This upcoming fall semester, Professor Luis Rincon Alba will be teaching Listening to NYC: Music, Race, and Ethnicity on Thursdays at 2pm-5:35pm.
Open to only Undergraduate Seniors and Graduate students.
This class explores the modes through which music has expanded understandings of race and ethnicity and how it has shaped the critical understanding of performance and the modes this expansion has shaped and how it manifests throughout New York City’s musical soundscapes. It pays close attention to the participation of the colonial in the formation of the contemporary political and aesthetic landscape while also defining the forces that shape culture and art on a global scale while taking advantage of how the city locally reflects these global and historical dynamics. The class maintains the tension among multiple elements such as race and ethnicity but also class, gender, and sexuality to offer an intersectional perspective of the political role that ancestral and contemporary musical performance played in anti-racist activism and social organizing.
The course involves attendance to live performance, sound installations and a variety of events involving sound and music. This will give students a unique opportunity to experience the wide range of offers the city has to offer for music and sound experimentation. When possible, these events will coincide with the time of the class but in some instances, attendance will happen outside of the course’s regular schedule.
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This upcoming fall semester, Professor Karen Finley will be teaching Creative Response: Performance Matters on Wednesdays at 3pm-6:35pm.
Open to Juniors, Seniors, and Graduate students.
This class considers the multiple ways we create artistic content. How do we creatively respond to this historical moment? Do you wish to create art inspired by lived experience and offer representation to your voice? How do we artistically engage with resilience and resistance to represent stories and histories not told? How do we find purpose and meaning in these crazy and challenging times within our practice and identity? We will examine cultural examples in history, exhibitions and hear from guest speakers to inspire our vision for a hopeful future. Imagination as celebration can be a space to transcend and resist.
This is a dynamic, generative class where you will be able to engage in creative production. We are creating and making.
You will have your choice of mediums - performance art, installation, hybrid media, film, photography, site-specific, poetic or text based, or experimental practice. Sound work, drama or movement is also welcomed. Creatives or curators that work in related areas are invited to expand their practice to explore new ground! This is a workshop atmosphere and the professor strives to have an educational space for trying things out and discovering together.
We will observe, review and research ways to expand our practice and methods. Performing, embodiment, intersectional feminism, communicating the body: gender, race and identity. Recovery, restoration and healing is made possible. Appreciating in-progress, process, or How do we give and receive feedback?. How do we translate our practice to the page?
Humor and absurdity is appreciated. Introverts and ambiguity welcome.
If you have any questions please feel free to reach out to the professor via email - [email protected]
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Thank you, Cassils (@cassilsartist ) and rafa esparza (elrafaesparza) for an enriching conversation on the spectacle of ICE raids and the creative ways artists have responded, moderated by Gayatri Gopinath, with opening remarks by Natasha Iskander.
We are also deeply grateful to our co-organizer, the Migration Network at NYU Wagner (@nyuwagner ) and to our co-sponsors, Art & Public Policy (@nyuartspolitics ), Performance Studies (@nyuperformancestudies ), and the Critical Racial Anti Colonial Study Co-lab (@cracscolab ), for helping make this event possible.
Yesterday, APP Professor Kathy Engel was honored as a nominee alongside other 2026 David Payne-Carter Teaching Award nominees.
As described by her students that submitted her nomination packet: “She encourages students to approach artistic practice as both a personal and collective inquiry, guiding us to ask not only what we create, but why it matters and for whom.”
Congratulations again on this nomination, thank you for all you do! ❤️💫
This upcoming fall semester, Professor Shohat will be teaching The Traveling Gaze: Empire, the Cinema/Media, and the Counter-Archive on Mondays at 3:30pm-7:05pm.
Open to Undergraduate Seniors and Graduate students.
From their inception in the 19th century, the technologies of representations as embodied in still and moving images were shaped within the imperial imaginary of race, gender, and nation. Circulated across the globe, these representations performed a pivotal role in mediating between distant and different cultural geographies linked to imperial expansionism..
For over a century, the accumulated images and sounds have generated an archive with a claim to objective historical authority. At the same time, the cinematic archive came to be formative for the narration of anticolonial national histories, entering into the stream of newly formed hegemonic and resistant representations, especially around re-remembering a time and a place prior to colonial traumas.
In this interdisciplinary course, we will study the intricate relationship between the archive and the counter-archive, exploring diverse aesthetic strategies, including deconstructive recontextualization, satirical montages, performative reenactments, and digital experimentations.
Enroll in Albert: ASPP-UT 1006-001 (Undergrad Seniors)
ASPP-GT 2006-001 (Graduate Students)
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The MA in Arts Politics at NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts is pleased to announce a new summer application opportunity to join our one-year Masters program for fall, 2026. Applications for the upcoming academic year will be accepted through July 1, 2026.
Our website is a great resource to learn more about the program, people, and courses offered. You will also find information about admissions and application requirements. Check out our Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) page to see program details and tuition costs.
We look forward to hearing from you; please be in touch with [email protected] with any questions about the Arts Politics degree.
Scenes from PORTALS 🌀
Thank you for all who came to experience the 2026 Arts Politics cohort’s exhibition PORTALS.
From the cohort: we hope you enjoyed witnessing the work we’ve been developing this past year and being in community with us. Thank you for your support! ❤️
MA Arts Politics alumna @natasha_kater is a producer of this year's @penamerica World Voices Festival, which is PEN America’s annual celebration of writers, international literature, and free expression. Register at / to participate.
Arts Politics alumni, students, faculty, and staff gathered to make new connections and greet former classmates and colleagues in our departmental space at @nyutisch last night. These events strengthen our #nyuartspolitics community each semester, and provide the chance for graduates across many cohorts to bond. We look forward to meeting our new cohort in the fall, and inviting them to our next mixer!
APP Professor Kathy Engel has been nominated for the 2026 David Payne-Carter Teaching Award.
The David Payne-Carter award is presented to Tisch School of the Arts faculty members whom students have selected as best at instilling a deepening comprehension and enthusiasm for the arts as well as a desire to seek further knowledge.
We congratulate Professor Engel on her nomination! 💫
Current MA Arts Politics student, Diya Abbas, will be leading a poetry workshop titled Lyric Cardiograms on July 30, 2026 at Bridgehampton Museum! 💫
Looking forward to it and congratulations, Diya! 🥳
