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in Language and Sound </a></i><br>
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presents <br>
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<i><b>SUSAN GEVIRTZ<br>
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DAVID ABEL<br>
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<b> </b></i><b>Saturday, April 15<br>
7:30 pm</b> <br>
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<b>SUSAN GEVIRTZ</b></div>
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Susan Gevirtz will read and play voiceover soundtracks
from her play <i>Motion Picture Home</i> recently
published in the collection <i>Burns</i> from Pamenar
Press.</div>
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<i>Motion Picture Home </i>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. </div>
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The Program Notes for <i>Motion Picture Home</i> 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.</div>
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<b>Susan Gevirtz</b> is the author of nine books of
poetry, most recently <i>Burns </i> (Pamenar) <i>Hotel
abc </i>(Nightboa) and <i>Aerodrome Orion &
Starry Messenger</i> (Kelsey Street). Her critical
books are <i>Coming Events (Collected Writings) </i>(Nightboat),
and <i>Narrative’s Journey: The Fiction and Film
Writing of Dorothy Richardson</i> (Peter Lang). She
was associate editor of <i>HOW(ever)</i>, a journal of
modernist/innovative directions in women’s poetry and
scholarship, and served on the advisory board for its
successor, the online journal <i>HOW2</i>. 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.</div>
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<div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s"><b>DAVID
ABEL</b></div>
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David Abel will present a new solo performance work.</div>
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<b>David Abel</b> 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, <i>Equifinality</i>, from Crane’s Bill in
Albuquerque, NM; two books based on verbal performance
scores — <i>XIV Eclipses</i>, published by Couch Press
in Portland, and <i>Selected Durations</i>, 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 <i>Carrier</i>, which
was first released in a limited edition by Portland’s
c_L Books. The first volume of an ongoing hybrid serial
work, <i>Sweep</i>, is forthcoming in Fall 2023 from
Chax Press in Tucson.</div>
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<b><a href="https://worksonpaper.ricercata.org">Works on
Paper</a> </b>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, <i>Experiments in
Language and Sound</i>, was curated by Robert Blatt and
David Abel. For more information, please visit the <a
href="https://worksonpaper.ricercata.org">Works on Paper
site</a>.<br>
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The Works on Paper series is funded in part by the Regional
Arts & Culture Council.<br>
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