Attentive to the multifaceted and deeply interdisciplinary nature of downtown cultural production, Locating Downtown seeks to create opportunities to reconsider this period through cross-disciplinary exploration and cultural exchange. Underpinning this investigation is a desire to bring together different methodological approaches to the study of downtown New York—its artists, archives, institutions, and histories.

Friday’s full day of presentations will be complemented by visits to galleries, museums, and archives in New York on Saturday, and additional presentations at the Whitney Museum on Sunday.