The Future of New York (If We Want It)

Join us on Thursday, February 27th for an evening of readings, conversation and activations around the future we want for our city.

As we navigate an uncertain and potentially bleak future, this program will help us manifest a positively progressive one for New York City, an alternative scenario that builds on Noah Fischer’s New York 2044 speculative newspaper project, commissioned over the past year by More Art. The evening is co-presented by Urban Omnibus and hosted at Francis Kite Club.

We’ll be joined by some of the New Yorkers who inspired the previous housing and immigration issues of the newspaper, and we will release Issue 3 on Green Energy Infrastructure, Health, and the Environment. Readings will be accompanied by live and recorded music.

New York 2044 draws on speculative fiction and brings in activists and organizers, along with experts of all stripes, to understand the complicated shape of policy and lived experience in New York City in the present and future.

Thursday, February 27th, 6-9pm
Program begins at 7pm
Francis Kite Club
40 Loisaida Avenue, East Village, NYC

This event will have a cash bar, no cover for entry. We will have snacks and merchandise from Noah’s project, including past zines, limited edition prints, and broadsheet publications available by donation. For more information or questions, please email madison@moreart.org.

About More Art
More Art is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization that collaborates with artists across their careers to catalyze social change by producing meaningful participatory public art for a broad audience. Through creative engagement, More Art empowers all people to utilize art to connect with others, build awareness, and drive action on topics that affect our lives and communities.

About NY 2044
New York 2044 is a speculative social sculpture in the form of an online and print newspaper conceived by the artist, writer, and organizer Noah Fischer. Commissioned by More Art, Fischer’s research-based artwork takes the form of a newspaper that proposes the city we want to inhabit in 2044, and how to get there.

About Urban Omnibus
Urban Omnibus is The Architectural League of New York’s online publication dedicated to observing, understanding, and shaping the city. We raise new questions, illuminate diverse perspectives, and document creative projects to advance the collective work of citymaking. Get the Urban Omnibus newsletter weekly.

About Noah Fischer
Noah Fischer is a Brooklyn-based maker, performer, and educator whose work shifted from the gallery to the streets; from installations into stage design and performance, organizing, drawing, and writing. Noah has contributed to public discourse over the role cultural institutions play within capitalism and the debts that affect creative communities. He has exhibited in museums internationally with and without permission. As a founding member of Occupy Museums, a member of Gulf Labor Coalition, and a longtime collaborator with Berlin-based theater group andcompany&Co, he balances collective and solo practice. He has participated in the Berlin Biennale, documenta, Whitney Biennial, and the Venice Biennale. Fischer teaches art at Parsons and NYU. He is currently finishing a science ficton novel about direct democracy.