As artists living and working through the 1970s to the present in New York City, Sarah Schulman and Jane Dickson have lived through one of the most fruitful periods of artistic production in the city—a time where punk, graffiti, and ballroom culture was blooming in the decay of a bankrupt New York City. This is also the period where the neoliberal experiment was unleashed on New York City and began to shift the way artists and people could live, make and be.

Together, Schulman, Rodriguez and Dickson will talk about how we might learn from what was accomplished by artists during this period, what spaces they were able to create, what the failures were and how neoliberal changes unfolded through the 1980s. Together, they will attempt to trace the lessons and possibilities from that past to inform how we might exist today in the crevices of a decaying empire. What kind of new formations, new spaces and new ways of being, making and living are possible at this moment?

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