A two day event on New Narratives in art writing.
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 brings together four writers at the edge of literary and contemporary art writing in the voices of 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.
As a weekend of readings and responses in Vancouver, British Columbia, There are reasons for looking and feeling and thinking about things that are invisible aims to re-contextualize the field of contemporary art writing as both a form and a labour of creative production. Developing alongside poetry, literary, and art histories, the field of art writing is in itself a spectrum of craft and praxis to be discussed and reflected upon critically. The title for this event is a line from an Eileen Myles text on Martha Diamond.
Eileen, Jacob, me, Lynne
Friday, 4 April: Eileen Myles and Jacob Wren
Saturday, 5 April: Lynne Tillman and Maria Fusco
Co-presented by 221A, Artspeak, and Western Front
Organized by Amy Fung
There are reasons for looking and feeling and thinking about things that are invisible