Alexandra Juhasz, Leora Fridman, Ethan Philbrick: a reading and conversation
Please join us for a conversation with Alexandra Juhasz (We Are Having this Conversation Now and My Phone Lies to Me), Leora Fridman (Static Palace), and Ethan Philbrick (Group Works: Art, Politics, and Collective Ambivalence) focusing on the interactions of art, politics and activism in their work. Each author will read from their work and then have a conversation focusing on what we can hope for from the communities that keep us alive.
Claudia Rankine on Alex Juhasz: "Alexandra (Alex) Juhasz’s continued pedagogical practice of creating communities for the making of collaborative work is once again enacted in this innovative collection of poetry. My Phone Lies to Me charts a roadmap for the kind of collective work we all can be doing within our creative and activist communities."
Eileen Myles on Leora Fridman: “My Fault is brainy and organic, interrupting itself. In My Fault politics and intimacy are jousting for the planet. Through FAULT nature appears, wearing a beautiful stuttering naked poem you know what they mean. Yes.”
Tavia Nyong'o on Ethan Philbrick: "Ethan Philbrick has written a compassionate book about how and why we fall into and out of groups. Taking some classic group forms from the late twentieth-century—performances ranging from dance, music, psychoanalysis, literature, and collective living—he sifts them carefully for their uses in surviving our own violently disjointed moment."
Svetlana Kitto in Bomb: “[Juhasz’s and Kerr’s] conversational model—by definition friendly, curious, and inviting, with an interest in accessibility and transparency—distinguishes [We Are Having This Conversation Now] from traditional academic writing and media criticism. Here, history-teaching and -learning is rooted in an oral history framework: that we learn what happened to communities from the people who constitute them.”
For more information
Leora Fridman Static Palace
Ethan Philbrick Group Works
Alexandra Juhasz We Are Having This Conversation Now and My Phone Lies to Me