02/04 @ 7:00pm - SOLD OUT: Species of Spaces

Admission: The event is full, but please sign up for our waiting list to receive notice about the next one.

Food and eating are central to community. When we eat we are in companionship with our neighbors and all those who show up, both the invited guests and the unexpected company. Seated with us at the table are our fellow humans, plants, mushrooms, bacteria and other animals. While some of these visitors eat and some are eaten, all participate in a variety of exchanges.

Please join spurse (plus collaborators and special guests) in a mid-winter feast to explore and experiment with community. This multi-course meal will feature foraged and gleaned local plants and animals in unique preparations and one-of-a kind settings. The meal will be free and we ask in return a lively willingness to be in cahoots with the questions of eating, foraging, community and our multi-species commons. Collaborators include Jen Woodin, Chad Curtis, Cameron Andersen, En Sang Cho, Gale DellaRocco, Priscilla Dobler, Melissa Graff, Shoji Miyazawa, and Amy Williams.

Space is limited. RSVP required.

As ISSUE transitions from our current location in the Gowanus to our new home in Downtown Brooklyn, the nature of our programming, community and relationship to Brooklyn will change greatly. In an attempt to keep our decision-making transparent and create an open forum for community input, we have established an informal series called Species of Spaces. Meant to serve as a non-strategic plan for our move, a discussion running alongside and supplementing our normal work, Species of Spaces is an attempt to reinvigorate and extend our experimental origins. Species of Spaces will be the home for a plethora of shared concerns and interests with no defined structure or agenda. For each event, we will invite a number of guests and collaborators to help formulate the evening and lead the discussion. Each iteration will inform the next, the conversation gaining practicality and robustness throughout the year.

“To start with, then, there isn’t very much: nothingness, the impalpable, the virtually immaterial; extension, the external, what is external to us, what we move about in the midst of, out ambient milieu, the space around us.” – Georges Perec

This project received generous support from the State University of New York at New Paltz and the Tyler School of Art at Temple University.

Species of Spaces is made possible by support from The Casement Fund, by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council.

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  1. George Edwards

    I look forward to attending the event.

    Tyank you,

    George Edwards

    Jan 19, 2012 @ 9:33 am


  2. andrew

    Thanks George — we’re looking forward to starting this new series as well.

    Jan 19, 2012 @ 9:40 am


  3. Alix Schwartz

    Thanks so much Iain!

    Jan 19, 2012 @ 12:25 pm


  4. Claudia Sidoti

    can’t wait- sounds wonderful!

    Jan 19, 2012 @ 8:18 pm


  5. Beth Thomas

    Looking forward! See you there/then. BT

    Jan 22, 2012 @ 1:37 pm


  6. Miriam Garron

    Alan and I are honored, and we’ll see you then.

    Jan 22, 2012 @ 9:37 pm


  7. Aaron Calvin

    I look forward to attending this event.

    Jan 23, 2012 @ 3:59 pm


  8. Stefan Ringel

    I am interested in attending. Is it possible to RSVP for two? Can you give me any more details?

    Jan 23, 2012 @ 5:08 pm


  9. andrew

    Hey everyone — as it says up there, we’re all booked up for this event. But please sign up for the waiting list + special notice of the next one. We’ll have these events every month or two, and we’re delighted that so many people are interested. Hope you all can make it.

    -Andrew

    Jan 26, 2012 @ 11:01 am


  10. Lillian Ball

    How great there is so much interest.I responded on the 20th here, to facebook, and to Ian but don’t see my writing here.
    Wondering if I am on the list or not?

    Jan 28, 2012 @ 11:12 am


  11. andrew

    Hi Lillian,

    I don’t see your name on the RSVP list — we go through Brown Paper Tickets, rather than our comments page, for RSVPs so we can keep better track of everything in case things book up. But if you’d like to get on our waiting list, we’ll also send you a note when the next Species of Spaces event goes live: Waiting List.

    Thanks, and hope to see you for the next one,

    Andrew

    Jan 28, 2012 @ 11:18 am

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