FRIDAY–SUNDAY, APRIL 27–29
FRIDAY, 7–10pm; SATURDAY, 10:30am–10:30pm; SUNDAY, 2–6pm
MOCA GRAND AVENUE AND LACE
A colloquium on women, experimental writing, and feminism at MOCA Friday and Saturday and a consciousness-raising event and potluck on Sunday at LACE. The program is hosted by the CalArts Writing Program, organized by Christine Wertheim, Matias Viegener, and Teresa Carmody, and sponsored by a grant from The Annenberg Foundation. Confirmed participants include Dodie Bellamy, Caroline Bergvall, Bhanu Kapil, Chris Kraus, Yxta Maya Murray, Susan McCabe, Vanessa Place, Juliana Spahr, Christine Wertheim, Stephanie Young, and Lidia Yukanavitch.
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2 Comments
#1. firecracker777 03.29.2007
Vanessa Place is the greatest writer of our time.
#2. Janice Lee 04.09.2007
up to date schedule.
FRIDAY, April 27, 2007
MOCA, 250 S. Grand Avenue, LA, CA 90012
7 pm Reception
8 pm Readings by Caroline Bergvall, Teresa Carmody, Meiling Cheng, Bhanu
Kapil, Chris Kraus, Tracie Morris, Christine Wertheim, Stephanie Young, and
Lidia Yuknavitch
SATURDAY, April 28, 2007
MOCA, 250 S. Grand Avenue, LA, CA 90012
10:30 am-12:00 pm
Panel: “Feminine” Writings
Are there specifically “feminine” texts, topics and modes of writing? Or is
the concept of “écriture féminine” more hindrance than help?
Panelists: Caroline Bergvall, Meiling Cheng, Chris Kraus, and Lidia
Yuknavitch
12:20 — 1:50 pm
Panel: Selves
Are women writers creating new forms of selfhood? If so, how does this
manifest in the subject and/or perspective of the work and in the object,
i.e., the formed text?
Panelists: Tracie Morris, Vanessa Place, and Christine Wertheim
LUNCH BREAK
3:15 — 4:45 pm
Panel: The Social
Can women writers effect the social imaginary in ways that positively change
our psycho-sexual organization? Are they obliged to, or is this another
version of mothering that restricts women?
Panelists: Dodie Bellalmy, Bhanu Kapil, Yxta Maya Murray, Maggie Nelson
5:00 — 6:30 pm
Panel: Categories
What is gender today? Are the terms “gender” and feminism still useful in
writing? Or are we in a post- or trans-gendered era, and to what intent Â
social, representational, aesthetic, activist?
Panelists: Wanda Coleman, Susan McCabe, Eileen Myles, and Juliana Spahr &
Stephanie Young
DINNER BREAK
8:30 Readings by Dodie Bellamy, Wanda Coleman, Susan McCabe, Yxta Maya
Murray, Eileen Myles, Maggie Nelson, Vanessa Place and Juliana Spahr
SUNDAY, APRIL 29, 2007
LACE, 6522 Hollywood Boulevard, Los Angeles, CA 90028
2-6 pm Potluck and consciousness-raising workshop on MOTHER: literary,
real, symbolic and edible. Led by Bhanu Kapil, Eileen Myles and Chris
Kraus.
And please join us for an unofficially related event:
The Smell Last Sunday Reading Series at The Smell
247 S. Main, Los Angeles, CA 90012 [enter in back]
Between 2nd and 3rd Street
6:30 pm
Reading to Celebrate an new mother anthology by Fence Books, with readers
Wanda Coleman, Martha Ronk and Rae Armantrout
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