Dane Gallery, London, January 19, 2011

VIDEO