WEEK THREE

Memory’s Encounter: The Language of Position
January 23-25
Friday & Saturday at 8pm, Sunday at 7pm
Tickets are $12 ($10 students, seniors, & working artists)
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Consider who or what is present in a moment, as well as in a memory, through experimental literature, creative lectures, and multimedia presentations. January 23: Friday night talkback led by Ed Roberson, poet and expeditioner.

NEW LINEUP OF ARTISTS EACH NIGHT:

Friday, January 23
Karen Christopher, Quraysh Ali Lansana, Vanessa Place, Nathalie Stephens (Nathanaël), and video by Cecilia Vicuña

Saturday, January 24
Teresa Carmody with Vanessa Place, Nathalie Stephens (Nathanaël) with Christine Stewart, video by Gaelen Hanson, and video by Cecilia Vicuña

Sunday, January 25
Teresa Carmody, Karen Christopher, Quraysh Ali Lansana, Christine Stewart, and video by Gaelen Hanson

As part of three readings by Canadian writers, Chicago-based writer Nathalie Stephens (Nathanaël) reads from new work concentrating on writing l'entre-genre in English and French.

Nathalie Stephens (Nathanaël) is joined by Vancouver writer Christine Stewart to discuss the curiosity of the process of their collaborative interview and writing project, What architectures of urgency, and read from their (un)finished work.

Christine Stewart reads selections of Propositions from Under Mill Creek Bridge. A professor and scholar, Stewart’s experimental poetics explore alternative forms of research and analysis.

PERFORMANCE

Writers Vanessa Place and Teresa Carmody co-direct Les Figues Press together in Los Angeles and will present three performative readings.

Vanessa Place is a lawyer and the author of Dies: A Sentence, a 50,000 word one-sentence novel. She presents a solo lecture/examination of La Medusa, her post-conceptual epic novel, and performs collaboratively with Teresa Carmody in The Bride and the Bachelors.

Teresa Carmody’s performative lecture/reading A Diary Means Yes Indeed uncovers the rhetorical selves in her current project.

MULTIMEDIA

Chicago-based performance artist and Goat Island member Karen Christopher performs Trumpet Lesson, a video accompanied by a live reading. Pondering decay, inheritance, and the failure of expectation, this lesson is an attempt to hold on to something real. 

With poetry, music, and film, Chicago poet and Director of the Gwendolyn Brooks Center for Black Literature, Quraysh Ali Lansana explores relationships between ethnicity, access, people and place, in his multimedia performance entitled bloodsoil.

VIDEO

Gaelen Hanson, Orange, CT-based choreographer and media artist, employs technical wizardry to solicit the help and advice of two of her alter egos. In I WANT YOU BACK, droll theatricality gives way to the potential of the camera, and fervent dancing ensues.

Cecilia Vicuña is a Chilean poet and artist who lives in New York and Chile. She creates ephemeral installations and videos in nature, cities and museums as a way of “hearing an ancient silence waiting to be heard.” The author of sixteen books, Vicuña is the founding member of Artists for Democracy and teaches internationally in indigenous communities and universities.