Saturday, October 18, 11 am–12 pm EDT
Starr Foundation Hall, The New School
University Center, 63 Fifth Avenue, Lower Level
This choreographic lecture performance by Sandra Erbacher and Ruth Estévez is conceived as the first chapter in their evolving inquiry into the fraught history and enduring impact of intelligence testing. Taking the test as both subject and structure, Erbacher and Estévez explore how intelligence has been constructed and instrumentalized through data, language, sound, architecture, gesture, and institutional form, revealing how such tests privilege Western rationality and exclude embodied ways of knowing. A newly published catalogue accompanies the VLC Forum and features a visual score by Erbacher and Estévez, which extends from their lecture performance.
https://www.e-flux.com/announcements/6784346/vlc-forum-2025-matter-of-intelligence