[Local events] Sat 4/15: Susan Gevirtz & David Abel, Works on Paper

[David Abel]

/Works on Paper: <https://worksonpaper.ricercata.org>Experiments in 
Language and Sound <https://worksonpaper.ricercata.org>/

presents

/*SUSAN GEVIRTZ

DAVID ABEL
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**/*Saturday, April 15
7:30 pm*
(doors open 7:00)

*$10-20* suggested donation; no one turned away

*Passages Bookshop* <https://www.passagesbookshop.com>
1801 NW Upshur, Suite 660
503-388-7665

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*SUSAN GEVIRTZ*

Susan Gevirtz will read and play voiceover soundtracks from her play 
/Motion Picture Home/ recently published in the collection /Burns/ from 
Pamenar Press.

/Motion Picture Home /was written at the request of Kevin Killian who 
also directed it for a Poet’s Theatre jubilee in San Francisco. Named 
after the actual Motion Picture Home for retired stars and workers of 
the Hollywood movie industry in Los Angeles, it addresses the death 
there of Gevirtz’s grandfather, and other deaths and schisms such as 
divorce, wish, and liaisons between dream and film. It is primarily 
performed off stage by live humans and recorded “voiceover" soundtracks.

The Program Notes for /Motion Picture Home/ ask, What does language 
without correspondence in the three-dimensional world, not as one-to-one 
reference but as action in itself, look and sound like on stage and off? 
Can the boundaries between word, object, and gesture be witnessed in the 
act of breaking down and repeating? In performing a refusal, an 
inability to perform, the play enacts a pageant of redundancy, a 
cacophonous cocoon of thought-life, multiplied to the infinite power.

*Susan Gevirtz* is the author of nine books of poetry, most recently 
/Burns / (Pamenar) /Hotel abc /(Nightboa) and /Aerodrome Orion & Starry 
Messenger/ (Kelsey Street). Her critical books are /Coming Events 
(Collected Writings) /(Nightboat), and /Narrative’s Journey: The Fiction 
and Film Writing of Dorothy Richardson/ (Peter Lang). She was associate 
editor of /HOW(ever)/, a journal of modernist/innovative directions in 
women’s poetry and scholarship, and served on the advisory board for its 
successor, the online journal /HOW2/. In 2004, with poet and restorer of 
maritime antiquities Siarita Kouka she founded the Paros Symposium, an 
annual meeting of Greek and Anglophone poets. Gevirtz was Assistant 
Professor at Sonoma State University, California, for ten years, and 
subsequently taught in the Visual and Critical Studies and MFA programs 
at California College of the Arts, as well as in undergrad Writing and 
Visual Studies. She is currently a writing mentor through Prison 
Renaissance and Operation Restoration. She is based in San Francisco.

*DAVID ABEL*

David Abel will present a new solo performance work.

*David Abel* is a writer, editor, multidisciplinary artist, and curator, 
and the proprietor of Passages Bookshop in Portland, Oregon. A founding 
member of the Spare Room reading series, now in its twenty-first year, 
he was also a cofounder of Thirteen Hats, a collective of Portland 
writers and artists; a member of the Four Wall Cinema collective; and an 
inaugural Research Fellow of the Center for Art + Environment of the 
Nevada Museum of Art. His recent publications include a chapbook of 
poems, /Equifinality/, from Crane’s Bill in Albuquerque, NM; two books 
based on verbal performance scores — /XIV Eclipses/, published by Couch 
Press in Portland, and /Selected Durations/, published by the Black Rock 
Press at the University of Nevada in Reno — and a new edition, published 
by Redfoxpress in Ireland, of the visual narrative /Carrier/, which was 
first released in a limited edition by Portland’s c_L Books. The first 
volume of an ongoing hybrid serial work, /Sweep/, is forthcoming in Fall 
2023 from Chax Press in Tucson.

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*Works on Paper <https://worksonpaper.ricercata.org> *supports 
activities that use concepts, characteristics, and histories of the 
book, and entanglements with text, as a frame for exploratory practice 
across the arts. The spring 2023 series, /Experiments in Language and 
Sound/, was curated by Robert Blatt and David Abel. For more 
information, please visit the Works on Paper site 
<https://worksonpaper.ricercata.org>.

The Works on Paper series is funded in part by the Regional Arts & 
Culture Council.

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