Please come celebrate the release of Haunted House (The Monacelli Press) by Corinne May Botz. Haunted Houses is a photographic exploration of sites throughout the United States where ghostly phenomena are reported. The 208-page book includes over 150 color photographs of haunted spaces and a selection of transcribed oral ghost stories. Haunted Houses traverses diverse fields such as photography, cultural history, architecture, folklore, and the supernatural. For more information visit:

http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9781580932912

To celebrate the release of Street Value: Shopping, Planning, and Politics at Fulton Mall, a new book exploring Downtown Brooklyn’s many redevelopment sagas, please join authors Meredith TenHoor, Rosten Woo and Damon Rich for a walking tour of Fulton Street, followed by a reception at the Metropolitan Exchange.

Walking tour
5 p.m. Meet at the corner of Fulton St. & Adams St., Brooklyn.
Space on the tour is limited; RSVP required
Please RSVP to rostenwoo@gmail.com

Reception
6:30 p.m. At the Metropolitan Exchange,
33 Flatbush Ave., Brooklyn

with Speedism

Speedism presents the lecture-performance “BROOKLYN DRONE TEMPLE DOOM BABY”.
This is the second part of the Speedism performance program scheduled next week at the US East coast.

Speedism is the duo Julian Friedauer, Germany, and Pieterjan Ginckels, Belgium. They work in the fields of architecture, architectural theory, visual arts, visual theory, urban tactics, imagineering, visual arts and scriptwriting.

As visual artists and architects, and starting from these backgrounds, Speedism develops a visual universe, theoretical landscapes, denkräume, narratives and scenarios.
In the work, Speedism brings together very diverse fields of influence, ranging from wikipedia, mythology, urban theory, geo-political analysis, technical restriction, music and so on. The result of this input, through a process best described in the SPEEDISM MANIFEST, is usually a digital image, started from scratch. Speedism presents the images in lecture-performances, as prints installed in and scaled for a specific spatial context, or they build a context around them – a three-dimensional addition to the image.

with Nathan Kensinger

Nathan Kensinger is a photographer and filmmaker whose work focuses on the the abandoned and industrial edges of New York City.
He will be sharing stories of sites along the Gowanus Canal, inside the Brooklyn Navy Yard, and at Fresh Kills, among others, while walking us through his beautiful images.

Nathan’s photos have been featured in the New York Times, the New York Post, New York Magazine, The Architect’s Newspaper, and other outlets and are currently on display as part of an exhibit titled “The Gentrification of Brooklyn” at Brooklyn’s Museum of Contemporary African Diasporan Arts.

The talk is co-hosted by MEx and the Freshkills Park Talk series, a monthly lecture series on topics related to the reclamation and development of Freshkills Park.