Latest Past Events

“Ustedes,” A New Public Art Project and Digital Campaign By Krzysztof Wodiczko

Governors Island, New York

Polish Cultural Institue New York is proud to support a new site-specific and community-engaged project by acclaimed artist Krzysztof Wodiczko in collaboration with More Art and its founder/director Micaela Martegani. The grand opening will place on Governors Island, New York, Saturday, October 3, 2020 at 5:00pm. This live performance uses drones and innovative new technologies to amplify the eprspectives of migrants, political refugees, and…

Documentary Theater: Mediterranean Migrant Monologues

Goethe-Institut New York 30 Irving Place, New York City

The Mediterranean Migration Monologues (“Mittelmeer-Monologe”) tell the stories of Naomie from Cameroon and Yassin from Libya, who find themselves on a boat to Europe. It also tells of brutal coast guards, dubious sea rescue centers, and activists who fight against migrant deaths in the Mediterranean Sea. The activists are part of the project AlarmPhone as well as the German non-governmental…

Where Evil Leans Hard on Good

Casa Italiana Zerilli-Marimò (NYU) 24 West 12th Street, New York City

Italy's Migrant Detention Centers and Colonial Concentration Camps A lecture by Stephanie Malia Hom Followed by a conversation between the author and Prof. Ruth Ben-Ghiat (NYU) Stephanie Malia Hom presents an excerpt from her new book, Empire’s Mobius Strip: Historical Echoes in Italy’s Crisis of Migration and Detention (Cornell UP, 2019). Italy’s current crisis of Mediterranean migration and detention has…