Artists Space

Segue Reading Series:
Frederic Tuten & Vi Khi Nao

Reading
April 18, 2020, 5pm

This reading is presented as part of the Segue Reading Series.

A white poster giving information about a virtual reading event. There are overlaid gray and white images of a statue of an angel with a sword, and two figures in beak masks. Orange texts reads “Frederic Tuten/Vi Khi Nat/Virtual Reading/18 April 2020/5:00 PM E.T./Artists Space x Segue Series/Zoom Meeting ID 378 232 576
[A white poster giving information about a virtual reading event. There are overlaid gray and white images of a statue of an angel with a sword, and two figures in beak masks. Orange texts reads “Frederic Tuten/Vi Khi Nat/Virtual Reading/18 April 2020/5:00 PM E.T./Artists Space x Segue Series/Zoom Meeting ID 378 232 576]

Frederic Tuten is the author of five novels, among them Tintin in the New World, The Adventures of Mao on the Long March, Van Gogh’s Bad Cafe, as well as a book of short stories, Self Portraits: Fictions. His most recent book is a memoir, My Young Life.

VI KHI NAO is the author of four poetry collections: Human Tetris (11:11 Press, 2019), Sheep Machine (Black Sun Lit, 2018), Umbilical Hospital (Press 1913, 2017), The Old Philosopher (winner of the Nightboat Prize for 2014), & of the short stories collection, A Brief Alphabet of Torture (winner of the 2016 FC2's Ronald Sukenick Innovative Fiction Prize), the novel, Fish in Exile (Coffee House Press, 2016). Her work includes poetry, fiction, film and cross-genre collaboration. She was the Fall 2019 fellow at the Black Mountain Institute.

Program support for Artists Space is provided by The Friends of Artists Space, Lambent Foundation Fund of Tides Foundation, The Cowles Charitable Trust, The Cy Twombly Foundation, The David Teiger Foundation, The Helen Frankenthaler Foundation, The Horace W. Goldsmith Foundation, The New York Community Trust, The New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, The New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Andrew M. Cuomo and the New York State Legislature, Robert Rauschenberg Foundation, The Stavros Niarchos Foundation, The Willem de Kooning Foundation, The Danielson Foundation, The Fox Aarons Foundation, Herman Goldman Foundation, The Destina Foundation, The Luce Foundation, May and Samuel Rudin Family Foundation, The Milton and Sally Avery Arts Foundation, VIA Art Fund, Arison Arts Foundation, The Chicago Community Fund, The David Rockefeller Fund, The Jacques and Natasha Gelman Foundation, The Jill and Peter Kraus Foundation, The Richard Pousette-Dart Foundation.