OPENING: “TAP DAT CAPITAL!”

Wednesday, April 24, 2013, 6 - 8pm

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OPENING WEDNESDAY, APRIL 24, 6:00 - 8:00PM

TAP DAT CAPITAL!
AN EXHIBITION OF PROPOSALS AND RADICAL IMAGININGS

La MaMa Galleria
6 East First Street
New York, NY

TAP DAT CAPITAL!, an exhibition co-organized by La MaMa and The School of Art at The Cooper Union, features schematics for urban interventions; alternative cartographies; impossible diagrams; utopian proposals and manifestoes; directions for poetic gestures; designs for devices of social justice or environmental sustainability; and radical imaginings of all sorts by students in The School of Art, The Irwin S. Chanin School of Architecture, and the Albert Nerken School of Engineering:

ACHVA AMITAY  |  RYAN CULLEN & EMMA SHOOTS  |  AARON GRAHAM & CHRISTIAN HINCAPIÉ  |  JULIE HARRIS  |   DAVID JOHNSON  |  SEBASTIAN QUIJADA LINK  |  LEVI MANDEL  |  ALEX NEUSCHELER  |  ALEX NOSOLEV & JACKIE SONG  |  ARIANA REVILLA  |  JOE RILEY  |  LEILA A. RZYSKA-FILIPEK  |  NATALIE SAVVA  |  AUDREY SNYDER

 

 

  • Founded by inventor, industrialist and philanthropist Peter Cooper in 1859, The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art offers education in art, architecture and engineering, as well as courses in the humanities and social sciences.

  • “My feelings, my desires, my hopes, embrace humanity throughout the world,” Peter Cooper proclaimed in a speech in 1853. He looked forward to a time when, “knowledge shall cover the earth as waters cover the great deep.”

  • From its beginnings, Cooper Union was a unique institution, dedicated to founder Peter Cooper's proposition that education is the key not only to personal prosperity but to civic virtue and harmony.

  • Peter Cooper wanted his graduates to acquire the technical mastery and entrepreneurial skills, enrich their intellects and spark their creativity, and develop a sense of social justice that would translate into action.