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Speechcraft features a meeting of members from New York public speaking clubs Toastmasters. At the meeting, Young reveals specific topics and subject matter that each speaker must respond to by giving an impromptu speech.
Ryan Gander and Bedwyr Williams, Liam Gillick and Tirdad Zolgadhr, Adam Pendleton, and Frances Stark respond to the title of this program, The Eroticism of Pedagogy, by giving performances that subvert (and pervert) the traditional lecture format—exploding ideas of didacticism, information exchange, and the power of the speaker over his/her audience. Musical interludes between each by Vert (Adam Butler) encourage the audience to move beyond their usual role as complacent listeners.
In Chris Evans' Cop Talk series, the artist arranges recruitment sessions by police departments for art students — suggesting the need for artist representation in the police force while simultaneously exposing students to an alternate career. Though Evans has presented these talks internationally, this is his first Cop Talk to be held in the United States.
Robert King Wilkerson — a member of the Black Panther Party who spent 29 years in solitary confinement in Angola Prison — discuss the use of speech under the pressure of complete isolation. This presentation is developed with Rigo 23, a longtime collaborator of Wilkerson's, whom present a video documentary about how he has used language in his visual artwork to support and broaden awareness of figures like Wilkerson, and how the idea of language relates to ideas of truth.
