There are reasons for looking and feeling and thinking about things that are invisible: a two day event on New Narratives in art writing

Description:

Building on the West Coast literary movement known as New Narrative, There are reasons for looking and feeling and thinking about things that are invisible was a weekend of readings and responses organized by Amy Fung that brought together four writers at the edge of literary and contemporary art writing: Maria Fusco, Eileen Myles, Lynne Tillman, and Jacob Wren.

As a literary genre, New Narrative addresses the structure of narrative by experimenting in fragmentation, poetic strategies, and autobiographical allusions. As a formal conceit, New Narrative is an embodied form of writing, a type of creative non-fiction that relies on presence as much as memory. Drawing its title from an Eileen Myles text on Martha Diamond, There are reasons for looking and feeling and thinking about things that are invisible aimed to re-contextualize the field of contemporary art writing as both a form and a labour of creative production. 

Each evening, two writers presented readings before joining in conversation with each other, and the audience.

Program:

Apr 4, 2017

Eileen Myles and Jacob Wren

Apr 5, 2017

Lynne Tillman and Maria Fusco

Presented in partnership with 221A and Artspeak.

Audio documentation is available upon request.