Readers,
We are happy to invite you to our first public issue distribution since February of 2020.
This Thursday, October 21, we will gather for food, drink, and two presentations:
PAULA VILAPLANA DE MIGUEL reviews the psychic shops of New York.
Presenting her research from a piece she recently wrote for Urban Omnibus, Signs of Things to Come, Paula “takes us on a spatial, material, and metaphysical journey through the psychic industry in New York, a trade driven by women and immigrants — citymakers in their own right who have made a future for themselves through divining the future itself.”
ZACH MORTICE reviews the vigilante historic preservation of the Candyman movies.
By placing a hook-handed killer in Chicago's Cabrini-Green projects, the 1992 movie Candyman is an architectural horror cult classic. It presents the failure of public-sector Modern architecture besieged by neoliberal policy and racism as the ideal setting for gothic urban legend. Its 2021 remake, directed by Nia DaCosta and produced by Jordan Peele, is indelibly altered by the dynamiting of Cabrini-Green, and traces the Candyman's looping trajectory of violence as it spirals out into the city.
We will be in person at the gallery and printshop a83 in Soho, but also stream the event via Zoom.
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