Conversation
November 17, 2020, 2:30pm
Dreams, Death, and the Poetics of the Underland
All practicing poets, Jackie Wang, Edgar Garcia, and Harmony Holiday will engage in a far-reaching conversation on dreams, colonialism, the poetics of the black radical tradition, suicide, and the body. How can poetry be used to tap into subterranean spaces--the nubilous spaces of death, of sleep, of historical encounters that slip beneath the radar of consciousness? Holiday is a poet, choreographer, daughter of Northern Soul singer/songwriter Jimmy Holiday, and curator of Astro/Afrosonics Archive, a collection of Jazz Poetics and audio culture. Garcia is a Neubauer Family Assistant Professor at the University of Chicago, and works in the fields of indigenous and Latinx studies, American literature, poetry and poetics, and environmental criticism.
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Artists Space Dialogues is an ongoing series in which an invited curator brings together influential figures in contemporary art and culture to join them in a series of three in-depth public discussions. Our fall series is organized by Jackie Wang, a black studies scholar, prison abolitionist, poet, musician, and author of Carceral Capitalism (Semiotext(e), 2018).
This program will be streamed online via Zoom as part of Artists Space Dialogues.