LAURA ELRICK
Thursday, December 10, 2009
7:30-9:00pm
EXIT ART, 475 10th Avenue (between 36th and 37th Streets), NYC
FREE
Laura Elrick will do a live poetic reading for her film Stalk.
Following the reading, there will be a panel response from Elrick; Jess Levey, artist in the SEA exhibition America for Sale; and Adam Simon, a Brooklyn-based artist and the founder of alternative "space" Four Walls and the FineArt Adoption Network.
Laura Elrick’s latest project Stalk is a critical outgrowth of the spatially investigative social poetics she gestures toward in her essay “Poetry, Ecology and the Reappropriation of Lived Space”. Originally commissioned by the Kootenay School of Writing for the Positions Colloquium held in Vancouver in August 2008, Stalk documents a silent public performance (part dystopian urban cartography, part spatial-poetic intervention) over which Elrick intones poetry and song constructed from appropriated text. She has previously written two books of poetry—sKincerity (Krupskaya 2003) and Fantasies in Permeable Structures (Factory School 2005)—and has also recorded a set of audio pieces originally created for the Performance Writing Series at New Langton Arts in San Francisco (accessible on writing.upenn.edu/pennsound/). She has been a contributing editor to Future Poem Books, curator of the Segue on the Bowery reading series, and a frequent contributor to poetics journals in New York and elsewhere. She works at Pratt Institute in Brooklyn.
