Guggenheim Presents Intervals: Futurefarmers

INTERVALS: FUTUREFARMERS May 4-14, 2011
Futurefarmers, a San Francisco-based art collective, creates projects that are diverse both in terms of production and in their strategies of audience engagement. For the Guggenheim Museum's Intervals series, the group investigates the relationship between the sole and the soul with a ten-day "urban thinkery" focused around a Shoemaker's Atelier and Cobbler's Bench installed in the museum Rotunda. The site-specific installation anchors a series of off-site actions and events taking place throughout the city. All programs are free with museum admission or, if held outside the museum, free. Further details will be posted on guggenheim.org/futurefarmers and will later be announced via Twitter feeds @Guggenheim and #Futurefarmers.

Program Schedule for Intervals: Futurefarmers

Wednesday, May 4
Sole/Soul Sermons
The Road Made by Walking: Steps of an Inquiry
Rebecca Solnit, activist and author of Wanderlust (2000), delivered by Astra Taylor, author and documentary filmmaker

Integrative Paleontology: The Paleontologist Is Barefoot Today
Bernadette Mayer, poet and author of Midwinter Day (written 1978; published 1982)

Futurefarmers Rosary: A Series of Spiritual Exercises for Perceiving the Soul
Cooley Windsor, author and Senior Adjunct Professor, California College for the Arts, San Francisco and Oakland
2-4 pm. Guggenheim Museum. No advance registration.

Friday, May 6
Shoemaker's Dialogue
How God's Children Got Shoes: New York Shoemakers Confront the Industrial Revolution
Bruce Laurie, Emeritus Professor, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
12-2 pm. The General Society of Mechanics and Tradesmen of the City of New York, 20 West 44th Street. 20 spots available, registration required. E-mail futurefarmers@guggenheim.org.

Saturday, May 7
Pedestrian Press
3-5 pm. Festival of Ideas for the New City, StreetFest. Along the Bowery, near the New Museum. Meet at Bowery and Stanton Street. In the event of rain, Pedestrian Press will be canceled.
To find Futurefarmers and the Pedestrian Press, please follow @Guggenheim and #Futurefarmers on Twitter.

Sunday, May 8
Shoemaker's Dialogue
The Production of Nature
Neil Smith, Distinguished Professor, Anthropology, City University of New York Graduate Center
12-2 pm. Meet at the Gowanus Canal, Brooklyn. Participants will be informed of the exact location.
20 spots available, registration required. E-mail futurefarmers@guggenheim.org.

Making Our Own Rules
Activity for families in which participants create their own measurement system-a ruler-based on the length of his or her foot. Organized in conjunction with the Guggenheim Museum's Just Drop In! family program. Open to anyone with children.
1-4 pm. Cobbler's Bench in Rotunda, Guggenheim Museum. No advance registration.

Monday, May 9
Shoemaker's Dialogue
The History of the Shoe: From Aristotle to Warhol
Michael Taussig, Professor of Anthropology, Columbia University, New York
7-9 pm, Spectacle Theater, 124 South 3rd Street, Brooklyn. 20 spots available, registration required. E-mail futurefarmers@guggenheim.org.

Film Screening
Examined Life (2008)
A screening of the documentary Examined Life followed by a question-and-answer session with director Astra Taylor. The film features eight influential philosophers, including Kwame Anthony Appiah, Avital Ronell, and Cornel West, discussing the practical application of their ideas to today's world.
88 minutes. Courtesy Zeitgeist Films. No advance registration.
3-4:30 pm. New Media Theater, Sackler Center for Arts Education, Guggenheim Museum

Tuesday, May 10
Ink Gathering
The Urban Ecology of New York City Starts with a Knowledge of the Land under Our Feet
GillIan Stewart, Associate Professor, Environmental Science, Queens College, City University of New York
10 am-3 pm. Meet at the Guggenheim Museum (membership desk) and continue by subway and bus to Jamaica Bay, N.Y. 20 spots available, registration required. E-mail futurefarmers@guggenheim.org.

Wednesday, May 11
Pedestrian Press
12-2 pm. Meet at the Guggenheim Museum (membership desk) and continue by subway to Soul Kitchen, a former shoemaking store in Harlem. 20 spots available, registration required. E-mail futurefarmers@guggenheim.org. In the event of rain, Pedestrian Press will be canceled.
To find Futurefarmers and the Pedestrian Press please follow @Guggenheim and #Futurefarmers on Twitter.

Film Screening
Examined Life (2008)
3-4:30 pm. New Media Theater, Sackler Center for Arts Education, Guggenheim Museum. No advance registration.

Making Our Own Rules
Workshop for adult visitors following the screening of Examined Life.
4:30-5 pm. Cobbler's Bench in the Rotunda, Guggenheim Museum. No advance registration.

Friday, May 13
Ink Gathering
Particle Pollution and Other Pedestrian Encounters
David Wheeler, Environmental Engineer at the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation, and Thomas Matte, Professor, Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences, City University of New York School of Public Health
12-2 pm. Meet at the Guggenheim Museum (membership desk) and walk through the city, reflecting upon the effects of the human footprint on the landscape. 20 spots available, registration required. E-mail futurefarmers@guggenheim.org.

Saturday, May 14
Pedestrian Press
The culminating event of the ten-day project in which parts of the Sole/Soul Sermons and Shoemaker's Dialogues will be printed with the help of passersby.
12-4 pm. Meet at the Guggenheim Museum (membership desk) and continue by foot through the city. 20 spots available, registration required. E-mail futurefarmers@guggenheim.org. In the event of rain, Pedestrian Press will be canceled.