Rebecca Brown and Carla Harryman: WRITING LOVE AND SEX: IN THE SPIRIT OF CAROLEE SCHNEEMANN
Fri, Oct 21, 2011 at 7pm
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In conjunction with the Henry exhibition Carolee Schneemann: Within and Beyond the Premises, four literary artists will read and perform their work for the “In the Spirit of Carolee” event, on Thursday and Friday evenings, October 20 and October 21 at 7:00. This reading is co-presented with the University of Washington Bothell’s Writing For Their Lives author series and the UWB’s MFA in Creative Writing and Poetics. Professor Jeanne Heuving will conduct a conversation with the writers and you, our audience, at the conclusion of the reading.
Rebecca Brown’s twelfth book, American Romances, a collection of gonzo “essays,” was released by City Lights in 2009 and won the Publishing Triangle Award. Some of Brown’s other titles include The Last Time I Saw You, The End of Youth, The Dogs, and The Gifts of the Body. She is currently writing a group of short parables, monologues and what Mother Julian of Norwich called "shewings."
Carla Harryman is a poet, essayist, novelist, and playwright. She has recently published The Wide Road, a multi-genre collaboration with poet Lyn Hejinian. Her critical writing focuses on contemporary innovative writing by women and the politics and poetics of Poets Theater and performance writing. A frequent collaborator, she is co-contributor to the multi-authored experiment in autobiography The Grand Piano, a project that focuses on the emergence of Language Writing, art, politics, and culture of the San Francisco Bay Area between 1975 and 1980.
Her critical writing focuses on contemporary innovative writing by women and the politics and poetics of Poets Theater and performance writing. Articles include “Something Nation: Radical Spaces of Performance in Linton Kwesi Johnson and Cris Cheek,”(Diasporic Avant-gardes, Palgrave Macmillian, 2009), “Residues or Revolutions of the Language of Acker and Artaud” (Devouring Institutions, San Diego State University, 2004), and “The Nadja and Nanette of Gail Scott’s Main Brides” (Assembling Alternatives: Reading Postmodern Poetries Transnationally, Wesleyan, 2003). She is co-editor of Lust for Life, a volume of essays on the novelist Kathy Acker and special issue editor ofNon/Narrative forthcoming from the Journal of Narrative Theory. A recurrent collaborator, she is co-contributor to the multi-authored experiment in autobiography The Grand Piano, a project that focuses on the emergence of language, writing, art, politics, and culture of the San Francisco Bay Area between 1975-1980. She has been visiting writer at The University of California, San Diego and Ohio University and has served on the faculties of Wayne State University and The Milton Avery School of the Arts at Bard College. She moved from the Bay Area to Detroit in 1995.
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Rebecca Brown’s twelfth book, American Romances, a collection of gonzo “essays,” was released by City Lights in 2009 and won the Publishing Triangle Award. Some of Brown’s other titles include The Last Time I Saw You, The End of Youth, The Dogs, and The Gifts of the Body. She is currently writing a group of short parables, monologues and what Mother Julian of Norwich called "shewings."
Carla Harryman is a poet, essayist, novelist, and playwright. She has recently published The Wide Road, a multi-genre collaboration with poet Lyn Hejinian. Her critical writing focuses on contemporary innovative writing by women and the politics and poetics of Poets Theater and performance writing. A frequent collaborator, she is co-contributor to the multi-authored experiment in autobiography The Grand Piano, a project that focuses on the emergence of Language Writing, art, politics, and culture of the San Francisco Bay Area between 1975 and 1980.
Her critical writing focuses on contemporary innovative writing by women and the politics and poetics of Poets Theater and performance writing. Articles include “Something Nation: Radical Spaces of Performance in Linton Kwesi Johnson and Cris Cheek,”(Diasporic Avant-gardes, Palgrave Macmillian, 2009), “Residues or Revolutions of the Language of Acker and Artaud” (Devouring Institutions, San Diego State University, 2004), and “The Nadja and Nanette of Gail Scott’s Main Brides” (Assembling Alternatives: Reading Postmodern Poetries Transnationally, Wesleyan, 2003). She is co-editor of Lust for Life, a volume of essays on the novelist Kathy Acker and special issue editor ofNon/Narrative forthcoming from the Journal of Narrative Theory. A recurrent collaborator, she is co-contributor to the multi-authored experiment in autobiography The Grand Piano, a project that focuses on the emergence of language, writing, art, politics, and culture of the San Francisco Bay Area between 1975-1980. She has been visiting writer at The University of California, San Diego and Ohio University and has served on the faculties of Wayne State University and The Milton Avery School of the Arts at Bard College. She moved from the Bay Area to Detroit in 1995.
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