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Prep School: “I Agree to the Terms”

I Agree To The Terms is a new virtual performance developed by the OBIE Award-winning ensemble The Builders Association, who last graced the NYU Skirball stage in December 2019 with Elements of Oz – now they’re back to reopen our first season since Covid19 shut down the theatre in 2020. Learn more:

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  • Fri Mar 25 – Sun Apr 3, 2022

The Builders Association: I Agree to the Terms

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Are you new to The Builders Association? You can peruse their website and vimeo for a glimpse into their back catalogue, or pick up their book.

The Builders Association Turns 25 (2019)

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Recommended readings, curated by The Builders Association.

  • Surrogate Humanity: Race, Robots, and the Politics of Technological Futuresby Neda Atanasoski and Kalindi Vora
  • Working: People Talk About What They Do All Day and How They Feel About What They Do by Studs Terkel
  • Ghost Work: How To Stop Silicon Valley From Building A New Global Underclass by Mary L. Gray and Siddharth Suri
  • Conducting Online Research on Amazon Mechanical Turk and Beyond by Leib Litman & Jonathan Robinson
  • Whole Earth Catalogue by Stewart Brand
    Algorithms of Oppression: How Search Engines Reinforce Racism by Safiya Umoja Noble
  • Weapons of Math Destruction by Cathy O’Neill
  • Capital: A Critique of Political Economy by Karl Marx
  • Information and Society by Michael Buckland
  • The Black Box Society by Frank Pasquale
  • Algorithms by Panos Louridas
  • The Cybernetic Hypothesis by Tiqqun

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Shannon Jackson & Marianne Weems in Conversation

“To start, I would love to hear more about the research process–it seemed like an excavation process–going through both the material and immaterial artifacts. Especially because I was so impressed that from a show from 1994 you have a cocktail napkin that has a budget for an after party–”

Culturebot | Jan 12, 2016(opens in a new tab)

Interview Magazine | Louise Neri Interviews Marianne Weems

“In 1994, Marianne Weems and her then-new ensemble, The Builders Association, presented Master Builder, an adaptation of the Henrik Ibsen play, on an upper floor of a New York City warehouse. She has since left Victorian dramas behind, blending live performance, video, technology, and architecture to narrate stories based on the experiences, facts, and phenomena of reality today.”

Interview Magazine | Nov 3, 2008(opens in a new tab)

NEED MORE LABOR IN YOUR LIFE?

Dig into our study guide for On Your Marx, the 2019 festival in celebration of Marx’s 200 birthday – with artists and scholars putting Marxist theories and ideas to work in 21st century contexts.

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EXTRA CREDIT

Emergent Strategy by adrienne maree brown

We’ve picked a book to complement each show in our season. We’ve got novels, short stories, essays, poetry, and memoir. 

Why this book? It’s 2022. Let’s take a closer look at how Amazon is shaping the world, and then let’s spend some time thinking about how we can work together to shape change.

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Book cover of “Emergent Strategy” by adrienne maree brown, featuring green and teal title text over a background of flying birds, with a red author name box at the bottom. The cover image is repeated three times.