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Toby Altman presents "Discipline Park" in conversation w/Andy Hines & Lindsey Muniak

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Tuesday, October 17th 2023

7:00 pm

Red Emma's

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Toby Altman’s DISCIPLINE PARK documents the demolition of Prentice Women's Hospital in Chicago, a landmark of architectural brutalism designed by Bertrand Goldberg in the 1970s.

Altman was born in the building, and years later, was employed by Northwestern University when they tore it down. His personal proximity to the site leads to a wider critical evaluation of the cruelty of a neoliberalism that asks us to draw sustenance from the very institutions that poison and erase our bodies, habitats, and histories. But, as it indicts the present and its claustrophobic, ruinous politics, Discipline Park also recovers or reinvents utopian vistas through an extended engagement with Goldberg's architectural practices.

Toby Altman is the author of JEWEL BOX (Essay Press, 2025), DISCIPLINE PARK (Wendy’s Subway, 2023), and ARCADIA, INDIANA (Plays Inverse, 2017). He has held fellowships from the Graham Foundation for Advanced Study in the Fine Arts, MacDowell, and the National Endowment for the Arts, where he was a 2021 Poetry Fellow. He teaches at Beloit College.

Andy Hines is the author of OUTSIDE LITERARY STUDIES: BLACK CRITICISM AND THE UNIVERSITY and the editor of the forthcoming collection, UNIVERSITY KEYWORDS.

Lindsey Muniak is an organizer with the Debt Collective, where she leads efforts fighting medical debt and financialization in health care.

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