Vi Khi Nao is the author of Sheep Machine (Black Sun Lit, 2018) and Umbilical Hospital (Press 1913, 2017), and of the short stories collection, A Brief Alphabet of Torture, which won FC2’s Ronald Sukenick Innovative Fiction Prize in 2016, the novel, Fish in Exile (Coffee House Press, 2016), and the poetry collection, The Old Philosopher, which won the Nightboat Books Prize for Poetry in 2014. Her work includes poetry, fiction, film and cross-genre collaboration. Her stories, poems, and drawings have appeared in NOON, Ploughshares, Black Warrior Review and BOMB, among others. She holds an MFA in fiction from Brown University, where she received the John Hawkes and Feldman Prizes in fiction and the Kim Ann Arstark Memorial Award in poetry.
Yoshimasu Gozo, born in Tokyo, has given performances worldwide, and has received many literary and cultural awards, including the Takami Jun Prize, the Rekitei Prize, the Purple Ribbon, and the 50th Mainichi Art Award for Poetry. This reading coincides with Gozo’s Alice Iris Red Horse: Selected Poems of Yoshimasu Gozo from New Directions and will feature Gozo in performance with special guests.
NYC-based poet-filmmakerStephanie Gray is the author of Shorthand and Electric Language Stars and I Thought You Said It Was Sound/How Does That Sound? (Portable Press at Yo-Yo Labs 2015, 2012); Place your orders now! (Belladonna*, 2014); A Country Road Going Back in Your Direction (Argos Books, 2015); and Heart Stoner Bingo (Straw Gate Books, 2007). Her super 8 films have screened internationally and she often reads live with her films. Shorthand and Electric Language Stars was selected as a finalist for a 2016 Lambda Literary Award in Lesbian Poetry.
Julie Ezelle Patton was born and braised in Ohideyhideho, north coast facing the republic of Ontario. Her work has primarily appeared in live spoken-sung performance art pieces in honor of the sound presence of all earthlinks. She has performed throughout the Americas, Europe, and the Milky Way.
Patton’s most recent bound-ink-to-paper production is Notes for Some (Nominally) Awake. Her work has appeared in ((eco (lang)(uage(reader)), I’ll Drown My Book, What I Say and other publications. Julie is a selfproclaimed “phonemenologist” whose book length serial poem B (Tender Buttons Press) and Writing with Crooked Ink (Belladonna) are forthcoming. In 2015, Julie was honored with a Foundation for Contemporary Arts Grants to Artists award and an Atlantic Center for the Arts Master Artist Residency. She used to teach creative writing through Teachers & Writers Collaborative, museums, universities, and other crack joints (until she bought her freedom).
Carolyn Lazard is an artist and writer working in media and performance. Her work engages ideas of collective practice, intimacy, care, risk, and ecology. Lazard is a founding member of the art collective Canaries and is a 2015 recipient of the Wynn Newhouse Award. Her forthcoming essay will appear in the New Museum publication, “THIS COULD BE US.” She spends her time between Brooklyn and Philadelphia.
Elaine Kahn is the author of Romance or The End (Soft Skull, 2020) and Women in Public (City Lights Publishers, 2015). Her writing has appeared in Frieze, The Brooklyn Rail, jubilat, Poetry Foundation, Art Papers, and elsewhere. She received an MFA from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop and teaches at the Poetry Field School. She lives in Los Angeles, California.
Rayyane Tabet is an artist who lives in Beirut. His current sculptures materialize the facade of Tell Halaf’s Hittite temple through excavation, replication, transportation, destruction, storage, and restoration.
Adrienne Garbini is an artist who has settled down in the world’s largest alpine valley, where she pursues the poetics of non-compliance. Garbini is writing an ongoing essay entitled Hold On, distributed as a chain letter. She receives mail at P.O. Box 416, Saguache, CO 81149.
Zach Wollard studied poetry with Kenneth Koch and Ron Padgett at Columbia University before turning his attention to visual arts. Recent exhibitions include “A Drop of Golden Sun” in collaboration with Shana Moulton at La Mama and “41 drawings” at Galerie Hito in Mallorca, Spain. His work is included in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art and The Whitney. He is currently a Sharpe-Walentas studio grant recipient 2015-16. Come visit him there.
Born in Los Angeles, Marc Andre Robinson is a Brooklyn-based sculptor. Robinson earned an MFA from the Maryland Institute College of Art. He participated in the Whitney Independent Study Program and was artist-in-residence at the Studio Museum in Harlem, the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council and The Rocktower in Kingston, Jamaica. Robinson has exhibited in the US and abroad at venues including the New Museum of Contemporary Art, NY; Galleria d’Arte Moderna in Turin and the Centre for Contemporary Arts in Glasgow. Robinson was awarded an Art Matters grant to travel to South Africa in 2010. He currently has a solo exhibit at the Studio Museum in Harlem through March 6 2016. Robinson lives and works in Brooklyn. http://www.marcandrerobinson.com/
Jibade-Khalil Huffman is the author three books of poems, including, most recently, Sleeper Hold (Fence, 2015). Huffman was an artist-in-residence at The Studio Museum in Harlem in 2015-16 and was included in the 2014 Made in L.A. Biennial at the Hammer Museum. He has presented work at institutions including MoMA/PS1, New York; MOCA, Los Angeles; Swiss Institute, New York and the Portland Institute for Contemporary Art, Portland, Downstairs Projects, ICA Philadelphia and MOCA Detroit. Huffman has exhibited work in solo and group shows at galleries including Anat Ebgi, Los Angeles; Blum & Poe, Los Angeles; LACE, Los Angeles; LAXART, Los Angeles; Marianne Boesky East, New York; China Art Objects, Los Angeles and Night Gallery, Los Angeles.
Eiko was born in 1952 in Tokyo and grew up in post-war, post-occupation Japan. At a time when few women were accepted into the field of law and politics, Eiko enrolled in the law department at Chuo University to major in political science. But she was drawn to Tokyo’s lively underground art scene and encountered the works of avant-garde filmmakers, writers, and performers, including Tatsumi Hijikata. She met Koma at Hijikata’s studio and the two began collaborating. Soon after, she dropped out of college and began to study with Kazuo Ohno while performing in cabarets with Koma under the name “Night Shockers.”
In 1972 Eiko and Koma traveled to Germany to study with Manja Chimiel, a disciple of Mary Wigman, and began to present their own work. After performing in festivals and galleries in Germany, the Netherlands, Tunisia, and San Francisco, they settled in New York City in 1976. Over the next 40 years, Eiko & Koma would create a unique theater of movement out of stillness, shape, light, and sound, to great acclaim worldwide.
With her ongoing solo project, Eiko has performed at train stations (Philadelphia’s 30th Street Station and New York City’s Fulton Station), libraries, galleries, an abandoned house, an observatory, and a warehouse. Engaging with the particulars of place and the gaze of each viewer, Eiko will continue her exploration in Hong Kong and Chile before arriving in the East Village, home of Danspace Project.
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