Friday, February 27, 2026 @ 9am The Auditorium at Alvin Johnson/J.M. Kaplan Hall 66 West 12th Street, New York, NY
Shanzhai Lyric is a body of research focusing on radical logistics and linguistics through the prism of technological aberration and nonofficial cultures. The project takes inspiration from the experimental English of shanzhai t-shirts made in China and proliferating across the globe to examine how the language of counterfeit uses mimicry, hybridity, and permutation to both revel in and reveal the artifice of global hierarchies. Through an ever-growing archive of poetry-garments, Shanzhai Lyric explores the potential of mis-translation and nonsense as utopian world-making (breaking) and has previously taken the form of poetry-lecture, essay, and installation. Their upcoming publication, Endless Garment (Pioneer Works Press) compiles 10 years of archived lyrics into one long poem.nIn the fall of 2020, Shanzhai Lyric founded the fictional office entity Canal Street Research Association.
shanzhailyric.info Instagram: @shanzhai_lyric
Monday, March 9, 2026 @ 7pm Tishman Auditorium, Room U100 University Center 63 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY
renald Louissaint is an art director, graphic designer, and publisher based in Brooklyn, New York, whose practice sits at the intersection of editorial design, brand identity, and cultural archiving. He earned his BFA in Graphic Design from the University of Connecticut in 2017 before moving to New York, where he spent the next decade working with small design studios, collaborating with local businesses, and contributing to the in-house brand creative teams at Medium and Cash App.
Through his studio, Parallel, he leads two creative arms: Parallel Work, a design practice focused on publications, exhibitions, apparel, and typography; and Parallel Press, a publishing house dedicated to indexes, artist monographs, and catalogues. His passion for book design anchors much of his practice, where form, typography, and narrative converge to produce publications that function as both objects and archives. His work spans collaborations with institutions, brands, and independent artists, with projects ranging from large-scale books and cultural indexes to brand systems and experimental typography. Across all mediums, renald’s practice is driven by a commitment to visual storytelling that is both rigorous in form and expansive in scope.
www.pll.work Instagram: @parall.e.l
Tuesday, April 7, 2026, 6-8pm Printed Matter, Inc. 231 11th Ave, New York, NY 10001
Join us for the launch of the first five issues of Process Pamphlets, a new publication from Parsons CD designed and edited by Ben Denzer. Denzer and additional pamphlet authors Shira Inbar, Andrew LeClair, Eric Li, and Elaine Lopez will discuss the five issues in a joint panel discussion.
The process of design is often hidden. Process Pamphlets asserts that it should be more visible. Each issue of Process Pamphlets presents a single project from start to finish. Through emails, sketches, screenshots, drafts, and a first-person running narration, each issue aims to transparently show how things are made in the world; how people find work, initiate projects, organize, communicate, collaborate, negotiate, experiment, make, iterate, edit, distribute, document, and share.