Q2P: A Documentary by Paromita Vohra will be shown free at the New School for Social Research, NY on Thursday, November 01, 2007 6:00 p.m. - 8:00 p.m.
and also as part of conference OUTING THE WATER CLOSET: Sex, Gender, and the Public Toilet on Nov 3. Both events are free. For the conference one must RSVP. See information for both events below. ____________________________________________________________ "The New School for General Studies Bachelor's Program, the India-China Institute, and the South Asian Faculty Forum present a screening of Q2P, a documentary by the Indian filmmaker Paromita Vohra . Q2P envisions the Mumbai of the future and finds … public toilets—or, rather, not enough of them. As the film observes who has to queue to pee, we become aware of the constantly shifting boundaries between public and private space. We meet people with novel ideas for social change, which produce mixed results, and learn of the strategies the city's poor use to survive. In the Museum of Toilets, at a night concert, in a New Delhi "international toilet," in a Mumbai slum, we hear the silence that surrounds toilets and sense its connection to the silence that surrounds inequality. The toilet becomes a riddle with many answers, and some of those answers are questions—about gender, about class, about caste, and most of all about space, urban development, and the twisted myth of the global metropolis. Paromita Vohra's recent films include Morality TVand Loving Jihad (2007), on moral policing and tabloid culture in Meerut, a city in northern India; Where's Sandra (2005), about the stereotyping of Christian women in Mumbai; and Work in Progress (2004), about the World Social Forum that took place in Mumbai in 2004. Location: 66 West 12th Street, room 404 Admission: Free; no tickets or reservations required; seating is first-come first-served Conference info OUTING THE WATER CLOSET: Sex, Gender, and the Public Toilet Bringing together scholars of sex and gender with leading design professionals and activists to consider, critique, and reconstruct the public rest room. Center for Architecture, 536 LaGuardia Place Greenwich Village, New York City Saturday 3 November 2007 @ Center for Architecture NYC Saturday 3 November 2007, 11am-5:30pm Presented by: New York University & The Center for Architecture Free and open to the public Sponsors: American Institute of Architects New York Chapter NYU Office of Strategic Assessment, Planning and Design With support from NYU academic units including: Graduate School of Arts and Science Department of Sociology Department of Social and Cultural Analysis (Programs in Metropolitan Studies and American Studies) Center for the Study of Gender and Sexuality Please RSVP: Nicole DeRise at [EMAIL PROTECTED] _____________________________________________ venantius